Crazy Entertainment System

Young people naturally prefer the best, so building ordinary cinemas is unnecessary, even in major metropolitan areas.

However, those world-class metropolitan areas are directly IMAX.

A cinema set doesn't cost much; the key is the location.

Good venues are very expensive. Most cinemas are built in very luxurious locations to attract a good audience.

Otherwise, if you build cinemas in the suburbs, people will have to travel all the way to the suburbs to watch movies. That's ridiculous!

Gao Feiyan's policy for cinema construction is to buy if possible, and if not, lease for ten years with a lump sum payment. If the venue provider breaches the contract within ten years for any reason, the penalty fee can be used to find a new location.

The plan, with a budget of US$24 billion, can build nearly 8,000 cinemas.

This is only because the locations chosen are all in luxury areas. Otherwise, there could have been many more.

Although other cinema chains or alliances have as many as 8,000 cinemas worldwide, their quality is questionable.

Crazy's cinema chain guarantees the highest audience volume.

According to estimates, these cinemas will be completed no earlier than the middle of next year.

Chen Yu dialed Liu Tao's number.

"Sister Tao, what are you busy with?!" As soon as the call connected, Chen Yu could clearly hear the noisy voice.

"Acting!" Liu Tao laughed. Receiving Chen Yu's call at this moment was truly unexpected. After joining Crazy Entertainment, the company was very supportive, immediately arranging a second female lead role for her. Although it was a low-budget TV series, it was still a second female lead role. The company's message was: hone your acting skills first, and after two second female lead roles, try your luck with the lead role. If that didn't work, then hone your acting skills again with second and third female leads, and after three to five attempts, try your luck with the lead role again. If that still didn't work, then you'd have to rely on your own efforts.

Liu Tao was very satisfied with this treatment, knowing that it was all because of Chen Yu.

Normally, unless it's a newcomer who's decided to be heavily promoted from the beginning, they usually start as the fourth female lead, then after one or two fourth female leads, they audition for a third female lead, and if that works out, they get the second female lead, and so on, step by step.

It's impossible to say that someone is the female lead from the very beginning.

For the female lead, who is fully funded by the company, no one will be assigned a role; instead, the competition will be based on merit. This applies not only to the female lead but also to the male lead. Ten directors will be randomly selected to form a judging panel to select the female lead.

As for the second male and female leads, some were assigned roles and some were filled through free competition.

However, if a suitable role comes along, the casting call will be changed to another project. Therefore, a casting call isn't guaranteed; the role might be snatched away.

As Crazy Entertainment expands and grows stronger, some veteran artists have joined the company, and some of these veteran artists have started to act like divas and bully newcomers.

Liang Siwen and Gao Feiyan had a very consistent attitude towards these veteran artists, directly warning them that if they did not repent, their contracts would be terminated.

We can't let one bad apple spoil the whole bunch.

Crazy Entertainment emphasizes family harmony, fair competition, and rising to the top based on merit.

Here, both newcomers and veterans are treated equally. If any current management tries to engage in underhanded practices, they will be immediately dismissed or even handed over to the judicial authorities.

No mercy at all.

The company has an internal whistleblowing channel where employees can anonymously report managers or artists who are trying to sexually harass them. Once someone reports you, you'll be monitored for a month. Of course, if you can provide evidence, it's better to skip the monitoring and directly verify the evidence's authenticity. If it's true, then we'll deal with it accordingly!

Of course, to prevent intentional acts, after two reports, the personal information will be transferred to Gao Feiyan. Only Gao Feiyan knows the password to unlock the device, and then a conversation will take place.

Crazy Entertainment goes to great lengths to ensure internal stability, and its excellent reputation has spread rapidly within the industry. More and more newcomers are choosing Crazy Entertainment as their first signing partner, and even some veteran artists whose contracts are expiring are proactively contacting them. Crazy Entertainment, in turn, accepts applications and conducts character investigations.

Once it's revealed that someone's character isn't good, things will go wrong.

Gao Feiyan believes that people with bad character will not have good acting skills or a good career, and may even end up making a big mess of things.

In fact, logically speaking, as long as it's not excessive, it will generally not be rejected.

Gao Feiyan also knows that if the water is too clear, there will be no fish, so her business strategy is very flexible and uses various methods to do her best to protect the rights and interests of newcomers.

Crazy Entertainment has never been a company that exists solely to make money. Its initial purpose was to provide services for celebrities like Chen Yu and S.H.E., but it has grown larger and larger over time.

Crazy Entertainment invested in many low-budget TV dramas in the early stages, and the returns were quite good.

In 2007, a production cost of over 8 million was already considered acceptable in China.

If a TV series can reach an investment of 15 million, then it can be considered a good production.

A production that reaches 3 million is a big production.

However, Crazy Entertainment defines it as a small-scale production ranging from 8 to 12.

12 million to 24 million is considered a standard production!

From 24 million to 5 million, we produce high-quality products for all!

TV series with budgets of 5 million or more are all big productions.

As for anything under eight million, Chen Yu believed that such a price wouldn't be enough to produce a very good TV series.

Although production costs have increased, actors' salaries have not increased much because actors are not paid very high fees.

Even if a TV King were to star in a TV series, with a production cost of 32 million for 4 episodes, the TV King's salary would not exceed 12 million.

This salary is not excessive for a TV King; in fact, it can be considered very low.

However, for a TV King, a true performing artist, investing most of the money in production and improving the quality of the work is perfectly acceptable, as long as the script is good. The price of 12 million is entirely acceptable.

A person who truly loves performing will act in a good script even if they are not paid.

They naturally wouldn't want someone who just wants to make a quick buck based on their looks, but Crazy Entertainment generally doesn't favor such people. Besides, Crazy Entertainment has no shortage of young, handsome men; they can simply find them from within the company—there are plenty of people who want them anyway.

Crazy Entertainment has requirements for the production quality of any works it invests in. If these requirements are not met, the investment will be terminated immediately.

This was also Chen Yu's strict order: any drama invested in by Crazy must maintain its quality, and someone must be assigned to closely monitor it. If the quality wasn't met, investment would be terminated; filming could resume only when the quality improved. (To be continued.) 8mz