Chapter 193 The Embryo of the Entertainment Empire

Regarding the project of "Taken", Wang Hao had actually already considered it when he auditioned Liam Neeson in the crew of "The Wandering Earth". It was not a sudden impulse.

So after the screenwriting department of Galaxy Interactive Entertainment completed the script of "Source Code" some time ago, Wang Hao gave them this new task.

Now the script of "Taken" is half completed. It is estimated that the script of this project should be completed around March or April.

Of course, Wang Hao must have been busy with "Source Code" at that time, and he was at most a producer on this project.

As for the director, Wong Jing had filmed a movie called "The Monkey King 3" with me and he is also a contracted director of Star Culture, so it should be no problem for him to direct "Taken".

The only thing to consider, perhaps, is which young actress should play the role of Liam Neeson's daughter in the movie.

Liu Yifei? Or some other younger post-90s actress?
Wang Hao couldn't make up his mind for a moment, but it was still early for this matter, so he quickly put it aside.

After all, the New Year is coming soon, and there are many things in the company that require him as the boss to make decisions.

With the development over the past year and a half, Wang Hao’s Galaxy Interactive Entertainment is no longer the makeshift team or shell company it once was.

If you count them carefully, there are quite a few companies under Wang Hao's control nowadays.

The first is Galaxy Interactive Entertainment Culture Communication Co., Ltd., whose main business is film production.

The company has today's most advanced technology and equipment, enough to compete with many large Hollywood companies. It also has a special effects technology team of more than 40 people and a professional screenwriter team of more than 20 people.

All of this was cultivated step by step by Wang Hao from scratch.

It is thanks to such an excellent production team that Wang Hao was able to make successful films such as "The Shallows", "Fatal Call" and "Wushuang".

After talking about Galaxy Interactive Entertainment, let’s talk about Xingdou Culture Service Co., Ltd.

The company's main business is artist management, and its operating model is benchmarked against Hollywood's CAA. It is now well-known in the film and television circles in Beijing, and has initially established a foothold and opened up the market.

The reason for this is not because Xingdou Culture has any well-known contracted artists, nor because Xingdou Culture has a well-known director like Wang Hao, but because Xingdou Culture has signed hundreds of behind-the-scenes workers with strong skills and good work attitudes.

Among these behind-the-scenes workers, technical personnel such as photography, lighting, art, and makeup account for the majority.

The reason why there are only hundreds of people is because Xingdou Culture would rather have nothing than hire unqualified people. After signing them, they will take written tests on their professional knowledge and practical technical assessments, and then rate and score them based on their work experience and assessment results.

The ratings are divided into four levels: A, B, C, and D. Each level of behind-the-scenes technical personnel corresponds to different salary quotes.

If they fail to reach the minimum level, Xingdou Culture will not even sign a contract with them.

The information of these assessed behind-the-scenes personnel will be placed on a website specially built by Xingdou Culture for selection by production companies and crews in need.

At the same time, Xingdou Culture will also use its relationships with companies such as Huaying, Huayi, Emperor Entertainment Group and Movie Channel to package these behind-the-scenes workers and insert them into suitable projects.

In this way, the producers not only save time in finding behind-the-scenes staff, but also reduce the expenses of training the behind-the-scenes team and reduce management costs.

The behind-the-scenes workers no longer need to go through the trouble of finding projects and using connections to get into the crew. At the same time, Xingdou Culture has a dedicated legal team to protect their rights and interests, and their salaries are guaranteed and will not be delayed without reason. In this way, both parties benefit, which can be said to be a win-win situation.

As for Xingdou Culture, the agency contract signed between the company and these behind-the-scenes personnel only provides a 10% commission and is signed for one year, which seems to be difficult to cover even the operating costs. However, Wang Hao's positioning of this company was not for profit.

Build high walls, store up food, slowly claim the throne, and surround the cities with the countryside.

This is the core point of Xingdou Culture’s management and development.

Perhaps those behind-the-scenes workers are not as dazzling as the stars and directors in front of the stage, but they are the cornerstone of the entire film and television entertainment industry.

Whether it is movies, TV series, variety shows, or even the short drama and short video industries of the future, these behind-the-scenes personnel are indispensable.

Once Wang Hao's Xingdou Culture has control over a large number of behind-the-scenes workers, it will be able to negotiate prices with major film and television companies through them and at the same time influence the entertainment industry in reverse.

As for whether the major film and television companies will target and suppress it, that is inevitable.

However, for a long time at present, the prosperous entertainment industry will cause those high-ranking film and television company bosses to ignore these grassroots issues.

By the time they feel the power from the grassroots and begin to take it seriously, Xingdou Culture may have developed to a scale that they will find difficult to shake.

Wang Hao attaches great importance to Xingdou Culture, otherwise he would not have set up such a branch company so early.

Another branch that is equally valued by Wang Hao as Xingdou Culture is Xingtu Culture, which is responsible for copyright business.

If Xingdou Culture is one leg of Wang Hao Entertainment Group, it is the hardware foundation of the group.

Then Star Map Culture is the other leg of Wang Hao Entertainment Group and the software foundation of the group.

In the first half of 06, Wang Hao separated the copyright department of Galaxy Interactive Entertainment and established Star Chart Culture, which is specifically responsible for copyright business under his personal name.

This company is not big, with only a dozen people, but it owns the copyrights to works including "Fall in Love with You", "Startling by Each Step", "Game of Thrones", "Ghost Blows Out the Light", "Nirvana in Fire", as well as all science fiction novels of Liu Cixin and all movies of Wang Hao.

In addition, the copyrights of the scripts registered by Wang Hao with the Hollywood Writers Association are also under the name of Star Map Culture.

These film scripts, together with Liu Cixin's "The Three-Body Problem", "The Wandering Earth" and "Ball Lightning", Fang Baiyu's "Game Age", Tian Xia Bachang's "Ghost Blows Out the Light", and Wang Hao's "Buried Alive", "The Shallows", "The Call" and "Wushuang", together constitute the copyright library of the science fiction film universe and have become Star Map Culture's most important assets.

In the future, Disney spent $42.4 billion to acquire Marvel. If Wang Hao's science fiction movie universe is successfully built, its size will not be much inferior to Marvel.

In such a comparison, the valuation of Star Map Culture must be an astronomical figure.

Of course, Wang Hao would definitely not sell Star Map Culture.

Galaxy Interactive Entertainment, Xingdou Brokerage, and Xingtu Culture are the three pillars of his entertainment empire and the cornerstones of Wang Hao's career.

It is also the hope for the entire Chinese film and television culture to rise and compete with Hollywood.

(End of this chapter)

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