China Entertainment: Starting from 07 Kuainan

Chapter 311 Daily and first round financing ownership

"The 2009 Yanjing Pop Music Ceremony was held last night at the Olympic Sports Center, and Starlight Records became the biggest winner! 》

"Fairy Tale Town helps new singer Mina win the most popular new female artist of the year"

"A new force in the music scene, Wang Sulong defeated a group of super girls, fast boys and Good Voice students, and won the best new creative artist of the year"

"Xu Song won the best singer-songwriter of the year, Xu's Chinese style swept the Chinese music scene"

"Living up to expectations, the most popular male newcomer of the year - Zhao Lei"

"Lu Yuan was absent from the 17th China Song Chart, and the producer accepted the four annual awards for Best Male Singer, Best Lyricist, Best Composer, and Best Arranger"

"One Quarter: Twenty-eight hits of the year on the Chinese Song Chart, all Starlight Records singers were shortlisted, occupying seven seats!" 》

(Annual golden song, one person can only have one song)
  "Call Me Maybe" continues to become a global hit, winning the top spot on music charts in [-] countries, and has topped the Billboard singles chart for [-] consecutive years! Lu Yuan: The highest consecutive championship record, here I come! 》

"Xiu Chun Knife Grand Premiere Press Conference, Lu Yuan Still Absent from Promotion"

"Avatar" has won the North American box office for seven consecutive years, with a global box office exceeding 20 billion US dollars and a mainland box office exceeding [-] million US dollars. It is the first movie in Chinese film history to have a box office exceeding [-] million US dollars! 》

"Source Code is drawn, the final box office in the mainland is 5.2 million, losing to Avatar, the number one in film history has changed hands!" 》

"30 days! The shortest film in history! 》

"The Return of the King", after "Titanic", Cameron once again topped the domestic film history! 》

The Good Doctor crew.

It's February, and the filming process is already over halfway. After all, The Good Doctor only has 20 episodes in total, compared to those domestic dramas that often have 40-50 episodes.

A good doctor can be said to be short and sweet.

The floor is full of useful information.

Most of the drama series produced by Star Media are less than thirty episodes, and few are long-form ones that exceed forty episodes.

The original version of "Snow Leopard" has 40 episodes, and the Star Media version has only 36 episodes in total.

The original version of "Before Dawn" had 34 episodes, but it was shortened to 32 episodes.

The original version of "Shanshan Is Coming" has 34 episodes, and the Xingchen Media version has [-] episodes.

"Why Shengxiao is Silent" originally had 32 episodes, but now there are only [-] episodes.

"The Good Doctor" has 20 episodes in the Korean version (each episode is 60 minutes), and the US version has 16 episodes in the first season. Currently, only 20 episodes are filmed, and each episode is 45 minutes.

The film and television dramas produced by Star Media are not waterlogged, and they are also a golden brand in the TV station circle.

The purchase price of TV series is calculated based on the number of episodes. The producers are eager to pour more water into it. The more episodes, the higher the price.

of course.

At this time, the film and television industry still has a relatively low bottom line for water injection, and there are very few "big productions" that frequently exceed 50 episodes.

But a company like Xingchen Media, which barely injects water, is definitely a breath of fresh air.

Therefore, even if the purchase price of a single episode is higher, the TV station is still willing to purchase the series produced by Star Media.

For a drama like "The Good Doctor", CCTV's purchase price is 200 million per episode.

First round broadcast!

This price seems high, but the total purchase price of the entire series is only 4000 million, which is lower than the purchase price of the entire series "The Leader" in 08.

That is CCTV.

If it were another TV station, Lu Yuan would not have 'sold' the good doctor at a low price.

200 million for a single episode sounds bluffing, but in reality it doesn’t make much money.

Compared with other TV series, "The Good Doctor" has a high investment in special effects. Each episode has 3D modeling to decompose special effects.

The special effects are produced by Xingyue Pictures. Although it is a holding company of Xingchen Media, the fees have to be based on market prices.

The investment in special effects of "The Good Doctor" is about 1000 million, and a single episode costs 2800 yuan, which averages about [-] yuan per second.

