The king of ghost horse comedy

Chapter 250 Entering TVB? ]
The next day, just in time for Sunday, there was a meeting of the group of seven.

In the morning, Xu Guanwu went to his elder brother, third younger brother, and fourth younger brother to discuss salary adjustment.

Whether it is the Xu Brothers Company or the Superstar Manager Company, there are now more staff than before.The original salary system cannot better stimulate the enthusiasm of employees, so it is time to adjust it.

Xu Guanwen, Xu Guanying, and Xu Guanjie also had little opinion on salary adjustments. The Xu brothers were born in poverty since childhood, and the education they received was to live in poverty and live in peace.

What's more, the Xu Guanwen brothers originally made movies to satirize the rich and unkind, and to speak out for the poor. They also regard themselves as ordinary people in their bones, so they don't really care about money.Especially in the past two or three years, the company has made a lot of money.

In particular, Xu Guanwu has opened up the American market. The films of Xu Brothers Company have sold millions of dollars at the box office, which is more than the combined annual box office of Shaw Brothers and Golden Harvest, so they also have the capital to pay employees more wages.

"Second brother, do you generally increase your salary by a few percent, or do you deal with it separately according to the division of labor?" Xu Guanjie asked.

"Of course, it should be dealt with according to the division of labor. I suggest that the salary of the behind-the-scenes staff should be increased by [-]%, and then the three more important tasks of screenwriting, editing, and dubbing will be divided according to the box office of the film." Xu Guanwu suggested, "Another production The salaries of filmmakers, directors, and leading actors remain unchanged, and they are also given the right to share in the box office."

"Then how much is appropriate?" Xu Guanying asked, "If the behind-the-scenes staff of screenwriters, editors, and dubbing share the same share as the producers, leading actors, and directors, I'm afraid these producers, directors, and leading actors will not be willing. .”

"Screenwriter and editor each get [-] percent, and if there are more dubbers, [-] percent is better." Xu Guanwu thought for a while and said, "Producer, leading actor, and director each get [-] percent. How about this distribution? "

"In this way, don't they account for 13%, and we have worked hard to pay for the money and salary, and only account for 17%." Xu Guanjie said immediately.

"Yeah, our profit sharing is too big. If a movie has a box office of 90 million yuan, then we will get a total of 300 Hong Kong dollars. After deducting the cost, we can't even make any money." Xu Guanwen shook his head and said, "And the box office dividends are not easy to deal with, especially overseas box office. For example, in the United States, if a movie costs [-] million U.S. dollars, they can get hundreds of thousands of Hong Kong dollars. In this way, they will spend hundreds of thousands of dollars if they don't make a few movies. We are now millionaires and multi-millionaires. Once the contract is terminated and our wings fly high, we will be empty."

"That's right, we are sharing profits, but it can't be so large." Xu Guanjie waved his hand and said, "In my opinion, we should only share the local box office in Hong Kong, and we will no longer share the box office or copyright sales in other places. "

"That's right, what SAM said is right, we shouldn't suffer too much, my second brother." Xu Guanying said, "Other companies' salaries are not as high as ours. We agreed to share the box office in Hong Kong, which is considered generous."

Xu Guanwu nodded after hearing this. The plan he considered before was to refer to the style of Hollywood in the United States.Over there, no matter the screenwriter, director, producer, or actor can participate in the share of the film, and the proportion is still quite large.

Tom Cruise won a huge dividend of hundreds of millions of dollars in one fell swoop by virtue of his share in "War of the Worlds", and Keanu Reeves also won a box office dividend of up to [-] million US dollars by virtue of his performance in "The Matrix". It sounds like a fantasy.

Allowing these front and backstage staff to participate in the film sharing is not only to reduce the investment cost of the film, but also to better unite people's hearts, so that the staff will give 100% of their efforts and efforts for their own interests.

However, when Xu Guanwu formulated the system, he forgot to refer to the current reality of Hong Kong.Not to mention Shaw Brothers, which is already old and famous for being stingy, even Golden Harvest has not been generous to its employees.

Don't look at the information that Golden Harvest adopts a satellite company system, supports talented people to set up companies, invests them to make films, and participates in box office dividends, but it is all deceptive.

Many people who cooperated with Golden Harvest back then, without exception, all fell out in the end.The reason is that Golden Harvest's box office distribution has been messed up. Movies with very high overseas box office originally had only a few cents in the account book.

Xu Guanwen made so many blockbuster films for Golden Harvest, but the box office share was pitifully small.At the end of the trouble, Chen Jieying went to Golden Harvest to check the accounts in person.

Hong Jingbao is even more pitiful. He has stayed in Golden Harvest for at least ten years. It stands to reason that the 80s is definitely better than Cheng Long. series, "Ghosts Fighting Ghosts" series, etc., are all blockbusters, with a box office of more than tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars.

It is said that he can eat and drink without worrying about just relying on box office dividends, but the reality is that Hong Jingbao is quite old, and he still has to fight to death on the screen, why? !It is because Golden Harvest's dividend bills are in a mess, and many blockbuster movies don't have a dime dividend.

Hong Jingbao didn't tear his face when he talked about loyalty, but he was still aggrieved in retrospect.

In addition to Xu Guanwen and Hong Jingbao having a lot of unhappiness when they left Golden Harvest, Wang Jing also had a lot of conflicts when they left Golden Harvest.There are many blockbuster films directed by Wang Jing, such as "The Ten Tortures of the Manchu Dynasty", etc., but in Taiwan, the main box office for Hong Kong films, they didn't even make a penny at the box office.After the final calculation, Wang Jing owed Golden Harvest more than 1000 million Hong Kong dollars.

