Actor: I picked up attributes on the set

Chapter 178 Blood earned 4800 million, "People" made a lot of money

Time passed, and soon it was the day when the crew of "Kung Fu Yoga" officially started filming.

Early in the morning, the field manager announced with a loudspeaker.

In fact, most of the crew members set their own alarm clocks. Director Tang Jili let the scene notice to remind him. For Hong Kong directors, the opening ceremony is still more important.

After hearing the knock on the door, Lin Yuan also woke up from his sleep. After washing up, he picked up the charging mobile phone on the bedside table, opened the crew notification group and took a look.

Soon I saw today's filming announcement in the group.

Time: June 6, 4:14.

Actors appearing in this scene: Jackie Chan, Lin Yuan, Disha Patani, Mu Qi Miya.
Plot: Randall (Sonu Sud) sent his men to capture Lee Jones (Lin Yuan) and Keira (Amyra) and others. After some resistance, they were finally subdued and taken away by Randall's men , Jack (Jackie Chan) and Mita (Disha Patani) go to the rescue. 【Remarks: play】

Venue: Chittorgarh Fort.

With the support of the Indian side, the crew of "Kung Fu Yoga" won the right to shoot in Chittagarh Fort for four days.

During these four days, tourists can only visit the attractions of Chittorgarh Fort in different areas, in case they accidentally break into the crew and interfere with the filming of the crew.

And this fight scene is also the most important scene for the crew in Chittagarh Fort. We filmed this scene on the first day today, which shows how much director Tang Jili attaches importance to this scene. At the same time, it can be seen that the crew The filming time here is relatively tight, and all important scenes must be filmed in these four days.

After reading the news, Lin Yuan also took out the script and reviewed the corresponding plots in the script, the purpose is to quickly enter the state of filming.

After briefly going through the plot twice, Lin Yuan took the elevator and got off the hotel.

As soon as he arrived at the hotel lobby, Lin Yuan was directly followed by Director Tang.

Director Tang stepped forward, grabbed Lin Yuan, and then yelled at a large group of crew members surrounding him in the distance.

"Where's the makeup artist?"

"Come to two makeup artists to give Teacher Lin Yuan a touch-up of makeup first!"

Make up for him?

After hearing this, Lin Yuan sized up Director Tang in surprise, and explained, "Director Tang, isn't it the play in the afternoon? What are you doing with makeup now?"

Tang Jili patted Lin Yuan's chest, leaned in front of him and said in a low voice, "Later, you and your brother will take two makeup photos, and the producer will find two domestic entertainment media to promote the launch of our movie."

It is said that it is to promote the start of the movie, but it is actually to warm up the movie.

Through long-term publicity, the audience can always maintain a sense of expectation for the movie that is being filmed. This kind of publicity method is much better than the overwhelming publicity one month before the release.

But logically speaking, this kind of makeup photo promotion usually only promotes the star with the biggest celebrity. For example, after the movie "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" was confirmed to start shooting, the most publicized by the media was not the leading actor Wen Zhang, but Zhou Xingchi The director, as for the cast, basically waited for the crew to visit the set during filming before they were exposed one after another.

Director Tang Jili asked him to take a makeup photo with Jackie Chan, it seems that he wanted to raise the popularity of the movie at once.

Lin Yuan couldn't be stubborn, so he had no choice but to agree.

After putting on makeup and changing into Indian-style costumes, Lin Yuan and Jackie Chan posed in various funny poses according to Director Tang's request, and then quickly ended the makeup photo with a series of "clicks" shooting.

Tang Jili looked at the photos taken by the photographer contentedly, and nodded repeatedly.

Originally, the investor meant that it would be enough to take two pictures of the eldest brother’s make-up as publicity. After all, everyone watched this movie because of Jackie Chan, but in Tang Jili’s opinion, the script of the movie was limited by the premise of co-production between China and India. Under the circumstances, the eldest brother alone definitely cannot support this movie. If you want this movie to shine, you can only hope for the performance of other actors.

