China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 270 17.16 Billion, To Youth Super Avatar

On March 3, "Now You See Me" was officially announced to be completed.

After the finale banquet, at the hotel, Liu Yifei leaned his head on Li Mu's shoulder and asked, "What are you going to do after the bandits?"

Li Mu held Liu Yifei's hand: "Shooting "Interstellar", you won't even forget this?"

Liu Yifei didn't answer, but continued to ask: "What about after "Interstellar"? What are you doing?"

Li Mu rubbed her hands lightly, and said, "Should be able to make a TV series, I've been just making movies for the past few years, and I'm tired enough, it's time to take a break and change my taste."

Liu Yifei let out an oh, and said, "Understood."

In fact, she wanted to find an opportunity to have a good rest with Li Mu and play around the world, but seeing Li Mu's workaholic posture and how much he valued his career, she suppressed her thoughts.

It's not good to delay his work.

After Liu Yifei went to bed first, Li Mu took out his notebook and had a meeting with Liu Siying.

Liu Siying was the first to report: "The copyright negotiation of "A Thousand Bone of Flowers" is not progressing very quickly. "The Legend of Chu Qiao" will premiere on the 28th. It is estimated that TV stations and video sites want to see the results of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" first."

Li Mudao: "It's understandable, it's human nature. If I were the leader of a TV station and a video site, I would also plan to do so."

Liu Siying said: "In the past few years, the copyright price of TV dramas has indeed increased a lot, and the TV stations and video sites are under great pressure. "The Legend of Chu Qiao" sold 4.82 million, which was unimaginable before. This transaction price should have already begun to feel difficult for all of them. If the first broadcast of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is average, I am afraid that it will inevitably affect the final transaction price of the follow-up "A Thousand Bone Flowers."

"If "The Legend of Chu Qiao" hits the block, we deserve it if "A Thousand Bone of Flower" doesn't sell." Then Li Mu changed the subject and said, "After "Interstellar", I will direct and act in "Let's Get Married". The company will prepare it in advance."

"Congratulations to Mr. Li, this is a great event for our group, and even the entire Chinese entertainment industry."

"Hahaha, it's not that exaggerated."

As the vice president of Huashang Media, Liu Siying knew some inside information. For example, when Mr. Li launched the TV series that the company had been preparing for many years, it meant that Mr. Li was really going to get married, and this was of course the most important thing for Huashang Media.

After finishing the video call with Liu Siying, Li Mu leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes to rest.During this period of time, he has been dealing with related issues such as equity and assets, which is actually preparing for marriage.

The finale banquet of "Let's Get Married" was directly held as a proposal banquet, making it a grand and important point, calling all the close friends of the two to be a witness-by the way, should we tell Liu Yifei in advance?

"Yeah, dress nicely for the finale banquet tonight, I want to propose to you in public!"

Thinking of this, Li Mu shook his head, feeling that it would be better to hide it from Liu Yifei, but what if she doesn't agree to him then?
"I think too much, why would she not agree to me? After all, I am so handsome?! Hahaha..."

Li Mu thought rather narcissistically.

After the robbery was completed, the crew stayed in the United States for another day, and then set off to return to China.

Next, although "Interstellar" is still a work for global audiences, it will no longer be filmed in the United States. Li Mu's Huashang Media has a large-scale and very advanced studio in Shanghai. By then, most of the scenes in "Interstellar" will be filmed in Shanghai.

A week after returning to China, that is, on March 3, "Chu Qiao Biography" officially landed on Jiangsu Province, Jinmen Satellite TV and Youku Video Network.

At the same time, it has been 20 days since "To Youth" was fully released. Just yesterday, that is, March 3, "To Youth" had a daily box office of 27 million yuan, still the national champion.The runner-up "Jack the Giant Slayer" had a daily box office of only 2230 million yuan, and the third runner-up "Die Hard 1400" had only been released for 5 days, but its daily box office was only about 15 million yuan.

As of yesterday, "To Youth" had a cumulative box office of 14.7 billion yuan, and it seems that it will break the 15 billion mark in the past few days.

At the same time, the predicted box office of Maoyan Movie was raised again, reaching 16.97 billion yuan.

How exaggerated is this result?

Let's put it this way, if "To Youth" can really get this result in the end, it will already be in the top five in Chinese film history, only after "Monster Hunt", "Frozen", "Not Embarrassed", "Avatar", and even ahead of a series of miracle films such as "The Martian", "Gravity", and "Lost in Thailand".

Even a slight increase to 2000 million yuan will definitely surpass "Avatar".

It's unbelievable that a youth-themed film can achieve such an achievement, but for a series of leading actors in the film, especially the so-called Huashang Wumei, "To Youth" has brought them not only an increase in celebrity status, but also an increase in popularity, and even caused a lot of controversy.

