Winners in life: starting from the street writer

Chapter 131 You Can Have It, But It's Not Required

After spending two days in Los Angeles, Shen Hao took people to Los Gatos, also in California, a place that couldn't even be found on Baidu.

But when it comes to Silicon Valley, many people must suddenly realize it.

Los Gatos is an inconspicuous small county in the Silicon Valley area, where the headquarters of Netflix, the world's largest streaming media giant, is located.

When Shen Hao and the others arrived at the Netflix headquarters, they were greeted only by a vice president in charge of scripts and documentaries, Brandon Rigg.

Brandon Rigg is in his 40s, a typical white elite, with a very friendly smile.

As soon as they met, Rigg first explained that now that Netflix’s stock price is in a slump, President Reed Hastings is running around trying to stabilize Netflix’s sluggish stock price.

Shen Hao just smiled heartily, followed Rieger around the Netflix headquarters.

On the way, Lige introduced Netflix's corporate culture with witty words, and he even had a good understanding of Chinese culture.

Shen Hao couldn't help admiring Lige, and asked Lige with a smile, "Have you thought about leaving Netflix?"

Rigg froze for a moment, then shook his head frankly, "Thank you very much for your appreciation, but I believe that Netflix will overcome the current difficulties sooner or later."

Shen Hao smiled and said nothing, after all, he still didn't have enough chips.

If I were the head of Disney, I'm afraid Rigg would have already been called by the boss.

Speaking of Netflix's corporate culture, many people will highly praise it, such as letting employees be free and so on.

But Shen Hao walked around and found that it was not always the case. Many employees seemed to be free, but in fact they were very hesitant about the future.

Especially with Netflix's stock price depressed, the proportion of layoffs in the future may be even higher.

In fact, it was Rigg's idea to invite Shen Hao to come to Netflix as a guest.

Under Netflix's globalization strategy, there is already a cooperative company in South Korea, but for the China mainland that makes them envious.

Netflix has always been both longing and dreading.

After all, a certain bureau in mainland China may not be soft on them.

The South Korean artists who were popular in the past few years, the last piece of paper restricting Korean artists is the spring of domestic male artists.

For example, some sensitive film and television dramas broadcast by Netflix in the United States will definitely be banned in China.

In this way, for Netflix, the price/performance ratio of entering the Chinese market is very low.

But I have to admit that there are also top directors and production teams in China.

The reason why Netflix was able to expand rapidly to become the world's number one streaming media platform was to attract and trust talents such as top directors and screenwriters, not interfere with any of their creations, and only provide the budget required for production and extremely high tolerance trust.

This is the root cause of Netflix's domination of the world.

Lige also attended a reception by chance, and happened to hear someone mention Yuanmeng Film and Television, a film and television group that has just been established for only one year and has already spanned multiple business lines such as movies, TV dramas, and variety shows.

Originally, I was just trying to send out an invitation, but I didn't expect that the other party would actually come here, which made Rieg a little surprised and pleasantly surprised.

Previously, in the South Korean market, Netflix relied on spending money to support the local production team. The Korean film and television dramas created by Netflix have achieved a lot under the global promotion of Netflix, which is enough to prove that this model is feasible.

Compared with South Korea, which is as small as a small country, there will undoubtedly be more talents waiting to be tapped by Netflix in the 960 million-square-kilometer land of China.

Like Netflix's corporate culture, employees have a very high degree of freedom, and can even decide whether a multi-million dollar business is approved.

This is still the case with the authority of employees, let alone a vice president-level executive like Rigg.

Of course, Netflix is ​​playing an elite team model, which is quite different from domestic ones.

If those domestic companies with thousands of employees have this kind of privilege, it is estimated that even BAT will be finished in minutes.

For the first cooperation, Shen Hao also doesn't mind providing some copyrights to Netflix.

Anyway, Netflix also gives money. For some countries that they cannot reach, Netflix has a way to make a profit.

This is the gap.

Shen Hao has confidence in himself, but he will not blindly try to match Netflix's decades of hard work in a short period of time, that's a dream.

Regarding the Ghost Blowing Lantern series, the two parties reached a consensus that Netflix is ​​still very interested in acquiring copyrights for this suspenseful film and television drama.

Moreover, the total price is not very expensive, only 2000 million U.S. dollars from Netflix. After that, eight film and television dramas with the theme of ghost blowing lanterns will be launched on Netflix one after another to test the overseas recognition of Chinese-language film and television dramas.

In fact, Shen Hao still had a script that was bound to explode, but he didn't show it to Lige.

This is a sharp weapon that Shen Hao uses to attack the Southeast Asian market, how can it be easy to cheap Netflix.

……

Leaving Netflix headquarters.

Chen Kai was in the car, and finally couldn't help asking, "Mr. Shen, why didn't you take out "Squid Game" just now?"

"Good things should naturally be reserved for their own platforms."

Shen Hao was thinking about a question. In this time and space, the supervision of the subject matter of film and television dramas in this time and space is not so strict.

