Huayu: As a child star, I just want to be famous

Chapter 582 Lifting the lid (6K)

"That's right, the pay for movies is rising too fast now, and it has affected the normal market order."

"Yes, first-tier actors often get paid tens of millions. Even if it's a little lower, it's still several million. It's really too high."

"Indeed, I can hardly afford to shoot anymore."

"..."

Bosses responded one after another.

The senior leader showed more concern. He instructed Director Li beside him, "Write down this situation and investigate the specific situation. Everything has a limit and it cannot affect the development of the industry."

"Okay, I'll pay more attention to this aspect."

"Let's continue our previous discussion. Chen Linfeng, please tell us your opinion. What do you think will be the impact of Internet companies entering the film and television industry?"

"As for the direct impact, some people have already said that it will push up film pay and increase production costs, and this is likely to happen.

Moreover, newcomers to the industry will definitely target those excellent behind-the-scenes workers and offer high prices, making labor costs even more expensive. This is also the general trend.

But from my personal feeling, this is a good thing to a certain extent, as the current salaries of behind-the-scenes staff are still relatively low.

In fact, in the actual film and television production process, the role played by these technicians is no less important than that of the actors in front of the camera.”

Chen Linfeng paused, "What I'm really worried about is that the large-scale entry of Internet companies will bring some of their bad habits here."

With BAT leading the way, there will surely be a large number of companies following behind, and some companies will not be so particular.

"Oh?" The big boss frowned, "Tell me about it."

"What I can think of is the securitization of celebrities, the hollowing out of target companies, the fraud of box office sales, ghost shows, and high-priced tickets, and then the stock price is raised to reap the profits."

The brows of several leaders immediately furrowed. Those were not nice words.

Director Zhao hesitated to speak. Why was Xiao Chen so straightforward this time?

"Celebrity securitization is easy to understand. Companies are established with celebrities, and then their fame is used to attract investors in the stock market."

Another possibility is that the target company becomes a shell company, which involves the gambling agreement that is often heard in later generations.

Stars and film and television companies gamble against each other. Logically, if they win, they will make huge profits. However, they use this to fool investors and increase the valuation.

You can cash out at this time. Betting against each other will usually result in losses, but the only losers at this time are the leeks.

This is a relatively high-end operation.

Some are simple and crude, where the celebrity first sets up a shell company, then goes public through a backdoor listing, and is acquired at a high price, causing the market value to increase hundreds of times in an instant.

Not only celebrities, but companies also take advantage of the situation. Some of them rely on fraud, which are the fraud methods mentioned above.

Some are even really high-grossing movies.

For example, Yanjing Culture, which invested in "Wolf Warrior 2" and "The Wandering Earth" in the previous life, is a master at cutting leeks.

The stock price continued to soar each time and then immediately fell back.

In the end, he cut himself in.

"Another way is to launder money by paying celebrities sky-high salaries and then entering into shady contracts."

Chen Linfeng smacked his lips and said, "I think these bad things may have already appeared in the industry.

The pay of celebrities has increased several times in just a few years. Such a rapid increase is definitely not just due to the increase in commercial value, but perhaps also due to the factors I just mentioned.

Moreover, I think that if it is not controlled, the pay will continue to rise, and in the future, there may be many people who will be paid hundreds of millions for a film.”

As soon as these words were spoken, the faces of several bosses changed.

No, man, don't be so honest.

Chen Shantong couldn't help but turn his head to look at his son with a worried look on his face.

How come this boy suddenly became so brave?
The big boss was also shocked.

He looked at Chen Linfeng carefully.

As the author of "She" and someone who is still developing in the film and television industry, he believes that Chen Linfeng must have a purpose.

Will the future really develop as he said?

This doesn't sound like a good thing. Why does the routine sound a bit similar to that country on the other side of the Pacific Ocean?
Chen Linfeng remained calm. This was a typical struggle for interests.

He doesn't want to make money by financializing the film and television industry, so these tricks will affect companies that want to make money by making movies legitimately.

Damn, actors’ pay is so high now, and in the future it will be sky-high pay of hundreds of millions, and it’s all because of you who are driving it up.

Longlin and Qilin have actually begun to gradually come into contact with this kind of shit.

Longlin's situation is relatively better, as the investment is relatively low, and it is limited by the acquisition price of the TV station, so it is not that easy to do on paper, and therefore not so many people are targeted.

It’s really exaggerated on Qilin’s side. People have been coming to it wanting to cooperate.

Another reason is to encourage him to go public as soon as possible.

How can you help us reap the benefits if it’s not listed?

Only Chen Linfeng himself holds three Internet companies that are about to go public.

There are also various stocks and investment methods, money makes money, assets have been skyrocketing, and I don’t look down on this income.

Otherwise he might not be able to hold on.

These people are really willing to spend money.

