The Crown Prince of Huayu!

Chapter 338 Salary Limit Order

Late December.

The new first and second tier lists were released along with the new Hall of Fame members.

Among them, the vast majority of people on the first and second-tier lists maintained their status, and only a very few were promoted.

For example, Tong Liya who won the Hundred Flowers Award for Best Actress, Deng Chao who won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor for "The Sun Also Rises", and Hu Ge who won the Magnolia Award for Best Actor.

The three popular stars were successfully promoted from the second line to the first line.

Considering their fame, it is not much of an honor, but at least it saves their reputation.

At least they don't have to continue to be ridiculed like Shen Teng, Liu Sisi, Tang Yan and Zhao Liying who are still on the second-tier list.

Di Lieba, who just won the Golden Eagle Goddess, has also been successfully promoted to the second-tier list.

Except for Deng Chao, who won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Actor, the rest of these people have risen to their positions based on their fame.

In comparison, for someone like Huang Zhizhong, who has won both the Feitian and White Magnolia Awards for Best Actor but is still in the second tier, it is more difficult to make further progress.

As for the Hall of Fame members, Liu Yifei, who ranked first in the online voting, was still not selected, and the three places were not filled.

Although there are many more art films this year than in previous years due to changes in the first- and second-tier division standards and the emergence of the Hall of Fame, big stars such as Huang Xiaoming, Shen Teng, Wang Baoqiang, and Liu Sisi have all deliberately taken on art films that can win awards.

But first of all, it takes time for a movie to go from shooting to release.

Secondly, those awards that can enhance your status are not something you can just get.

Therefore, no top star has made any major breakthrough in terms of honors this year.

The candidates' honors were almost the same as the previous year.

In this case, the people in charge of selecting the Hall of Fame originally intended to have Andy Lau and Ge You inducted together.

In this case, the number of people in the Mainland and Hong Kong will still be the same.

Those selected are all actors. Although Wang Jiawei, as a director, has no shortage of honors, he would certainly be embarrassed to say anything when the gap between him and the other three selected directors is so huge.

Moreover, Ge You has a very prestigious Cannes Best Actor award. Although he lacks other honors, it is enough to shut up others.

However, after a deep conversation between Han Jiadong and Han Sanpin, the final candidates were Andy Lau and Wang Jiawei.

According to Han Jiadong, the original intention of establishing the Hall of Fame is to encourage actors to stop being content with the status quo and strive to be the best.

Ge You, who created the nickname "Ge You lying down", can be regarded as a model of bad behavior in the circle.

In terms of acting talent, he can definitely be said to be ranked among the top in the mainland entertainment industry.

His resources can be said to be the best among his peers in mainland China.

But he did not focus on the pursuit of acting skills. He always had a laissez-faire attitude towards performance, as long as it was usable.

He took the role in "To Live", which helped him win the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival, only because of Zhang Yimou's fame and money.

As a result, because the price he quoted was lower than the salary Zhang Yimou was originally going to give him, he earned a lot less.

In this case, there is really no need to relax the conditions for him.

Wouldn't that help him find a reasonable excuse to continue playing badly?

By the same token, if the mainland does not make progress and can only rely on the favoritism of the judges to avoid being suppressed by Hong Kong, isn't that also encouraging their laziness?
There is a saying that goes "Shame leads to courage", facing the current situation in the entertainment industry, blindly protecting them is actually harming them, they should be scolded more.

After this list was announced, compared to the huge controversy it caused last year, this time it received unanimous praise from both sides of the Taiwan Strait and Hong Kong and Macau.

Except for a very few voices, the vast majority of people praised the selection of candidates as reasonable.

However, while mainland netizens are praising them, they can’t help but feel a little resentful towards mainland actors for not fighting for their chance.

After Han Jiadong finished talking with his father about the new members of the Hall of Fame, he also talked about the "three fires" mentioned earlier.

Compared to the last time when my dad was still not firmly seated, now we can start making arrangements and implementation.

The specific content is related to the actors' pay.

With the booming entertainment market, the treatment of actors has changed dramatically.

Ten years ago, it was considered very good if an actor could get hundreds of thousands of dollars for filming a movie.

Nowadays, many celebrities can get this amount of money just for filming one episode of a TV series.

One play can earn tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions.

This is arguably the biggest reason why these actors are becoming increasingly bad.

Even if one's acting skills are just terrible, as long as one is popular enough, one can easily earn tens or even hundreds of millions by filming a few TV series a year. Who would be stupid enough to work so hard to hone their acting skills?
Han Jiadong’s suggestion is to limit film pay.

