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Chapter 498 Video Platform Exposure, Are You Doubting My Professionalism?
Although he had been busy for most of the night with two transitions last night, Wu Hu still got up early the next day to go out to exercise and practice Tai Chi.

The only fly in the ointment may be that there are no more uncles and aunts around him asking for advice and satisfying his vanity of being a good teacher.

After breakfast, Yahuazi and the others were still resting, and Wu Hu drove the cool sports car that Yahuazi gave him to the company.

It's a pity that the handsome supercar is on the road, but it can't blow up the street. It's a pity.

Downstairs in the company, there were indeed a bunch of entertainment journalists there. Seeing this handsome supercar appearing here, everyone just froze for a moment, and immediately surrounded it.

In this regard, Wu Hu did not evade, but got out of the car directly, "Everyone, don't get stuck here, it's not good to affect other people's work, go upstairs and drink tea!"

Everyone likes the temperament of Wu Hu, a bachelor, and will not regard them as enemies.Although they would occasionally take things out of context and deliberately make some attractive headlines, as long as they were not too much, Wu Hu could turn a blind eye and never write a warning letter from a lawyer.

When he went upstairs, Wu Hu led him directly to the conference room.

In the conference room, Kang Zhi was having a meeting with several department heads. In fact, there were not many people in the company. Counting the number, there were less than eighty people, and most of them were behind-the-scenes staff, such as makeup artists, prop artists, and lighting Teacher these.

These people usually don't come to the company. Most of the people who come to the company are administrative staff and screenwriters, such as the accounting department and the personnel department.

Seeing Wu Hu coming with a group of reporters, everyone stood up and said hello, then Kang Zhi coughed lightly, waved his hand, and took them directly to his office.

After everyone was seated, the staff of the company brought a bottle of water to the journalists.

Wu Hu asked for Pingbing Bingkuoluo, felt refreshed, and then said: "If you have any questions, just ask! It will take half an hour. I haven't been to the company for a long time, and I will be busy for a while."

"Fat Tiger, are you still fighting boxing champion Mayweather? There is no news about this recently. Is it because the other party dare not fight with you?"

Wu Hu shook his head, "I don't know if he didn't dare, but the WBA looked down on me and didn't want to give me the same appearance fee as Mayweather, so the negotiations froze."

When Zhong Yu Ji heard the words, his eyes lit up, and he lowered his head and began to write.

Wu Hu believes that this news will reach the Bald Eagles. If they don't put some pressure on the WBA, they will really treat themselves as onions.

You know, there is not only one WBA on the Bald Eagle side.

"Fat Hu, I heard that you opened another IT company in Beijing?"

Wu Hu laughed when he heard the words, "You guys are quite powerful!"

In fact, this matter has been uploaded on the Internet a long time ago, and it can be found out even by going to Tianyan. There are only a few companies under Wu Hu's name, one is his own studio, the other is New World Media, the other is King's Game, and the other is King's Game. It is now Xiaohu Technology.

The three executives of Xiaohu Technology are all from the previous game of kings. This is not right for a discerning person, especially Xiaohu Technology also has the word 'tiger'.Moreover, the three of them were originally Wu Hu's college classmates, and they had never heard of their quarrel.

So, the only explanation is this.

"Fathu, as far as we know, the industry of Xiaohu Technology is online video, that is to say, you are now entering the online video field, are you competing with other video companies for business?" A reporter asked: " But now that the major video networks are losing money, you are not afraid that all the money you earn will be filled into this bottomless pit?"

Wu Hu nodded and said: "I did find someone to create a video website, and I was indeed prepared to lose money, but our video platform is somewhat different from the platforms of major video companies. As for the differences, I just want to I can only explain it to everyone after the software development is completed. Now that there is no real thing, the explanation will not be clear for a while."

"Panghu, what made you want to create a video platform? Could it be that the major video platforms today can't meet your needs?"

