China Entertainment 1997.

Chapter 531 Jiang Wen: My brother Cao Xuan......

In September, Huang Bo became one of the hottest entertainers because of the hit show of "Happy Family", the other two are Fan Xiaopang and Zhou Gongzi.

The former is similar to Huang Bo, and the latter is because of "Li Mi's Conjecture", which was released at the same time.

The box office of this movie is mediocre, and it can even be described as shabby. It was released for a few days, and it was released on the same day as "Happy Family".

The box office difference is nearly ten times!
However, unlike the box office, the reputation of the movie "Li Mi's Conjecture" is not bad, especially Zhou Gongzi's performance is amazing, not much worse than Huang Bo's praise.

It's a pity that the film studio's strength is not enough, and they are not willing to promote and market, and the theaters are also in touch. In the end, the word-of-mouth fermented in vain, but it could not be converted into actual box office.

However, although the box office performance was not good, it still saved Zhou Gongzi a lot of reputation, and the reputation that was sacrificed because of "The King of Kung Fu" turned back a little.

But no matter what, "The King of Kung Fu", "Women Are Not Bad" and "Li Mi's Conjecture", this year Mr. Zhou has appeared in three movies in one breath.

When the international chapter has not released a new work in the past two years, Huayi has a crazy rhythm, so that Zhou Gongzi firmly holds the throne of the number one movie actress in the mainland.

This also makes Zhou Gongzi one of the actors that many directors most want to work with, such as Gao Qunshu.

"The book is very good, but I heard that Director Gao wanted Zhou Xun to play by name?"

Fanxing Building, meeting room on the top floor
Cao Xuan glanced through the script outline in his hand, and looked at Ding Ying, the vice president in charge of film and television.

"It's not just him, the author of the original work, Mai Jia, also has this idea. Lao Gao has already taken the lead in getting the project started, and now one of the investors is us, the other is China Film, and the other is Huayi.

China Film is not clear at the moment, I heard that Huayi is very interested and wants to pack Li Bingbing and Mr. Zhou as the dual heroines. "

"I have a good appetite."

A high-ranking Fanxing sneered: "The book we are looking at is also Huayi's turn?"

"Don't underestimate Huayi. I heard that it is preparing to cooperate with Jack Ma in Hangzhou. It will receive a large amount of capital injection and plan to go public. It will become the first listed entertainment stock. If it succeeds, there will be a lot of supplementary funds."

Speaking of this, the high-level executives at the scene secretly glanced at Cao Xuan. Many of them wanted Fanxing to go public, show their face, and get some shares.

However, Cao Xuan was reluctant, and Fanxing had always had sufficient funds, so there was no need to go public to collect money.
So, so far, only some high-level executives have received some dry stock dividends, but the shares are still firmly held in Cao Xuan's hands.

Seeing that Huayi is preparing to go public, it is strange that the company has no idea...

Cao Xuan himself knew it well, but he blocked all these probing and probing voices. No one knew better than him the fate of Huayi's listing, and no one knew better than him how harmful Ali's Jack Ma was.

As for the shares, it doesn't matter if he is stingy or stingy.

He will not be less than the dividends that the top management and even the artists should have, but he dare not say that he has always fully owned the shares of Fanxing, but he will never give in easily.

As for who will leave because of this, it's not that Cao Xuan is arrogant, Fan Xing has come to this point, and will not be seriously injured by anyone's departure, including himself.

"I'll talk about Huayi's issue later. The key now is to win the project of "The Wind"."

Cao Xuan knocked on the table and brought back the topic.

In fact, this problem is not difficult to solve. Gao Qunshu has also cooperated with Fanxing before, and it is quite pleasant. I also tend to cooperate with Fanxing. Fanxing has a very high chance of winning this project.

It's just that there is a disagreement now, that is, Gao compares to want Mr. Zhou to participate in the performance, while Fan Xing wants to praise his own people.

That's all for "Women Are Not Bad", but "Painted Skin" almost promoted Mr. Zhou to the status of the number one Chinese actress, which made Huayi cheaper for nothing, and there were many murmurs in the company.

They don't think about who can play the role of Xiao Wei well except Mr. Zhou. Everyone only cares about benefiting the outsider Mr. Zhou in the end.

This is also a common situation for every company to develop a certain size, internal fighting, and extremely exclusive.

