China Entertainment 1997

On March 10, Cao Xuan settled the account splitting matter for "Young Bao Qingtian".

In fact, there is nothing much to say. Chen Yong has always been in charge of distribution, and Cao Xuan just waits for the money.

However, the profit collection cycle of TV dramas is generally slow. The first round, sponsorship fees, and pre-roll advertising are okay, but the second, third, and subsequent rounds of income may take more than a year, or even longer.

In other words, even if Cao Xuan of "Young Bao Qingtian" received 10 million in dividends, he would only be able to get about half of it in a short time, and the rest would be paid in batches.

This is an industry rule. Not only TV series, but also movies must be arranged according to the theater chain. The short period is March to June, and the long period is one or two years. It is not new.

Cao Xuan is aware of this, but early dividends can also alleviate some of the financial pressure.

At least if Fanxing reaches a cooperation with Zhou Yi, there will be enough money to invest in "Li Wei Becomes an Official".

In addition to the subsequent division of accounts, Cao Xuan's affairs in "Young Bao Qingtian" are not completely over. The drama has been initially scheduled to be broadcast in September. At that time, Cao Xuan, as the male protagonist, will have to participate in some promotional activities.

This is what it should be, and Cao Xuan has already started to reserve relevant schedules.

In addition, "Young Bao Qingtian" also wanted Cao Xuan to produce and sing the theme song of the TV series, but he declined.

On the one hand, there is really no time. The new album and "Swordsman" have almost completely divided up the schedule for the next few months.

On the other hand, "Young Bao Qingtian" wants to have sex for free, that is, it wants Cao Xuan to compose and sing for free.

This is something Cao Xuan can't bear. As the most popular pop king and creator, Cao Xuan's music expenses are not inferior to his salary.

The two songs in "Journey to the West" are my own business. I can change my left hand to my right hand, and it doesn't matter whether I have money or not.

Liu Huan's "Waiting" shows that when Cao Xuan started his career, he often asked for help and never asked for money.

Later, Cao Xuan invited Liu Huan to sing and produce the theme song of "Journey to the West". Liu Huan also emphasized that he would work for free, and he would leave if Cao Xuan gave him the money.

The relationship between the two is about friendship, not money.

Therefore, when calculating Cao Xuan's music expenses, it is best to refer to Queen Wei Wei.

Last year, Wei Wei took Cao Xuan's song "Mo". The price was not mentioned at the time, but someone turned around and offered 300,000 yuan.

This price can almost allow an ordinary singer to release an album. Among today's musicians, it is definitely a top price.

Although Wei Wei is satisfied with the song or takes care of Cao Xuan's face, and may have made a certain price increase, it also reflects Cao Xuan's current worth to a certain extent.

Using this analogy, asking Cao Xuan to compose two songs plus singing and producing would cost more than 1 million conservatively. And the key is that they are expensive but not marketable, so they may not be able to hire them.

Under such circumstances, the crew of "Young Bao Qingtian" wanted to have sex for free. Cao Xuan did not criticize Chen Yong for his wishful thinking, which was considered very polite.

Cao Xuan couldn't get through, so Chen Yongcai had no choice but to find someone else to invite others to sing, produce, and sing. It was estimated to cost hundreds of thousands, so I don't blame him for wanting to have sex for nothing.

………

After leaving the crew of "Young Bao Qingtian", Cao Xuan did not leave Guangdong Province directly, but participated in three commercial performances that had been negotiated before.

It has to be said that these days, if you have money on the coast, you can be generous with your money, and you will soon catch up with the media bosses from Jin Province.

After three commercial performances and four days, Cao Xuan returned to the capital with an appearance fee of 1.3 million.

As Cao Xuan's fame grows day by day, Cao Xuan's ordinary commercial performance fees have exceeded 350,000, which is almost unique in the mainland.

For example, Zhao Wei, whose "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" became a huge hit, appeared on the Spring Festival Gala and won the Golden Eagle Award, has only a little over 300,000 yuan in commercial performance fees.