"It's not that those video platforms can't meet my needs, but I thought of a more interesting idea, and then I found someone to develop it for a try. Of course, what I think is fun may not be fun for everyone. Say, see you later."

Seeing that Wu Hu couldn't get more news about this video platform, an entertainment reporter changed the subject, "Fat Hu, Xingkong has postponed this season's survival show. When will it start? Do you have any news? ?”

Wu Hu shook his head and said: "No! I also asked them, and they said they are still discussing. I don't know what they are discussing. Maybe it is a matter of cooperation with other countries!"

"Fat Hu, you should know the votes on the Internet! Do you think you are suitable to play as the captain, or as a star?"

"Of course I hope to play as a star! In this way, our team will have two survival masters, which is very advantageous! But the program team probably won't agree."

"Fat Tiger, do you think you are a master of survival in the wild?"

"What? Are you questioning my professionalism?"

When everyone heard this, they couldn't help laughing.

Then Zhongyu Ji asked about the post-production of "Ghost" and the broadcast date as usual, and asked about the second part of "Xiu Chun Knife" and when "Now You See Me" will be released.Finally, I asked him what he thought of Dayao's victory this time.

When half an hour was up, Wu Hu got up.

When Wu Hu came out of the conference room and returned to the office, he saw that assistant Xiao Luo had come to work and was tidying up his desk.

Before teasing his little assistant, Kang Zhi came in.

Kang Zhi came to report on his work, the progress of the dramas the company invested in, and the projects to be invested in the second half of the year.

The post-production of "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village" has been completed, and the release is being arranged. There is almost no publicity in terms of publicity. After all, it is a low-budget horror movie.

It seems that they are going to win by word of mouth, and then slowly expand the scale of the release, so that even if they lose money, they won't lose much.

"Embroidered Spring Knife 2" is still in the late stage of production, halfway through the process, and "Lucky Key" and "You Now You See Me" have just entered post-production.

"Wolf Warrior" has not finished filming yet, and it is estimated that the filming will end in August.

This movie is much earlier than the one in another time and space. After the Chinese New Year this year, Zhanlangjing started preparations, and the filming started from February to May.

Wu Hu also didn't know whether "Wolf Warrior", which came out in advance, had the power of another time and space.So he planned to take some time to visit a class in a few days, and by the way to increase the popularity of this movie, after all, he is now a walking topic maker.

It's the hot weather in Jinling, so the crew of "Wolf Warrior" must be having a hard time!
Thinking of this, Wu Hu remembered his skills of driving tanks and flying planes.

It looks like, you can try your hand in the past!
At this time, Wu Hu's thoughts had already started to wander.

He didn't come back to his senses until Kang Zhi mentioned "Lost in Thailand". The filming of "Lost in Thailand" has now started. New World Media has invested 4000 million yuan to cooperate with Ray, and Ray has cast 1000 million yuan.

Originally it was said that the cost would be 4000 million, but after calculation, the 4000 million investment was simply not worth it. The director's remuneration, the actor's remuneration, and the screenwriter's fee for Xu Guangtou added up to 800 million, which was much higher. His market price is quite a bit of salary.

This was also Wu Hu's secret suggestion to Kang Zhi. In this way, if Xu Guangtou asked to sign a box office reward agreement or something, it would be somewhat ugly to eat.

I have to say that Wu Hu's intentions in this move are actually quite sinister.

But in Xu Guangtou's view, New World Media gave him so much, which is really too open.

Sure enough, after receiving a salary that was much higher than the market price, Xu Guangtou, who felt respected, never made any other excessive demands.

It can also be seen from this that Guangtou Xu never thought that the box office would be a big hit.

As for the remuneration of the black-skinned Huang Bo and Wang Baobao, they are also based on the market price, and they are not forced to act at a friendly price just because they are friends.

Free things are often the most expensive, and it can be seen at a glance from the subsequent revenue share of the show in another time and space.Huang Bo starred in the show with zero pay, and eventually got tens of millions.