Including actors' remuneration, props, filming, locations, post-production and other costs, the production cost of a single episode of "The Good Doctor" is as high as 160 million.

If this number were made public, others might not believe it.

A workplace drama about doctors, [-] million per episode?

Are you kidding? Is your prop made of gold or silver?
  The reason why the special effects and post-production budget of "The Good Doctor" is so high is mainly to support Xingyue Pictures.

In other words, Lu Yuan is taking this opportunity to promote Xingyue Pictures.

Nowadays, the domestic production environment is very strange. Those producers either save money when they can, and do not use special effects as much as possible.

Even if you want to use it, the cheaper the better.

The other extreme is to compete with the high-cost special effects of large-scale productions.

As a result, Xingyue Pictures is in an embarrassing situation. With those medium and low-cost productions, it is difficult to even support itself, let alone grow.

The remaining big productions looked down upon it. Even if they got some orders, they were scraps that others didn't want.

Therefore, Lu Yuan could only act selfishly and donate as much blood to Xingyue Pictures as possible.

The project of "Now You See Me" is also related to Xingyue Pictures. Like "Source Code", this movie is to support Xingyue Pictures.

At the same time, "The Thieves" is also a planned series of a science fiction trilogy.

The filming cost of "Source Code" was 4000 million, and this time the cost of filming "The Thieves" was increased to 6500 million.

Yes.

The cost has increased again.

As soon as the "Magic Thieves" project was established, investors immediately came in droves waving their banknotes.

Universal Pictures opened its mouth and asked for half of the share.

"Source Code" gave Universal Pictures a taste of the sweetness. The film was also the second highest-grossing film released by Universal last year.

The first is "Fast and Furious 4".

At the end of last month, America's media giant Comcast reached an agreement with General Electric to acquire 51% of NBC Universal.

The price is US$137.5 billion.

Although General Electric and Comcast have only reached a preliminary agreement and the transaction has not yet been completed, it is undoubtedly a booster for NBCUniversal.

My new boss has a lot of money and people.

However, this trick didn't work well for Lu Yuan. Without "Source Code", Lu Yuan might have to make a few more concessions.

But with the success of "Source Code", he has no shortage of collaborators.

There is more than just Universal Pictures in Hollywood.

In the end, after several rounds of negotiations, Universal Pictures' share dropped to 28.7%. Although it failed to meet expectations, it could still make a profit in terms of overseas distribution.

After appeasing Universal, Lu Yuan only had to face a few domestic companies.

Among them, China Film Group is the most talkative. Compared with box office, China Film Group pays more attention to things other than movies such as performance and influence.

The remaining investors are Wangda, Enlight Media, and Chinese Cultural Investment Management Co., Ltd.

The proportions of the parties are, in order, China Film 8.8%, Chinese Culture 8%, Wangda 6.5%, and Enlight Media 5%.

Star Media: 43%.

The introduction of Chinese culture was mainly due to the fact that in October last year, SMG completed the reform of separating radio and television production and broadcasting.

After that, Li Gang retired from his position as president of SMG and went to the Chinese Cultural Industry Fund.

Strictly speaking, Li Gang still has not left the SMG system.

Because Dongfang Huijin Culture, the initiator of CMC Capital (Chinese Cultural Industry Fund), the major shareholder behind the scenes is SMG.

In addition to SMG, the shareholders behind Chinese Culture include national teams such as Modu Press Group, Volkswagen Group Equity Investment Company, and China Development Bank Financial.

This time, Chinese Culture’s investment in “Now You See Me” is just a small test of the waters, paving the way for its subsequent investment in Star Media.

Chinese Culture and China Film were both the first round of financing targets of Star Media.

The other two investors are Tengxun Industry Win-Win Fund and Wangda.

There is a mountain eagle in the north, Uncle Li in the south, Wanda on the physical line, and rogue Vine News on the line. The four swords combined are enough to stop those flies and dogs.

Want to reach out?
  Let’s first ask the group of gods behind them.

(End of this chapter)