Backtracking to the Age of Literature and Art

Chapter 679 The fiercer the curse, the deeper the love

When the sales of the album "Jay Chou" reached 55, Jimmy called Yu Dong.

"I can't accept it. This is another one. I told me earlier that Zhou Jianhui and the Li brothers were not very optimistic about Xiao Zhou. I thought you were going to be mistaken this time. I didn't expect..."

Speaking of this, Jimmy laughed again, "Zhou Jianhui should be regretting it right now. This is good, we can keep more profits, and we can also limit Zhou Jianhui and the others."

It is said that there is no need for suspects and no doubts for employers, but Jimmy has always been on guard against Zhou Jianhui and the others.

Jimmy is not the kind of leader who can do everything, but he wants to make sure the company is under control.

"Did you call just to talk about this?"

"Isn't this enough for me to make a phone call? This is also a good start for our company to enter the music industry. Of course, the main focus is on deep space music. Alpha will control the scale. Except for Jay Chou, Signing a few more young people with potential is equivalent to scratching the lottery.

Yu Dong nodded, and he agreed with Jimmy's thinking.

In fact, in his mind, Alpha's business is simpler, just serve Jay Chou exclusively, and as for other musicians, just leave it to Deep Space Music.

With such a small company, there is no extra strength to develop other singers.

"Well, the singer will not sign for the time being, let's add some staff first."

The staff Yu Dong mentioned were life assistants, makeup artists and the like.His plan is to make Jay Chou's contract more detailed, the management contract will be signed with Deep Space Company, the production contract will be signed with Alpha, and the record release contract can be signed with Sony first.

In this way, the workload of Alpha Company can be reduced, and the promotion of Jay Chou can be guaranteed.

"No problem." Jimmy smiled, "I'm too busy these days, I can't go to China, wait until the annual meeting, I want to have a good chat with Xiao Zhou. Also, you promised me last time Xiaowanzi animated movie, is it overdue?"

Yu Dong rolled his eyes, he knew that Jimmy's call was nothing good.

Yu Dong deliberated about Xiaowanzi's animated film for a long time, and finally decided to follow the story of the TV series first, remove some less important things in it, and condense it into a movie of about one and a half hours.

"The script is almost finished, I will send it to you later."

Hearing Yu Dong say that the script is almost ready, Jimmy said with a smile: "Actually, there is no rush, you can take your time."

"Then I'll take my time..."

"Don't, just kidding, why are you taking it seriously? I called you because there is one more thing to say. About the cooperation of the mythical universe, it is almost the same as Disney and Pixar."

"The efficiency is quite high."

"It can't be said that it's efficient. Disney wanted to cooperate with us, and with the opportunity of "Pirates of the Caribbean", things in the mythical universe will naturally follow suit. Pixar, it can be regarded as saving face, and agreed quickly."

In fact, Pixar is not just as simple as selling face. Last year, their company just expanded, and now their company has nearly [-] employees.

Since there are so many people, they must be picking up the job. It happened that Deep Space and Disney sent the job over, and they took advantage of the situation.

"Is Pixar's animated film A Bug's Life already out?"

"Hehe, you are quite concerned. Indeed, it has been released for almost two weeks, and the box office is very good. There must be no problem with the North American box office exceeding [-] million. My prediction for this movie is that the global box office will eventually exceed [-] million. Stephen was still talking to me about this two days ago, and this time they are going to be rubbed on the ground again."

Yu Dong asked, "Are you talking about the "Little Ants" they produced?"

"That's right, that's it. Steven was originally ambitious."

When it comes to talking about it, Jimmy doesn't feel sorry for Spielberg at all.

Although they have a strategic partnership with Spielberg, Jimmy doesn't care too much about the development of DreamWorks. Jimmy only likes Spielberg. Even if DreamWorks goes bankrupt, he will not feel sad, and may even will rejoice.

If DreamWorks collapsed, Spielberg would be able to work with them wholeheartedly.

Plus, Jimmy has always had ideas for Pixar.

But now Pixar is developing very well. If you want to buy them, you can't do it for a while. It's not just a matter of money, the key is that they don't sell them.

On this point, Yu Dong has the same opinion as Jimmy, and he is also very interested in Pixar.

If Pixar can really be taken under its command, the puzzle of deep space will be almost completed. The most important thing is that Pixar is very useful for the subsequent strategic development of deep space.

