The entertainment industry has also issued a tax "melon", but this time it is not officially determined.
Instead, the producer Chen Yitao hinted that actor Liu Xueyi had problems such as taxation, concealment of companies, related party transactions, contract fraud, etc., and instructed netizens to pick up Liu Xueyi's former agent Li Huichao.
The two sides are basically a positive tear, and the origin of this contradiction comes from the ancient puppet "The Wind Posture of the Sword Immortal Lord" (hereinafter referred to as "Wind Posture"), starring Liu Xueyi and Zhou Jieqiong, originally scheduled to start in December.
However, on the eve of the start-up, producer Chen Yitao posted that the project was stranded due to financial problems.
Then he revealed in an interview that the reason for the stranding was that it had not carried the cold winter of the film and television industry, and the platform reduced the project and decided to withdraw its investment, which had been exposed by many industry insiders before this problem, and there were actually many projects that were withdrawn by the platform at the end of the year.
Because many departments of "Wind Posture" have been put into work, the temporary stranding has led to Chen Yitao's company investing nearly 20 million yuan in water, and they have to reduce their staff by 70%, leaving only some employees to maintain basic operations.
It is reasonable to say that this divestment is purely a matter of cooperation between the production company and the platform, why does it involve the lead actor Liu Xueyi? Because Chen Yitao originally had the opportunity to transfer this project to other platforms to continue production.
But the platform needs two preconditions for taking over Wind Gesture.
The first is to compress the project investment cost and production cycle, requiring actors to reduce the remuneration according to the change of the construction period;
The second is to request the retention of the original male protagonist Liu Xueyi;
The most affected by these two conditions is the male and female protagonists, and the communication effect between Chen Yitao and Liu Xueyi is not satisfactory, that is, the male protagonist does not agree to reduce the salary to play a drama that is much lower than the original investment.
There was no male protagonist to reduce the salary to star, and he was unwilling to pay the bill when he took over the platform, and "Wind Posture" lost the only regeneration opportunity at that time, which made Chen Yitao very dissatisfied and buried his foreshadowing of publicly tearing Liu Xueyi.
Chen Yitao pointed out that the male and female protagonists are paid dozens of times higher than other actors, and the crew could have started in May, in order to wait for Liu Xueyi's schedule to postpone it to December, hitting the platform to withdraw the gun.
And Liu Xueyifang not only did not understand their difficulties but also had a bad attitude, which made Chen Yitao feel that the other party "did not talk about art morality", after this interview came out, Liu Xueyi was topped to the outlet of "unwilling to reduce the salary and cause the project to abort".
Actor fans can't help but reprimand Chen Yitao for throwing the pot, because in this cooperation, the actor side does not have a breach of contract, even Chen Yitao himself also recognizes that Liu Xueyi is acting according to the contract, and can only attack him from the "human feelings".
Moreover, Chen Yitao pointed out that there is also some controversy about the delay in starting up due to Liu Xueyi's schedule, because when Liu Xueyi and Chen Yitao's "Qingluo" cooperation ended in June, he wrote a description that he was still looking forward to continuing cooperation.
Liu Xueyi himself also entered the crew of "Falling Flowers and Jun" in mid-June.
The news that the male and female protagonists of this drama spent Liu Xueyi and Yuan Bingyan was blown up by netizens in April, and from the perspective of time, Liu Xueyi could not join the group with "Wind Posture" in May under the condition of joining the group in June.
The so-called delay in starting time for Liu Xueyi is more like "Wind Posture" taking a fancy to Liu Xueyi, unilaterally waiting for the other party's schedule, Chen Yitao used this reason to reprimand Liu Xueyi for not talking about art ethics, which is indeed not very standing.
However, the peak problem of this head-breaking is not the dispute over schedule and film remuneration, but Chen Yitao's threat to break out Liu Xueyi's "melon", the sword refers to sensitive tax issues, and even mentions that the "General Administration" will pay attention.
The more the fans are afraid, the more active Chen Yitao's voice becomes, and it seems that there is a material that can cause a devastating blow to the other party's career, but at the same time, he proposes to "seal if there is an apology" and "if there is no apology, it will explode".
Some netizens suspect that Chen Lingtao is a loss of money and simply breaks the jar and is ready to spit it out, and some netizens hint from the "seal" that Chen Yitao is suspected of threatening extortion, or borrowing the heat of tearing Liu Xueyi to pull new investment in the work.
For Chen Yitao's allegations, Liu Xueyifang is temporarily closed, whether there is really a "tax melon" can only be officially defined, but putting aside the parties' grievances to look at this incident, many industry problems can still be found.
In the current film and television drama production, the platform dominates, and no one dares to complain about the temporary withdrawal.
Chen Lingtao angrily rebuked the other party for not being able to reduce the salary of Liu Xueyi to play a drama with an investment and demotion, but constantly showed favor to the platform that caused them to advance funds of more than 10 million yuan, and did not mention a single claim.
This is a very real problem, because if the film and television company tears its face with the platform because of this divestment, then their future works may no longer be able to cooperate with them, and even encounter multi-platform joint suppression.
This phenomenon is very similar to the problem that the producers of Zhang Han's work "If You Are Okay is a Sunny Day" have denounced.
The difference is that the latter is that the copyright drama independently produced by the film and television company is reduced, and the former is that the producer of the platform custom drama is required to advance funds, and the problem is similar, basically transferring the cost and risk to the small film and television company.
In this case, the platform also has a heavier casting voice, the actors selected by the producer need to meet their requirements, otherwise they will still not pay, and the loss of Liu Xueyi in "Wind Posture" can not find the next home to take over is a typical proof.
After the producer cooperated with the previous platform, it was postponed for half a year to wait for Liu Xueyi's schedule, and the latter platform took over the condition that Liu Xueyi must star, and the platform pays attention to quality or actors? Almost at a glance.
Small producers survive in the cracks, but they also lose the principle of the creator in compromise.
The most shocking thing about Chen Yitao's remarks is actually not whether Liu Xueyi has a tax problem, after all, after a dispute, the official will always check the past according to the clues, and the saddest thing about this tearing is that the parties really regard the violation of the law as a "melon".
There are basically only two situations in this matter.
One is Chen Yitao's rumors, and people in the industry openly use illegal methods to hype the heat; the other is that Chen Yitao knows not to report, knowing that the cooperation object is illegal but indifferent, and will only fight back after the collapse of the interest alliance.
Because they are in a weak food chain or have a win-win relationship with each other, they ignore illegal acts and lose the bottom line of citizens, and at the same time, under the impact of the platform and the actor's right to speak, they also lose the creative attitude of content is king.
Take Chen Yitao's company as an example, this company stands out from a group of small and medium-sized film and television companies, relying on small cost web dramas, such as "One Night Bride", all the actors have new faces, and the service is shabby, but the content is very brilliant.
Remarkable content has made the work gain a wave of heat and become a small cost dark horse of the year, but the stranded "The Style of the Sword Immortal" is obviously the main actor card, and the producers and platforms attach more importance to the actors than the content.
This is ironic, if "The Style of the Sword Fairy" did not initially put the chips on the actors, but focused on the content like "Royal Gift" or "One Night Bride", the impact of the divestment on them would never be so great.
Because the platform gives priority to the actors in the grading of the works, the production convenience has also begun to revolve around the actors for the sake of platform preferences.
When the industry enters the reshuffle, large film and television companies have a line of traffic bonuses can also resist the risk, and the small and medium-sized enterprises that are not up and down in the lineup of the card division will have no strength to resist, and the cold winter will first target them.