Now, the combined salary of the three of them is almost 2000 million.

Therefore, the investment cost will be pulled to 5000 million.

Naturally, Wu Hu would not say anything more about this. Even if the investment account for this movie is two to three hundred million, it will eventually make a profit, as long as there are no accidents.

Of course, in the end, if it can really hit the box office like in another time and space, it will still have to take out some of the proceeds as red envelopes to reward everyone.

Although Wu Hu is a capitalist now, he can only be counted as half of it. After all, he is still a literary worker and cannot be compared with a real capitalist.

In addition to the investment in "Lost in Thailand", there are two small-budget horror films in preparation.

Although "The Fox Wife in the Mountain Village" has not yet been released, I am not worried about recovering the cost. The cooperation with the movie channel and video platform has been negotiated, and more than half of the cost has been recovered.

In terms of TV dramas, although Wu Hu didn't write any more scripts, the company's scriptwriting department was not idle either. They created an original family ethics drama and adapted some copyrights of novels that Wu Hu asked Kang Zhi to buy.Currently being adapted, there is "Gu Jian Qi Tan".

Wu Hu didn't have much impression of that family ethics drama. After all, although he watched a lot of TV dramas in another time and space, he didn't watch many family ethics dramas.

Kang Zhi intends to let Tie Tie play the leading role, after all, Tie Tie's image feels like a neighbor.

In this regard, Wu Hu is not sure, especially after flipping through this script at random, he found that the nature of this script is a bit like "Big Man", that is, the feeling of an old husband and a young wife.

The essence of 'ghosts' is the love affair between an uncle and a girl, so this script gives Wu Hu the feeling that it is a bit like borrowing the feeling of matching old and young with partners.

Therefore, he felt that there was no need for Tie Tie to return to this kind of scene, lest people say she was a failure and her image would be fixed.

What's more, the heroine in the play is almost thirty, how old is Tietie?She usually has a strong sense of being a girl, and there is nothing wrong with saying that she is a high school student.

So he rejected Kang Zhi's proposal, and recommended Sister Strawberry by the way.

As for "Gu Jian Qi Tan", this is actually a game, the work of a game company in Haichengcheng, and it was released on the market when Wu Hu crossed.

Later, when Wu Hu asked Kang Zhi to buy the right to adapt novels and films, this was named by Wu Hu and won the right to adapt.

However, the other party's game company retains part of the rights, that is to say, if they want to adapt this game, they can, but they have the right to participate in part of the investment.Now that the game is popular, they will naturally not hand over all the rights to New World Media.

Hearing this drama, Wu Hu thought of Da Mi Mi, because in another time and space, this drama is starring Da Mi Mi.As for the male protagonist, Wu Hu also thought of the "eating" person who was arrested for "eating extremes". In fact, this person made his debut in the draft as early as 07. He was originally a musician, but compared to Wu Hu, this The speed at which it turns red is a bit slow.

This is where Wu Hu can make people envy, envy and hate. After becoming popular, he has never felt weak, and he is still going high step by step, running all the way to the world.

This rapid rise to popularity is simply unreasonable.

But now, according to Kang Zhi's meaning, he has the idea of ​​asking Yahuazi to take the lead.

When Wu Hu heard this proposal, he shook his head silently in his heart. Yahua's mother probably didn't like it.Wu Hu also felt that there was no need for Yahuazi to continue to act in this drama, not to say that he didn't like this drama, but to give other people some opportunities!

For example, Tie Tie and Mina, Mina thinks she is a student, and now she is becoming more and more Buddhist, it is not good for people to become lazy, she must be given a chance to come out and do business for a while.

In the end, Kang Zhi brought up the old story again, and suggested to Wu Hu that the company should set up an artist management department, sign some artists, or hire outside actors for all the plays, which would feel like making wedding dresses for others.

