The Wind of China Entertainment 2005

Chapter 443 Take away
"Sister, wake up."

"Well!"

The car parked steadily downstairs.

Assistant Wang Lili was in the passenger seat. She turned to look at the back seat and whispered: "Sister Shi Shi, we have arrived at the community."

Liu Shishi rubbed his eyes, yawned, and looked out the window at a familiar place.

Today I ran several announcements one after another and didn't even have time for a lunch break.

She now felt that her eyelids were like magnets, and she just wanted to get on the bed and sleep with him till the end.

He grabbed his bag, dragged his exhausted body, and opened the car door.

"Sister Shi Shi, don't forget, there will be an interview on Sohu at seven o'clock tomorrow morning. I will be downstairs waiting for you on time." Wang Lili stuck her head out and whispered like a devil.

Miss Liu paused, her shoulders slumped, and she waved her hand dejectedly: "I know."

I ate more than a dozen packages of chicken wings this afternoon, and generously distributed them to a few golden retrievers.

Before she could ask again, Zhou Yaoyao muttered: "Auntie, sister, I miss my uncle."

Liu Shishi glanced at Lu Jia, smiled knowingly, and probably understood what happened, and walked up to the little guy.

She quickly responded with a smile, looked in the direction of her finger, and noticed a little kid squatting next to the car.

In the first month of the year, before Lu Minghua and his wife returned to their hometown, they took their two little things to the supermarket and bought a lot of food.

She cried so sadly.

Perhaps because she saw an acquaintance, Zhou Yaoyao's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Is your cold still gone?"

He pouted his mouth slightly, stood up aggrievedly, and then fell over, hugging her thigh.

Liu Shishi touched her little head and retied the loose rubber band on her braid.

Liu Shishi was very embarrassed and hesitated: "Yeah, your uncle."

After listening for a long time, I roughly understood what happened.

"Hey, baby."

Zhou Yaoyao is worried about things all day long and is picky about food. Her lunch is not delicious and she sneaks in snacks when she is hungry.

"Uncle is so bad, he made my sister so angry." Zhou Yaoyao snorted like a young adult.

Liu Shishi knelt down and pinched her big face. Seeing how pitiful she was, he said, "But uncle is filming."

Staring at the contact notes on her phone, she raised her little face and asked doubtfully: "Who can forgive him eight hundred times a day?"

"cough~"

Zhou Yaoyao took a step closer, squeezed into her aunt and sister's fragrant arms, and tilted her head on her shoulder.

"I apologized, but my mother still drove me downstairs."

Just as I was about to go upstairs, I glanced at my boyfriend's house across the street out of habit. The curtains were tightly closed and there was no one in sight.

Zhou Yaoyao became more and more sad and sobbed: "She kicked me downstairs and said she didn't want me anymore and asked me to sleep on the street. Ugh...I'm homeless...Hie Ang...Uncle, can you come back tonight... Hiccup...I miss you so much..."

Wearing a kawaii plush coat, with two pigtails playfully tied on her head, she held her chin in her little hand, her cheeks bulging, and stared blankly ahead.

Liu Shishi was on the side, and when he saw her crying, her shoulders kept twitching, and tears rolled down her face. He suppressed his laughter and wiped her tears.

"Then you apologize to mom." Lu Yuan said with a smile on the phone.

Fortunately, the scope is not large.

As a result, she had nothing to do. She ate and drank enough, and lay on the sofa and fell asleep. The golden retriever was miserable and thinned out due to food.

"Aunt sister!"

Lu Jia took her son to get vaccinated. When she came back, she saw the scene in the living room. She was so angry that she grabbed her ears and beat her.

She waved her hands: "Yao Yao, what's wrong?"

"Yao Yao, why are you crying? Is your aunt bullying you?" Lu Yuan asked with a smile on the phone.

Seeing this, she took out her mobile phone from her bag, shook it, and said, "Let's give him a call, okay?"

Liu Shishi coughed.

It's so tiring to make announcements and so on. It's better to be on the set and film more relaxedly.

Liu Shishi didn't know how to explain it, but fortunately the call was answered quickly.

"It's mom."

Zhou Yaoyao didn't know what she was coughing, so she rushed to say: "Uncle, it's me, I'm moaning..."

Liu Shishi patted the little guy on the back while proving his innocence: "I didn't."

His eyes moved to the left. Old girl, ah, no, Sister Jiajia was standing on the balcony. When she saw her, she waved and pointed downstairs.

Zhou Yaoyao became visibly sad, her big eyes full of disappointment.

"it is good!"

"What's the use of just apologizing? You have to promise not to steal snacks again in the future."

Zhou Yaoyao's crying paused, then she lowered her head and said with some embarrassment, "I can't promise it."

Liu Shishi: "."

Lu Yuan: "."

I don’t know what Lu Yuan said on the phone, but Zhou Yaoyao stopped crying for a while.

