Chapter 348 Should I Consider It?

Chapter 348 Should I Consider It?

Chapter 348 Do You Want to Consider It?

In just two or three days, the whole farce was settled.

The outside world is watching the fun.

It was thought that Huang Shengyi was in trouble and was exposed by a kind-hearted person on the Internet, which led to the rapid dismissal of Vice President Shao. He was also formally investigated by the police for taking kickbacks and having huge amounts of unknown assets under his name.

However, anyone with a discerning eye could see that the initial anonymous Weibo post on the Internet broke out too suddenly, and it was obvious that someone was behind it.

Rumors quickly spread that Huang Shengyi had asked Fan Wumian for help, which made everything make sense.

Which celebrity has assets worth more than 2 billion Hong Kong dollars and has become a major shareholder of a leading Internet stock worth tens of billions of Hong Kong dollars through stock speculation?

Now in the Chinese entertainment circle, there are really few people who only regard him as an artist. Last year, the total size of the entire mainland box office market was only 20 billion yuan.

Although Vice President Shao is just a local boss, he is still the vice president of a listed company with a market value of more than 1 billion RMB. How could he be pulled down so easily?

Moreover, the speed at which the case was filed for investigation was astonishingly fast. Even the bank statements of Vice President Shao’s wife and children, as well as real estate and securities assets under their names were found by "anonymous kind-hearted people" and submitted to his unit and local police as evidence.

Fan Wumian particularly understood the principle that if you don't remove the roots of the grass, it will grow again when the spring breeze blows.

She was worried that the quarrel between Vice President Shao and Huang Shengyi would affect her future and cause her to lose tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars in earnings, so she used her ultimate move at the first move and did not give Vice President Shao any chance to turn things around.

So much so that on many bulletin boards, forums and Penguin Weibo, there was a post titled "A fierce dragon crosses the river and suppresses the local snake", the main content of which was that Fan Wumian took good care of his artists and helped Huang Shengyi.

Some people also speculated that there might be some relationship between the two of them, which is why the revenge was so fierce.

Fan Wumian neither clarified nor refuted these rumors.

I think it's a good idea to kill a chicken to scare the monkeys. In the future, when someone targets the female celebrities under Bandit King Media, they will consider whether they can bear the consequences.
afterwards.

Faced with the irrefutable evidence, Vice President Shao knelt down as soon as he was taken away.

He confessed that he had privately invested in setting up a factory, and quietly transferred the company's orders to his own small factory, making a profit of 300 to 400 million yuan over a few years.

His trusted assistant and driver also revealed a lot of explosive news.

For example, it is not the first time that Vice President Shao has bullied artists and supermodels. Whenever he takes a fancy to someone, he will find an excuse to hold an event in the name of the company, spend money to invite the other party, and then use threats and inducements.

Huang Shengyi was lucky to escape, but some people did not escape, either voluntarily or forced to do so. The entire list included more than a dozen people.

The private detective sent by Fan Wumian was the one who helped him find Emperor Qianlong's blessing gold coins. He collected clues by spending money along the way and his efficiency was surprisingly fast.

I don’t know through what channel this list was obtained.

Seeing a few familiar names, Fan Wumian was amazed. He understood why they suffered losses but dared not speak out, most of them were worried about affecting their careers.

The last time he was blackmailed by someone, he never mentioned the list of other victims. This time was the same, he just pretended to know nothing.

Faced with a lot of trivial matters after the New Year, I quickly put this little episode behind me and started busy preparing for the filming of the new drama.

On the day of the Lantern Festival.

In the golf villa in Shenzhen, agent Jiang Shixi reported:
"In recent days, several first- and second-tier female stars have hoped to sign contracts with our company. They are all mature artists with their own connections. They can start making money for the company by switching to our company. Would you like to consider it?"

For many artists, it is not difficult to make money, but the difficult part is how to make money while doing it.

Some people work hard for several months to film a drama and only earn two or three thousand yuan per episode, but can earn hundreds of thousands by attending a dinner party.

Even if you don't want to make this kind of dirty money, the contracted company will still force you to do it and threaten you with being put on ice or having your income cut off.

There are good and bad companies in the industry, and not all bosses run their businesses in a lawful manner. Because of Huang Shengyi's case, more people discovered that Fan Wumian was a particularly good boss, and inevitably wanted to switch jobs and work under him.