Theoretically, the squid game can also be broadcast online, at most it can be used as a public relations for a certain bureau.

How influential is this show?

The sluggish stock price of Netflix was boosted by it, and it bucked the trend and increased millions of paying users, creating a commercial value of nearly 9 million US dollars for Netflix.

Of course, this is the terrifying achievement Netflix has accumulated for many years.

But take the heroine Zheng Haoyan as an example. After the show was broadcast, her ins fans soared from 40 to 1700 million, becoming the No.1 South Korean actress and the global brand ambassador of LV. The popularity is evident.

Peripheral products are even more popular, such as candy and masks, all of which are popular all over the world.

The voluntary small traders are making so much money.

Regarding this drama, Shen Hao just gave Chen Kai a general plot, which made Chen Kai want to stop, wishing to let his company produce this drama immediately.

But the problem is that Shen Hao has only read it and is not a screenwriter himself. Many details need to be polished by professionals.

In addition, the choice of the director and the choice of the hero and heroine must be cautious.

The director is easy to say, the first season of Squid Game, which is about 10 episodes, can be directly filmed by Song Xiuzhu himself.

But as the heroine, Shen Hao wanted to support Chen Ying, but he was also afraid that Chen Ying would not be able to hold this role.

But thinking that Zheng Haoyan was just a model before and had no acting experience at all, Shen Hao was sure in his heart that Chen Ying would give this role to Chen Ying.

Compared to others who are cheaper, Chen Ying is a female artist signed by her company.

She became popular, and the company also made a lot of money.

What's more, unlike the popularity of outsiders, there is also the suspicion of house collapse.

Chen Ying's manager, bodyguards, assistants, which ones are not paid by Yuanmeng Film and Television.

It is self-evident which side to stand on.

Song Xiuzhu had to worry about the selection of candidates.

And what Shen Hao has to do is to help get the script done.

Shen Hao asked Chen Kai, "By the way, how is the acquisition from Iflix going?"

Chen Kai replied, "It went very well. Their shareholders are also eager to get rid of Iflix, a hot potato. At present, Goose Factory is competing with us. At present, we have raised the quotation to 8000 million US dollars, and Goose Factory has given up bidding. "

"It's not expensive. I looked at their data. Currently, they have 13 million active users in 2500 countries in Southeast Asia. The person in charge of Iflix is ​​first to be found locally. The annual salary is not a problem."

Shen Hao reckoned that Goose Factory must have alternative targets, and there was no need to fight them for an Iflix.

"Okay, I'll do it when I get back."

Chen Kai nodded yes, then hesitated and asked, "Boss, are you planning to broadcast the squid game on Iflix?"

"Why, can't you?" Shen Hao asked with a smile.

"It's not impossible, but according to your description, this drama only has about nine episodes. Isn't that a little short?"

Chen Kai was a little worried, "The nine-episode online drama still has a lot of investment risk. If you say that the production budget for each episode is around 1500 million, I'm worried that we will lose money."

Although Chen Kai is also very optimistic about this script, there is no online drama with only nine episodes in China so far.

And according to Shen Hao, it seems that they want to update them all in one go.

This also means that if the popularity fails to detonate immediately after it is broadcast, the show will be completely cold.

Moreover, the production cost of a single episode of 1500 million can only be approved by applying for special drama clauses.

Shen Hao waved his hand, "It's not a loss. By the way, you should remember to register the copyright of the things I mentioned in advance, so that if it really explodes, it will be too late to fix it."

For example, after the squid game became popular, the peripherals were almost sold out. It would definitely not be enough energy for him to produce it himself, but he could completely sell the copyright.

As for the e-commerce platform selling without permission, it is purely self-inflicted, and it is difficult to lose if you sue with a registered trademark every minute.

Just like the popular candy in the squid game, after the show became popular, it was sold everywhere in the streets and alleys.

If it is launched in the name of the official, as long as the price is not too high, earning tens of millions, it will be as easy as playing.

There is also the green sportswear that appeared the most in this show, which quickly became a hit after it was broadcast.

……

When we arrived in New York, we saw Song Xiuzhu and the others who were filming.

During the dinner, Shen Hao also discussed with Song Xiuzhu the plot of the squid game and the game design inside.

Song Xiuzhu's eyes lit up immediately, just listening to the plot described by Shen Hao made him instinctively excited.

People who engage in literature and art are like this. When they encounter good scripts and ideas, they will always meet their hearts.

Because it was mentioned at the dinner table, Huang Bo and the others could hear it clearly, and they couldn't help thinking that this idea was great.

Like a good script, actors always dream of it.

How many people became famous directly because of a drama, compared with that, the salary is nothing.

For a good drama, there are many people who act with zero pay.

Huang Bo expressed his position on the spot, and stated on the spot that if he was invited to the show, he would be willing to lower his salary to appear in it.

Chen Kun and Shu Qi also had the same attitude.

