China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 176 Stars in the left hand and money in the right hand and a hard-to-get concert ticket

Cao Xuan didn't stay in the crew of "Wulin Outer History" for too long. After signing some people, he had a meal with Jiang Xuerou, director Meng Ji and several leading actors.

Director Meng Ji is also a well-known director in the field of TV dramas.

The representative works are "Bright Spring Pig Bajie" and the two follow-up works, as well as "Wulin Outer History", "Lao Fang You Xi", "Legend of Pi Wu" and so on.

They are also the right-hand men of Fan Xiaotian, the boss of Funa in Suzhou City. These two are to some extent the pioneers of "Thunder Drama" in the Mainland.

What is Leiju?

This concept is very broad, and many TV dramas are included in this scope, including "Journey to the West", "Magic Phone", etc., and the works that are more eccentric are called Leiju.

But in fact, the logic of the scripts of these two works is very strict, and they can justify themselves. The way of persuasion is not good, but it is not too weird and exaggerated.

It's just that some of the storylines are contrary to the public's perception, so they are given the title of Leiju, which is actually a bit one-sided.

Similarly, the works of Fan Xiaotian and Meng Ji also have many fans. They feel that the works have their own worldview and cannot be regarded as thunder, which is also very normal.

Here we don't talk about whether Fan and Meng's works are Lei dramas, but only one outstanding feature, which is also a feature of some early Hong Kong and Taiwan dramas.

There is not a solid and rigorous script in the whole play, only the outline of the script, and then save jokes in it, only pursuing partial highlights, without considering the overall logic.

Therefore, you will be amazed by many plots, but some plots make you feel that your IQ is insulted.

Before Fan and Meng, the filming of TV dramas in the mainland was still rigid, and most of the "unconstrained" works came from Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Later, Fan Xiaotian pulled the lever by himself, found a group of screenwriters from Xiangjiang, and filmed "Brilliant Spring Pig Bajie" with Meng Ji, which became popular, so the mainland film and television companies suddenly realized that they followed suit...

There is one thing to say, for this kind of TV series, we should not blindly criticize them from the perspective of future generations, but we must consider the development of the times and the audience market.

This kind of drama has low investment, short cycle and high return. It is not only easy to make money and attract people, but also can be mass-produced. Naturally, it is the first choice of film and television companies.

As for how many benefits and disadvantages these can bring to the entire field of TV dramas, it is up to the benevolent to see benevolence, and the wise see wisdom.

Cao Xuan has no intention of meddling in the company's business, Fan Xing is rushing to follow the high-quality line, and some works may not be recognized.

But at least in terms of scripts, we will not engage in the above-mentioned moths. Each script has its own background, world view, and overall logic.

But if Fanxing doesn't shoot, it doesn't mean Cao Xuan doesn't make money.

The film and television industry is short of money owners. Even if many companies have the confidence to produce independently, they still like to attract people to enter the market out of risk sharing or some other reasons.

The reason why Meng Ji and Jiang Xuerou are so polite to Cao Xuan is that on the one hand, Cao Xuan has a big wrist, but more importantly, because Cao Xuan has money and a company, in essence, they can cooperate with each other.

Even a director like Meng Ji might be able to live with Fan Xing someday, so why not support him?

Cao Xuan has a golden finger and knows most of the film and television projects that make a lot of money. These stars cannot be eaten by himself, but he can participate.

For example, Fan Xiaotian Su Funa's Zhu Bajie trilogy, although the latter two were ridiculed by the crowd, they definitely earned more money than the first one. A large number of Zhou Yi's works also have several big profits.

It’s fine if they eat alone, but if they want to share risks and seek external investment, Cao Xuan and Fanxing can follow suit.

Even if you are worried about participating in too many popular and unpopular works, if it will affect the brand of "Stars must produce high-quality products" in the later stage, you can participate in Cao Xuan's personal name or open another film and television investment company.

This is not only for making money, but also to build contacts for Fanxing.