Of course, this is not a wrong idea. Fanxing's own resources must give priority to Fanxing artists, so even Cao Xuan did not forcefully suppress this voice.

However, Cao Xuan still liked Young Master Zhou, so he tactfully put forward his opinion.

"The two heroines of "The Wind" are separated by Yuanyuan, Yang Xueka is not enough, and Qianqian and Yang Mi are still inexperienced. Even if Bingbing can stand up to a heroine, who will be the rest?"

"Vice President Hu."

Jiang Yue had been silent just now and gave the lore: "Bing Bing and Vice President Hu's two generations of Fan Xing and the first sister have joined forces. The gimmick is enough, and in terms of acting skills, Vice President Hu is by no means inferior to Zhou Xun. In terms of appeal, our Vice President Hu She is also the heroine of "Painted Skin."

Hu Jing's acting skills are similar to those of Mr. Zhou.

There must be many people in the outside world who disagree, and Cao Xuan himself has reservations, but looking at the Empress of the East Palace next to him, he has no courage to refute this statement anyway.

Wang Jinhua, who came over temporarily, also gave an opinion: "In fact, Bingbing can do publicity alone. If you consider acting skills, Yuanquan is also fine."

Yuan Quan, two Golden Rooster Awards for Best Supporting Actress, one Hundred Flowers Best Supporting Actress, nominated Golden Rooster Best Actress, currently the most outstanding actress in the drama industry.

There is nothing to say about his professional level, and his reputation is not bad, and he is an artist under Wang Jinhua's banner, so he is considered to be half of his own.

The most important thing is that Yuanquan is a hardcore Xigong party, and has a good relationship with Donggong, and the nepotism is fierce.

"Cough cough..."

Cao Xuan was defeated by these two candidates, especially Hu Jing, who was also one of the top four actresses. Her acting skills might be a little bit worse, but the gap was really not that big. The celebrity status was not inferior, and the more important thing was that the insiders of the company were convinced.

In terms of roles, Li Lingyu can let Fan Xiaopang play the role, and Hu Jing doesn't have any sensitive roles, and she is particularly brilliant.

Lian Cao Xuan couldn't find any reason to refuse for a while, so he could only look at Hu Jing in the end.

"What's your opinion?"

Hu Jing neither agreed nor refused, but said, "I'll read the script first."

Ding Ying also said that he could talk to Gao Qunshu. No matter how good Mr. Zhou is, the candidate for Fanxing is not bad. Lao Gao is not yet qualified to challenge investors. No matter what, let's talk about the project first.

Cao Xuan was not entangled either, he did have a certain affection for Young Master Zhou, but he didn't necessarily have to rely on her, the main consideration was quality.

After all, among these big flowers, if you want to say that they have both acting skills and fame, Mr. Zhou is really the number one.

Maybe someone supports the International Chapter, but Cao Xuan doesn't like that...

Today is the high-level meeting, and it is also the last high-level meeting before Cao Xuan joins the team of "Taken 2". The discussion must not only be related to the casting of "The Wind".

The development of film and television projects, the construction of Fanxing Cinemas and Film and Television City, the problems of various subsidiaries, including discussing with Penguin about building a video website and variety shows, are the main topics today.

Among them, the most important ones are film and television, variety shows and video websites that are about to be launched.

In fact, there is not much talk about film and television. It is mainly about the projects of a few leading artists. It is enough to determine the main casting, director configuration and investment cost.

Variety shows are worth mentioning. After a year of preparation and discussion last year, Fanxing launched several variety shows this year.

Among them, "Let's Run" and "If You Are the One" became popular, the former won a national-level variety show group, while the latter's advertising expenses were softened, and various topics were also phenomenal.

In addition, variety shows such as "Tonight's Show" have also achieved good results, and the performance of a few is mediocre. This discussion is also going to set the tone, whether to give it another chance or cut it off.

In the end, based on a series of data, two stays with potential or room for improvement were selected, and all others were cut.

Another issue is that the star variety show "Tomorrow's Star" was originally scheduled to have a season every two years. The last time it was held was in 2006. It stands to reason that the third season should be held this year.

But because of the disaster and the Olympics, Fanxing chose to postpone it. Now that the Olympics are over, some people have proposed to prepare the third season of "Rising Star", which can be broadcast during the winter vacation or next summer vacation.

However, this proposal was opposed by Cao Xuan and some people.

