They are all too deep into the drama!

Chapter 609: Korean fame +10086...

In the TV version of "The Beauty Inside", the heroine has a special ability to change her appearance frequently. This setting is obviously not very scientific!

This kind of fantasy idol theme will definitely not be broadcast on satellite TV in two years!

However, this drama is not about ghosts and gods or feudal superstitions.

In addition, the standards nowadays are relatively relaxed. Time-travel dramas like "The Myth" can be broadcast on CCTV, and there are no major obstacles in their satellite broadcasts.

The show is exclusively broadcast by Jiangsu TV Station, and is also broadcast simultaneously on LeTV.

This model of TV station plus online broadcasting platform is still relatively rare nowadays.

The reason for such a bold attempt is mainly because LeTV offers so much!
In order to obtain the exclusive online broadcasting rights for the TV series "The Beauty Inside", LeTV directly offered a price of 15 million.

"The Beauty Inside" is a TV series that has already made back its investment before it was even aired thanks to product placement.

Just the fees from the first and second rounds of broadcasting that have already been sold, plus the money from LeTV and the introduction fees from the Sakura Country and the South Korean Country, have already brought in nearly 50 million.

After that, there were all sorts of things like DVD sales, tricycles, and Southeast Asian imports. Although the money wasn’t much, it added up to a considerable amount…

Although the copyright fees for TV dramas have increased nowadays, they are actually not too exaggerated.

It is quite shocking that they spent 15 million just to buy the online broadcasting rights of "The Beauty Inside".

When the news first broke out, it shocked many people, even many people in the circle were surprised.

It’s only been two months since the beginning of this year, but this TV series has already been dubbed “the highest-grossing TV series of the year.”

The reason why LeTV is willing to spend such a high price is that it is not a sucker.

In addition to the success of the idol dramas previously starred by Huo Mingjie, it is also due to LeTV's own reasons.

LeTV is also planning to go public this year, but compared with its fame in later generations, LeTV is actually not very prominent among the fiercely competitive online video platforms!
Judging from the website traffic data alone, it is not even in the top ten among its peers.

In order to plan its IPO, LeTV needs to increase the number of website visitors this year, so it naturally set its sights on "The Beauty Inside" starring Huo Mingjie...

As for why LeTV's traffic is so poor, why does it still have the courage to plan to go public?

The main reason is that LeTV’s financial statements are so beautiful!
In 06 and 07, LeTV's capital chain broke and it was on the verge of bankruptcy. Huo Mingjie happened to have a lot of money for investment, so he helped LeTV and got almost % of the shares.

In the next three years, LeTV's revenue doubled every year, and last year's revenue exceeded 100 million.

Regarding LeEco's financial report, Huo Mingjie can only say that Accountant Jia is indeed an accounting major...

If Huo Mingjie hadn't relied on his memory to know that this guy could trick LeTV into having a market value of tens of billions, he would never have invested in it!
And because of this broadcast mode, the TV series "The Beauty Inside" had the lowest ratings in its first broadcast ever among Huo Mingjie's many works, at only 2.75%!

With a viewership rating of over 3: when it first aired, "The Myth" has already been called the big drama of the year.

But the premiere score of 2.75% was already the lowest among Huo Mingjie's scores...

But as I said before, the performance of a TV series can no longer be judged solely by its ratings!

LeTV, which obtained the exclusive online broadcasting rights, saw the number of views of "The Beauty Inside" exceed 10 million on the day of its broadcast at an extremely fast speed.

The novel and interesting subject matter, the extremely good looks of the male and female protagonists, and the extremely high production quality have still aroused great discussion.

The most important thing is that this TV series was directed by Huo Mingjie himself!

For some fanatical fans, even if Huo Mingjie fell and then got up by himself, these people would still praise him for being so brave and awesome.

As for the works directed by Huo Mingjie himself, they can praise them even if it is a spoonful of feces, not to mention that the quality of the TV series "The Beauty Inside" is really good.

