Entering 2000, the mainland's TV drama market continues to expand.
On the one hand, TV stations’ advertising revenue is getting higher and higher. In the early 1990s, the total advertising revenue of national television stations was less than 200 million. CCTV's annual advertising expenses now reach 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 dramas, such as the 1998 version of "Water Margin", the 1999 version of "The Decisive Battle of China's Fate", the 2000 version of "Top Gun", "The Taiping Rebellion", etc. wait.
In addition to producing their own programs, they are naturally more willing to spend money on purchasing drama series from outside. Four years ago, when Xiang Nan cooperated with CCTV, a drama series only cost tens of thousands of yuan.
Now the price of a TV series has risen to more than 100,000. High-quality dramas can even sell for more than 150,000 yuan.
On the one hand, the influx of capital has also caused actors' remuneration and production costs to rise.
In the early 1990s, dramas were filmed by state-owned television stations, and actors were seconded from various state-owned units. So the wages are very low, not much different from ordinary workers. When Zhu Lin was filming "Desire", the pay per episode was only a few dozen yuan.
But now, the salary of stars like Qin Hailu, Jiang Qinqin, Chen Hao, and Duan Yihong has risen to 30,000 per episode. If you make a movie, the salary will start from 300,000 to 500,000, which is hundreds of times higher than before.
Fortunately, they have an internal preferential price for filming movies produced by Kirin Pictures. Otherwise, Xiang Nan would not be willing to use them.
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However, although the market size has grown, business has become difficult.
The reason is that there are too many people coming to grab the cake, and the competition has become more intense and disorderly.
For example, some companies have no production experience, and their filming relies entirely on following trends. If the Republic of China dramas become popular, we will make Republic of China dramas. If the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas become popular, we will make mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas. If the anti-Japanese dramas become popular, we will make anti-Japanese dramas...
Because Qilin Pictures produces hit TV series every year, it is also the most copied.
When Kirin Pictures produced "Da Ran Fang", someone would film "Da Jiu Fang"; when Kirin Film produced "Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan", someone would immediately film "Fengliu Talent Ji Xiaolan"; when Kirin Film produced "Crossing the Guandong", There are people filming "Crossing Guanxi"...
In addition, it is just poaching secretly.
Qilin Pictures has Xiang Nan in charge, and good dramas come one after another, so the star-making speed is extremely fast. One TV series or one movie can make many people famous.
Those film and television drama companies have just been established and have little experience, so they want to pick off the existing fruits. Use the fame of those big stars to sell dramas.
Therefore, Qilin Pictures, which has a large number of stars, has become the target of these monsters and monsters.
Of course, they don't dare to poach people openly, but they can't resist their secret poking. Contact those celebrities privately and come up with high prices to lure them away.
As for celebrities, most of them are greedy for money, and only a handful of them don't like fame and fortune. Therefore, under their instigation, many celebrities want to change jobs.
For example, Jin Qiaoqiao became famous for playing Jin Suo in "Huan Zhu Ge Ge". Although her subsequent 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 "Returning the Pearl", Qin Hailu successively filmed "Oath to Silence", "Da Ranfang", "Like Fog, Like Rain and Like Wind", etc., and has firmly become a first-line actress in the TV drama industry.
After "Huan Zhu Ge Ge", Jiang Qinqin successively filmed "The Qianmen House Nine Zhang Jiu", "Kangxi Private Interview in Private Clothes", "Yongzheng Dynasty", "Liancheng Jue" and so on.
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 Eyes", "My Father and Mother", and "Endless".
On the other hand, although she has no shortage of scenes, most of them are supporting roles, playing roles such as the second female lead, and her development is not as good as other sisters.
There has always been a saying in the entertainment industry that one would rather be the head of a chicken than the tail of a phoenix. It is better to be the leader of a small company than to be at the bottom of a large company.
Especially for a star like her who is famous, has acting skills, and good looks, she is considered to be the base in Qilin Pictures, but when she goes to other companies, she is likely to be the first sister, so she was persuaded and proposed the idea to the company. Termination.
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After Xiang Nan received the news, he immediately made 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 immediately. Although she has made money in the past two years, it is only two to three million. How could she afford to pay so much as 10 million?
The company that originally wanted to poach her didn't dare to poach her anymore when they saw that they would have to pay so much money. After all, ten million is not a small amount for them.
Therefore, Jin Qiaoqiao's job-hopping ended in vain, and she could only continue to work in the company for ten years.
In fact, Xiang Nan didn't particularly value Jin Qiaoqiao and didn't want her to leave.
When the company signed Jin Qiaoqiao, it was entirely because she had already filmed "Huan Zhuge Ge" and had gained a certain reputation. Moreover, "My Fair Princess 2" also wanted to use the original cast.
If this were not the case, Xiang Nan would never sign her.
He is now offering sky-high compensation, just because he doesn't want to set a bad precedent.
Because the artists signed by Kirin Pictures are all very optimistic to him, have great potential, and will definitely become popular, so each one is worth a fortune.
If it is poached at will without intervention, then Kirin Pictures will suffer huge losses. That's why he had to be on guard against the slightest hint of danger and nip their thoughts of job-hopping before they were still in their infancy.
Therefore, Xiang Nan not only offered a sky-high termination fee. Moreover, after Jin Qiaoqiao gave up the idea of changing jobs, her treatment was lowered by several levels.
Although she played supporting female roles before, they were all good roles. Later, when the company started filming, she was assigned either the third or fourth female lead, or the female villain. Playing this kind of role all the time, your level will fall quickly.
In addition, they also helped her reject all outside film contracts, commercial performances, advertisements, and endorsements. As a result, her income dropped significantly.
Before, you could earn one to two million a year just from commercial performances, advertisements, and endorsements. Now it is considered good to make two hundred thousand a year.
With such a good example as a role model, other artists who were originally ready to make a move now no longer dare to mention this matter. After all, they don’t have 10 million.
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Entering the second millennium, Xiang Nan successively sold off the software company stocks he held. Especially Yahoo, AOL, NetEase, Sohu and the like.
Because he knows that in two thousand years, the Internet bubble will explode. At that time, the stocks of all Internet companies will plummet.
Even for companies with potential like EBAY and Amazon, their stock prices will fall by more than half, so it is the right way to cash out early.
