The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 542

"Sometimes I don't know whether your brain is too weird or your luck is too good. What are you doing?"

Zhang Jingyan, who looked more and more elegant, looked at Chen Jingxing with an expression of complaint or simple sigh.

Walking out of the studio, Zhang Jingyan, the vice president of Huanshi.com, was waiting for him. Chen Jingxing's schedule was relatively tight, so he didn't say hello to his old friends from Huanshi.com when he came to record the show, but Huanshi.com planned to treat him well .

The big boss of DreamWorks came, Huanshiwang couldn't turn a blind eye.

It happened to be time for dinner, and the two went to a restaurant next to Huanshi.com for dinner.

In fact, Chen Jingxing also often dined here, because since DreamWorks' headquarters building was completed, the distance between the two companies is actually not far away, both of which are in the second phase of Zhongguancun Software Park.

Zhang Jingyan is now the vice president of Huanshi.com, and is fully responsible for the development of TV dramas, movies and other businesses.

Chen Jingxing could indeed be regarded as a helping hand in his career, but it was mainly due to his own abilities and opportunities. The two of them could be regarded as old friends who had known each other for a long time, and they talked more easily.

"Luck is luck."

Chen Jingxing maintained a low profile and modesty as always.

Zhang Jingyan rolled her eyes: "The interview is over, there is no camera staring at you, enough is enough."

As an old acquaintance, she is of course very familiar with Chen Jingxing's "Showing Versailles Modesty".

Immediately she sighed again: "However, you handled the interview well today, which is very rare. You deserve your success. Whoever said you were lucky is just talking nonsense."

"It's so-so." Chen Jingxing said with a smile, "You just asked me if I was lucky, but now you say that I am not lucky, so you ask yourself?"

Zhang Jingyan shook her head, not wanting to say more words of praise to make the young man on the other side even more frightened.

The "rare" she said certainly did not mean how good Chen Jingxing's eloquence was, how fluently he answered questions, or how funny he was.

She had met a lot of people, and Chen Jingxing's interview was not worthy of her praise just in terms of eloquence and humor.

What really made her feel rare was Chen Jingxing's extraordinary calmness and restraint.

Not to mention a young man like Chen Jingxing who is only approaching his thirties, even a person who has achieved his level is almost impossible to maintain such calmness, such vigilance at all times, and firmly grasping the ground like this. , do not float to the sky.

Among the people she has met in the industry, no matter how talented they are, whether they are actors, screenwriters, or directors, even those who have one percent of Chen Jingxing's achievements have already overcome gravity.

Although Chen Jingxing has expressed similar views in the past, the most important thing is to look good, entertainment comes first, and fun comes first.

Even many netizens have been using Chen Jingxing's quotations to refute some educational audience's remarks.

Although it is not that no one else has expressed similar views, such as Wang Jing, a well-known Hong Kong filmmaker, but he has made too many bad films, and such words from his mouth will inevitably give people a sense of box office for themselves. A bad film with good grades is suspected of holding the respect.

Although he said: "There are many kinds of directors, some directors are very literary, some directors talk about feelings, as for me, I like to talk about the box office... The number of films I have made is comparable to few directors, and I basically did not lose money. I am worthy of it." Investors are worthy of actors and audiences."

But the audience can only reluctantly agree with the first half. Netizens who have watched Wang Jing's bad movies obviously cannot agree with "My movie is entertaining, and I can make a profit at the box office. Even if I am worthy of investors, I am also worthy of the audience."

Being worthy of investors is a fact, but not necessarily worthy of audiences.

But if Chen Jingxing expressed similar views, it would be much more convincing.

But that was in the past, this kind of "the audience is the boss, what you like is the most important thing, it is my honor to entertain you" is Chen Jingxing's self-effacing, it is not incomprehensible to say that he lowered his posture to please the audience for the sake of box office .

But who can keep self-effacing all the time?Who can still please the audience all the time?Are you mean?
When a person makes a successful movie and a hit movie, isn't it natural to say "I don't make movies, what will the people of China watch"?

A person used to win the box office by relying on kitsch, but now he has such status and achievements. If you say he is kitsch, he must be anxious: "Don't talk nonsense, I have never flattered anyone, the audience is not God."

And now not only the director, but also the screenwriter can come out to educate the audience.

Not to mention the lifeblood of literary and art workers when it comes to connotation, meaning and thought.

The audience doesn’t care about the connotation, significance and thoughts I want to express, or if I don’t get it, then of course I feel wronged, and naturally I can’t admit that some audiences think these are not important. Without these, what kind of literary and art worker am I?Wouldn't I become Wang Jing?
Just as journalists consider it their sacred duty to enlighten the rabble.

The same is true for literary and artistic workers.

But now, at this very moment, Chen Jingxing can still say "my thoughts are not important, your happiness is the most important" is simply too rare.

Although many fans and film critics of Chen Jingxing's films are responsible for interpreting, refining ideas, and digging out connotations, there is no shortage of people who do reading comprehension and spread reading comprehension.