The crown of "King of Mainland Commercial Actors" basically goes to Cao Xuan, and even most of the popular celebrities from Hong Kong and Taiwan are similar to him.

Cao Xuan's main problem now is that he has to raise his "air" in the commercial performance market.

When Cao Xuan first debuted, he would not choose food unless he was hungry, but if there was no problem with safety, he would accept it as long as the price was about the same.

Later, it became popular, and invitations to commercial performances came. In order to make as much money as possible, Cao Xuan also compromised on the project price.

For example, one time he accepted a commercial performance worth 200,000 yuan in Henan Province. A businessman in the nearby city contacted him urgently and offered to help him sing a song for 100,000 yuan. Cao Xuan thought it would only take a few dozen minutes, so he accepted the offer with a blind eye. .

Nowadays, this kind of behavior can no longer be practiced. We must formulate standardized pricing and procedures for commercial performances. First of all, we can no longer accept jobs below 300,000 or 250,000, no matter how convenient it is.

Cao Xuan has to establish and consolidate his personal business value, not only in commercial performances, but also in endorsements.

As for film remuneration and music expenses, there are too many situations covered and the flexibility is very large, so it cannot be fixed at once.

Including commercial performances and endorsements, the price and conditions are not negotiable, but there must be a lower limit to ensure Cao Xuan's "competitiveness."

Don't underestimate this "powerful style". Hong Kong and Taiwan artists are more popular than mainland artists because of their "powerful style".

Cao Xuan's current market price is so high because he is one of the few celebrities with influence in Hong Kong, Taiwan and even Asia, which is why he is different from ordinary mainland singers.

Although the fixed price of commercial performances has consolidated Cao Xuan's commercial value and even his celebrity status, the disadvantage is that many people can't afford it, and the number of commercial performance invitations from Fanxing has plummeted.

But Cao Xuan and Fanxing are not panicked, because most of the disappeared prices are mid- to low-end offers, and Cao Xuan is still extremely popular in the high-end commercial performance market.

Even because there are more wolves and less meat, many businesses have begun to get involved and compete to raise prices.

Fanxing officially bid Cao Xuan an entry price of 350,000, but in fact he can also accept orders for 300,000, but when it comes to specific projects, many can talk about 350,000 to 400,000, or even more.

Therefore, although the number of commercial performances decreased, but the price increased, Cao Xuan not only did not lose money, but actually made more money.

Before film and television production was on track, Cao Xuan's album dividends, endorsement fees, and commercial performance income could be regarded as the three pillars of Fanxing Entertainment's revenue, with annual profits as high as 30 to 50 million.

He is definitely the number one money-making artist in the Mainland. That is to say, there is no Forbes celebrity list, otherwise Cao Xuan is expected to dominate the list.

As for Hong Kong and Taiwan, he is still a little behind.

After all, Cheng Long's Hollywood salary has reached tens of millions of dollars, Li Lianjie's salary can easily reach tens of millions of Hong Kong dollars, and Fa Ge, Xingye, Liu Tianwang and others are also all experts in making money.

But this is already good. Cao Xuan debuted in early 1997. In just three years, his actual assets now exceed 40 million.

Not to mention that he still holds 45% of Penguin shares. Let’s not talk about the future, only the present.

Li Huanggua listed its Internet company TOM in early March.

The hot concept of Chinese business legend + Internet instantly shocked the whole of Hong Kong. Hundreds of thousands of people lined up to subscribe. TOM's stock price quickly climbed to double digits, and its market value approached 20 billion Hong Kong dollars.

The day after TOM went public, Li Huagua’s second son reached a partnership with Lenovo and issued a series of slogans.

After the cooperation content was announced to the public, Lenovo's sales surged by more than HK$17.7 billion in just one trading day, with a total market value of more than 80 billion, ranking among the top ten companies in Hong Kong by market capitalization.