The new year has just begun, and it is the peak season for job hopping. After listening to Fan Wumian, he thought for a moment and replied:

"Xu Zheng approached me a few years ago. He and his wife wanted to work with me to open an artist management company."

"But compared to the management company itself, I think he would rather start his own company to avoid the high labor income tax. If we can reach an agreement with him, we can let these artists sign with the new company that Xu Zheng and I will open, and then we can allocate some resources to them and find work for them outside."

"The model of Hong Kong's TBV TV station, which uses its own actors to make movies and only pays them low wages, is about to become obsolete and will be eliminated. Professional artist management companies are making a lot of money."

Jiang Shixi asked:

"It's similar to the situation with Mandou Model Company, right? Using the resources of Bandit King Media to support the joint venture artist management company, how much stock should be given to Xu Zheng? If you give too much, you, the boss, will suffer. If you give too little, it will be meaningless. It's better to expand the scale of the artist management department yourself."

Fan Wumian was at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and reminded:
"Don't always think about eating alone. I've made all the money, and others will definitely reject and resist me. Let Xu Zheng worry about the mess. Even if he has no credit, he has worked hard, so he deserves some shares."

Professional artist management companies will be popular for a while, but in the long run, the mainstream trend of market development will be for top stars to register their own studios.

For their own interests, there will be more and more stars like Xu Zheng who want to start their own companies and become bosses in the future.

Fan Wumian was not very interested in the sunset industry that could soon go out of business, and was too lazy to invest too much money in it.

Since it's just a small business, it's not a bad idea to just monetize the resources of Bandit King Media and make some pocket money, and leave those troublesome matters to Xu Zheng to worry about.

Jiang Shixi didn't quite understand Fan Wumian's idea. He nodded after hearing the instructions and replied:

"Okay, I won't reject them yet. I brought this year's shooting schedule here. Can you take a look and see if there are any problems?"

There is a form in the folder.

Sorted in chronological order, they are "Crazy Racing" which has already started filming, Fan Wumian's own "My Love from the Star", the variety show "Running Man" scheduled to start filming in March, "Detective Chinatown", "The Golden Eyes", "Lost on Journey 2", etc.

Those to be confirmed include "Wushuang", "The Invisible Guest", "The Tuner" and "The Accidental Murderer". The scripts for the last three have been written and were originally scheduled to start filming in the second half of the year. There are really a lot of projects.

however.

As Fan Wumian planned to start a company in Hollywood, he realized that he should bring these four scripts to Hollywood for filming and production, making money on both ends in the form of Sino-US co-productions.

If the box office is not low, the profit that the company earns from box office dividends and peripheral copyright income will be much higher than directly selling the overseas distribution rights.

On the tenth day of the Lunar New Year, Fan Wumian had already contacted a third-party company to prepare to open a new film studio in Hollywood.

Just like celebrity studios often affiliate themselves with film and television companies to maintain long-term cooperative relationships, if Fan Wumian wants to venture into the extremely exclusive Hollywood, he also needs to find a good partner for himself and share some of his profits in exchange for the opportunity to gain a foothold.

The current situation is probably because Disney is too rich and powerful, and Sony Pictures has acquired three of the eight major Hollywood film companies.

Warner Bros., in partnership with Legendary Pictures, announced last year plans to invest heavily in making 40 films, so they have no shortage of projects.

After looking around, Fan Wumian first wants to cooperate with the three giants: Paramount, 20th Century Fox, and Universal Pictures.

Among them, Paramount Pictures, which is the least adept at making movies, seems to be the easiest to negotiate terms with Fan Wumian because it has no shortage of funds but only good projects.

The "Bourne Supremacy" series and "Fast & Furious" series created by Universal Pictures are both extremely popular. 20th Century Fox owns "Ice Age", "X-Men", etc. The two companies together will release forty to fifty movies this year.

They have no shortage of good projects, so it is certainly difficult for Fan Wumian to obtain favorable conditions when negotiating with these two companies.

In contrast, Paramount only invested in and released three films last year.

With the copyright of "A Quiet Place" in hand, Fan Wumian felt that he had an opportunity to fight for it and open a studio under Paramount.
(End of this chapter)