The "Huang Feihong" series of movies once brought countless happiness to the audience in the era of the prosperity of Cantonese films.

It also forms the golden age of Cantonese films together with movies such as "Tathagata's God Palm", "White Bone Yin and Yang Sword", "Seven Swords and Thirteen Heroes", and "Wudang Feifeng".

However, as the audience became increasingly dissatisfied with the so-called "Seven Days" Cantonese feature films in the late 1960s, Cantonese feature films gradually lost the market, which also caused the filming of the "Huang Feihong" series to stagnate.

During its prosperous period, the "Huang Feihong" series can be filmed up to twenty-five movies a year, and one movie can be released on average every half month. The quality can be imagined.

After the decline of Cantonese films, Mr. Guan Dexing never filmed the movie "Huang Feihong" for five years from 1970s to 1974. It was not that he didn't want to film, but that the film company didn't dare to film it at all.

Like the last filming of Mr. Guan, "Huang Feihong Breaking the Fire Array", the box office was less than 50,000 yuan after its release, and even the actor's pay could not be recovered. Who would dare to invite him to film again?

However, now, seeing that the IP of "Huang Feihong" has been popular again by Ye Jin, many companies such as Jiahe, Xiao, and Xieli have quickly followed the trend and started the shooting of the "Huang Feihong" series of movies.

Therefore, it can be said that Ye Jin's "Drunk Boxing" gave these people a job. If they still had to jump at this time, they really don't know how to write the word "Conscience".

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After reading the newspaper reports, Ye Jin was very happy.

With their support, I believe that "Drunk Boxing" will definitely achieve a good box office.

Sure enough, after breakfast, Ye Jin received a call from Wu Siyuan.

Jiahe Theater saw that the midnight show of "Drunk Boxing" was so popular, so he decided to expand the release scale of the midnight show, from the previous six theaters to ten.

This is naturally a good thing for the movie.

The larger the movie is, the more likely it is to win a high box office.

Otherwise, even if the movies are popular and full, there are only one or two theaters released. If you want to accumulate high box office, you have to wait until the Year of the Monkey and Horse Month.

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Ye Jin also received news that Ming Pao Weekly wanted to give him an exclusive interview; Wireless Channel and Li's Channel hoped to be on the show; the two radio stations also hoped to be guests.

"A Jin, you are a hot commodity now. Everyone wants to come up and take a bite." Wu Siyuan said with a smile.

Ye Jin also laughed. Once upon a time, he also thought about when he would become the focus of media pursuit, but now he finally got what he wanted.

"A Jin, you should consider finding someone to take care of your acting affairs." Wu Siyuan suggested again, "You are getting more and more popular now, and more and more people will be looking for you.

Some people want to interview you, some want to cooperate with you, some want to invite you to perform, some want to invite you to shoot advertisements... If you can't handle these tasks alone, you must find someone to take care of them."

Ye Jin nodded when he heard what he said.

In his previous life, artists had agents responsible for managing their acting affairs. For example, contacting work, negotiating remuneration, handling contracts, arranging schedules, daily publicity, image maintenance, crisis public relations, etc.

A good agent can help artists become successful and prosper; while a bad agent can also make artists fall from the altar and destroy their own paths. Therefore, agents are very important for artists.

However, there are currently no professional agents in the Xiangjiang entertainment industry.

Because Xiao’s system is a large studio system, the company signs artists, arranges work, and manages everything.

The company holds two major positions: agent and employer. This situation is naturally unreasonable for artists.

Because the agent should represent the interests of the artist and need to help the artist fight for the rights as much as possible. But now the agent is also an employer, it will naturally no longer consider the gains and losses of the artist.

Therefore, the pay of artists at Xiao’s Film is generally very low. Even the most famous Di Long and David Jiang have served Xiao for six years, and the pay of a movie is only 50,000 Hong Kong dollars. After Ye Jin finished filming the first film "The Snake-shaped Hand", the pay of the pay has increased to 200,000 Hong Kong dollars.

Because Xiao is the leader of Xiangjiang Film, many small and medium-sized film companies also learn its model.

Director Luo Wei signed Jackie Chan with a long contract and paid his salary monthly. During the contract period, the company was allowed to arrange filming, but Jackie Chan had no right to refuse.

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Although Jiahe promotes [film contract system] and [satellite company system].

When Bruce Lee collaborated with it in the early days, he signed two film contracts for $15,000, and filmed "Brother Tangshan" and "Jingwumen". Later, Jiahe saw that he was so popular, so he invested in helping him start the Union Film Company.

This system is more advanced, more reasonable than the [major studio system] implemented by Xiao's Pictures, and can stimulate the creativeness of filmmakers.

In the early days, Bruce Lee was planning to cooperate with Xiao, and the film was paid 10,000 US dollars for Xiao. However, Xiao Runze was worried about affecting the company's salary structure (at that time, Di Long and David Jiang had a movie of 10,000 Hong Kong dollars), so he refused Bruce Lee's conditions and asked Jiahe to find a bargain.

After Xu Rongwen wrote the script of "The Two Stars of the Ghost", he discussed with Xiao Runze to invest and shoot together, and shared the box office together, but was also rejected by Xiao Runze.

Later, Jiahe sent an olive branch to Xu Rongwen, recruited the most box office-friendly comedy star at the time, and helped him start Xu's Film Company.

Later, Xu Rongwen's "Ghost Stars", "Half-Take Eight Tales", "Selling Body Deed", "Sending Money Han", "Modern Bodyguard" and so on, successively won the annual box office rankings of Xiangjiang, bringing tens of millions of wealth to Jiahe.

But Jiahe has only been established for three years, and Xiao has been in Xiangjiang for nearly 30 years and has always been in the leading position in the industry.

Therefore, no matter how advanced or superior the Jiahe system is, three years is not enough to subvert the Xiao Dynasty.

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Without the right soil, you cannot plant the right melon.

Due to the shortcomings of the Xiangjiang film industry system, the development of the entertainment industry is deformed.

The brokerage system that has been implemented in European and American countries (William Morris, one of the five major brokerage companies in Hollywood, was founded in 1898), has been unable to promote it in Hong Kong.

This also leads to Ye Jin having no choice but to find a professional agent now, so he can only settle for the second best and find an unprofessional one.

Even an unprofessional agent must have the following abilities.

First, be familiar with the operation of the entertainment industry. There are many rules in this industry, both openly and secretly. You must know how to handle these things well, otherwise you will make a mess;

The second is to have a certain connection. You must have certain relationships with media, advertisers, performers, and film companies so that you can help artists work, deal with negative news, image public relations, etc.

Third, you must have excellent work ability. The work of an agent is very cumbersome, especially for big-name artists, with tight time, many itineraries and endless troubles.

How to arrange and coordinate so that the artist can make money to the greatest extent, and not let the artists be exhausted and satisfy all parties. This tests the agent's ability.

"Director Wu, do you have a suitable candidate to recommend it to me?" Ye Jin asked Wu Siyuan for advice.

He has not been working hard in the entertainment industry in Xiangjiang for a long time, and it has only been less than a year since. He has been rising for less than three months and has been filming for most of the time, so he has never met any powerful characters.

Wu Siyuan has been in this industry for several years, so he naturally knows more people than him.

"There is really a suitable one." Wu Siyuan smiled, "his name is Chen Ziqiang."
Chapter completed!