Famous domestic director Feng Xiaogang has signed a contract with the American CAA agency to become his artist. Director Feng's latest work "I Am Not Pan Jinlian" will premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. Perhaps the overseas understanding of him is not deep enough, so it is just the opportunity to promote domestic films internationally.
Some friends may not understand the reputation of the American CAA brokerage company in the entertainment industry. Today, the editor will introduce you to the overlord who controls artist resources in the Hollywood entertainment circle.
Creative Artists Agency (CAA) is the world's No. 1 elite talent agency. The agency covers the most creative and most creative in many fields such as film, television, music, drama, sports, video games, and the Internet. A successful artist, CAA also represents many corporate clients, providing them with strategic marketing services such as entertainment marketing solutions.
Founded in 1975 and headquartered in Los Angeles. Although it is not the earliest acting agency established in the United States, it only took them 30 years to complete the legend that their opponents could not achieve even after a hundred years, occupying half of Hollywood, and far surpassing old-fashioned agencies such as William Morris.
"There is CAA in Hollywood, and then there are other companies." "Fast Company" gave such a comment. "Fortune" magazine praised CAA as "the most influential company in the entertainment industry".
In 1975, when a few hairy young men founded CAA, they could only rent an office from a friend and find a way to purchase all the office equipment with $200. After 30 years, CAA has moved into luxurious Century City and owns 8 floors of this 12-story futuristic building.
In 1975, when CAA was founded, the five founders did not receive a salary from the company for two years, and they even had to calculate how to spend even $100. 30 years later, CAA has more than 600 agents and employees, with an annual profit of nearly 300 million US dollars (always kept secret, this number is the most conservative estimate of the media), if the annual income of the stars and programs it represents is added up, it will at least exceed 100 million. One hundred million U.S. dollars.
In 1975, the founders of CAA could only imagine that for first-line stars, 30 years later, CAA owned nearly half of Hollywood entertainers, nearly 2/3 of top stars, as well as top directors, producers, playwrights, and singers. ,band.
CAA created a legend, a legend that is still going on today and no one has subverted it.
The legendary achiever of CAA is Michael Ovitz, who is not only one of the original five founders of CAA, but also personally led CAA for 20 years. From a nobody in Hollywood to a boss who can make a name for himself in the entire entertainment industry, and even "cover the sky with one hand".
While achieving CAA, Ovitz himself has also become the only superstar agent in Hollywood that no one has ever surpassed. He has been elected as the "Most Influential Person in Hollywood" for three consecutive years. Sina, News Corp CEO and Chairman Murdoch, Viacom's Redstone, AOL's Levine and other media giants, or super director Spielberg, have failed to break Ovitz's record .
Its artists include Steven Spielberg, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Marion Cotillard, George Clooney and Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Stars and filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese. Feng Dao signed a contract with this brokerage company, and it seems that he is also going to take the international route of being tall.
I believe that seeing that there are no scenes in the entertainment industry to shoot at this time, I am about to give up my career as an actor and become a businessman. It is not only full of envy, but more of a guess. We actually know that stars are very It is definitely easy to do business with money, but it is actually difficult to compare with those financial elites, both in terms of education and knowledge. What I want to talk about today is Zhao Wei, because Zhao Wei is full of controversy, whether it is career or relationship, and more about interpersonal relationships, etc. Some people have always said that there is a gold owner behind Zhao Wei, and others say that the CAA behind Zhao Wei is very Amazing, in such a scene, people think that Zhao Wei, who we saw in the early days, has already changed a lot, and it is difficult to preserve his innocence in Vanity Fair, so there is a certain reason for Zhao Wei's controversy.