The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 299 Actor is a high-risk occupation

"DreamWorks Overlord Clause has caused public outrage!"

"One contract binds the actor's schedule, and many actors expressed their distress!"

"Li Hanjun complained on Weibo, he hadn't filmed a movie for a year, and he didn't dare to accept commercial endorsements!"

"DreamWorks forced the actors to perform action training, and they were covered in bruises!"

"National girl exposes DreamWorks evil deeds!"

"DreamWorks, which produces blockbuster works frequently, is actually such a company!"

""Black Mirror" came into reality, and the dragon was actually myself"

"Squeezing actors? Overlord contract? The other side of DreamWorks"

"It's full of scars! Chen Jingxing did such a thing to her!"

"Signed the contract of selling by mistake? Li Hanjun complained endlessly!"

"A number of brothers and sisters from the same school comforted Ye Shunan on Weibo, and the popular Huadan bluntly said that acting is a high-risk profession"

Just when "Mirage" was still showing in theaters, and even landed in Japan, South Korea and Southeast Asia. Following last year's "Source Code", it once again set off a wave of science fiction movies in China, and when good news was spreading frequently, DreamWorks, which is infinitely glorious, is headed towards it. Hit a big wave and be surrounded by bad press.

At the beginning, some marketing accounts released the news in a serious manner, saying that DreamWorks forced the actors to sign the Overlord contract, which bound the schedule for the next few years.

Then some fans of the actors joined in, confirmed the reliability of the news, and at the same time listed that their idols had signed a film contract with DreamWorks. They were very happy for the master, but the start of the project was postponed for more than half a year. I got my idol to accept other film appointments, and fell into a half-year vacancy period.

But it did not arouse the interest of most people who eat melons, and no media participated in this topic. After all, from "Mekong" to "Black Mirror" and then to "Mirage" at the beginning of the year, DreamWorks released almost non-stop applause and popularity. High-quality works have always been the darling of public opinion. The general media will not blow against the wind when they don't understand the situation.

Most of the netizens and passers-by didn't pay much attention to it. No one took these gossips that were not on the stage seriously. It was nothing more than some black people who didn't like DreamWorks.

But soon, things started to take a turn for the worse. Two celebrities went off the stage one after another and posted small essays to complain, which directly ignited public opinion.

First, Li Hanjun, the leading actor in DreamWorks' new drama "The Walking Dead", posted a short composition called "Tea Talk and Tea Talk". A group - a definition made.

In the "Little Composition", Li Hanjun first complained that in order to accept the film contract of "The Walking Dead", he rejected several films, but DreamWorks suddenly announced that the production would be postponed for half a year. "I haven't turned it on yet, and I didn't dare to take other dramas during the period.

In addition, he has to undergo two months of movement training, the training intensity is very high, and it feels overwhelming.

That's all, and then asked them to sign a long-term contract, the follow-up episodes of "The Walking Dead", and even the movie plan, the actors must cooperate.

This is equivalent to directly binding the future schedule of the actor. If you want to accept a play in the future, you have to ask DreamWorks if there is a sequel or movie project for "The Walking Dead".

In the small composition of complaining, he directly said the three words "deed of selling himself".

Another actress, Ye Shunan, who is also a female character in "The Walking Dead", was even more amazing. Instead of a small composition, she posted nine photos arranged in a nine-square grid. There were several bruises on the arms and legs in the photos. I just said a word in an understatement: "Diannan Baiyao is really easy to use! I am really safe, and it disappeared after a week of use!"

When the fans below were distressed and asked how he got such a "heavy" injury, Ye Shunan gave the fans an understatement and replied that he accidentally got injured when he was receiving action training at DreamWorks a while ago, and it is no longer a problem , thank the fans for their concern.

It is called "the tea of ​​tea" by Chen Jingxing's fans, "It should not be called the daughter of the people, it should be called 'Tea King'!"

Although he did not directly accuse DreamWorks, but spoke in a tone of complaint or understatement, it was basically equivalent to direct bombardment.

And these two also have a lot of fans. Li Hanjun has acted as the leading actor in two small sweet dramas on Penguin Video. Although he has only filmed online dramas, he has also accumulated a lot of fans. He is considered a very well-known new-generation actor.

Ye Shunan is even a well-known child star with a certain degree of nationality. Even though both of them can only be regarded as third-tier or strong third-tier stars, the influence of personally leaving the stage is still very large.

The marketing accounts and the media naturally swarmed like sharks smelling blood. This has nothing to do with their perception of DreamWorks, it's just their nature to pursue traffic.

Creating gods and destroying gods is their job, and the higher a god is praised, the more exciting his negative news will be.

It is true that DreamWorks lacks strength in the film and television industry. It is incapable of shutting up in the face of such sudden negative public opinion. In fact, even Beijing Film may be able to suppress most of the media in the face of this kind of incident, but it cannot block it. Live in the marketing account and the people who eat melons.