Nowadays, the industry still emphasizes "if you are good at singing, you can act; if you are good at acting, you can direct", so for a while, fans can be seen everywhere praising Huo Mingjie for his talent, ability to direct and act, and an all-round genius...

In fact, he is just directing an idol drama. According to the current judging standards, Huo Mingjie must have at least directed a successful movie to be praised so much.

The movie version of "The Beauty Inside" has not been released yet, so it's a bit early to hype it up like this.

But we can’t blame the fans for this. After all, people on the Internet were not optimistic about Huo Mingjie’s “cross-industry” before.

When the director of "Search" Han Yan was interviewed, he said that the film was basically all due to Huo Mingjie, and that Huo Mingjie's directing ability was excellent, so the public can look forward to the works directed by Huo Mingjie himself.

A considerable number of netizens did not believe it, and even mocked Han Yan, the new director, saying that he had lost all his dignity in order to flatter Huo Mingjie, the sponsor...

Naturally, the fans couldn't bear to see Huo Mingjie being looked down upon in such a way, but there was nothing they could do before this, so they could only hold their breath in their hearts.

The appearance of the TV series version at this time can be regarded as a source of pride for the fans. Naturally, they continued to promote Huo Mingjie on the Internet to slap the faces of those who had made such outrageous remarks in the past.

Putting aside the admiration of Huo Mingjie by these fanatical fans, the quality of "The Beauty Inside" itself has also been recognized by the audience.

Related entries have frequently become hot searches, and various discussion posts have frequently appeared on major online platforms.

Some people have begun to seriously study the cause of the male protagonist's "face blindness" from a medical perspective. Even the female protagonist's ability to change her appearance has been explained as a real "body transformation syndrome" in reality...
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While the TV series "The Beauty Inside" was being broadcast in mainland China and sparked heated discussions, Huo Mingjie had already set off for South Korea.

The previously agreed China-Baseball co-production "The Adventurers" is almost ready now, and Huo Mingjie needs to go and prepare to participate in the filming!
As soon as Huo Mingjie got off the plane, he saw Ms. Jin from SB Company already waiting there with her people.

As soon as she saw Huo Mingjie, she hurried forward to greet him, then personally drove Huo Mingjie to the arranged hotel and arranged a welcoming banquet in the evening.

Thinking of the "misunderstanding" that happened last time in the Sakura Country, Huo Mingjie estimated that this welcoming banquet would probably prepare two exciting programs for him, or some surprising "gifts".

Think about it, after all, it is their own territory, the quality should not be bad, and they should not use high-tech stuff to fool Huo Mingjie...

Unexpectedly, as soon as the welcoming banquet started, Ms. Jin led several high-level executives of SB Company of different heights and weights to find Huo Mingjie, and then said apologetically:
"Please forgive me, Mr. Huo, we didn't handle this matter well."

Huo Mingjie frowned when he heard this, and asked in a serious tone:

"What?" "We didn't get the best time to broadcast the two TV series you starred in. But please believe us, the company has indeed tried its best!" Ms. Jin said with her head down.

Hearing about this, Huo Mingjie couldn't help but feel relieved.

He thought it was the two movies "Search" and "Animal Management" that were released here that messed it up...

The SB company we are cooperating with this time is indeed more powerful than the company that Green Shade Media has cooperated with before!

The two idol dramas previously starred by Huo Mingjie, "My Sweetheart" and "Fall in Love with You", were introduced here but were shelved and not officially broadcast.

But this time after agreeing to cooperate with SB Company, the progress that was originally stuck finally accelerated!

On New Year's Day this year, "Fall in Love with You" was broadcast on SBS, the largest private TV station in South Korea and one of the three major TV stations.

Even though it was not the best time slot, the show still had a final viewership rating of 21.3%.

Due to his lack of understanding of South Korea, Huo Mingjie didn't even have any concrete idea of ​​the ratings results at first.

Only after he carefully asked people in the company did he understand some of the situation.

There are only three major TV stations in South Korea, which is fewer than in the Country of Osaka, so the ratings data is naturally a bit exaggerated.

Last year, the show ranked first in ratings in South Korea, with a viewership rate of 49.3%.