In 2004, "Tomorrow's Star" was born, which set off a frenzy of drafts. In 2005, "Super Girl" added fire. These two programs have made many stars popular, and now even many of them have become the backbone of the Chinese music scene. .

But in 2006, the second season of "Rising Star" and the third season of "Super Girl" may have good ratings, but their influence and star-making ability have obviously fallen off a cliff.

That's why in 2007 Hunan Satellite TV came up with "Happy Boys", just to create some novelty, and finally tossed some famous tricks, but this is also the last glory of the talent show tide in the past few years.

"Happy Boys" talent show in the same period and after, all hit the street, almost without exception.

In the words of the media, the audience has grown tired of these so-called talent shows, and everyone has begun to hate this stereotyped story of boys and girls chasing their dreams and then becoming idols under the admiration of fans.

The audience is hungry for novelty!
At this juncture, it would be unwise to push "Rising Star" forcefully, otherwise it would ruin the brand of this trump program.

Therefore, Cao Xuan and the people of insight in the variety show department all hoped that a new music talent show would appear to temporarily replace "Tomorrow's Star".

And this program already has a clue, that is - "The Voice of China".

"Isn't this still the "Rising Star" draft?"

The Variety Show Department distributed the related companies of "The Voice of China" to various high-level executives. After everyone watched it, Hu Jing was the first to raise doubts.

In her opinion, the difference between "The Voice of China" and "Tomorrow's Star" is not too big. They are both based on the singing talent show, the mentor of this show, and the original show also has celebrity judges.

Since the routines are the same, why not use the famous "Star of Tomorrow"? Doesn't this take off your pants and fart?

"Although the drafting routines are the same, the specific operations are different and the effects are also different."

Cao Xuan explained, and then asked the Variety Show Department to introduce the advantages of "The Voice of China" and the differences from "Rising Star" to the senior management in detail.

"We have been discussing the innovation of talent shows before, but we have not had any inspiration. The boss took the initiative to chat with us, gave us ideas, and proposed many very constructive methods. Under the instructions of the boss... "

The relevant person in charge is Lao Youzi, who is just talking about the boss, crazy rainbow fart, Cao Xuan waved his hand, he is not Xu Belt, so it is not good.

"Don't flatter me, just talk about the business."

The person in charge was very winking, and immediately turned serious, and introduced "The Voice of China" to everyone seriously.

Judging from the talent show routines, there is actually not much difference between the two programs, but the modes and selling points are different.

But in fact, sometimes, it is precisely these that are the most attractive.

In fact, the draft is ever-changing, it is nothing more than competition + star-making, no matter how it changes, these two cores cannot be avoided, and the rest is to change the packaging around these two cores.

"Tomorrow's Star", "Super Girl" and "Happy Boys" are all packagers, and they tend to be idol singers, while "The Voice of China" is aimed at "voice", and the focus has changed from stars to singers.

The reason why the audience is tired of the draft is because of the group of crazy fans and the draft model that relies on face rather than business, which makes the audience feel that this show is particularly "watery".

To put it bluntly, except for the first season of "Tomorrow's Star", which is more focused on strength, the second season and other programs that follow are mainly based on appearance, popularity, and selling points.

Even in the first season of "Tomorrow's Star", there are many so-called popular players, mostly based on their appearance and relative characteristics to get extra points.

"The Voice of China" relatively put an end to this. It does not consider other aspects, and even adopts blind selection. The selection is completely based on the singing skills, voice, and stage power of the contestants, and only the strong ones are selected.

At the same time, in order to enhance exposure and focus, we added links such as mentors grabbing people, leading teams to compete with each other, etc., which made up for the weakness of many talented players.

"So the mentor is completely different from the previous celebrity judges. The previous judges simply scored and commented, and the participation was not high. The mentor leads, guides, and even has various rights. The participation is extremely high. We recommend that you invite big-name singers. Only then can we hold the place.”

After listening to the explanation from the Variety Department, everyone gradually understood the difference between the two programs and a lot of selling points, and felt that this program was very interesting.

Hu Jing directly said: "It's easy for a big-name singer, let our boss directly, who can compare to him in the Chinese music scene."

"If I go, the other instructors won't have to play."

What Cao Xuan said sounds a bit like Versailles, but it is true. If he wants to rob people, as long as the players are not stupid, they will definitely follow him.

If the script is not added, other tutors will not be able to compete at all, but if the script is added, it will appear particularly fake.