Deep Space has a lot of IP in its hands, and it needs companies like Pixar to help develop it. Even if it doesn’t need top-notch technology, as long as Pixar is in hand, it can naturally develop companies of various levels from top to bottom.

Take this matter as an example, if Pixar has been acquired by Deep Space, then their cooperation with Disney will become easier, and the two companies will just connect directly.

Now, with the addition of Pixar between Deep Space and Disney, things are not easy to control.

In addition, if Pixar is in hand, Deep Space will also have an advantage when negotiating cooperation with Disney. After all, the creation of content is done by Deep Space itself, and Disney has very little to do.

Yu Dong knew what Jimmy was thinking, and said with a smile, "Let's wait a few more years for the Pixar matter."

"Yeah." Jimmy nodded on the other end of the phone, "But we can't always think about acquiring others. We have to try to develop and develop ourselves. Even if we don't develop, we won't waste it. After we acquire Pixar , can also be seamlessly connected.”

"This idea is correct. Buying and buying can only play a role in promoting the development of technology. If everything depends on buying and the foundation is unstable, there will definitely be hidden dangers."

The hidden dangers mentioned by Yu Dongkou are aimed at the country.

The fact is true, if they always think about spending money to buy technology, then they are the only company that can develop in China in the end.

Deep space will eventually become a leader without competition in the cultural sector, and maybe one day it will be unable to support itself and fall down suddenly.

At that time, it will not be a company like Deep Space that will fall, but the national entertainment industry, then the domestic entertainment lifeline will be firmly controlled by foreign countries.

This is what Yu Dong is thinking about now. What he wants has never been the dominance of the Deep Space Company, but the prosperity of the entire industry.

Only with the rise of the entire domestic industry can deep space continue to advance.

……

"Jaylen, come here."

Jay Chou had just returned from playing and was about to take a shower when his mother Ye Huimei stopped him.

"Mom, what's wrong?"

"Going to play with Geng Hong and the others again?"

"Well, nothing happened today."

Ye Huimei nodded, "Well, you were not here just now, and your cousin sent a bunch of tapes for you to sign. She bragged to her classmates that her cousin is a big singer Jay Chou, and the classmates asked her to ask you for an autograph. After waiting for a while, I got impatient and went back first, saying that I would pick it up tomorrow.”

Jay Chou smiled, "She's not bragging, I'm his brother."

"I mean, she brags that his cousin is a big star."

Jay Chou blinked his eyes, and wanted to say that his cousin was not bragging, but in the end he didn't say it because he knew that if he said that, he would definitely be reprimanded by Ye Huimei.

"I'll sign them."

"Well, it's on the table. I didn't count them carefully. There are probably a dozen."

Jay Chou nodded and walked to the table.

Seeing the tapes and CDs on the table, he raised his eyebrows. At least half of them are pirated copies, and they are the kind of pirated copies that can be seen at a glance.

As for the other half, Jay Chou was not sure if it was a pirated version.

Now the piracy is so strong that even non-professionals can't tell the difference.

But whether it is pirated or not is not that important, since it is my cousin's request, of course he has to comply.

After signing a bunch of pirated albums, Jay Chou walked towards the bathroom, but heard Ye Huimei say: "Hurry up and finish washing, we will watch TV together later."

"Looking at what?" Jay Chou asked.

While tuning the channel, Ye Huimei said angrily, ""Song of the Stars and Moon", you wrote the episodes in it, and you should be an employee of the Deep Space Company now, since it is a TV series produced by the company, of course you should take a look."

"Oh, I see, I'll be out soon."

He really forgot about it, he's been busy lately.

When he was making an album before, he felt that he was already busy enough, but after the album came out, he realized that people would be busier when they became famous, and today it was hard to find time to play basketball.

Now the company is screening interviews for him, and he will definitely cooperate with the publicity in a while. Fortunately, the company has no intention of asking him to accept commercials for the time being, otherwise he will definitely be even busier.

After taking a shower, Jay Chou dragged a chair and sat next to Ye Huimei.

"When does it begin?"

"It's not until nine o'clock."

Jay Chou looked at the clock on the wall and muttered, "But it's not even seven o'clock now."

But he was just muttering, still sitting obediently and watching the news with Ye Huimei.

After watching the news, I watched another program I didn't know what it was, and finally it was nine o'clock, and the TV series officially started.