Wang Jing is not a kind person like Xu Guanwen and Hong Jingbao. If he suffers a loss, he will suffer a loss. After all, there was a friendship between the host and the guest before, so he didn't make too much noise after leaving.But Wang Jing was a little annoyed. Just in time for Golden Harvest's original Fushan Road studio to be demolished, the government specially prepared another piece of land for Golden Harvest in Tseung Kwan O in order to make up for Golden Harvest's loss.

However, although this piece of land was for Golden Harvest, it was impossible to give it clearly due to the view, so an auction was held, but the conditions set were very strict, and it was clearly designed according to Golden Harvest's template.

Naturally, Wang Jing didn't want Golden Harvest to get such a big deal, so one company didn't have enough conditions and I got a few more companies to bid together, and finally snatched the Tseung Kwan O land.The loss of Golden Harvest's own film city is equivalent to the loss of the Red Army's base. All of a sudden, the foundation was gone, and the entire company quickly collapsed.

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After Xu Guanwu listened to the brothers' explanation, he also knew that he had set the share too high, so he also referred to Xu Guanjie's opinion and only took into account the local box office in Hong Kong, and the overseas box office was all owned by the company.

In this way, in fact, the employees did not lose points. A movie has a box office of millions, and at least tens of thousands can be allocated. It was considered a high income at that time, not to mention the basic salary.

After determining the salary standard, Xu Guanwu brought up the film planning system he thought about.

The so-called film planning system is to make a systematic plan in advance of the number of films to be shot each year, the types of films, and the release time, so as to avoid the situation where films of the same type are staged together.

In fact, if a movie like "The Prodigal Boy" hadn't competed with "Lu Ah Cai and Huang Feihong" during the Spring Festival, the box office would probably break through 300 million Hong Kong dollars and reach the level of 400 million or 500 million.

For example, "Li Sanjiao Megatron Hell Gate" was released together with "Drunken Master", and it was also implicated because it is also a kung fu comedy. Otherwise, it is still possible to have a box office of over one million.

Therefore, the film planning mechanism was introduced in advance, so as not to grab the schedule of one's own film, and hit the right hand left and right, and it was oneself who suffered in the end.

In fact, a similar system has been implemented in Hollywood for a long time. Although the eight major film companies are in a competitive relationship, they actually have gatherings every year to discuss film production issues.

This year I want to make several action films, several romantic films, several musical films, several science fiction films... When will it be released, who will star in... I generally have a plan, the purpose is to avoid the same type of movies being released together Crash, in the end, none of the movies can get a high box office.

Hollywood movies generally have a high investment. Once the box office fails, the production company will face extremely serious problems.So everyone wants to minimize the risk factor, and no one wants to go bankrupt because a big investment movie fails at the box office.

Xu Guanwu's implementation of the film planning system actually has another important purpose, which is to find an opportunity to promote it, so that film companies such as Golden Harvest and Shaw Brothers can also be included in the planning.

In this way, it is possible to avoid collisions between companies and the same type of movies, and at the same time, it can curb the problem of malicious follow-up.

If the major cinema companies in Hong Kong form an alliance, any company that dares to violate the planning system will not be allowed to show in Hong Kong, and at least [-]% to [-]% of the film companies will be suppressed.

Of course this is just a long-term ideal, now not only Shaw Brothers will not talk to him, even Golden Harvest will not accept Xu Guanwu's suggestion.

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After Xu Guanwen and the three brothers listened to Xu Guanjie's suggestion, their reactions were quite different.Xu Guanying thinks this is a good idea. If it is implemented according to the plan in the future, the company will be able to run very carefully like a gear.

However, Xu Guanjie and Xu Guanwen disagreed. Their opinion was that shooting a film is an artistic creation, not assembling cars in a car factory. It can be completed in a few hours.Sometimes it may be possible to shoot several scenes in a day, but sometimes you can’t find the feeling for half a month, and everyone can only wait there to get used to it.

Therefore, it is simply impossible to stipulate a few days to complete the project and when to release it. It is purely for laymen to guide experts.The quality of the film produced like that is simply impossible.

Xu Guanwu did not expect such a good proposal of his own to be so rejected by his elder brother and fourth younger brother, and he said that he was an outsider guiding an expert. , also requires additional planning.”

"That's good too. This way, if movies of the same type are not released together, it will also avoid the problem of competing for the schedule." Xu Guanjie nodded.

"Moreover, the number of types of films shot each year still needs to be planned in advance, so as to avoid releasing too many films of the same type in a year, which will reduce the audience's desire to watch movies." Xu Guanwu added.

"But if there is a good movie subject, if we don't make it, other film companies will do it. Wouldn't the money be robbed by others?" Xu Guanying asked.

"Yeah, take the Cologne movies that our company is making now as an example. If we stipulated to make two Cologne movies this year, the one that was very popular a few years ago, everyone frantically came to follow suit. If we still persist If there are two Cologne movies a year, won’t the money be taken away by others? And if there are too many Cologne movies released that year, making the audience feel sick, we will make two Cologne movies in the next year, and they still won’t be able to sell. To the high box office." Xu Guanjie also gave an example.

"It's useless for us to do this by ourselves, unless Shaw Brothers, Golden Harvest, Xie Li, First Pictures, and other large and medium-sized film companies are called together to make a unified plan." Xu Guanwen also said.

"They won't agree to this plan, anyway, as long as they have money, they will go, and they don't care about any plan or not." Xu Guanjie waved his hand and said, "If Gu Long's movie really sells for several million at the box office, they will abide by the rules and not make it No wonder."

(End of this chapter)