Of course, part of the reason for this is that the movies he made were so profitable that even normal investments could bring high returns.

But more often than not, there are those activities that will be audited once they are mentioned, and the purpose is to spend a lot of money.

In the past, there were actually such situations, and at that time the most that happened was the amount of money was falsely reported.

After all, art is priceless. Just charge a little more when setting up the set, and then blow it up during filming, and the account will be cleared directly.

This is relatively decent, just do it secretly.

But the new situation that has emerged now is different. The harm is too great, affecting not only the industry itself, but also more people.

Chen Linfeng actually already understood why the film and television industry was like that in his previous life.

Hundreds of millions of dollars are invested at every turn, but who knows how much is actually invested.

Another thing is that some people are thinking about betting on failure from the very beginning, so of course there is no need to polish their work well.

It is better to say that the worse the work, the better.

Anyway, there are marketing methods, and fans will feel sorry for their idols.

This is worse than relying on false reporting to clean up the mess in the past. At least people are really investing money.

For the crew, as long as they have money to shoot the movie well, it is enough. As for where the money comes from, they don’t care.

To some extent, if the film is really good and they can make some money, it will be a good thing for those people.

It’s not like the later days when people didn’t care about anything, good or bad didn’t matter, the cost was just a number in the computer.

How can we develop the film and television industry if we are hanging out with a bunch of blood-sucking insects!
It is foreseeable that the companies and crews that are serious about filming will be the most affected in the future.

Others push up film pay and make money through capital means, but they are the only ones who have to bear the bitter consequences of rising film pay.

Longlin and Qilin have actually been dragged down.

Therefore, Chen Linfeng didn't want to endure it anymore and simply overturned the table.

The time he chose was actually chosen on purpose.

Currently, only a relatively small number of people are doing this, and it is not yet to the point where everyone is doing it.

Just look at the faces of the people from Huayi and Guangguang and you will know. There is something wrong with their expressions, but they don’t look very angry.

Huayi's current strategy is still mainly focused on film, television, culture and real estate, which also makes money quickly.

But it is not among the phenomena mentioned by Chen Linfeng just now.

Guangxian also focuses more on betting on a hit product and then raising the stock price to cash out.

It is actually much easier to expose the issue at this time than in later generations.

Many things have only shown signs of happening.

The big boss had a serious expression on his face, and he felt that he had made the right decision to come today.

I originally just wanted to discuss the impact of Internet companies entering the industry, but I didn't expect to hear such important content.

For people at their level, if they want to make progress, they have to look at the overall situation of the industry.

As long as the overall development is good, it will be a political achievement, but if the industry is in a mess, it will also be affected.

Now that the domestic film industry is developing so well, he doesn't want the upward momentum to be affected.

"Director Li, in this situation, you..."

He raised his hand and wanted to let Director Li take charge. After thinking for a while, he said, "Forget it. I'll take care of this matter myself."

He looked at Chen Linfeng again and smiled kindly, "Xiao Chen, write down what you just said.

Send me a copy and I'll ask someone to study it. If there are no logical problems, the relevant departments should come up with corresponding policies later."

At this point, the leader nodded his forehead and said, "By the way, I remember that you are also a scholar who can be included in the internal reference. If you have any suggestions for measures, you can also write them down."

Wang Zhongjun opened his mouth slightly.

This is a literati.

In fact, he was never afraid of Chen Linfeng as a person, but he was very afraid of his pen.

If you add a little personal opinion when writing an article, you can kill a person or a company.

Look, leaders of this level will all refer to his opinions.

The big boss looked around at everyone and said, "Let's skip over some of the issues that Xiao Chen mentioned and discuss the issue of pay on the spot. This is a problem that has already arisen. Does anyone have any solutions?"

Not many people were talking.

Everyone was still feeling the shock they had just received from Chen Linfeng.

This guy is really not afraid of offending people.

He is usually a very nice person, why does he suddenly blame everyone?

Wang Zhongjun recalled the ways of making money that Chen Linfeng had just mentioned, and he felt quite tempted.

This kid has too many things in his head. If he knew so many ways to make money, he would never tell anyone.

"Ahem," Director Li saw that everyone was silent. In order to ensure that the leader's words would not go unanswered, he had to call the roll himself.

“Ma Zhongjun, can you tell me?”

"Why not set a limit directly?" Ma Zhongjun thought for a while and gave his own idea.

"How much is the first-tier actor, how much is the second-tier actor, set a rough amount, don't exceed this number, at least it can limit the actor's salary from continuing to rise."

"Not appropriate," Yu Dong shook his head, "Let alone the verbal names of first- and second-tier companies, there is no specific standard at all.

Besides, you think more than 10 million is a lot, but it is nothing if it is placed abroad. If there are stars who have box office appeal overseas and can make movies in Hollywood, what do you say? Do you want to restrict them too?"