Not to mention, the two companies have exchanged interests and reached a certain cooperative relationship. It is just a matter of saying that Fanxing artists will appear in other companies' plays.

There are also TV station resources, behind-the-scenes team resources, schedule arrangements, and artist platforms blah blah blah.

Fan Xing makes a drama by himself, no matter how popular and powerful his work is, he is still just a big boss. At worst, people will not accept your drama. If you add a lot of younger brothers, it will directly affect the entire industry.

Cao Xuan felt that he was getting more and more jian (shang) temperament.

But he still has a bottom line, he doesn't have a thorough theory of money, although he should make money, he also tries to ensure that Fan Xing is on the right track.

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The culture of accompanying wine is prevalent in the entertainment industry, not only in the entertainment industry, but also in the entire domestic business environment.

The bigwigs drink some wine and talk about something, and the other people cheer beside them. The celebrities are famous and handsome, and both the host and the guest have face. They are simply the best people to accompany the wine.

This matter has both advantages and disadvantages for celebrities. The good thing is that you can make connections, and the bad ones are easy to meet bad people.

When Cao Xuan first became famous, he also had to chat with the boss at the wine table, and he couldn't refuse to drink.

When he became more and more popular, and even became an investor in the crew, although he still couldn't avoid some drinking situations, he didn't want to drink, so he already had the confidence to say no.

In the banquet, it is not a supporting role to accompany the wine, but one of the guests of honor, even the most important guest of honor.

Cao Xuan personally doesn't like these drinking games, but sometimes he really can't avoid them.

For example, this time "Wulin Wai Shi", he came to visit the class, and the host hosted a banquet to welcome the wind. Zhouyi Jiang Xuerou is the partner of cooperation, and Funa Meng season may also reach cooperation in the follow-up.

Don't think about these things, Hu Jing is filming here now, and she has been taking good care of her, so she has to give her some face.

Cao Xuan accepted the wine bureau, intending to have a meal with the directors of the crew, and then take Hu Jing to thank him, don't make it so grand, and don't ask those artists to accompany the wine.

Do unto others, do not impose on others!
They are all born as artists, and he still takes good care of his colleagues. He has no choice but to start from himself for the industry environment.

But never expected that Cao Xuan was so touched for a long time that the group of artists all wanted to come over to get acquainted with him.

Especially when I heard that Fanxing will have several dramas next year, I can't wait to perform a little whirlwind on the spot, embrace the big brother's thigh, and reach the pinnacle of life from then on.

Cao Xuan was speechless, and let Jiang Xuerou and the others watch the arrangement.

Anyway, he doesn't try to persuade people to drink, he doesn't play hooligans, and he doesn't hide the rules. He doesn't show any respect to the heroes in the wine and the women in the wine market. If he wants to hug his thigh in the wine game, he is delusional.

Jiang Xuerou was also very measured. Seeing that Cao Xuan was not interested in this, she called four people.

Huang Haibin is an acquaintance, and there are two Zhouyi artists Zhang Jin and Yang Junyi, which are the second of the famous Zhouyi Three Treasures.

The remaining one was Li Qian, who was nothing to do with her originally, but Jiang Xuerou wanted to find a female artist considering that there were too many men in the drinking party.

Hu Jing learned from Cao Xuan that he intended to find Li Qian to film a movie, and that the two of them were maidservants in the movie, and they were familiar with each other after spending a long time together, so she brought her here.

She knew Cao Xuan's style, there was no such nonsense in this wine bureau, calling Li Qian over, it was a lot of benefits to be able to show her face in front of the producer and director.

Li Qian was still young, when she saw a group of big bosses, she was frightened like a quail, and followed Hu Jing as a small follower.

Cao Xuan didn't have time to talk to her, he mainly chatted with Jiang Xuerou and Meng Ji, and occasionally took care of Huang Haibin.

Jiang's purpose was very simple, to see if he could push the company's artists to the starry crew, Cao Xuan did not refuse.

