Whether it is "The Same Song" or "Happy Comedian", Yang Ming always tells Wu Yuanzhi the general program plan, and she will arrange for the following people to perfect the rest.

In fact, for the following people, the difficulty is only the creativity, not the detailed steps.

For them, as professionals in the industry, as long as they can come up with eye-catching ideas, it is enough.

As for how to hype and how to plan to maximize the impact, these are all things they do professionally.

Throughout the day, Yang Ming held meetings in the company to arrange the company's annual plan.

WeChat, Popcorn, and Phoenix TV are fine, as they all have professional teams responsible for operations, so they don't have to spend much energy on them, but that's obviously not the case with Oriental DreamWorks.

Whether each movie can be shot must be reviewed by Yang Ming one by one. Although Liu Xinsheng has to bear a lot of responsibility, he is also extremely careful when it involves an investment of over 100 million, and Yang Ming naturally cannot ignore it.

This year, in addition to Yang Ming's filming plan, Oriental DreamWorks also has two film filming plans with a production cost of over 100 million.

One is Laochai and the other is Bian Mingcheng.

Yang Ming still has great trust in these two people, and he also wrote the script, so I believe he will not be disappointed.

Originally, Zheng Wen was capable of making movies with a cost of over 100 million, but after "I Am a Passerby", the literary youth in his heart broke out again. He didn't want to make movies for the time being. He said he would first travel around the world to relax and find a job.

Let’s look for inspiration.

Didn't even come back to attend this company meeting.

In this regard, Yang Ming didn't say anything. Everyone has different styles, but successful people will basically have this kind of persistence and alternativeness that is different from ordinary people.

After a day of meetings, he arranged for Liu Xinsheng to hold a grand company dinner to cheer up the company at the beginning of the new year and achieve greater success this year.

In the evening, after dinner.

Yang Ming did not go home immediately. Anyway, Su Su was still with her mother in Guangzhou. Even if he went home, he would be alone.

He called Sister Zhu, and the two found a private room in the hotel. The waiter made tea for them and left.

"Does the company have many A-list stars under contract now?" Yang Ming rarely lit up a cigarette and had a party with his company colleagues in the evening. He also drank a lot of wine and felt very uncomfortable in his stomach. He had to smoke a cigarette to relieve the hangover. If he hadn't persisted,

During martial arts training, he would probably have been drunk long ago.

After hearing Yang Ming's words, Sister Zhu thought for a moment and said slowly: "It's okay. The ones we have trained ourselves have not yet come out. At most, they are in the second and third tiers, including Wu Tianhao and Xu Xiaoxi. They are all the first-tier people who have signed contracts with the company.

They are all recruited because of your relationship, and there are not many of them!"

"Yeah!" Yang Ming nodded silently after hearing this, thought for a while, and then flicked the ash in his hand into the ashtray on the coffee table.

After thinking for a while, he said: "Then what do you think of the star studio system? Do the people below have any ideas?"

Sister Zhu looked slightly startled when she heard Yang Ming's question. She looked up at Yang Ming and didn't know why he asked this question, so she asked in a low voice: "Mr. Yang, is there something wrong?

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No wonder she asked like this, Yang Ming's attitude really made her a little confused.

Yang Ming also knew that his words aroused Zhu Jie's confusion. He couldn't help but think of the reorganization of various trade union organizations in the film and television industry that he mentioned when chatting with Mr. Tao on the phone the day before yesterday.

Why is Hollywood so powerful in both past and present lives? It continuously produces films that wow audiences, conquers the global film market, and achieves crazy box office results.

If China’s strength, economy, and technology were not good enough in the past life, it was precisely because these Chinese-language films were not as good as Hollywood films. At least Yang Ming thought so in the past life, but in this life, China’s local film industry is still being beaten into disgrace by Hollywood blockbusters.

Taking a step back, it is obvious that these are definitely not the main reasons.

The comprehensive strength of China today ranks first in the world. Local companies will basically not suffer in international trade. The same is true for the film industry. However, the local film industry still cannot compete with Hollywood blockbusters. Yang Ming realized the powerlessness of Chinese-language films.

Not just for simple superficial reasons.

Money is not in short supply in this life. In fact, there will be no shortage in the future in the past life. Technology is still not in short supply in this life. In the past life and in the future, as long as you are willing to spend money, the special effects of movies will not be much worse than those of Hollywood.

You get what you pay for.

Special effects that cost 50 cents and special effects that cost hundreds of millions of dollars are completely different things.

So, the reason why Chinese-language films have lagged behind Hollywood in both generations is certainly not superficial.

Yang Ming often thinks about this problem in his mind. The problems that countless filmmakers thought of in the past are not problems at all in this world, but they still cause the situation of the local film industry, which is worth pondering.

Even though he has made several globally successful movies in the past two years, this only represents his personal success, not the success of the local film industry.