Someone turned his eyes towards a certain direction in the conference room, and obviously, he was referring to Chen Linfeng.

This actor's salary has long been denominated in US dollars. Converted into RMB, his salary is definitely over 100 million.

Speaking of sky-high pay, this one is truly sky-high.

But he is indeed worth the price, he really has global box office appeal.

“Not only that,” Wang Zhongjun said, “There are many co-productions now that invite Hollywood stars.

If our market develops in the future, we can't restrict domestic actors when co-producing, and pay foreign stars according to their market prices. Isn't this the same as in the past?"

This statement was unclear, but all the bosses present understood it.

Back then, Hong Kong and Taiwan stars were paid according to market prices, and China was still in the era of paying salaries, and a lot of trouble happened at that time.

This is also a problem.

Han Shanping, who originally wanted to support limiting film pay, gave up the idea.

He had experienced the era that Wang Zhongjun described.

Regardless of whether the figure of tens of millions in film remuneration is high enough, differential treatment itself is not good.

Seeing that the people who had been thinking about limiting the pay for the film began to keep silent again, Chen Linfeng said helplessly, "This matter is actually not that complicated."

Han Shanping asked quickly, "Do you have another good idea?"

“Just limit the proportion.”

Chen Linfeng held up a finger and said, "First, the total pay of all actors must not exceed 40% of the total production cost."

“Second, the main actor’s salary shall not exceed 70% of the total actor’s salary.”

He shook two fingers and said, "As long as there are these two, it is enough to ensure the quality of the work.

As for the rest, we need to limit some industry chaos. The natural growth of film pay is not that fast. There is no need to limit the normal growth of commercial value. "

"Well, Xiao Chen's idea is good." The big boss praised.

This is actually the official policy introduced in later generations.

However, it will not be until the very late 2020s, when the industry pay will be extremely high.

Chen Linfeng was modest for a moment, "Actually, this is the strategy we implement within the company. It's a hard rule, and it's to prevent the quality of production from declining too much."

Director Li sighed, "No wonder Longlin and Qilin have developed so well. It seems that they have superior systems."

He looked at everyone and said, "Everyone should learn more from the industry benchmarks, not only the external aspects, but also the internal systems. Only in this way can we make progress."

Everyone said yes.

Some bosses looked at Chen's father and son with curiosity. It turned out that they not only implemented the drama-centered system that was widely circulated in the industry, but also had restrictions on the proportion of film remuneration.

Learned learned learned.

Some companies that were already copying Longlin and Qilin decided to continue following the path of the successful ones.

There are quite a few companies that think this way.

After Chen Linfeng gained attention, he didn't talk much afterwards.

But he had changed the direction of the entire symposium.

At the beginning, everyone was afraid of the impact that the invasion of Internet capital would cause.

Nowadays, everyone starts talking about the issue of high pay.

The chaos mentioned by Chen Linfeng has already occurred.

With him as the starter, some bosses also mentioned some problems they had encountered to a greater or lesser extent.

Most of the companies that were invited to attend the symposium are relatively well-developed.

We have passed the stage of primitive accumulation, so our eating habits are a little better.

Of course, the situation was different later when people were making crazy money by cutting leeks, so I won’t mention it now.

At least at this time, they are still willing to make the industry better.

This is especially true for companies that are not listed, as they still hope to produce more good works and then successfully go public.

Only Huayi Wang always felt that he was being targeted.

Therefore, it seems that many of the chaos that everyone talked about were things he had done in the past.

Some of them he is still doing.

Shit, this is going to be a bit boring.

After the meeting, Chen Shantong was still a little worried.

"You said so much at the meeting, and you still have to write materials to report later. Will you offend anyone?"

"What's so scary about some clowns?"

Chen Linfeng didn't care much about it. The interest group was not big, and as an industry giant, it could easily suppress it.

To be honest, he is the capital now.

Of course, you still need to pay a little attention to your personal safety.

He is now followed by four bodyguards on a daily basis, and always travels with at least two cars, if that doesn't work he'll add another one.

The extra salary is nothing to him.

Chen Linfeng was not in a hurry to write the materials. Since this report had already received the attention of the top leaders, it might have a very important impact on the industry itself in the future.

He was wondering whether he should sell some private goods.

Fortunately, Chen Linfeng's own company is not listed and does not rely on cheap people to make money, so he has the motivation to improve the industry environment.

He is a time traveler and has some career ideals. Otherwise, this opportunity to influence industrial policy is itself an opportunity to make a fortune.

Chen Linfeng didn't have this thought in mind. Instead, he thought about the most annoying problem of traffic stars in the future.

Could you mention it in the materials?

At night, sitting in front of the computer at home, Chen Linfeng began to think.

"Xiao Feng, what are you writing now?"

