Chapter 1473 1475【Capital influx】
Entering 2000, the mainland's TV drama market continues to expand.
On the one hand, the advertising revenue of TV stations is getting higher and higher. In the early 1990s, the combined advertising revenue of TV stations across the country was less than 200 million yuan. Now CCTV's annual advertising expenses have reached 5.3 billion.
With more advertising revenue, there will naturally be money to produce programs. Therefore, in recent years, the TV drama production center has launched many large-scale drama series, such as the 1998 edition of "Water Margin", "The Decisive Battle of China's Destiny" in 1999, "Top Gun" in 2000, and "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", etc. wait.
In addition to producing programs by myself, they are naturally more willing to spend money on purchasing episodes from outside. Four years ago, when Xiang Nan cooperated with CCTV, a series cost only tens of thousands of yuan.
Now the price of an episode has risen to more than 100,000. High-quality episodes can even sell for more than 150,000 yuan.
On the one hand, the influx of capital has also increased the cost of actors' remuneration and production.
In the early 1990s, all state-run TV stations filmed drama series, and the actors were seconded by state-run units. Therefore, the wages are very low, not much different from ordinary workers. When Zhu Lin was filming "Longing", the salary for an episode was only a few dozen yuan.
But now, stars like Qin Hailu, Jiang Qinqin, Chen Hao, and Duan Yihong have their salary increased to 31,000 episodes. If you make a movie, the salary will start from 300,000 to 500,000 yuan, which is hundreds of times higher than before.
Fortunately, they have an internal discount for filming Kylin Films. Otherwise, Xiang Nan would not be willing to use them.
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However, although the market scale is large, business is not easy to do.
The reason is that there are too many people who come to grab the cake, and the competition becomes more intense and disorderly.
For example, some companies have no production experience, and they rely entirely on following trends in filming. When the dramas of the Republic of China became popular, they made the dramas of the Republic of China;
Kylin Films is also the most heavily copied because of its hit TV series every year.
Kylin Films released "Da Ranfang", and someone made "Dajiufang"; Kylin Films made "Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan", and soon someone filmed "Fengliu Talent Ji Xiaolan"; Kylin Films made "Crossing the Guandong", Someone filmed "Crossing the West"...
In addition, it is stealthily poaching.
Kylin Films has Xiang Nan in charge, one good drama after another, so the star-making speed is also extremely fast. A TV series or a movie can make many people popular.
And those film and television drama companies have just been established and have no experience, so they want to pick ready-made fruits. Use the fame of those big stars to sell dramas.
So, Kylin Films, which has a large number of stars, has become the coveted object of these ghosts and snakes.
Of course, they dare not poach people by force, but they can't stop them from poking hard secretly. Contact those stars privately and try to poach them with high prices.
As for celebrities, most of them are greedy for money, and only a small part of them don't love fame and fortune. Therefore, under their instigation, many celebrities have the idea of wanting to change jobs.
For example, Jin Qiaoqiao became famous for playing Jin Suo in "My Fair Princess". Although her follow-up development is not as good as that of Qin Hailu and Jiang Qinqin, she is still popular in the entertainment industry.
She wanted to switch jobs to other companies, because she felt that she was not valued enough in the company.
After "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", Qin Hailu successively filmed "Oath of Silence", "Da Dye Fang", "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind" and so on, firmly ranking as the first-line actress in the TV drama industry.
Even Zhang Ziyi and Chen Hao, who joined the company later than her, have starred in popular film and television dramas such as "Never Close My Eyes", "My Father and Mother", "Endless".
On the other hand, although she has no shortage of filming, most of them are supporting roles. She plays some roles like the second female lead, and her development is not as good as other sisters.
In the entertainment industry, there has always been a saying that it is better to be a chicken head than a phoenix tail. It is better to be the leader of a small company than to be the bottom of a large company.
Especially for a star like her who is famous, has acting skills, and has good looks, she is considered a base in Kylin Films, but in other companies, she is likely to be the first sister, so she was persuaded and proposed to the company. terminate the contract.
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After receiving the news, Xiang Nan immediately set out the conditions.
If you want to terminate the contract early, you can compensate the company for losses according to the contract, starting from 10 million.
Jin Qiaoqiao was frightened at once. Although she made money in the past two years, it was only two or three million. Ten million is so much, how can she afford to pay.
The company that originally wanted to poach her did not dare to do so anymore when they saw that they would lose so much money. After all, ten million is not a small amount for them.
That's why Jin Qiaoqiao's job-hopping matter ended without a problem. She can only continue to work in the company obediently for ten years.
Actually, Xiang Nan didn't think much of Jin Qiaoqiao, so he didn't want her to leave.
At the beginning, the company signed Jin Qiaoqiao because she had already filmed "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" and gained a certain reputation. And "Han Zhu Ge Ge 2" still wants to use the original cast.
If it wasn't like this, Xiang Nan would never sign her.
He is offering sky-high compensation now, but he just doesn't want to set this bad precedent.
Because the artists signed by Kylin Films are all artists he is very optimistic about, have great potential, and will definitely become popular, so each one is priceless.
If they don't interfere and are poached away at will, then Kylin Pictures will suffer a great loss. That's why he had to guard against the incipient, and kill their idea of job-hopping while it was still in its infancy.
Therefore, Xiang Nan not only offered a sky-high termination fee. Moreover, after Jin Qiaoqiao dismissed her idea of job-hopping, she lowered her salary by several levels.
Before she played a female supporting role, but she was also a good character. Afterwards, when the company started filming again, the ones assigned to her were either the third or fourth female, or the female villain. Always playing this kind of role, the grade quickly dropped.
In addition, she also helped her reject all external film contracts, commercial performances, commercials, and endorsements. As a result, her income dropped sharply.
Before, just commercial performances, advertisements, and endorsements could earn one or two million a year. Now it's not bad to earn two hundred thousand a year.
With such a good example as a role model, other artists who were about to make a move now dare not mention this matter again. After all, they don't have 10 million.
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Entering two thousand years, Xiang Nan has successively sold the stocks of software companies he held in his hands. Especially Yahoo, America Online, NetEase, Souar and the like.
Because he knew that in two thousand years, the Internet bubble would burst. At that time, the stocks of all Internet companies will plummet.
Even for potential companies like EBAY and Amazon, the stock price will fall by more than half, so it is the right way to cash out and leave the market early.
(end of this chapter)