In fact, he is not that noble. He must have a lofty ideal to save the Chinese film industry and lead the entire Chinese film industry to take off.

This is so tiring.

What he is more curious about now is why?

I have always wanted to figure out the reason for this.

There is no shortage of people, money, or technology. In this world, there is even more powerful government support. The development of Chinese-language films is still the same. As a filmmaker, although Yang Ming does not have lofty ideals, he does seem to want to figure this out.

What is going on?

The Hollywood film union system he mentioned in a meeting with Mr. Tao last year was an attempt.

Let’s see if it would be feasible for the Chinese film industry to follow Hollywood’s example and try to establish such a film union system.

In the film industry, China today is not inferior to any other country in terms of hardware at least, so is it not good in terms of software?

"It is estimated that this year the film association may try to implement various systems similar to the Hollywood film unions, including the actors union, so actors in the film and television industry will definitely have an increased voice by then. We must be prepared in advance!" Yang Ming

He slowly opened his mouth to explain. He saw Sister Zhu's look of enlightenment, and was afraid that the other party would misunderstand her, so he added: "It's not about signing a new contract, but about making a more promising training plan for potential artists!"

He was afraid that Sister Zhu would misunderstand his intentions. After learning the news in advance, he signed a long-term contract with the following actors and raised the threshold for breach of contract.

This is not what he wants.

"Yeah!" Sister Zhu was shocked when she heard the news. Although she had heard it before, she always thought that someone had released the news randomly. Now after listening to Yang Ming's words, she didn't expect that it turned out to be true. It seems that entertainment

The situation in the circle is about to change.

"Alas, the entire entertainment industry is so chaotic and chaotic now!" Yang Ming sighed.

As the president of the local film association, Mr. Tao cannot go to war and make huge changes just because of his words or suggestions.

In fact, the various darkness in the entertainment industry has made people of the older generation like Tao Lao and others intolerable.

If they don't make reforms at this time, it is estimated that after they are buried, no one will dare to have such determination to reform. It would be too offensive.

Sister Zhu also felt the same way about Yang Ming's words and couldn't help but nodded.

The entertainment industry is inherently a place where evil and evil can easily hide. All kinds of shady transactions happen every day, and all kinds of hidden rules are carried out every day.

Yang Ming has seen a lot of this with his own eyes in this life.

Since the success of his first movie "My Sassy Girl", countless people have come to him every time a new movie is planned, hoping to arrange for their star artist to serve as the female lead. For this reason, he

I can agree to any conditions.

Some female celebrities even called Yang Ming directly, and there were all kinds of subtle ambiguities on the phone.

This situation, after Yang Ming's film entered the international film market, not only did it not diminish, but it intensified even though he repeatedly rejected it.

This shows the current chaos in the local entertainment industry.

In fact, Hollywood is not much better than China, and there are countless types of shady insider trading.

This is not to say that Hollywood's various union systems are a panacea. It will suddenly make Hollywood extremely fair and just. This is simply impossible; whether in this life or in previous lives, the darkness of Hollywood is no less dark than the entertainment industry of any country.

Even darker.

Just because of the existence of these union systems in Hollywood, Hollywood as a whole has more or less a bottom line to act upon.

No matter how unfair it is, there is still room for reasoning.

At least as long as you join the Screen Actors Guild, you will basically not be owed wages. As long as you join the Screenwriters Guild, once your script is applied for registration, at least it will not be forcibly usurped by others and become the work of others.

Under the trade union system, although various unfair situations still occur, at least they are much better.

This is exactly what the Chinese entertainment industry needs.

In a previous life, a mainland director named Yu brazenly plagiarized Qiong Yao's works, which made everyone famous.

You know that is Qiong Yao!

Even with her status in the world, she still had to spend countless energy and time when others plagiarized her works. It took a long time before she finally won the lawsuit. This shows how hard it is to maintain copyright!

It is so difficult for an author of Qiong Yao's level to maintain copyright, let alone other authors and screenwriters.

The scripts and novels that I worked so hard to write were finally filmed, but the title of the screenwriter's book was someone else's name. There shouldn't be too many examples like this in the industry.

Those so-called well-known and big-name screenwriters often do this kind of thing.

Is it illegal?

If there is a Screenwriters Guild, as long as the script is reviewed and registered, the copyright of the script will be in the hands of the original author. If there are similar or plagiarized works, they will be blocked by the Screenwriters Guild and will also be blocked by the Film Association.

Maybe many people don't take the Screenwriters Guild's ban seriously.

But what about film associations?

The right to review film ratings is in the hands of the Film Association.

This is also where the history of Chinese film in this world differs from previous generations.

The Radio, Film and Television Department is under the Ministry of Culture, but it is mainly responsible for macro-control and general direction issues, while the film rating and review is in the hands of the Film Association.

Therefore, this also allows Yang Ming to see the hope of localizing various labor union systems in Hollywood.
To be continued...