On February 10, the website of the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television published a notice on the printing and distribution of the "14th Five-Year Plan" China TV Drama Development Plan. It mentions that it is necessary to standardize the order of income distribution, including actors' remuneration, promote the use of standardized, institutionalized, unified film remuneration and other labor contracts, and reiterate the strict implementation of the provision that the total remuneration of all actors in each TV series shall not exceed 40% of the total production cost, and the remuneration of major actors shall not exceed 70% of the total remuneration of the actor.
After the notice was issued, it quickly aroused wide praise in the field of public opinion. The reason is very simple, in recent years, the show business "sky-high film remuneration" and "yin and yang contract" and other issues have emerged in an endless stream, which not only seriously disrupts the order of the film and television industry, but also reduces the quality of TV series. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television issued the notice this time, precisely to control such chaos, the distribution of actors' remuneration into standardized management, in line with the expectations of the audience.
It is no secret that the high remuneration of star actors has long been unknown, last year actor Zheng Shuang was exposed to the existence of a yin-yang contract in the TV series "Ghost of Qiannu" starring him, and the actual remuneration was as high as 160 million yuan, causing an uproar in public opinion. Public data show that many first-line stars are paid tens of millions, often tens of millions. Such a high price of film remuneration, people can't help but ask, is it commensurate with acting skills? How much else does the producer invest?
In fact, these star actors with sky-high salaries often do not have satisfactory acting skills, and even the lines are not passed, so that there is an extreme situation of "reading numbers", and the audience can directly call "embarrassment". Due to the high remuneration of the starring stars, the investment in the filming, special effects, post-production and other aspects of the TV series has been compressed, and the quality of the finished film is seriously insufficient, and the result is "spending a huge amount of money to produce bad films".
Because of this, controlling the chaos of sky-high film remuneration and controlling the proportion of actors' total film remuneration in the total production cost have become the common voice of the audience. In fact, not only the audience, but also the film and television production companies, as well as producers and directors, but also most of them hope to reduce the expenditure on the actor's remuneration and invest more funds in film and television production. However, the reason why the film remuneration of star actors remains high is that the market and capital are too chasing the "flow" effect, resulting in disproportionate remuneration and acting skills.
In this regard, to standardize the order of actor remuneration distribution, in addition to requiring relevant departments and industry organizations to strictly implement relevant regulations and strengthen the filing and verification of film remuneration contracts, it is also necessary to carry out comprehensive management of the traffic economy and fan economy, change the chaos of fixing film remuneration by traffic size, let stars with empty traffic but lack of acting skills return to their original positions, and let tv dramas with high prices invite stars to sit but shoddily lose the market.
Of course, the role of the audience is also crucial. As a source of traffic and ratings, viewers and fans should also further improve their aesthetic literacy, rationally chase stars and chase dramas, avoid only watching stars without looking at acting skills and quality, so that truly high-quality TV dramas can be better disseminated. Only in this way can the chaos of high salaries of traffic stars be fundamentally improved.
It is of great significance to standardize the order of actor remuneration distribution, not only related to the actors and the performing arts industry itself, but also related to the healthy development of the TV drama industry. Now that the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has issued a notice, the relevant governance work has taken an important step, but how to implement and implement it next tests the relevant departments and industry organizations.
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