Of course, this triggered a concentrated discussion among netizens. The voices of Chen Jingxing's fans and DreamWorks' Lu Hao will naturally overwhelm the fans of the two actors. Netizens who like DreamWorks movies will also feel guilty after seeing it.

Coupled with the exaggeration and distortion of the incident itself by the media and marketing accounts, and the silent dislike of Chen Jingxing among netizens, those who had a rebellious mentality against DreamWorks seized the opportunity to speak out, so the public opinion seemed a bit evenly matched for a while, and even supported DreamWorks. The voice was still a little off.

Especially the kind of "I like "Black Mirror"/"Mirage" and so on, but I have something to say about how DreamWorks is doing this time".

DreamWorks Chairman's Office.

"This is indeed my responsibility." Chen Jingxing issued a "crime order" with a bit of annoyance: "But I really didn't expect that the current netizens have such strong sympathy for celebrities."

Tian Xinye was a little puzzled by Chen Jingxing's second sentence, what does it mean that current netizens have such strong sympathy for celebrities, but future netizens will not have such strong sympathy for celebrities?
Chen Jingxing shook his head at Tian Xinye's bewilderment, feeling a little embarrassed in his heart.

At present, although the high salary of celebrities is well known, the number of collapsed houses is indeed not many, and there is no news about tax evasion.

Therefore, the media can even openly quote a certain celebrity's statement based on this incident: "Actor is a high-risk profession!"

Netizens didn't laugh or object to it.

If it had been placed before he crossed over, Li Hanjun and Ye Shunan's short essays and the picturesque nine-square-grid photo would have already made netizens shout for green tea.

It is absolutely impossible to arouse the sympathy of so many passers-by, and the bruising that can be eliminated in a few days without spraying Yunnan Baiyao is worthy of such a fanfare?Who doesn't get bruised and bruised when shooting an action scene?Don't charge money if you have the ability?

Even the complaint of "I can't take other dramas for half a year" may still attract ridicule from netizens. Regardless of my acting skills, some dramas are good, but my business ability is not so good, and I can earn tens of millions a year. , Still not satisfied and so on.

It can only be said that today's netizens are still a bit "simple".

But it's no use complaining in his heart, the matter still needs to be resolved, and the whole thing is indeed his fault to some extent.

After communicating with the producer, he realized that the reason for the sudden confrontation between the two actors was not actually a delay in filming.

The "Walking Dead" project was actually established almost at the same time as "Black Mirror" and "Suspect Tracker". The actors were confirmed before the end of the year, and the director was almost confirmed. Wait, it would be better to gather the best production team and let Tian Xinye, who was filming "Mirage" at that time, direct it. Therefore, the start of filming has been postponed from the end of last year to May this year.

Of course, the actors may have opinions in their hearts, but they are not unbearable. For this reason, DreamWorks has increased the salary, which is equivalent to taking part of the salary for nothing.

Moreover, DreamWorks did not restrict the actors from taking on other commercial activities during this period, or even take on other scenes, as long as they can finish filming before "The Walking Dead" starts filming, DreamWorks doesn't care.

The main reason is that the long-term contract that Chen Jingxing insisted on made the two leading actors feel dissatisfied.

This is after Chen Jingxing talked about cooperation with Universal, he paid more attention to the IP of "The Walking Dead", so he asked to talk to the actors and sign a long-term cooperation agreement, that is, if DreamWorks wants to produce and develop a sequel to "The Walking Dead" And the movie version, then the actors have to cooperate, and of course the remuneration will be renegotiated for each movie.

As a condition, the annual income of "The Walking Dead" will be distributed to the actors in a certain proportion, so as to bind the actors to this IP.

The most important thing is that this long-term contract is not forced. If someone is unwilling to accept it, they can withdraw voluntarily, and DreamWorks will pay the high liquidated damages in the previous film contract.

However, Li Hanjun and Ye Shunan hadn't signed the agreement yet, and they didn't express any objection. The producer also felt that the two should have no objections. Just before signing the so-called "deed of sale", they suddenly asked DreamWorks. The attack shocked everyone in DreamWorks.

The reason why Chen Jingxing is so persistent is mainly because he has learned from previous domestic experience and lessons. Domestic series of film and television dramas often lack the continuity of actors.

The most typical example is that many series of IP have different casts for each drama, which objectively greatly weakens the appeal and commercial value of IP.

Chen Jingxing, who has now become the boss of the film company, understood the reason for this phenomenon.

First of all, in order to reduce the cost, the film studio does not want the actors to get the capital of asking prices, like in Hollywood sequels, where the actor’s salary is skyrocketing like a helicopter, so the capital itself is happy to see the success of this model of changing a batch of actors. Even if it damages the long-term potential of IP.

What's more important is that Chinese actors usually don't like to be locked in by a character. If it's that kind of series of commercial blockbusters, it's okay to say that "The Walking Dead" obviously doesn't have this status in most people's hearts.

Worse than being stuck with a character is being stuck with a zombie-themed character.

(End of this chapter)