But when he took a look at the cast list of the crew, Zhang Yixing. Let him sing and dance well, but let him rely on acting skills to support the show, forget it. As for Mu Qi Miya and Disha Patani, etc. Actresses are just for the audience's eyes. I want to count on them to have some wonderful performances, at least not in this action movie.

In this way, the only actor who can help the eldest brother share the play is Lin Yuan.

He asked Lin Yuan to take makeup photos with his elder brother for publicity, also to tell the audience in a disguised form that this movie is different from the previous Jackie Chan-style action comedy movies. Yuan's acting skills improved, and the audience was impressed by Lin Yuan's performance.

And after this little episode, the crew has basically arrived. Except for some crew members who went to set up the scene in advance, the rest of the crew crowded into six vans and set off towards the shooting site in a mighty manner. .

At the same time that the crew of "Kung Fu Yoga" was in full swing and busy with filming.

Li Lu and Gao Yalin didn't have a moment of free time these two days.

If a TV series wants to be released, it often goes through five processes, namely: project establishment, screenwriting, investment search, broadcast platform determination, and finally investment recovery.

Among them, determining the broadcasting platform is actually selling the TV series to various David TV or major video websites.

The TV series "In the Name of the People" has already entered the stage of determining the broadcasting platform. From the time the crew finished filming to the present, a total of three versions of the sample were cut. In the end, the crew selected the best version and sent it to various David TV stations. Talk about cooperation.

Due to the sensitive subject matter, director Li Lu originally planned to show this TV series on CCTV.

However, CCTV announced as early as 2009 that it would no longer purchase super-long dramas, that is, TV series with more than 40 episodes. "In the Name of the People" has cut a total of 52 episodes, which is naturally included in the category of super-long dramas.

If you want to sell "In the Name of the People" to CCTV, you can only cut the original 52 episodes to 40 episodes, but if you do this, both the viewing experience and the return will be greatly reduced.

So director Li Lu had no choice but to focus on other local TV stations.

Logically speaking, the TV series "In the Name of the People" not only stars Wu Gang, Hou Yong, Zhang Fengyi, etc., but also has popular actors such as Lin Yuan and Lu Yi. When it comes to that TV station, there are all existences vying for it.

But the result?

After talking about several companies in a row, the two sides still couldn't agree on the price.

The TV series "In the Name of the People" spent a total of 5000 million yuan in investment and filming. The director Li Lu and the producer didn't even think about how much money they would make from this TV series. Each investor can earn a hard fee.

As a result, until now, the highest offer from local satellite TV was only 3000 million.

There are three reasons why the quotation is so low. One is that the subject matter of the TV series "In the Name of the People" is indeed sensitive. Maybe after they bought the rights to show the TV series, the TV series could not be released at all.

The second is that the total investment of this TV series has already been spread in the circle. It is not a secret at all. We all know that many investors withdrew their capital at the beginning. In the end, it was Lin Yuan's personal studio that invested 4000 million yuan before the crew could officially start filming. , so for these satellite TVs, they are not willing to spend too much higher than the total investment to take this risk.

Of course, the most important point is that in recent years there have been no TV dramas with the main theme of anti-corruption, and the major TV stations are not sure whether the audience is willing to watch it or not.

If the audience is willing to pay the bill, no matter how expensive this TV series is, David TV is willing to spend money to win it.

After all, compared to the price of hundreds of thousands or even millions of episodes of TV dramas, their advertising costs are tens of thousands or even 10,000+ per second. If the ratings of TV dramas are high enough, they will soon be able to pass the advertising fees for interstitials. Earn back the cost of purchasing TV show rights.

But what if the TV series doesn't catch on?Isn't that a blood loss?In this case, satellite TVs naturally dare not make random offers.

As for Gao Yalin and the others, seeing that the price with Zhejiang Satellite TV had not been agreed upon today, they also returned to the hotel dejectedly.

This TV series was stumbling at the beginning of filming, and now the TV series has finally been filmed, and now it is hitting a wall everywhere in selling the rights to show, which makes people feel a little uncomfortable.

Gao Yalin sighed, and said in a deep voice, "Lao Li, why don't we go to Mango Terrace tomorrow?"