Moreover, the company can take back some benefits from the artist by making the artist popular, which is what all entertainment companies do.Now that New World Media has a lot of resources, there is no need to keep cheap artists from other entertainment companies, right?

As long as New World Media is willing to sign artists, there will definitely be many artists willing to join them.Because of the signing of New World Media, it is very possible to have the opportunity to go international.

Yahuazi followed Wu Hu to the world, which is the best proof.

Of course, Yahuazi's original management contract was also with Bald Eagle, and he has also filmed "International blockbusters" like "The King of Kung Fu".

But because this film did not make any waves abroad, so this time when I filmed "You Now You See Me" with Wu Hu, it was regarded as Wu Hu's flamboyance and ran to the world.

Not to mention these days, even ten years later, the attraction to artists is still undiminished when they go international. After all, as long as they have some international titles, their worth will be different.

But Wu Hu is still not sure about this. Although Kang Zhi's proposal is not wrong, but to sign some actors, he has to be responsible for these actors. In this way, he needs to catch up with the show, and at the same time it will form a competitive relationship with other entertainment companies.

This is contrary to his purpose of 'be kind to others and make many friends'.

What's more, after signing some actors and making them popular, the other party will inevitably ask for more, and people's hearts will not be easily satisfied.

It's better not to start now than to tear your face when the time comes.

But if Kang Zhi was not given a satisfactory reason, he would definitely feel stupid.

So Wu Hu said: "With the advent of the traffic era, major capital from the outside world has entered the entertainment industry one after another, and actors' remuneration has skyrocketed. Many artists have already started their own studios. And the company currently has four female artists ( Hanako, Tie Tie, and Mina are one of the shareholders, Sister Strawberry is an artist in his studio, and can be regarded as one of the company’s artists), if you sign again, you can only sign men, do you think it is necessary?"

"..."

Kang Zhi was still digesting Wu Hu's words, and then he heard Wu Hu say: "You also said that some artists are willing to come to our side because they want to go international with me, then do you think these actors will snatch Qian after they come here? Qian and Tie Tie's resources? If it's a male artist, will they seize my resources?"

After a pause, Wu Hu continued: "Besides, if a new artist is popular, if the signing conditions we give are too harsh, we will inevitably run into poaching. If the signing conditions are not so good, although we will make money, we will still make money." There won’t be many. If the artist’s house accidentally collapses, all the previous investment will be in vain.”

Wu Huyue said, the more confident he became, "Why have I never been in the business of artist brokerage? Apart from these reasons, there is another more important point, that is, when we are filming, we will not be cast by our own Artists are restricted, you can freely choose actors who are more suitable for the role, and you can say no to other companies. Once we have our own artist brokers, then we will inevitably exchange resources with other companies. At that time, some unsuitable artists will be added. , do you agree or not?"

Kang Zhi was still thinking about what he said, and Wu Hu had already pointed to the script of an ethical drama, "We can cooperate with other companies for a script like this. Tie Tie's character design is not very suitable for the heroine, so I can try it for Sister Strawberry. Others The actors are handed over to other companies, and the director can find Xia Xiaoyun or Li Xue, the director of 'Xingxing', to try..."

Kang Zhi was a little dizzy for a while, Wu Hu's words seemed very reasonable at first glance, but he always felt that something was not quite right.

Why can't they do what other companies are doing?
Even if there are risks of one kind or another, it is something to consider in the future!

Artists set up collapsed houses, and public relations are all for it!Look at Mr. Zhang's son, even if something like that happened, wouldn't he also appear in front of the public now?

Indeed, in May, the movie "Inseparable" co-produced by Zhang Gongzi and Yan Zu was released, and it seems that it has not been affected too much.

As for Wu Hu's reason that the company has four female artists and it is not suitable to sign another female artist, he can understand and accept it.But why can't male artists sign?Even if you can't compete with the boss for international resources, there are still a lot of male artists who are willing to sign contracts!

(End of this chapter)