For example: "Who is the most beautiful Huashang Wumei in "To Youth"?" Or, "Which of the Huashang Wumei contributed the most to the box office hit of "To Youth"?" and other topics.

With the explosion of the film, Wumei's fans have already blushed.

Then on March 3, "Chu Qiao Biography" officially premiered. On March 28, the premiere data of "Chu Qiao Biography" was officially released. The ratings of Suzhou Satellite TV were 3%, and the ratings of Jinmen Satellite TV were 29.

The ratings of the first broadcast of "Chu Qiao Biography" are actually very good, but how do you say that?I am afraid of comparison in everything!
What is the ratings of the premiere of "Obstetrician" which was broadcast not long ago? 1.4%, the ratings of "Chu Qiao Biography" is 0.1 percentage points lower than that of "Obstetrician".

And not only that, the score of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is also not ideal, and its Douban score is only 6.0 points. This is undoubtedly the lowest-rated TV series of Huashang since its establishment.

The most critical issue is that "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is also the most expensive TV series sold by Huashang. Its domestic copyright alone sold 4.82 million yuan.

The heroine of Hua Shang's first hip-pull TV series?
Bai Bing deeply felt that he had failed the company's expectations, the trust of Mr. Li, and the fans' expectations.

What is more realistic is that "A Thousand Bone of Flower" has a tendency to be lowered in price immediately during the copyright transaction negotiation.

Liu Siying reported the situation to Li Mu: "Several TV stations that are interested, as well as Internet platforms such as Tencent Video and iQiyi Video, all publicly proposed to appropriately reduce the transaction price."

Li Mudao: "Even if the ratings of the first broadcast of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" are slightly lower than expected, it doesn't mean that the follow-up "The Thousand Bone of Flower" will not sell well, right? Even if the ratings of the first broadcast are only 1.3%, this is still the ceiling level of domestic TV dramas. What do they want if they don't want "The Thousand Bone of Flower"?"

Liu Siying said with a smile: "On the one hand, the people in charge of Tencent Video and iQiyi Video all mentioned in interviews with reporters that the copyright price of top dramas should be appropriately lowered, that is to say, us. On the other hand, they all approached us privately, expressing that they are still willing to continue to use the standards of "Chu Qiao Biography" to purchase "A Thousand Bone Flowers."

Li Mu also smiled and said: "The negotiation continues, but don't worry, the real negotiation will not start until the finale of "The Legend of Chu Qiao"."

Liu Siying asked: "Mr. Li judges that the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" will be high?"

Li Mu: "Who is right, but you can't wait for a long time."

Li Mu doesn't know what the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" will be in this time and space, but he at least knows the performance of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" in his previous life!The ratings of the first broadcast were 0.8, which is also not as good as "Obstetrician", but the average ratings of most of the later days were above 2%. In the end, the average ratings of the whole show were pulled to 1.74%, which is far better than the average ratings of "Obstetrician". It can be said that the popularity is a mess.

So Li Mu thought, since the original time and space were like this, then this time and space should be quite different, right?
After all, the "Chu Qiao Biography" in the two time and space is similar, and the popularity of Bai Bing in this life is not lower than that of Zhao Liying, but there are indeed other changes.

After all, the "Chu Qiao Biography" in the original time and space has a serious problem of mouth-synching, so this time and space has naturally changed.

In addition, the problem of "cutting out the background" in the original time and space caused "Chu Qiao Biography" to be widely criticized. Of course, this problem in this time and space is gone!

What's more, there are certain plagiarism problems in the original "Chu Qiao Biography" in the original time and space. This time and space Li Mu intervened at the beginning of the novel's serialization, and this fatal weakness is naturally gone.

Finally, the plot of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is actually unreasonable. In the original book, Chu Qiao is actually a time traveler, so she can face the nobles as a slave without bowing her knees.

The original version of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" changed the settings due to the country's restrictions on time-travel dramas. Chu Qiao is no longer a time-traveler, so it seems unreasonable to have many modern ideas.

But it is not impossible to change, for example, Chu Qiao can have some modern thinking because of the influence of other slaves.

As for why the slaves that Chu Qiao had come into contact with had quite modern thinking, would it be okay for the slaves to have contacted the slave leader of a rebel soldier?As a rebellious slave, is it okay to have a seemingly modern idea of ​​building a beautiful new world in your mind?
All schools of thought have all kinds of ideas, and some of them coincide with some modern ideas. Chu Qiao has come into contact with similar people, and it is not surprising that some seem to be modern, but in fact they are classical.