"Mango Terrace? Is that okay?"

Director Li Lu's tone was obviously a little hopeless, but this is also understandable. Zhejiang Satellite TV and Mango TV have focused on variety shows in recent years. Even Zhejiang Satellite TV did not give them a satisfactory offer. Mango TV It's not much better if you think about it on the Taiwan side.

Gao Yalin explained: "I know a leader of Mango TV, you can try to talk to him."

Seeing what Gao Yalin said, Li Lu agreed after thinking for a while.

The two rested in the hotel for a day, and set foot directly on the road to Mango Terrace the next day.

Mango Terrace.

Deputy Director Liu Xiangqun knew Gao Yalin's intention early in the morning, and after warmly entertaining the two, he brought the topic back to business: "Old Gao, I asked the discipline inspection team leader and the director of the film purchase department to lead the team. Check out the samples first, and if the response is good, how about we talk about other things?"

Gao Yalin nodded and agreed, "Of course it's no problem."

Even if he knew the deputy director of the TV station, he couldn't just let the TV station buy the broadcasting rights of this show, right?
After handing over the samples to the director of the purchase department, Gao Yalin and director Li Lu also began a long wait.

They also don't know whether the people organized by Mango Channel are satisfied with the works they shoot.

After all, Mango TV has always focused on the youth line, and it has become popular with batches of popular fried chickens. I don't know if it will be favored for this kind of TV series whose main actors are basically old dramas.

After nearly two hours of anxious waiting, the director of the purchase department returned to the office of the deputy director Liu Xiangqun.

Liu Xiangqun, the director of the film purchasing department, saw one, and asked straight to the point: "Xiao Li, how do you feel after watching the sample TV series?"

The director of the film purchasing department looked a little excited, and reported happily: "Director Liu, I organized two groups of young people in the station to watch the movie. They watched the sample of this TV series respectively. The feedback from the two groups of young people was very good. Very good, after watching the first two episodes, they all expressed their desire to continue watching!"

From his excited tone, it can be heard how obviously this TV series shocked them.

After seeing the performance of the director of the film purchasing department, Liu Xiangqun couldn't help being a little surprised. You must know that the director of the film purchasing department of Mango Channel reviews dozens or hundreds of TV dramas every year, but he has never seen him do this. This kind of reaction, is the effect presented by the sample of this TV series so exaggerated?
This is actually not difficult to understand.

The director of Mango Channel’s Film Purchase Department has indeed reviewed a lot of TV dramas, but the question is what are the TV dramas shown on Mango Channel?
It's not an urban romance drama, it's a youth campus romance drama, or even a costume historical romance drama. The romance dramas are basically the resident guests of Mango TV.

Under such circumstances, how can a high-quality TV series with the main theme of anti-corruption not attract their attention?
Seeing the satisfaction of the director of the film purchasing department, Liu Xiangqun waved his hand, and then called the secretary in: "Please inform the directors of each department, and we will hold a meeting later."

Even though his deputy director has a lot of power in the station, the issue of purchasing the broadcasting rights of a TV series involving hundreds of millions must be discussed and decided through a meeting, and even the final price has to be determined at the meeting.

"Boss Gao, Director Li, I'll have a meeting to discuss it now, you two wait for a while." Liu Xiangqun got up from his seat, ready to discuss this matter with the director.

Directors Li Lu and Gao Yalin nodded, and their hearts began to get nervous.

Since people are willing to hold a meeting to discuss this matter, it means that they are interested in the screening rights of this TV series, and then they just need to wait for them to discuss and make an offer.

The meeting seemed to come up with an answer quickly.

In less than half an hour, Liu Xiangqun, the deputy director, returned to the office and looked at the two with a smile on her face: "Director Li, after discussing with Mango Channel, we decided to purchase a five-year screening at a price of 420 million yuan per episode." Quan, what do you two think?"

One episode is 420 million, and the "In the Name of the People" TV series has a total of 52 episodes, which means that the screening rights were sold for 2.2 million!
For this result, Gao Yalin and Li Lu absolutely agree!