This idea is not new. There was a so-called "salary cap order" in the original time and space. However, compared with the simple and crude one-size-fits-all approach in the original time and space, Han Jiadong's suggestion is more well-founded and feasible: the film pay should be linked to the actor's level.

For example, for a third-tier actor, their pay for a play cannot exceed one million yuan. For a second-tier actor, it can be relaxed to five million yuan, and for a first-tier actor it can be increased to twenty or thirty million yuan.

Of course, these figures are just examples. It is not just the actors' pay that needs to be restricted. For more specific details, my dad himself needs to hold a meeting to study and discuss.

Once inducted into the Hall of Fame, there will be no restrictions at all.

For some... no! It should be for the vast majority of people who are playing badly, it is simply unrealistic to expect them to rely on their own efforts.

honor?

In front of money, it's nothing.

If one can earn tens of millions every year, many people would not mind being relegated to the eighteenth tier.

Therefore, only by taking what they care about most and forcing them to work hard will they be forced to make changes.

It is conceivable that such a "salary cap order" will be resisted by many people.

But at the same time, it will definitely be welcomed by those bosses who have greater say.

But in order not to cause too strong a reaction, Han Jiadong did not let his father implement it immediately. Instead, he gave his father a suggestion that had been used by some people in his previous life.

First, let the media deliberately expose the sky-high pay of some stars with bad reputations.

For example, Zhao and Wu.

Hatred of the rich will always exist.

It's easy to get the rhythm going with just a little provocation.

This is how the "salary cap order" was introduced in the original time and space.

First, the sky-high pay of some stars with bad reputations was exposed, which aroused the dissatisfaction and boycott of netizens. Then the authorities naturally introduced the "salary cap order" in response to public opinion.

At this time, who dares to jump out and oppose?
If anyone dares to be the first to speak out, netizens will criticize him to death without any intervention from the higher authorities.

In the original time and space, a greasy man who was unknown to many people ignored the "salary cap order" and demanded a sky-high salary of nearly 90 million yuan, and was subjected to abuse and ridicule from countless netizens.

January 8th.

Han Jiadong, who had already completed the filming of "Wolf Warrior", attended the 74th Golden Globe Awards with Liu Yifei.

The result is neither good nor bad.

The bad thing is that Liu Yifei missed the Best Actress award again. The judges boldly gave the award to the heroine of the Best Foreign Language Film winner "Her".

An actress from France.

This undoubtedly casts a shadow on Liu Yifei's bid for the Oscar for Best Actress.

The good thing is that Liu Yifei won the Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy Film again.

Han Jiadong also won three major awards for Best Screenplay, Best Director and Best Picture for "La La Land".

The film also bagged the awards for Original Score and Original Song.

Three consecutive years of revenue have made people have to re-evaluate Han Jiadong's ability. None of his commercial films have been loss-making so far!
The global total box office ranks first in the world, currently exceeding 12 billion!

Almost every art film can win an award.

The key efficiency is unmatched.

Even many movie fans in North America can't help but call him the "King of Movies".

Late January.

It’s the Spring Festival again.

After so many years of development, the domestic Spring Festival period has long surpassed the Lunar New Year period to become the most popular movie period of the year.

Last year, there was a movie called "The Mermaid" which grossed over 3.8 billion yuan, plus three other movies that grossed over 1 billion yuan.

For this reason, many popular movies this year are scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival.

The sequel to the "囧" series "理囧", the sequel to the "Journey to the West" series "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" produced by Stephen Chow, Jackie Chan's new film "Kung Fu Yoga", Wang Baoqiang's first self-directed and self-acted film "Buddhist in India", Han Han's new film "Surfing the Waves"...

There are so many popular movies squeezed into this period, no doubt because of the excitement of the blockbuster movies every Spring Festival period in the past two years.

The first 3 billion-level movie was "Charlotte's Troubles" released two years ago.

Last year's The Mermaid.

These are also the only two movies that grossed over 3 billion yuan.

In other words, apart from the Spring Festival period, there is currently no movie with a box office of 3 billion!
Last year's stimulus was undoubtedly greater.

In addition to "The Mermaid", which grossed over 3.8 billion yuan, there are three other movies with box office revenues exceeding 1 billion yuan!

What does this mean?
This means that even if you come across a blockbuster movie like "The Mermaid", the leftover soup is enough to fill you up!

There is no need to worry about insufficient market capacity and being squeezed to death.

With such a hot market, even a movie directed by Han Jiadong himself would not force them to avoid it.

Not to mention that there is no movie directed by Han Jiadong himself this year, only one movie in the囧 series, which was directed by Ning Hao.

