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Wu Yuan has an impression of the three online dramas: "Forensic Qin Ming", "He's Coming, Please Close Your Eyes" and "Day and Night Chase".

"Day and Night" and "Forensic Qin Ming" are relatively outstanding. The former is an original web drama, which made the male lead Pan Yueming popular again and became the biggest dark horse in 2017.

As for "Forensic Qin Ming", this IP has many works with different starring actors. Although the ratings of these different versions of the web dramas vary, the reviews are all good. This is mainly because the original work has a great influence and can be regarded as the best novel in the field of forensic criminal investigation. As long as the adaptation is a little better, the performance of the web drama will not be bad.

Although the drama "He's Coming, Please Close Your Eyes" is not as popular as the previous two dramas, it is the first work in China that was reversely exported from the Internet to a first-tier satellite TV station.

The original version had a pretty good cast, with Huo Jianhua paired with Ma Sichun. Huo Jianhua played a psychology expert with an extremely high IQ in the drama, and was loved by many fans of the original novel.

Ma Sichun was at the peak of her beauty in this drama and left a good performance.

This web drama was initiated and produced by Sohu, and the film and television company that undertook the production was Noon Sunshine. It can be said that Sohu was the one lagging behind.

Even so, the drama's online broadcast volume eventually exceeded 200 million, winning recognition from many industry insiders and love from the audience.

If Guangying Kuaibo were to do it instead, given its user base and influence far exceeding Sohu, it might be able to achieve better results.

Wu Yuan was surprised and extremely satisfied that Guangying Kuaibo could target these three dramas. This showed that even without his "guidance", Guangying Kuaibo had capable people.

"Using these three dramas as the focus, we will create a light and shadow fast broadcast web drama - Misty Theater?" Looking at the plan in his hand, Wu Yuan nodded in agreement and said, "It's a good idea."

"We can do this Fog Theater, and we have to do it on a grand scale!"

"The domestic film and television industry is indeed lacking in criminal investigation and suspense-type film and television works."

"After the wave of TV dramas like "Serious Crime Unit 6", the General Administration has tightened the review standards for criminal investigation dramas. There have been no good criminal investigation dramas for many years, let alone suspense and horror dramas."

"There is indeed a great need for dramas of this type in the market now, and this type of drama can be said to appeal to all ages and genders. The market is much larger than idol dramas, and at the same time, it can avoid competition with satellite TV stations."

"This is a good idea. Let's do it. I support this plan."

Wu Yuan gave Chen Dewei absolute affirmation and even asked which expert came up with this plan.

After asking, I found out that he was the head of the production department of Guangying Kuaibo. He came up with this idea after watching many excellent criminal investigation and suspense dramas in Japan, South Korea and the United States.

To be precise, I had this idea after watching the classic American forensic drama "Bones".

As a latecomer, China's film and television industry could actually copy the answers directly, but many domestic producers are too disdainful or unwilling to copy the answers.

The reasons are complicated. One of the biggest factors is that since idol dramas have already been a successful path, domestic film and television companies are unwilling to explore new paths.

In comparison, Guangying Kuaibo, as a company based in Asia with a broader vision, is more willing to take risks.

After all, the Japanese drama "Unnatural" produced by the company was very successful in Japan, which has proved that similar TV dramas have a large market in Asia, especially in China. "Unnatural" has been successfully exported and sold domestically, and the total number of views on the Guangying Kuaibo China site has exceeded 2 million!

"The Misty Theater thing is settled, and we will do a good job of publicity when the time comes." Wu Yuan said with the final word. So far, his mission in the company has been basically completed. The main direction of Guangying Kuaibo's efforts next is to conduct the first round of financing, get some hot money and continue to invest in the development of the company.

Expanding servers, producing self-made TV series and variety shows all cost a lot of money. Even if there is $18 billion, it will probably be spent within a year or two.

In the foreseeable future, Guangying Kuaibo will have to carry out the second and third rounds of financing, then go public to raise some money, and finally spread the costs among the majority of shareholders.

After giving Chen Dewei some final instructions and giving him an encouraging look, Wu Yuan left the company.

In fact, he has another company of his on the floor above Guangying Kuaibo, and that is Guangying Times Cinema Chain.

However, unlike the turbulent Guangying Kuaibo, Guangying Times' cinema chain has developed very smoothly. The executives poached from North American cinemas have not been dazzled by the bear market in the domestic film market. They have expanded madly and recklessly, and have always been in a steady pace of expansion.

Currently, Guangying Times Cinema Chain owns ten cinemas and nearly 90 theaters in China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, covering almost % of prefecture-level cities.

In non-China regions, mainly Malaysia and Singapore, Guangying Times Cinema Chain also owns more than a dozen cinemas.

After the scale of the cinema chain reached this level, the company has shifted from an era of expansion to an era of stable development, with only a few new cinemas built each year.

No longer having to invest most of the cinema's annual profits into snowball expansion, the Light and Shadow Times Cinema Chain can now bring Wu Yuan more than 1 billion yuan in net income every year.

Most of this net income was invested by Wu Yuan in upgrading the cinema.

That means building IMAX theaters.

This stuff is still expensive.

Currently, there is only one cinema chain in China - Wanda Cinema Line - that has an IMAX theater in every theater under its umbrella.

For other cinema chains such as Dadi and Star Cinema, only 30% of their theaters have IMAX theaters. Although the proportion at Guangying Times is a little higher, it is only 50%, and they can only have one IMAX theater in each theater.

Such a number certainly did not satisfy Wu Yuan. After the cinema stopped expanding, he asked the theater chain to increase the number of IMAX theaters.

3D IMAX movies will be the trend in the next five years and will be the main creator of box office revenue for commercial films. Whoever controls more IMAX theaters will naturally make more money.

And to put it simply, Wu Yuan's "Ready Player One" can only be viewed best in a 3D IMAX theater. The charm of this science fiction movie cannot be fully felt in an ordinary 3D theater.

Even if it is just for the sake of getting higher box office for his new movie and providing better viewing experience for fans, he also hopes that there will be more IMAX theaters in China.

And this is precisely the catalyst of the industrial chain. In order to cooperate with the release of a movie, the upstream and downstream are upgrading and developing!

With this harmonious development, Wu Yuan can now devote himself to the post-production of the two films at hand. (End of this chapter)