One must know that other satellite TV’s quotations are only in the early 3000 million, and the highest is only [-] million. Mango TV’s quotation can be said to be [-] million higher than other satellite TV’s. Why do they disagree?

Just as Gao Yalin was about to agree directly, the director Li Lu suddenly interrupted: "We have to tell Lin Yuan about this and listen to his opinion."

Hearing this, Gao Yalin also reacted immediately.

Lin Yuan is the biggest investor in their TV series. The two of them agreed, but they don't know Lin Yuan's opinion yet?

"I'll call Lin Yuan and ask." Gao Yalin said, took out his mobile phone, and found Lin Yuan's contact information in the address book.

The call was quickly connected.

Lin Yuan glanced at the caller ID, and after seeing Gao Yalin displayed on it, he was still a little puzzled, wondering why Gao Yalin suddenly wanted to call him.

After connecting the phone, Gao Yalin's voice also came from the other end of the phone: "Lin Yuan, are you free now?"

Lin Yuan found a quiet place and said, "Mr. Gao, I'm not busy right now. Do you have anything to do?"

"It's like this. Mango Channel decided to purchase the show rights of "In the Name of the People" at a price of 2.2 million. Director Li and I agree. I want to hear your opinion. After all, you are the biggest investor in our production team. .”

Gao Yalin said the matter straight to the point, his tone full of joy.

After hearing that Mango TV decided to spend 2.2 million to buy the screening rights of "In the Name of the People", Lin Yuan was stunned.

That's 2.2 billion!

Excluding the 1.2 million investment, it is equivalent to directly earning [-] million for this TV series!

The return on investment is as high as 120%!

Lin Yuan accounted for 40% of the investment and made a direct profit of 4800 million!
What's more, this is only the copyright sold on satellite TV. If you sell the copyright on the online video platform next, I'm afraid you can earn a lot of money in return.

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan also smiled and agreed: "Mr. Gao, since this TV series can make money, I have no objection."

After hearing that Lin Yuan agreed to come down, Gao Yalin also heaved a sigh of relief: "Okay, then we will sign a contract with Mango TV."

Gao Yalin didn't say much, just now he asked Lin Yuan if he was free, and Lin Yuan replied that he was not busy now, which meant that Lin Yuan had something to do, but he was only temporarily free, so he also went straight to the point, After getting Lin Yuan's answer, the conversation ended.

After hanging up the phone, Lin Yuan was still thinking about what happened just now.

Originally investing in this TV series, he had already planned to lose money. After all, it can be seen from the fact that so many investors withdrew their funds before the filming started, the prospects of this TV series are not promising.

In the end, what Lin Yuan didn't expect was that not only did the TV series not lose money, but it also made a profit of 1.2 million, even if it was distributed to him, it would still be a full 4800 million!
Once this TV show becomes popular on Mango Channel, there will definitely be online platforms to buy the screening rights at that time. At that time, the money earned from selling the screening rights is pure profit without considering the investment cost.

With such a calculation in mind, Lin Yuan couldn't help muttering in a low voice: "It seems that investing in these film and television dramas is quite profitable."

Just when Lin Yuan was embracing this idea.

Director Li Lu was also busy signing a contract with Liu Xiangqun, the deputy director of Mango Channel.

After the dust settled, the TV series was finally sold to Hunan TV Station for 2.2 million yuan. Amidst the joyous laughter, Gao Yalin and Director Li completed the tour of selling the screening rights with satisfaction.

When Lin Yuan answered the phone, the crew of the props team also completed the scene layout.

"Lin Yuan! What's the ink on there? Hurry up and change your clothes, get ready for filming!"

Director Tang Jili searched around for a long time, finally found Lin Yuan's figure, grabbed the loudspeaker from the field manager next to him, and shouted at Lin Yuan, which shocked all the crew members present. .

Lin Yuan was also at a loss. Did Director Tang eat gunpowder when he answered the phone?
But at this time, no one dared to touch his brow, and walked towards the makeup booth set up by the crew honestly. The surrounding crew members also hurriedly got busy, for fear of being watched by Director Tang.