Compared to Detective Chinatown 2, which was directed by two semi-newcomers and is still in the post-production stage, Ning Hao, who started preparing at about the same time, is doing a great job shooting Hellraiser.

In the end, it took more than two months to get everything done, and it successfully caught up with this year's Spring Festival.

Stephen Chow, who dominated the Spring Festival box office last year, only participated in the production of "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" as a producer this time.

In this case, it is naturally impossible to scare other people away.

Several popular movies have already started fierce competition before they are released.

With the support of the "囧" series, Han Jiadong as the nominal screenwriter, and the "box office king" starring in it, "囧" was undoubtedly the most promising one at the beginning.

It also has the most pre-scheduled screenings among all the movies, nearly five points more than the second-placed "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back".

"Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back", which is from the Journey to the West series and endorsed by Stephen Chow, ranked second.

As the big brother of the Spring Festival period in previous years, Jackie Chan's new film only ranked third this time, and its screening time was less than half of "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back".

Next up is Han Han’s new film, whose previous film grossed over 700 million yuan with a cost of 50 million yuan.

Finally, here is Wang Baoqiang’s new film.

As the pre-sale box office began, Wang Baoqiang's new film surpassed "Surfing the Waves" and "Kung Fu Yoga" and jumped to the third place.

As soon as the release started, several movies started a fierce competition.

On the first day of its release, "Lost in Hong Kong" grossed 2.7 million yuan.

"Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" 2.3 million.

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" 1.7 million.

"Kung Fu Yoga" 1.1 million.

"Sisters Who Make Waves" earned more than 50 million.

……

With their help, the box office of the market that day directly broke through the 1 billion mark!

Set a single-day market record!

This is also the first time that the single-day box office has exceeded 1 billion!
Among them, "The Lost Tomb" ranked first in terms of attendance, and "Kung Fu Yoga" surpassed "The Monkey King 2" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 2" and ranked second.

Boonie Bears: Fantasy Space ranked third, followed by Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back, Buddies in India, and Riding the Wind and Waves…

In terms of word of mouth, "Lost in Times" with a Douban score of just over 7 is already the highest.

Apart from it, "Kung Fu Yoga" scored 6.9 points.

"The Breakup Guru" scored 6.8 points.

"Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" scored 5.6 points.

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" scored 3.7 points.

……

Wang Baoqiang was obviously inexperienced as a director for the first time and was directly drowned in negative reviews. The film’s reputation plummeted and the box office also plummeted.

From 1.7 million on the first day, it dropped to just over million on the second day, and was overtaken by "Kung Fu Yoga".

On the third day, it dropped to 80 million, and on the fourth day it was over 50 million, before being overtaken by "The Breakup Guru" which made a comeback with its good reputation.

By the sixth day, the box office of more than 30 million had been surpassed by "Boonie Bears".

The rating only dropped by 0.1 points during this period.

However, the new film by veteran Jackie Chan dropped from a passing score of 6.9 to a bad score of 5.7.

The box office was not affected much during this period, and the screening schedule even increased significantly due to the collapse of reputation of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 2" and "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons 3".

Wang Baoqiang and Shen Teng, the two people ranked first and second on the box office rankings, eventually Shen Teng easily defeated Wang Baoqiang with a huge advantage.

In the end, "Lost in Taiwan" won the Spring Festival box office with a box office of more than 1.9 billion yuan.

"Kung Fu Yoga" counterattacked to second place, with a final box office of just over 1.4 billion yuan.

"Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" ranked third with tens of millions less than "Kung Fu Yoga".

"The Breakup Guru" ranked fourth with a box office revenue of more than 20 million yuan short of 1 billion yuan.

The box office of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was just over 600 million yuan, only tens of millions more than "Boonie Bears", and it barely managed to secure the fifth place.

But compared to its cost of just over 100 million, it is undoubtedly a huge profit.

The overall performance of the entire Spring Festival period did not meet expectations.

The main reason is that the box office gap between the top movies is too big.

The box office ranking for the top-ranked film is almost exactly half of last year’s.

Ning Hao, who had just set a new box office record in his career, was also criticized for causing the box office of the "Lost" series to decline for the first time.

Han Jiadong himself was not surprised by the decline in the box office of "Lost in Hong Kong".

Although the original time and space "Lost in Thailand" won the box office championship of domestic films that year, it was released almost two years later than "Lost in Thailand" and there was another movie with a box office of nearly 2 billion in the same year, but its final box office was 100 million less than "Lost in Thailand".

This proves that its upper limit cannot reach the upper limit of the box office market.

After comforting Ning Hao for a few words, Han Jiadong turned his attention to the upcoming Oscars.

(End of this chapter)