These are the faults of the original version of "The Legend of Chu Qiao", but none of them are the fatal faults that lead to its low rating. In Li Mu's opinion, the biggest fault of this drama is that it is actually too Mary Sue.

Why can a woman who does her own way and is still a slave get the favor of so many male protagonists and supporting actors, and even maintain them in every possible way?
As a slave, you dare to yell when you go to bed, and as a slave, you dare to do something seriously inconsistent with your status or even very presumptuous behavior regardless of the occasion. As a result, all the male protagonists and supporting actors really follow her way and favor her in every possible way. Is this reasonable?
Of course it is unreasonable!

Of course, Mary Su is one of the major flaws in "The Legend of Chu Qiao", but Li Mu didn't do much to optimize it specifically.

That's right, the reasons why the male protagonists and female protagonists look at each other differently can be properly rationalized, but the fact that the female protagonist receives collective preferential treatment from most male protagonists and male protagonists should not be changed as much as possible.

Too Mary Sue is of course a disadvantage, but what can you do if the TV audience at this stage just eats this set?
If you correct all these "disadvantages", yes, the ratings of the TV series may be greatly improved, but the ratings of the TV series may also be greatly reduced because of this, and in the end, the gains outweigh the losses.

Everyone knows that "Scary Step By Step" has a much better reputation than "Gong Suo Xin Yu", but the ratings of the former are really not as good as the latter.

In Li Mu's view, the plot of "Gong Suo Xin Yu" is more Mary Su, which may be an important reason.

It's unreasonable, but the audience loves to watch it, and the situation is roughly like this.

As for the several video sites that intend to snatch the online copyright of "A Thousand Bone of Flowers", in fact, lowering the price has never been their real purpose. Everyone just wants to take the opportunity to suppress the spirit of Huashang Media.

"A Thousand Bone of Flowers" continues to sell "Chu Qiao Biography" sky-high price is no problem, but it is best not to continue to rise, the network copyright is already 300 million an episode, if it continues to rise, no matter how rich the family is, sooner or later it will be unbearable!

Now there is a saying in the market that among the several new dramas that Huashang Media currently holds that have already been filmed, Huashang Media actually sells the dramas in order from low to high ratings potential. Since the dramas are sold in order from low to high, isn’t it only natural that the later dramas are more expensive than the previous ones?

Now the ratings of "Chu Qiao Biography" are not as good as the first deal in this batch, which is "Obstetrician", which Hua Shang thinks has the lowest rating potential in theory. Then Hua Shang's argument that the drama sells from low to high is untenable. Since the quality is not from low to high, there is no need to sell more and more expensive.

Therefore, the first broadcast of "Chu Qiao Biography" is not as good as "Obstetrician". Tencent Video and iQiyi are a little happy. The 2 million network copyright fee of "Chu Qiao Biography" is spent by Youku, and it is not your own company. On the contrary, you can cut the price of "Flower Thousand Bone" because of this. Yes, very good!
But in the next few days, a scene that everyone did not expect appeared.

On the second day, the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" rose by 0.15 percentage points to 1.45%.

On the third day, with the continuous fermentation of the TV drama plot, the ratings of "Chu Qiao Biography" also directly climbed to 1.67%.

This increase is a bit exaggerated, and it has even far exceeded the increase in ratings when "Obstetrician" was released.

Then on the fourth day, 1.83%.

On the fifth day, the ratings broke 2 for the first time.

Then the ratings climb of "Chu Qiao Biography" is still not over.

The audience rating broke 2.5% on the 11th day, and 2.96% on the 3th day of No. [-], which barely broke [-]!

At this time, the average ratings of "Chu Qiao Biography" has far exceeded that of "Obstetrician", and the number of online broadcasts of the TV series is also amazing. It even achieved the fastest record on Youku with a cumulative broadcast volume of 50 billion in just ten days.

Seeing the astonishing increase in the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao", no matter the major TV stations or the video sites such as Aiyouteng, they have already made up their minds to buy Huashang Media's new drama "A Thousand Bone Flowers" at the price of "The Legend of Chu Qiao". It is almost impossible!

By the way, the final box office of "To Youth" also came out at this time, 17.16 billion yuan, which just broke the domestic box office record of 2010 billion yuan for the phenomenal film "Avatar" in 17.15.

In fact, the real data of "To Youth" can't break the record of "Avatar". In the end, the group team put out a wave of ticket supplements, which barely surpassed "Avatar" and officially became the fourth in the history of Chinese film.

If the ticket supplement is removed, "To Youth" is still not as good as "Avatar", but who cares about this among ordinary audiences?Everyone only knows that Huashang Media's "To Youth" has surpassed "Avatar" at the box office.

(End of this chapter)