The Three Treasures of Zhouyi are still very powerful, not to mention acting skills, the key is to be able to fight, and if you get the crew of "Yan Shuangying", you can also add two villain souls to Yan Bi Wang's gun.

As for Meng Ji, Cao Xuan wants to cooperate with Funa, and Funa also intends to get acquainted with this rich and powerful water pipe. If Fan Xiaotian is not in Jiangsu province, I am afraid that he will accompany him in person.

The few people chatted happily, and Cao Xuan asked Hu Jing for a day off by the way. Meng Ji readily agreed, and wished Cao Xuan's concert a success.

After the meal, Cao Xuan, who hadn't even touched a drop of wine, took Hu Jing back to the hotel, arranged for a car to go to Shanghai then, and returned to Shanghai with Zhu Jiang.

After Cao Xuan left, Hu Jing's status in "Wulin Wai Shi" rose several times out of thin air.

It turned out that although everyone knew that the heroine Hu Jing had a background, they couldn't figure out who it was. Now that the heroine came over to check her presence, even the director smiled when he saw her.

Li Qian was already quite familiar with Hu Jing, but now she has become Hu Jing's puppy leg, and Tian Tian Jing's sister Jing is following behind.

Hu Jing was also willing to cover her. Later, when she learned that Li Qian was a fan of Cao Xuan, she asked the director to ask her for a day off, planning to take her to the concert together.

This almost shook the morale of the crew, everyone wanted to go to the concert, but in the end it was Meng Ji who saw the situation was wrong and stopped the limelight.

However, some people still quietly asked Hu Jing for concert tickets. If they couldn't go by themselves, they could still give them to relatives and friends.

Hu Jing couldn't resist her request, so she called Cao Xuan, and finally took more than a dozen tickets, which were half-sold and half-gifted to a few good actors and staff members of the crew.

But this is already the limit. It's not that Hu Jing is stingy, but that she really has no tickets.

This concert is at the peak of Cao Xuan's popularity, and it is the first concert in his life. It is very meaningful and very popular.

At the end of November, the concert organizer and Warner released tickets through various channels. The original plan was half a month, but in less than a week, nearly 11 tickets were all sold out.

Nowadays, it is hard to find a ticket outside. The general ticket price of less than 200 yuan has already been sold to 500 yuan by scalpers, and it will even increase.

Right now, even if Hu Jing can get more than a dozen tickets from Cao Xuan, it would be considered a big face to exchange three or four tickets from others.

Apart from other things, Ren Quan is doing business in Shanghai, and knows many people in various aspects. Some people know that he has a good relationship with Cao Xuan, and hope to get votes from him.

Ren Quan asked for 30 tickets. If the tickets were released in the early stage, even 300 tickets would be a matter of one sentence.

But now the tickets are sold out, Cao Xuan struggled for a long time, and squeezed out 5 tickets for him.

Because of this, Cao Xuan "offended" many people, but he had no choice but lack of experience, and he didn't expect that he would be so popular.

This time I have learned a lesson, next time I hold a concert in Beijing, I must reserve enough friendship tickets.

After all, he doesn't know many people here in Shanghai, but he has a lot of acquaintances in the capital city, and the background of the relationship is complicated. Many people can't afford to offend them. I'm afraid that the favor ticket alone will cost four figures.

There are a total of [-] tickets, but they are still so popular, which shows how much influence Cao Xuan's Shanghai concert has had.

Several local media followed up and reported, and even Modu TV wanted to win the broadcasting rights.

It's a pity that it was a step too late. Warner had already sold the exclusive rights to broadcast Cao Xuan's concert tour to Phoenix Satellite TV.

In addition, the DVD copyright was also sold, and several companies in the Mainland, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Southeast Asia were sold. Although the individual bids were not high, the sum was considerable.

Before the ticket revenue was distributed, Warner and Cao Xuan had already earned millions, which is considered rare in the Chinese music scene today...

(End of this chapter)