The toughest director Lin Yuan had ever met before was Cao Baoping, but compared with director Tang Jili, he was far behind. Just copied the script and started beating people.

You must know that Director Tang is not only the director, but also the screenwriter of the crew. If he dares to talk back, he might end up like Jackie Chan and add various scenes with dangerous actions to him.

Moreover, Director Tang even bought his commercial insurance before adding the show, tens of millions of insurance, so there is no need to worry about any accidents with him.

It can be said that Tang Jili, the director, has to pay a large part of the responsibility for Jackie Chan's entry into the blacklist of Xiangjiang Insurance Company.

"Have you changed your clothes yet, hurry up!"

Following Director Tang Jili's urging voice, Lin Yuan originally planned to change clothes one by one, but now he didn't dare to be vague at all, and directly took off all the clothes on his body, leaving only a pair of boxers.

Seeing that Lin Yuan had taken off his clothes, the little sister handing over the clothes turned her head quickly, but couldn't help it, swallowed her saliva, and turned her head secretly again.
Fortunately, for the filming scene today, the clothes he was wearing were relatively loose, and he put them on in a few moments. After changing the clothes, Lin Yuan didn't dare to stay any longer, so he went out of the dressing room and trotted all the way towards the shooting site.

"Hey, did you see, Lin Yuan's figure management is also very good?"

"Before, Teacher Lin Yuan couldn't tell when he was wearing clothes, that mermaid thread, tsk tsk."

"That's right, that mermaid line is really big."

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Just after Lin Yuan left, the make-up artists in the make-up studio couldn't restrain themselves any longer, and started talking in low voices inside.

Besides, on Lin Yuan's side, when he trotted all the way to the shooting location of the crew, his body quickly entered the state after exercising, and he was ready to shoot the next fight scene at any time.

Lin Yuan adjusted his breathing and made an OK gesture: "Director Tang, I'm ready."

"Wait a while?"

"That's it, it's a warm-up."

Tang Jili nodded, and directed directly at the scene: "Attention all departments! Hurry up and give me the position, and all the group performers will enter the stage!"

"I'll give you 30 seconds to get it ready for me. The photographer will check it one last time. If there's nothing wrong with it, we'll just go one way!"

Just after Tang Jili finished directing the scene, he was about to return to his position as director.

Halfway through, I realized that my seat had already been taken by someone else. If it was someone else, Tang Jili would tell people to leave without saying a word, but now Jackie Chan was sitting in front of the monitor. He was ten courageous, and he didn't dare to say anything more.

Tang Jili scanned around, patted his assistant on the shoulder, and directly requisitioned his stool, then turned his head and said, "Brother, move your position, I'll take a stool and sit by the side and watch."

Seeing Tang Jili coming over, Jackie Chan glanced at him casually, and then said, "How do you usually stare at me, and how you stare at that kid Lin Yuan later on, don't care if the actions you add are dangerous or not, if you are caught by me I see you show mercy."

Having said that, Jackie Chan patted Tang Jili on the shoulder directly, showing an intriguing smile.

Since Lin Yuan said before that he was willing to help share some fighting scenes, then he must see if Lin Yuan has that ability. If he can't even pass Tang Jili's request, he doesn't have to waste his energy as a martial arts instructor for Lin Yuan .

"Don't worry, brother, I have experience with this!"

After hearing the elder brother's order, Tang Jili immediately patted his chest to assure him.

The reason why Tang Jili is able to cooperate with Jackie Chan in so many action films is because, like Jackie Chan, he has very strict requirements for the visual effects of the fighting scenes in action films. Turn one eye and close one eye, but if the play does not meet his requirements, even if he NGs hundreds of times, he will not lower his requirements for the scene.

Now that the elder brother is getting older, he no longer dares to be so strict with his elder brother, but Lin Yuan is different. Since the elder brother has let go, he doesn't need to be polite anymore, he picks up the walkie-talkie and makes an official announcement.

"Kung Fu Yoga, the second session! The first scene, start!"

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