"Then who do you want to invite, Jay Chou?"

"I'm looking for him, he's busy filming "The Tomb of Thorns" and has no time."

"The Voice of China" was brought here just for discussion, but in fact, the project has basically been approved, and even Cao Xuan has almost found a lineup of mentors.

"Brother Huan, Teacher Liu Huan, I have already said hello, you can sign the contract directly, and Brother Xiaoqi is fine.

King Liu of Xiangjiang didn't have time, he was discussing with the two kings Zhang and Li. "

Needless to say, Liu Huan, a big guy from the mainland, is also the mentor of Yuan Shikong's "The Voice of China".

Ren Xianqi, the Heavenly King of Taiwan Province, although he has been a bit out of date in the past two years, but with the afterglow of [Southern Ren Beicao], his historical status is much higher than that of the original time and space, even Xiao Zhou dare not say that he can overwhelm him.

This player must be more popular than Harlem in the original time and space, and he can also be regarded as Cao Xuan's old friend.

The mainland, Taiwan and provinces have them all, and the remaining Cao Xuan wants to find from Xiangjiang. The candidate has not yet been decided, but even the youngest, Chen Yixun, is the most popular singer in Xiangjiang, better than the original Yang 32 Lang.

Of the three big names in Hong Kong, Taiwan and mainland China, the remaining one must be a female singer.

The original version of Naying and Zhang Huimei Cao Xuan didn't really want to invite them. If they want to find someone who has surpassed them, they can only think about Wang Fei.

He also chatted with Wang Fei, but Wang Fei was focused on nursing the children at home, basically in a semi-retired state, and had little interest in the show.

The rest of the new generation, Sun Yanzi and Cai Yilin, are well-known, but their status and qualifications are still weaker. Due to their personality, it is difficult to compete with a few old seniors.

Although Na Tianhou has a lot of problems, she has a sense of variety...or the ability to make things happen is still good.

She and Ning Jing are notoriously good at playing, and even Mango couldn't help but use the two of them as the selling point of "Sister Lang 3". The general big-name female singers are really not as easy to shine as her.

If you really want to find someone who is famous enough and not afraid of causing trouble, Cao Xuan thinks that Han Hong should be fine.

Straightforward personality, carefree, daring to speak and grab, easy to create variety show effects.

But just in case, Cao Xuan still made certain candidates, such as Wei Wei, Tian Zhen, Li Wen, Karen Mok, etc., all of whom were considered queens.

Liu and Ren decided to do their best to publicize Han and Xiangjiang singers. It doesn't matter if one or two mentors perform worse. At worst, they will be replaced in the second season.

After talking about variety shows, we came to the last topic-video websites.

Actually speaking, the layout of video websites in 2008 was already a little late.

Youku, the three major video sites of later generations, was launched as early as 2006, and Tudou, which many people know, also started operation in April 2005.

Boss Jia's LeTV network has started to deploy two years ago. This year, he has started to buy copyrights, strive for the exclusive online broadcasting rights of some TV movies, and even invest in filming by himself.

"Robot Man" co-produced by Sun Niangniang and Hu Jun is LeTV's handwriting, and Boss Gan from the combination of "Sweet Ice and Snow" is also officially launched.

In addition, there is Sohu, one of the three major portals. This website is supervised by Zhang Huhu himself and has developed rapidly. Currently, it is the most popular video website on the Internet along with Youku and Tudou.

There is also a famous fast broadcast, but this one takes the player route, so it is not counted.

In addition, there are Ku6.com, Mango TV just launched in Hunan Province, and the bullet-screen Two-dimensional website Station A and so on.

For the layout of the video website, the two companies are very confident, and this is not the first time they have cooperated.

This is the case with QQ Star Music. One company produces content, and the other produces traffic, which can kill all the pieces of the same industry.

And now the video website temporarily named [Penguin Star Video] has a huge user base and traffic of QQ, and has a large number of exclusive copyrights of Fanxing, which is really a dimensionality reduction blow to the current video website.

Of course, the current video sites are not only about film and television, but also a lot of personalized creation videos are the top priority.

For Penguin Video, which has not yet started, not having enough video creation talents is a big or small weakness.

But after discussing with Brother Xiao Ma, Cao Xuan felt that if this was the case, it was to maximize strengths and avoid weaknesses.

Ignore these individual creations for the time being, focus on the broadcast of film and television variety shows, and use high-definition picture quality and experience as well as a large number of exclusive high-quality film and television variety shows to bring users into their pockets.