Those who can get to their level are all human beings. Just listening to only nine episodes, the production budget is as high as more than [-] million, which is obviously rushing to hit the blockbuster.

Shen Hao didn't say anything, the script would be written by Song Xiuzhu, and it was his right to choose actors.

Song Xiuzhu didn't reject the overtures of several big names, but he didn't rule out choosing a few more candidates in the entertainment industry.

Some of these roles must be tapped from within the company first.

Others don't know, but Shen Hao naturally understands how terrifying the show's star-making ability is.

Take Wei Huajun as an example. Since his debut 6 years ago, he has mostly played supporting roles. He has only played the leading role in the horror movie "Kun Chi Yan", and there is almost no such person in the South Korean entertainment industry.

But through a supporting role, he successfully gained more than 700 million followers on ins.

After all, he is handsome and has a good figure, so he is naturally loved by fans, and he is second only to the heroine Zheng Haoyan as one of the leading actors who has gained the most fans.

For this role, not only Shen Hao, but also Song Xiuzhu felt a little helpless.

There are quite a few newcomers in the company, but there really isn't one who can fall into Song Xiuzhu's eyes in this regard.

Even Xiao Zhan, who was recently poached by the company with a lot of money, is just average in Song Xiuzhu's eyes.

Without acting skills, relying on appearance alone, I can eat my youth for a few years.

Song Xiuzhu's mind was running fast, and every young male artist in the entertainment circle was quickly remembered by him, and quickly rejected.

After thinking for a long time, there was no suitable candidate.

Suddenly, Song Xiuzhu saw Shen Hao, and his eyes lit up, "Boss, why don't you play this role?"

"I?"

Shen Hao was dumbfounded, and quickly waved his hands, "No, I don't have acting skills, and I can't play such a role."

"The acting skills of this role are not too high. I believe that you can play well, boss. Don't you believe in my training skills for actors?"

After thinking about it, Song Xiuzhu still felt that this actor must be the first to win.

To put it bluntly, one must be handsome, and being so handsome is addictive at first sight.

But in his impression, he seems to have never met a man who is more handsome than the boss.

Moreover, Shen Hao's appearance is the kind of handsome regardless of race, which is also of great benefit to the overseas broadcast of this drama.

Just as Shen Hao wanted to refuse, the usual dead system came out to make troubles.

"Ding, congratulations on triggering a new career, do you want to unlock the actor career module?"

Shen Hao's face was full of black lines. Anyway, it's okay to unlock the profession of whoring for nothing.

Following Shen Hao's confirmation, the acting skills classification appeared in the special free attribute, and the attribute was only a pitiful 1 point.

According to the system's evaluation, this is the level of ordinary people.

The acting skills of Chen Kun and Huang Bo both have 8 points. Among the domestic actors, they are at the ceiling level, and they are Golden Horse actor-level bosses.

9-point acting skills, that is the existence that can win the Oscar for Best Actor trophy.

10-point acting skills, the god of proper acting skills, won the Oscar for Best Actor award.

And the system's method of improving acting skills is also very simple and rude.

If the acting skill is below 6 points, it will cost 1000 million for every point of improvement.

And above 6 points, special free attributes must be used to improve.

It takes 1 million to raise acting skills from 6 point to 5000 points.

A large amount of performance-related knowledge was brutally instilled into Shen Hao by the system.

Fortunately, the system thoughtfully helped sort out the classification, and even intercepted some performance clips to help him understand.

According to the positioning of the system, an acting skill of 6 points is already very good in the domestic young actor circle.

Like some male protagonists of popular web dramas, he is at his level.

Take the filming of Qing Yu Nian as an example, the male advocate Ruoyun's acting skills are a little bit better than Shen Hao's currently.

Fortunately, Qing Yu Nian's role as the hero fits him very well, and the bonus of acting in his true colors is no less than those of those veteran actors.

If the acting skill has 7 points, it can be called an old actor. Many old actors who have been polished in this circle for many years, their acting skills are about this level.

Shen Hao also couldn't help but feel that Zhang Ruoyun had honed his acting skills for nearly 20 years, and he caught up with him in the blink of an eye.

The operation of the system is really awesome.

For a supporting role, 6 points of acting skills are enough.

Thinking of this, Shen Hao happily agreed to Song Xiuzhu's invitation.

Instead, he asked Song Xiuzhu to prepare a lot of persuasive words, but he swallowed them abruptly.

Although I am very happy, but the boss is so confident, it seems that it is not necessarily a good thing.

Song Xiuzhu suddenly felt that he had dug a hole for himself. If the boss of the studio did not behave well, would he dare to yell at him?
Uh……

Otherwise, boss, you should stop acting?

But he just thought about it, and if he really didn't want to, let the boss be a vase.

Just relying on appearance, you can attract a group of fans.

Acting?

Can have, but not required.

　There is another one, I will finish the update later, I slept a little too much today, and I have been staying up late lately, but I slept for more than ten hours, and woke up at [-] o'clock in the evening, which is the first time, haha
　　
　
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