During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 515: Taste for the baby, exaggerated benefits

As we enter late January, the domestic film market has reached another important moment.

Following Wei Jin, Wu Ershan and Xu Ke, another billion-dollar director is born!

"Produced by Shanhe Media, the Lunar New Year comedy "Lost in Thailand" has officially exceeded 24 billion in box office after 10 days of release."

"Another domestic movie with a box office of 10 billion yuan has officially been born!"

"Lost in Thailand's single-day box office has dropped to 1500 million. With more than a week left before it's released, it's expected to earn another 1 million."

The media was flooded with reports all about Lost in Thailand and Xu Zheng.

The Shanghai Theatre Academy was even more delighted, as they finally had a director who could do what he wanted, even though he graduated from the acting department.

Xu Zheng’s resume was immediately pinned to the top of the school’s official website.

"Director Xu Zheng is an outstanding graduate of the 94 acting department of our school. His representative works include "Splendid Pig Bajie", "Love Call Transfer", "Nightclub", and "Lost on Journey."

The huge sales of "Lost in Thailand" made Han Sanping regretful.

At first, he was too embarrassed to ask for it because the investment share was too small. Thinking about it now, Han Sanping wanted to slap himself twice. He is already old, how can he have the face to do that?

Isn't it good to learn from Fiber Optic Wang? If this drama can get 20% or 30% of the market share, what a huge profit it would be.

“Oh, what a pity.”

After sighing, Lao Han quickly calmed down and looked up at his secretary.

"How are the plans for the celebration party for Gravity going?"

"Director Han, all the major companies in the industry have sent out invitations, and the companies that received them have all said that their top executives will attend."

"Well, that's good. What did Lao Ren say?"

"Well, Director Ren said that the group has a lot of affairs to deal with and it's almost the end of the year, so he will arrange for Vice Director Jiang to come over."

"Haha, this old Ren, he's already the chairman of the board, but he's busy all day. Forget it, the General Administration has a meeting later anyway, we'll have a chance to meet again."

"0.0"

The secretary was too embarrassed to expose Han Sanping, "Do you want to meet? Don't you just want to show off?"
Compared to Han Sanping's missed investment opportunity for "Lost in Thailand", other production companies in the industry were more heartbroken.

Everyone works very hard to make a blockbuster, but at the end of the year no one knows whether they will make a profit or a loss.

Shanhe Media just casually made a low-budget movie and made hundreds of millions of dollars. Who the hell can you complain to?

The one who felt the most emotional was Huayi, which had suffered losses from several consecutive dramas this year, which was a serious blow to its vitality.

Although "Chinese Zodiac" achieved a box office of 8.33 million yuan, compared with the 3 million yuan production and promotion costs, even if product placement and overseas copyrights are taken into account, it is only a small profit.

More importantly, it is reflected in the support of stock prices.

"Zhong Lei, do you think this is Xu Zheng's skill or Wei Jin's script?"

"Brother, I think it's probably both. If he doesn't have the skills, Wei Jin probably wouldn't give him the script."

At this point, Wang Zhonglei realized what his brother meant, "Brother, what do you want?"

"Well, I heard that Xu Zheng accepted the invitation to the annual meeting of Xiao Ma, Ali, and LeTV. This person seems to be very ambitious and will not be content to be inferior to Wei Jin. If he is really capable, why can't we get involved?"

Wang Zhongjun sat in the boss chair with his eyes slightly narrowed. The bond between Huayi and Feng Dapao was too deep, which was not a good thing.

"Well, how about I make contact first?"

"Well, why don't you invite him to the club to talk? Doesn't he like to have fun? It would be best if he can sign with the company. Even if not, we have to reach a cooperation. There will always be a time when he can be useful."

Wang Zhonglei thought of the previous news and smiled: "Brother, don't worry, I will arrange it."

Wei Jin had to admit that some people were born to be in the entertainment industry.

When filming Lost in Thailand, Xu Zheng took the initiative to say that he was a new director and just wanted a chance to practice. He did not ask for director's salary and only accepted actor's salary.

But now that the movie is a big hit at the box office, Wei Jin doesn't want to be accused of being stingy, so he specially arranges for Chen Zhiming to sign a supplementary contract, giving him a director's salary of 2 million according to Guo Fan's director standards. Unexpectedly, Xu Guangtou still doesn't want it.

"Xu Zheng argued with me for a long time, saying that we should follow the original contract. He even tried to refuse and make concessions, and finally I signed after much persuasion."

Chen Zhiming couldn't help but make a joke on the phone.