From this perspective, the ratings of "Fall in Love with You" are actually quite average, less than half of others.

But you should also know that although this broadcast is on one of the three major TV stations in South Korea, the time slot is not good!
Wednesday and Thursday, still in the morning time period...

For an idol drama that has been introduced two years ago, how can you expect it to be arranged in a good time slot?

But I heard that this kind of ratings has broken the record for the same time slot!
Huo Mingjie, who has been little-known in South Korea for several years, finally gained considerable popularity through this opportunity.

Then the subsequent show "Shan Shan Comes to Eat" was also broadcast at a very bad time, being scheduled directly until late at night.

But people in South Korea seem to prefer the theme of a domineering president falling in love with his little assistant.

The TV series had an even higher viewership rating, reaching 29%.

The results are not as good as those of South Korea’s own dramas, but if ranked according to last year’s ratings in South Korea, these two imported TV series would even be able to rank in the top ten!
Many people in South Korea are actually just stubborn and shameless, but their aesthetic taste is absolutely flawless!

Just because of Huo Mingjie's amazing looks and the popularity of these two idol dramas, a group of fans naturally emerged on the Internet.

It is also worth mentioning that the two dramas "Fall in Love with You" and "My Sunshine" actually shocked many people in South Korea.

Because of the propaganda about the north here, we are involved as well, resulting in the Korean people not having a clear and correct understanding of the mainland.

Just like some people in Taiwan think that people in the mainland cannot afford to eat tea eggs, many people in South Korea think that people in the mainland have never even seen a TV or eaten instant noodles...

The filming locations for these two TV series are both in Shanghai.

Even though it is not as prosperous and magical as it will be a decade later, as an economic center of the mainland, it may not be worse than Seoul today!

Looking at the bustling night scenes in TV dramas, many people in South Korea feel that there are big problems with their cognition.

Some people even said online that it was impossible, claiming that the two TV series were all made with special effects and were not real scenes at all, which actually won a lot of approval.

It was not until a Korean living in Shanghai came forward to prove that Shanghai was indeed so prosperous.

Many people on the Internet said something like "There is only one Magic City in the mainland, but we still have Busan and Incheon..." and other such unclear sour remarks, ending the topic...

This level of contention certainly cannot be considered cultural invasion, but it is undeniable that these two TV series alone have indeed played a promotional role!
Originally, Huo Mingjie and his nephew had even given up hope for these two TV series.

If it weren’t for the efforts of SB company, it might have been suppressed and not broadcast.

So when Huo Mingjie saw Ms. Jin and several senior executives coming over to apologize, he didn't care too much, but smiled and said:
"It doesn't matter. I am very grateful for your company's efforts. I am already very surprised to be able to achieve the current results!"

Seeing that Huo Mingjie really didn't care too much about this matter, Ms. Jin finally showed a slight smile on her face.

"By the way, I'm actually more concerned about the movie release." Huo Mingjie continued to ask.

Compared to the two TV series that had been introduced a long time ago but had yet to be broadcast, Huo Mingjie was more concerned about the release of two movies.

Upon hearing this, Ms. Jin also hurriedly said:

"Please don't worry about that. Our company has even deeper connections in the film industry. The introduction and release of the two films have already been finalized."

"The reason why it was postponed until now is because we wanted to use the fame of those two idol dramas to increase your fame and boost the box office of the movie."

South Korea has a strong sense of local identity. They only eat local beef, and the same is true for movies.

Foreign films, especially those from mainland China, basically don’t get much box office revenue.

In fact, this arrangement by SB Company is the most appropriate.

After the broadcast of these two idol dramas, Huo Mingjie at least gained some fans here.

When the movie is released, the box office revenue can be converted into 10 to 20 million RMB for Green Shade Media, and SB Company can also give an explanation to Huo Mingjie...

Upon hearing this, Huo Mingjie politely thanked Ms. Jin and the others.

The cooperation with them, at least until now, feels good.

And Huo Mingjie didn't take advantage of it for nothing, at least he really helped SB company introduce channels to Hollywood!
(End of this chapter)