When passing by the study, Liu Qianqian took a habitual look and found that her husband had opened WPS instead of his usual typing software, so she came in and asked curiously.

The wps on the computer is still blank.

“You haven’t written anything.”

Chen Linfeng didn't mind his train of thought being interrupted. He still enjoyed discussing with Xixi.

He briefly recounted what happened at the symposium that day and also raised the issue of traffic stars.

“I’m thinking about how to limit it.”

Liu Qianqian knows the concept of qualified traffic stars, Xiaofeng has mentioned it before.

She couldn't help but cover her mouth and laugh, "You really hate traffic stars. Han Geng pissed you off, and it hasn't gotten over it yet."

My husband is really petty.

Are all people with good memory like this?
Chen Linfeng glared at her and said, "Why would I think of a solution for that one person?"

If I really want to target him, I won’t just deal with him casually.

He never mentioned the petty misunderstanding.

Anyway, it has been too late to clear it up, and even if Xixi believes in him, it is difficult to explain.

Alas, those rumors misled me.

"I'm sorry, I underestimated you."

Liu Qianqian suppressed her smile, but her narrowed eyes still revealed her true thoughts.

Liu Qianqian rolled her eyes and suggested, "How about suggesting that the leaders come up with a policy that singers who want to cross over to other fields must first undergo a certain period of training?"

Most traffic stars first attract fans through singing and dancing, and then turn to the film and television industry to disgust people.

Liu Qianqian thought that this should be able to restrict a certain group of people, right?

Chen Linfeng shook his head. "It's useless. The company can say whatever it wants during the training. There's no way to supervise it."

Even if we set up an assessment mechanism and add one more document requirement, it will probably be in vain, as everything can be solved by paying money.

The main thing is that it is troublesome.

The authorities may not be willing to take action.

What leaders definitely want is an approach that is intuitive and effective.

"What should we do then?" Liu Qianqian asked, tilting her head.

"I think we still have to use economic means."

After Xixi's interruption, Chen Linfeng also had some ideas.

He thought of the Japanese industry, the wandering stars and idols, and the unwelcome situation.

Perhaps the higher authorities can issue policies to restrict the initial earnings of young artists crossing over to other industries.

For example, for the first five works, the pay cannot exceed 10% of the total pay of the crew.

The subsequent pay ratio should also be increased gradually with the number of films, and cannot be increased to the maximum level all at once.

The capital behind the traffic may not necessarily produce a big reaction.

The reason why film pay is suppressed is due to official policies and does not represent the actual commercial value.

As long as the huge profits from endorsements and commercial activities are not affected, there won't be much backlash.

The main reason is that there are not so many traffic stars now. 2014 was the first year of traffic, and now it is 2013.

Besides, the vested interests in the industry will definitely be willing.

Including old traffic stars like Han Geng, because they have already climbed out of the pit, they don’t care about the situation of the younger generation.

There are fewer competitors, so why not?

Traditional actors are even more supportive. They wish outsiders would not come in and steal their jobs.

"Isn't this just a disguised way of looking at qualifications?"

Liu Qianqian was a little confused and felt like she was going in reverse.

"Yeah, it just means having some experience."

Chen Linfeng sighed. Sometimes, a little experience is a good thing.

At least this way, someone who has no acting skills will not be cast as the leading role.

In the future, there may be fewer and fewer chosen people like Sissi.

But when faced with two evils, choose the lesser one; there is nothing perfect in the world.

"In this case, perhaps formal actors will also start to have similar regulations."

Liu Qianqian knows what it means to push for more.

"That can't be helped," Chen Linfeng spread his hands, "As long as we can ensure the normal upward channel, that's fine."

If the growth rate of film pay is really reduced, since they can't earn much money when they are young, it will force them to improve their abilities.

Also, there should be fewer ugly capitalist children coming to make money.

That would be a great merit.

Now that he had the idea, Chen Linfeng tried to start writing.

Seeing that he was attentive, Liu Qianqian stopped disturbing him.

The next day, the two of them boarded a plane to Los Angeles with an entire team.

They took a private plane this time and no one outside knew about it.

After knowing that Xixi was pregnant, Chen Linfeng thought about buying a private jet.

If it is just custom made, it will take quite some time.

Therefore, I still have to pay to rent it for the time being.

The airport where private planes take off and the commercial airport where civil airliners take off are not in the same place and are very different in scale.

But in terms of privacy, it is indeed much better.

And it is really convenient.

No wonder so many rich people like it, it seems it's not just a need to show off.

Because of his experiences in his previous life, Chen Linfeng has a bit of an angry young man in his heart.

He hates things that are very emblematic of capitalists, such as private jets, golf, and various private clubs.

He almost never touches this kind of thing.

It's like some kind of unique obsession.

But now that there are practical requirements, let’s exclude one.

He thought to himself.

(End of this chapter)