This wave of operations, coupled with the influence of Li and Liu, sent the Internet market into complete madness.

At the same time, it has also triggered an increase in the market value of domestic Internet companies. Penguin, which has been confirmed to be the dominant player in the field of instant messaging in the mainland, once soared to 30 million U.S. dollars, and is still soaring.

If calculated based on this market value, Cao Xuan's original investment has more than quintupled, and now his net worth easily exceeds 100 million. Xiao Ma and the others are also multi-millionaires.

In the past few days, Cao Xuan and Xiao Ma Ge were talking on the phone, and they both felt that Xiao Ma Ge's tone was getting more energetic.

It once again verified what money is and heroic courage.

However, Billionaire Cao Xuan is very calm. Penguin’s market value is now fictitious. In a few months, when the Internet bubble bursts, it will be good to retain half of it.

Besides, net worth is not equal to money.

Even though Boss Cao has a net worth of over 100 million, it is difficult for him to come up with 5 million in cash at once, let alone Brother Ma. Without asking for help from his family, he may not even be able to come up with 100,000.

Therefore, Cao Xuan can still remain calm in this regard. Compared with the "illusory" net worth valuation, he prefers the real money in his hands.

Because of Cao Xuan's calmness, Xiao Ma Ge and others were also stabilized in military morale.

Although these people are not from ordinary families, they are not worth tens of millions, so it is normal to have some mood swings.

Cao Xuan successfully pretended to be in front of Brother Xiao Ma and others, and was considered by Brother Xiao Ma and others to have the style of a great (jin) general (zhu) who is not afraid of honor or disgrace.

………

On March 14, Cao Xuan returned to Beijing.

First, I went back to Dashizuo Hutong, met my parents, put away the local products brought from Guangdong Province, and told me which ones were given to Master Li Xuejian.

After that, he didn't even eat anything, so he made an excuse to run to Haidian Apartment, where Zeng Li had already been waiting for his lover.

In January, they returned home from the winter vacation, and the two had not seen each other since then. Now they reunited after a long separation, and the moment they met, the sky was thundering and the earth was on fire, and the pagoda suppressed the river monster.

After dozens of minutes of fierce fighting, Cao Xuan hugged Zeng Li and lay on the bed, whispering.

The blush still lingered on Zeng Li's face, and he was somewhat happy to share his good news with Cao Xuan.

She passed her preliminary examination for the postgraduate entrance examination.

The rest are all internal assessments at China Drama, which are not very difficult and have a certain bias towards students from the school. It can be said that Zeng Li has already half-stepped into the door of graduate school at China Drama.

As long as Zeng Li can become a graduate student, she will be one step closer to her goal of staying in school.

"Then it seems that I really have to call you Teacher Zeng from now on."

Cao Xuan was also very happy for Zeng Li. It was Teacher Zeng who felt a little awkward when he called him, a bit like Zeng Xiaoxian.

But soon, Cao Xuan thought of another thing: "If you really stay in school and become a teacher, wouldn't you have to teach students?"

"Take it."

Zeng Li counted on his fingers and said: "I asked a senior teacher that now the old teachers have begun to take a back seat, and now it is the young teachers who lead the classes.

If graduate students like us want to stay in school, they will start working as teaching assistants in their second year of graduate school to assess their abilities. If they perform well, they may directly serve as class teachers after they graduate from their third year of graduate school or graduate school. "

"Ken 2, which is level 02."

Cao Xuan thought about it and realized that this year's Chinese Opera Performance Department seemed to have produced many stars. It could even be said that it was second only to Class 96 and had a lot of "talent".

For example, [The Shame of Chinese Drama] Tang Yan, [See You on Monday] Wen Zhang, [Little International Chapter] Tong Yao, [One Finger Zen] Bai Baihe...

It is estimated that Teacher Zeng's life as a teacher will not be peaceful. Fortunately, she is only a teaching assistant, and the real head teacher will take the blame first.

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