But even so, it is amazing that a person who can stand up and say such a thing, especially a director who has achieved such an achievement.

Chen Jingxing was not a roundworm in Zhang Jingyan's stomach, so he didn't intend to delve into his exclamation. He passed this to respond to the initial complaint: "Why does it smell a little sour? You shouldn't be happy that "The Beginning" is so successful? What the hell are you doing?" Happy or unhappy?"

The reason why Zhang Jingyan lamented that he "does what he does" refers to "The Beginning", which continues to maintain a high level of popularity.

Even though many movies in the Spring Festival file started to be announced one after another, it did not cover up the topicality of "The Beginning".

The number of broadcasts exceeded 2.43 million on the first day, 2.85 million on the second day, and 2 million on the third day, and did not drop below [-] million until a week after its launch.

So far, the total playback volume has exceeded 23 billion, and the single episode playback volume has exceeded 1.5 million. The effective playback volume of a single episode will rank third in 2019.

Of course, these results are the results after radio and television have required network platform data dehydration since 2019.

Although there is still moisture, it is much more reliable than in the past.

After all, at the peak of water injection, the total broadcast volume of TV series was 200 billion 300 billion, which was normal, and the maximum broadcast volume of a single episode could reach [-] billion. People in Huaguo just watched dramas for a day when they had nothing to do, and they still needed VIP members to watch.

Just looking at the data, the long video platform doesn't need to pay attention to the short video platform at all, and it is even less likely to be jealous. After all, the time of the Chinese people is divided by the long video platform, and there is nothing left.

The popularity of "The Beginning" is somewhat beyond the expectations of the three major platforms, even with the blessing of Zhao Jinmai, it is surprising.

Although Zhao Jinmai's reputation is added, this drama is indeed a low-cost sci-fi sketch, coupled with the hasty release and one-time release, these are his shortcomings.

And at the same time, there are other dramas gathering together during the Spring Festival to grab users' time.

For example, Huanshi.com spent 3.6 million to buy the IP-adapted solo drama "Return of the King" starring top streams. It tells the story of a talented e-sports player who did not give up his dream after suffering hardships, returned to the league, and made another brilliant story. "The Beginning" started playing two weeks before it went live.

It is regarded as a blockbuster work by Huanshi.com as a good start in 2020. The preheating has been going on for more than a month, and there are countless people who bought it on the hot search.

After it was launched, the broadcast performance was also good. It even overwhelmed the ancient puppet "Deer Gate Song" of the same period of the rival Penguin Video on the popularity list of platforms such as Maoyan.

As a result, it was only updated by one-third when "The Beginning" was launched, and then it was directly suppressed from the top of the broadcast list by "The Beginning", which released the complete works at once.

For Zhang Jingyan, there is a mixture of sadness and joy, and the joy is that "The Beginning" has a very hot broadcast volume, and because of the release of the complete episode at one time, the membership conversion data is quite impressive. After all, audiences really consume impulsively.

Advertising investment also made a lot of money, making Huanshi.com's technical department scrambling to add pre-screening ads and pre-roll ads these days.

The sad thing is that "The Beginning" is not Huanshiwang's exclusive drama, and the other two major platforms will also benefit, and if there are no other platforms to share profits, Huanshiwang's revenue and stock price increase are expected to be even greater.

And it is even more sad that "The Return of the King", which was purchased with a huge sum of 3.6 million yuan, was suppressed in this way.

It's really hard to say it's a good deal.

The best situation is that "Return of the King" is the most popular, and "The Beginning" is the second most popular. Now that the whole thing has been reversed, Huanshiwang has mixed feelings.

If you want to say that "The Walking Dead" got such a score, it's understandable, and in fact, the broadcast volume of "The Walking Dead II" is basically the same as that of "The Beginning". .

Compared with "Suspect Tracker" and "Black Mirror", I don't know how cheap it is. Even DreamWorks' first drama "Signal" plus the salary of Sun Li and Deng Chao couples have a production cost of [-] million yuan.

"The production cost of "The Beginning" should not exceed 5000 million?"

"3500 million, the cost of special effects is also very high."

Compared with the original version of the previous life, the special effects of "The Beginning" have really improved a lot. In the original version, the crew chose a scene with low traffic flow to shoot, but this version is set in Jiangcheng with a population of tens of millions, the road and the Yangtze River Bridge. More crowded, green screen VFX workload and demands are much higher.

Because it is more bustling, more people and vehicles are affected by the explosion, and the special effects of the explosion are more realistic.

Zhang Jingyan paused for breath: "How much is the salary? No need to answer, forgot, Zhao Jinmai is your little princess of DreamWorks, how much salary can she ask for?"

According to the current market situation, when Zhao Jinmai plays a TV series, the salary of over 200 million for a single episode is a friendship price. Besides DreamWorks, who can let such a first-line actor perform in a TV series with a low salary?

With a production cost of 3500 million yuan, the three domestic copyright platforms alone sold [-] million yuan, which is already double the rate of return. If you add Netflix, it will be even better.

(End of this chapter)