This is also Cao Xuan's small selfishness, first focus on film and television, and then take down the basic disk of film and video websites.

As for the creation of personalized videos, a pink software will be released next year.

And the married uncle who loves money has just succeeded in starting a business not long ago and became the founder of Beike Security, and the financial owner and major shareholder of this software is called [Sunshine Venture Capital].

Also receiving the same treatment is a young man surnamed Huang, who is currently engaged in the e-commerce industry, and Sunshine Ventures also participated in the investment.

There is also a young man surnamed Zhang, who has been an intern at Boxgame for half a year, and then went to Microsoft. Recently, he wants to start his own business, which seems to be a vertical real estate search engine.

In addition, Wang Xing, who is founding Fanfou.com, and Dong Ge, who is currently discussing investment with Sunny.

Entrepreneurs in the entire Internet circle, no one knows that Boss Cao is the most generous.

As long as he is optimistic about the project, he will give money happily, and he doesn't like to intervene in the company, and has a long relationship, even if he loses, he will vote next time.

Coupled with the backing of Box Games, Penguin and a number of Internet companies, the Internet resources that Boss Cao can use are terrifying.

Putting money and capital aside, these resources alone are enough to make countless knowledgeable people excited.

For many young people who are interested in starting an Internet business, Boss Cao and Sunshine Venture Capital are the first things that come to mind when they ask for investment. Sequoia, Goldman Sachs, and Lei Jun all have to stand aside...

Of course, these are a bit far from the current Penguin Star, and now Penguin and Fanxing have each solved a problem.

Penguin tried every means to improve the performance of the website, preferably surpassing all the websites in the same period, and crushing the peers with super performance.

Taking advantage of the cheap price, Fanxing quickly bought the film and television copyrights as much as possible, and contacted relevant departments at the same time to try to get some licenses and permits to film web dramas and web dramas.

In 2008, the period of video websites was in the stage of barbaric development. The scale was very large. With a brand name, it was possible to shoot some themes that were not convenient for normal movies and TV dramas.

Not to mention, Fanxing has a lot of copyrights and related ideas in his hands, and he can use them to test the waters with a few projects.

After a meeting, it can be regarded as setting the future development direction of many companies.

After the meeting, Cao Xuan went back to his office to drink some water. He was about to go through the small door to ask Hu Jing what he thought of the movie "The Wind". Secretary Hu Ya came in with a letter.

"Boss, Director Jiang Wen sent someone to send you a letter, saying it was written for you by himself."

"Jiang Wen?"

Cao Xuan frowned, he didn't have any friendship with this person, why did he write a letter to himself.

Although he was puzzled, Cao Xuan opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside. The font inside was flying like a dragon and a phoenix danced, which was indeed very similar to Jiang Wen's style. Looking at the writing, it was even more similar.

[To my brother Cao Xuan:

It’s been several months since the last time the magic city was parted. The spring breeze and autumn moon, the willows and willows, my heart misses so much

Today there is a story that has been tempered for several years. The characters are wonderful, shocking the past and shining today...

My younger brother is well-known, knowledgeable both at home and abroad, he is kind in art, and his skills are overwhelming. This role will definitely help my younger brother carry the brilliance he has obtained, and reach a higher peak...

In addition, my brother Ge You should also participate in the performance.

I sincerely invite my younger brother to achieve beautiful things together, the book is not exhaustive, so I will not describe it in detail...]

　The plot of "Apple" in the last chapter has been revised, and it's not that I don't watch many dramas, but I think it's okay, because many big names have filmed similar passionate scenes, and they are not the heroines, so I just filmed them

　　That was the trend back then, when actresses rushed for awards and added points for passionate scenes, but after thinking about it, I kind of ignored the existence of stars, so I deleted it
　　As for the child who is 1 year and 3 months old and has clear logical thinking, my sister is indeed like this. I asked my dad specifically, and he said that he is less than one and a half years old. My sister can say similar long and short sentences relatively clearly.
　　He remembers it very clearly, because the age difference between my sister and Cao Li in the book is about 1 month. It was also the Olympic Games at that time, so I have some memories

　　And I also added Cao Li's smart patch, it's not self-promotion
　　When I write children or similar characters, I basically refer to my family and relatives. If there is a small discrepancy, just take it as an example...

　　
　
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