"Haha, Lao Chen, how do you know that he doesn't have other ideas? Besides, Xu Zheng is a smart guy. Now that he has successfully transformed himself, he will make up for the lost money from this movie in other places."

"Yes, that's the truth. He has been asking me in a roundabout way these past two days whether there is a next film."

Wei Jin nodded, this was within his expectations.

"Then how did you reply?"

"Of course I don't know. Maybe he will contact you."

"Haha, OK, I'll wait for him."

After chatting with Chen Zhiming about some work content, Wei Jin hung up the phone, turned back to the room, and continued to watch "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow" with his arms around Da Meiyuan.

Of course, I watched it on Tudou.

This drama has a total of 30 episodes, 10 episodes a week. It has been three weeks since it started airing on New Year's Day and is about to come to the finale.

As the plot progressed, the ratings continued to rise, and the peak ratings were close to breaking the 3 mark.

In today's Internet age, this is a brilliant achievement.

However, the online reviews are quite average, with the Impression Online rating barely maintaining at 7 points, which is much worse than other popular works of Shanhe Media.

The reason why such results can be achieved is that Tang Ren is lucky.

Perhaps because Shanhe Media’s “Eastern Palace” performed extremely well last year, most TV stations have chosen to use historical costume dramas as this year’s opening drama.

For example, the "Legend of Chu and Han" which was acquired by Anhui TV station at a huge cost and directed by Gao Xixi and starred by Chen Daoming, Peter Ho and Qin Lan.

For example, the costume drama "Mountain Love - Beauty Without Tears" written by Yu Zheng and starring Liu Kaiwei, Yuan Shanshan, Cai Shaofen and others was a hit on Jiangsu TV.

For example, "The Romance of Sui and Tang Dynasties" starring Yan Kuan, Fu Dalong, Zhang Han, Jiang Wu, Du Chun and others is currently being broadcast on four channels: Shanghai Satellite TV, Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV, Dongshan Satellite TV, and Shenzhen Satellite TV.

The broadcast of various costume dramas at the same time has caused some aesthetic fatigue among the audience.

Under such circumstances, the melodramatic drama about a domineering president, "A Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow", stood out, which was beyond Wei Jin's expectations.

"Xiao Jin, this girl in the company has really good acting skills."

Da Meiyuan stroked her increasingly bulging belly with one hand and commented on Gao Ye's performance.

"Well, she's pretty good."

Wei Jin followed with a compliment. He indeed had a good impression of Jing Tian's classmate and junior from Beijing Film Academy.

He has good acting skills, is a down-to-earth person, and doesn't cause any trouble, which makes him very worry-free.

In the drama "Thousand Mountains and Twilight Snow", Gao Ye plays the tragic female lead who is abused and tortured by the male protagonist in various ways, and she has to accept it and not resist because the two families have a feud.

The heroine Tong Xue's father sold out company secrets, causing the Mo family's business to fall into crisis, and Mo Shaoqian's father died of a heart attack. On the one hand, Tong Xue wanted to atone for her sins, but on the other hand, she also wanted to protect her family.

In addition, she has a bit of Stockholm syndrome and is won over by the crazy male protagonist Mo Shaoqian.

Objectively speaking, this kind of role is not easy to play, but Gao Ye grasped it very well and received a lot of praise online.

According to Zhang Xu's report, although this drama has not made Gao Ye an overnight sensation, her reputation in the industry has basically been established. She has received a lot of commercial endorsements recently. Once "New Police Story 2013" is completed, related announcements will be arranged.

As long as there are resources in the future, it will be no problem to promote Gao to become a talented young actress.

It is worth mentioning that as a transformation drama specially created by Tangren for Hu Ge, its purpose has been basically achieved.

In this play, Hu Ge plays Mo Shaoqian, a domineering president with a fickle personality and moody expressions.

Apart from being handsome and rich, he often appears to be a neurotic pervert, and often uses violence against the heroine.

He would often push the heroine down on the bed, sofa, table or any other place where she could be pressed down, and strangle her neck and forcefully kiss her.

In fact, it is not easy to play this kind of violent maniac, especially to act charmingly and make the audience not hate him. It is really not easy.

But Hu Ge's performance of the aura and control of a domineering president received a lot of praise online, and his transformation was basically successful.

During this period, Hu Ge sent many messages to Wei Jin to express his gratitude, because he knew very well that this role was not necessary for him, and this play was not necessary for Tang Ren.

Wei Jin certainly did not take credit for this, after all, Miss Cai had paid a full price in the beginning.

In addition, although Shanhe Media only had half of the share of this drama, it still made a lot of money.