After hanging up the phone, Liu Shishi smiled and said, "Yaoyao, why don't you call daddy."

"Because dad is timid, just listen to mom." Zhou Yaoyao was very aware of her father Zhou Mingyuan's status in the family.

Liu Shishi thought about it for a while and felt that this was not unreasonable.

Although the stinky man could only get beaten when facing Lu Jia, it did not stop him from talking back, arguing, and looking displeased with the other party.

Even after being beaten, he always pretends to be soft, but his true colors will be revealed in a few days.

She glanced at Lu Jia, who was standing on the balcony and stared closely, and threatened: "Yao Yao, I will send you up. The security guard said a few days ago that there are people in the community who are holding sacks and stealing children at night."

"A small one like you, you can put it on your shoulders and run away."

"Then what?" The little guy was a little scared, hunched his shoulders and hid in her arms.

Liu Shishi watched her open her mouth slightly, with a silly and cute look on her face, and suddenly realized the joy of a stinky man.

She continued to lie: "Then I will sell it, sell it to the mountainous area, sell it far away, and give you a new mother."

"A new mother?"

Seeing Yaoyao's eyes light up, Liu Shishi secretly thought that it was not good. It looked like she had been beaten severely by Lu Jia.

She immediately changed her words: "There is also dad, uncle, and brother."

Yaoyao hesitated and said, "Can you bring dad and uncle with you?"

"And Doudou."

Doudou is the golden retriever at home who is so thin that his limbs are weak.

Liu Shishi: "."

"This probably won't work."

"No." Zhou Yaoyao immediately shook her head: "Sister, do you miss your uncle? Let's go find him, okay?"

Liu Shishi couldn't keep up with this naughty kid's thinking. He was too out of touch. He hesitated for a moment and finally nodded in agreement.

"Okay."

On the other side, the crew of "No."

After Lu Yuan finished filming a scene, he took advantage of the adjustment period to return to the RV to listen to Wu Lang's work report. The negotiation with Park Zhenghuan did not go very smoothly.

CineonTV, represented by Park Jung-hwan, wants to buy both the broadcasting rights and the adaptation rights of "Bu Bu Jing Xin".

After careful consideration, Lu Yuan did not agree and planned to wait until the broadcast to discuss the matter.

According to the information collected by the studio from Korean websites, expectations for "Bu Bu" are quite high there.

Sell ​​the adaptation rights now, only a fool would do it.

The first time the talks fell apart without incident.

Park Zhenghuan had no choice but to find another substitute on the market that barely received enough ratings, "The Heart of the Palace".

After comparison, it was found that the quality gap between the two is too big.

Not to mention the male protagonist, there is no comparison, "Bu Bu" crushes it.

The key was the heroine. Maybe it was due to her makeup or other reasons. He felt that Ruoxi looked more pleasing to the eye and was more in line with his aesthetics.

Finally, after a week passed, Park Zhenghuan went back to Yuanfang Studio, found Wu Lang, and signed the contract honestly.

The contract stipulates that Korean TV stations will only obtain the broadcast rights of "Bu Bu", and the adaptation rights will be negotiated later.

But the price was very low, even far lower than Lu Yuan's expectations.

Wu Lang talked with the other party for a long time, and the transaction price was US$2.5 for a single episode. For 35 episodes of "Bu Bu Jing Xin", the total transaction price was US$87.5, equivalent to about 600 million yuan.

A very low price.

You know, the price of "Bu Bu" sold to Mango Channel in China was 8000 million, Qiyi 3500 million, and the total in the first round was 1.15 million.

According to the contract, 37 points, the online version has nothing to do with Tangren.

The payment from Mango Station was made in three installments, and all of them have been received.

After deducting the share and taxes paid to Tangren, the first round of "Bu Bu" alone brought Lu Yuan more than 4000 million yuan in income, and this does not include the Internet.

In comparison, South Korea's mere 600 million is really not worth mentioning.

However, the overseas price of this single episode of US$2.5 is already a new high in China in recent years.

There is no doubt that China is a big country in television dramas.

In 2010, domestic TV drama production was approximately 1.47 episodes, the highest in five years, ranking first in the world.

However, the ratio of production to broadcasting is seriously unbalanced, and no TV station will pay for the film.

The huge output cannot cover up the tragic fate of most Chinese TV dramas at the "bottom of the pyramid" and the embarrassing situation that the Chinese TV drama market is "big but not strong".

China has a huge market and is a big country in TV dramas, but it is not yet a powerful country in TV dramas, let alone an export power.

The current external sales price of mainland TV dramas before "Bu Bu" was only US$1.5 per episode.

In contrast, South Korea's recently popular "Secret Garden" has achieved great success in overseas exports.

Thirteen countries including China, Japan and Thailand have purchased the broadcasting rights for "Secret Garden".