This TV series airs one episode a day on Taiwan TV, but this episode is a combination of the two episodes of the mainland version. The Taiwan version has a total of 26 episodes, while the mainland version has [-] episodes.

After the TV started playing, Ye Huimei stared at it very seriously, and even took a notebook and a pen, as if she planned to take notes.

Jay Chou put his hand on his chin. Although he will appear in "The Roof" in this TV series, he doesn't have much expectations for the plot of the TV series.

At this time, many people are in the same situation as Jay Chou, they prefer to watch some more interesting entertainment programs than this kind of soap operas.But the remote control at home is in the hands of the parents, and they can only watch soap operas together.

Sitting cross-legged on the sofa, Xiao Zhong watched the opening song of "The Love Song of the Stars and the Moon" on the TV, and was still muttering at the end: "It must be another bloody story about mother-in-law and daughter-in-law."

Xiao Zhong's father said beside him: "But the picture quality is quite good, it seems that the style is different from those mother-in-law dramas."

"What's the use of good picture quality? The main thing to watch in TV dramas is the plot... the heroine looks okay."

Xiao Zhong's mother glanced at her husband and son, "Can you stop talking so much while watching TV? Do you not want to watch TV series? If you don't want to watch TV series, you can tell me directly."

The father and son looked at each other and didn't speak anymore, because they knew that even if they really raised their opinions, they would not be adopted.

Just keep watching TV.

After the opening song ended, the TV series officially began.

At the beginning of the story, there is a pair of childhood sweethearts living happily together, but it didn't take long for the ten-year-old hero to leave their island with his family.

Then the scene changed, the heroine grew up, left the island to work outside, and met a cold-faced boss.

This cold-faced boss is only cruel to others, but he is a little different to the heroine.

Seeing this, Xiao Zhong muttered, "Needless to say, this boss must be the boy that the heroine knew when she was a child. This kind of plot is easy to guess."

Father also nodded and said: "That's right, we will definitely meet each other later, and then we will fall in love."

Xiao Zhong's mother gave the two of them a look, and they closed their mouths again.

But soon, they muttered again.

"This heroine is so stupid, can't you see that the hero treats her differently?"

"This male protagonist is really inferior, could it be that he is incapable of love?"

"This screenwriter is really out of his mind, what is it all about?"

They kept complaining, but their eyes never left the screen, paying close attention to the follow-up of the story.

Wait until the day's TV series is over.

Xiao Zhong is still complaining: "The following story can be guessed, but the screenwriter insists on suppressing it. A TV series that can be finished in one episode has to shoot thirteen episodes, which is so lame."

"Yes, the heroine's setting is stupid enough."

"Also, their small island has everything and is quite rich. How can there be such a small island in the world."

"Yes, yes, it's not realistic at all. How did this screenwriter make it up?"

Xiao Zhong's mother took a look at the two of them, and ran to the bathroom. After the tuba was finished, the father and son were still discussing the TV series just now.

I have to say that this TV series has such a magical power. It obviously feels bloody, but I can't help but continue to watch it. Even Xiao Zhong and his son, who have always looked down on soap operas, were also attracted by the TV series.

……

When the premiere on Baodao, Dolphin TV on the mainland had already aired it for the third day.

In the first two days, the whole story went better, as if the heroine was going to recognize the hero in the next second, and then the two lived happily together.

But on the third day, when the sixth episode was broadcast, because the second male lead was in the way, the heroine and the heroine had a misunderstanding, and the heroine left the hero's company angrily.

This episode directly made the audience so angry that their lungs exploded.

After the sixth episode was broadcast, the phones of Dolphin TV and Deep Space Film and Television Company were ringing off the hook.

The contents of the phone calls were similar, protesting against the scriptwriter and director's treatment of the hero and heroine, and threatening that they would abandon the show, and some even threatened that if the plot was not changed and this continued, they would go over and smash the TV station.

But in fact, when it came to the seventh episode, the ratings of "Song of the Stars and the Moon" directly exploded, breaking the ratings record set by "Love Through Time and Space" not long ago.

　Thank you [Spoon 8321] for the 666 reward
　　Thanks to [Silent Sixiang] for the 1100 reward from the boss
　　I went back to my hometown yesterday, I forgot to ask for leave, sorry, I will try to make more next week

　　
　
(End of this chapter)