Recently, Xu Zheng, Wu Jing, Yang Mi and other filmmakers have actively donated money for the fight against the epidemic in Wuhan, and then purchased a large number of materials to help Japan, and the heart of charity is admirable, especially Yang Mi, only Wuhan donations are as high as 5 million, this time again without hesitation, the title of charity star is solid.
In recent years, under the leadership of many stars, especially after the Wenchuan earthquake, the philanthropic acts of the entertainment industry have become more and more standardized, and Han Hong, Huang Xiaoming, Andy Lau and others have become models of charity and have won everyone's trust.
However, more than 10 years ago, the star was still a "species" on the top, and the charity was not very transparent and open, so there were many farces.
The most famous is the Sichuan Charity Performance in 2004.
In 2004, the Sichuan Charity Federation hosted a large-scale charity performance of "Voice of Hope", which was attended by many Hong Kong stars and celebrities, and all the proceeds were used to rescue out-of-school children, widows and the elderly and other charitable undertakings.
The audience entered early and waited, but the performance, which was scheduled for 8 p.m., was postponed to nearly 9 o'clock, an hour later.
Huang Guangren, the person in charge of the charity performance afterwards, told reporters the truth.
It turned out that this charity charity performance had been prepared as early as two months ago, because the organizer of the charity charity performance only recovered the cost, so the budget would not be too high, but it was worried that the star would ask for too much money.
So with the mood of trying it out, I first contacted Andy Lau and Peng Denghuai, two artists, who knew that the two heard that it was a charity charity performance, and said on the spot that they would not take anything!
This made Huang Guangren moved, because in terms of the status and artistic level of Andy Lau and Peng Denghuai, no one charges money, and other stars are expected to do the same.
So Huang Guangren asked the company's personnel to contact other artists, including Jiang Yuheng, Wang Jie, Huang An, Wu Qixian, Stringer Rile and more than 10 other people, and the response of these people made him dumbfounded.
The other party clearly stated that it would charge a performance fee, and it would not be enough to have one less point!
The problem is that the name of "charity charity performance" has long been played, and the star will have to lose money to the organizers!
I'm like a grandson, going to ask the stars to participate in the charity performance, the appearance fee is given, and the charity charity performance has actually become a commercial performance. Among the stars, in addition to Andy Lau and Peng Denghuai, who did not collect appearance fees, almost all other stars have collected tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of appearance fees, and the highest is as high as 300,000.
At this time, the tickets for this charity show have been pre-sold, and the total income is not enough to give the stars a performance fee, what can be done?
Refund is impossible, Huang Guangren borrowed money everywhere to raise money, and he had to invite stars to spend money.
Two hours before the performance, Huang Guangren received a call from a celebrity agent, saying that he must pay according to the standard, otherwise he would definitely not go!
Due to the rain on the 10th and 11th, box office sales were not good. Two hours before the performance, a celebrity agent kept forcing me to pay according to the standard of commercial performances, and 1 hour before the performance, I really wanted to do nothing.
In the end, the charity performance lost more than 1 million yuan, and not a penny was donated. After this matter was exposed by the media, it caused a strong reaction.
At that time, the Internet was not yet developed, and the public could only express anger in the forum, saying how could celebrities do this, and charity performances also collected money?
The performance of Andy Lau and Peng Denghuai has made netizens admire, worthy of being an artist who has been popular for 20 years, and has no words to say about good character.
Subsequently, the celebrities' charity performance remuneration was exposed by the media, as follows:
Everyone didn't have to rush to scold these stars, and this matter was later reversed!
First of all, people question the loss of more than 1 million yuan for the organizers, because according to the exposed star remuneration, the total is less than 900,000, where is the loss of 1 million?
And according to Huang Guangren, "two hours before the performance, the agent said that one point less is not enough", which star's remuneration is not negotiated early, but also until the "two hours before the performance" and then finalized?
Also, netizens began to dig deep into this farce and found that it was indeed not as simple as Huang Guangren said.
It turned out that the only artists huang Guangren personally contacted were Andy Lau and Peng Denghuai, and other artists had no way to contact, so he entrusted Beijing Paradise Culture Company as an intermediary to invite.
In the hands of Heaven Culture, this charity performance has completely become a commercial performance.
Paradise Culture signed an agreement with the organizers for a performance fee of 1.6 million yuan, and then invited Jiang Yuheng, Wang Jie and others.
From beginning to end, the stars were kept in the dark, thinking that it was a normal commercial performance, so they asked for money.
It may be that it is close to the performance, and a star finds that something is wrong, and the agent will call to confirm the remuneration.
After the matter came out, the stars returned the money they received to the organizers, which is equivalent to a charity performance worthy of the name of nothing.
However, this matter has a great impact, the opaque, irregular, and imprecise exposure of domestic philanthropy is vividly exposed, and some units only have money in their eyes and even pit abduction is even more disgraceful.