According to data from the company, the prices for the second and third rounds of the drama have been negotiated, totaling 160 million per episode.

If we include the copyright for online broadcasting, the revenue will be at least over 50 million.

The key company didn't do much, just provided copyright and two producers. It was really too easy.

In view of this, Wei Jin has instructed Jiang Xueman to reasonably release some copyrights that are rated below A within the company to companies in the industry or its star studios.

This may speed up the incubation of star studios.

More than an hour later, the TV series came to an end, still with the reunion ending in the original novel.

Although it is cliché, it is indeed Fei Wo Cun Si's forte, and the audience also enjoys this kind of routine drama.

However, Da Meiyuan's eyes were filled with layers of mist.

I wasn't moved, but I was moved by Wei Jin's hand. It hadn't been quiet for more than half an hour. How could a sister in her thirties withstand that?

Da Meiyu even wanted to give herself a thumbs up for being able to hold back for so long, but she didn't want to suppress herself anymore and bit her red lips lightly to send a signal.

"Xiao Jin, I want~~~"

Looking at Da Meiyuan, who had grown slightly taller but was still incredibly beautiful, a teasing look appeared on Wei Jin's lips.

"Sister Yuanyuan, where is your sincerity?"

"Little rascal~~~"

Giving Wei Jin a charming look, Da Meiyu reached out and pushed his head down slightly.

"Try it for the baby."

"woooooo"

The celebration party for "Gravity" is here.

Although it was the end of the year and the absolute core Wei Jin did not attend, the scene was still very lively.

Because the movie has not yet been released, Han Sanping did not prepare a digital ice sculpture this time, but instead used the letter "X".

In Lao Han's words, this represents infinite possibilities.

The guests at the scene scoffed at this. After all, the world has entered a routine operation and the box office can't increase much more.

But despite this, when Han Sanping shared the expected revenue of "Gravity" on stage, many companies that came to the scene could not hide their envy.

Advertising revenue was 1.1 million, domestic share exceeded 7.6 million, and overseas share was close to 3 million US dollars.

Although China Film, Wanda, and Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation only participated in the internal distribution within China, this part of the income was close to 10 billion.

Assuming that China Film’s investment of 9000 million yuan accounts for 20%, the net profit is as high as 1.1 million yuan. Who wouldn’t be jealous?

Didn’t you see Ye Ning and Han Sanping, their faces were almost broken from laughing?

Of course, the one that earns the most is Shanhe Media.

Even after deducting the high costs of overseas distribution and publicity, the overall revenue is at least over 3 million US dollars, which can only be described as exaggerated.

During the cocktail party, Zeng Li became the most beautiful person in the whole place.

You know, with the global success of "Gravity", Zeng Li's international fame is currently at its peak.

Many companies that want to expand their projects overseas hope to get her on board.

But these companies are destined to return empty-handed. After all, Zeng Li has become so indifferent that she is too lazy to even act in the projects prepared by Wei Jin.

Wei Jin didn't expect that he would see the news about Xu Guangtou before he even received his call.

While participating in an interview variety show, Xu Zheng was asked by the host about the differences between northern and southern comedies, and talked about the representatives of northern and southern comedies, and then commented on them one by one.

As the founder of the so-called Shanghai-style clean talk, Zhou Bobo is also among the commentators.

From the perspective of a professional actor, Xu Zheng objectively commented on Zhou Bobo's acting skills, saying tactfully:

"I think Zhou Bobo should not be a host. He needs to improve his acting skills. His technique is a bit sloppy."

Just like that, Zhou Bobo seemed to explode, and chased Xu Zheng on the Internet to curse him, saying, "He pretends to be a pig very well, but he is very embarrassing as a human being." He even did not let go of the other person's ancestors, and the curses were quite unpleasant.

Even netizens couldn't stand it and directly mocked it online, saying it was so uncivilized and impolite.

Unexpectedly, Zhou Bobo was not someone who was easy to deal with. He directly started a war online, insulting a group of people.

His combat effectiveness is even stronger than Feng Dapao, truly explosive.

After sighing, Wei Jin put away his phone and turned to walk towards the studio.

There are not many indoor scenes in "Nomadland", and the acting skills of several main actors are indeed very good. Even if there are occasional NGs, they generally do not exceed three or four.

More often than not, it can even be done in one or two takes, which makes the filming efficiency very high.

Wei Jin estimates that the indoor scenes will be completed in a week at most, and then the outdoor shooting will begin.

"We can ask Sister Li and Dudu to come over."

After muttering something, Wei Jin picked up the intercom and issued an order.

"action!"

(End of this chapter)