The export price hit a record high, and a sales contract was signed with a US website that will provide VOD video on demand services.

Up to now, the total export volume of "Secret Garden" has reached 350 million US dollars, equivalent to more than 2000 million yuan.

If the export of peripheral goods such as notepads, dolls, and comics is added, the revenue will be even greater than it is now.

This is just the tip of the iceberg in the ten-year export history of Korean dramas.

The export volume of Korean dramas exceeded the US$2002 million mark in just three years from 2005 to 1.

During the same period in 2005, the export volume of China's domestic TV dramas was only a pitiful 1 million yuan.

In other words, the gap between domestic and South Korean exports was as high as 7 times at that time, and the gap will only be wider now.

The overseas sales of domestic TV series only account for about 5% of the total, and the sales area is very small and the sales price is not high. It is a consensus in the industry.

In recent years, due to the impact of Korean dramas and other factors, the downward trend in overseas sales has been very obvious, with the overall decline exceeding 50%.

Domestic peers have basically given up on the Southeast Asian market. Compared with domestic profits, overseas profits are only a few dollars.

So "Bu Bu" costs $2.5 per episode, which is very low, but very high.

After listening to Wu Lang's report, Lu Yuan rapped his knuckles on the table, pondered for a few seconds, and then asked, "What else are there, the ones I asked you to check."

Wu Lang took out a document from the pile of documents in front of him, handed it over, and recalled it for a while.

"Currently, domestic film and television dramas are mainly exported to the Asia-Pacific region and Southeast Asia, which are culturally close."

Lu Yuan nodded, consistent with Cai Yinong's description.

Wu Lang continued: "In overseas markets, the most popular ones are often domestic dramas about palace history and martial arts, while there are few successful examples of realistic dramas."

"Hey, doesn't "The Beautiful Era of Wifes" count?"

Lu Yuan was curious. This drama was directed by Liu Jiang, who was originally scheduled to be the male lead.

It was just that during that time, his "hidden marriage incident" was exposed by unscrupulous media. Liu Jiang was worried about his future, so to be on the safe side, he changed to Huang Haibo.

"Daughter-in-law" is first, and "Dawn" is next. These two dramas directly put Liu Jiang on the list of top-tier TV drama directors.

Years ago, Lu Yuan brought gifts and visited colleagues, directors, producers, and TV station executives who had worked with him in the industry as usual.

These transaction fees cost him millions. The country's conditions are such that "everything goes unfavorably."

Liu Jiang once admitted personally that this drama was sold to Africa and it is said that the ratings were quite good.

Haiqing plays Mao Doudou in the play, and because of the play, he has become a contemporary African idol.

Wu Lang explained: "Boss, "Daughter-in-law" is an example. In fact, the essential reason why this drama can successfully go overseas is similar to what Mr. Cai said."

"Although African countries are backward, their family values ​​are deeply rooted. When viewers there watch the show, they can find scenes similar to African life, which creates a psychological resonance."

The two talked for a long time until Wu Lang's mouth became dry.

Finally, it was concluded that in the current overseas market, after the decline of martial arts dramas, Chinese ancient costumes and Korean romantic idol dramas are the two types that can be popular in the Asia-Pacific region.

Serious dramas like "Bright Sword" and "Snow Leopard" will not be able to go abroad in a short period of time.

The reason is that foreigners cannot empathize with Chinese-style heroes and wars, and the influence of contemporary culture is insufficient.

When the "Bu Bu" matter came to an end, Wu Lang said again: "Boss, the Oriental Film and Television Festival has sent an invitation again this year."

I was invited once in March last year. At that time, this guy was filming on the set and didn't have time, so I turned it down.

"I know." Lu Yuan waved his hand: "The chief director called me specifically."

"Will you go then?"

"go."

The Oriental Film and Television Festival is a gala party for large-scale film and television stars hosted by Modu Radio and Television Station, Modu Oriental Media Group Co., Ltd., etc.

The grand ceremony brings together film and television talents from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

This is only an official statement, but in fact, the first session held in 2010 brought together many actors from the Shanghai circle, and the meaning was obvious.

It’s just that the Shanghai circle has little cohesion and no core figures.

Except for some people who no longer appear in public, the first ones in line are Hai Qing, Xu Zheng, Ma Yili, Lu Yi, and then Hu Jian and his like.
The reason for inviting him over this time was simply because we had collaborated with him many times and wanted to help him stand up.

I heard that many people from the port area come to visit the pier.

As for whether he himself will be labeled as a member of the Shanghai Circle, that is impossible.

"Dong dong dong."

The car door was knocked loudly.

"Uncle, I'm coming!"

PS: There is a small mistake in the previous chapter. "Insidious" is very popular in North Korea, so it is not uncommon to hear about it. The ratings of red films there seem to be good.

(End of this chapter)