Entertainment: From the Octagon to the big screen

Chapter 682 - Early preparations for variety shows

Dilraba Dilmurat Studio signed a preliminary letter of intent for cooperation with Tencent and iQiyi. Next week, the recording team will fly to Austin, the capital of Texas, and then travel by land to the destination, Anderson County.

As for the specific contact and coordination work, it will be handed over to Emmanuel. Di Lieba Studio will pay Emmanuel a salary of US$113,000 for this.

There is no discount here. After all, he is just Chen Yu's manager and only serves Chen Yu. If Di Lieba wants to seek help, she must go through the official procedure.

If you just ask some questions, Emanuel will definitely not charge any fees.

In fact, there are many benefits to keeping a clear distinction between public and private. At least everyone won't be bothered by human relationships, and there won't be messy and entangled human relationships. People can really unload their burdens when getting along with each other.

Emanuel has been staying at home recently, spending a week studying the preparations for this variety reality show. He thinks the show can be popular, but only in mainland China, Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan.

At most, the products can be sold to Southeast Asia, and the ambition to enter the Korean and Japanese markets is somewhat unreliable.

Although the entire show was filmed in the United States, the variety show guests are all popular Chinese artists and veteran actors, which will definitely not be welcomed by the Korean market.

Unless the production team invites one or two Korean idols, or new actors with some popularity in the Korean film and television industry, it is 100% impossible to enter the Korean market.

Or they can hire people based on recent market research. If this program can bring together Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, the Four Heavenly Kings, and Chen Yu, it can definitely dominate the Asian market.

But it is impossible for these people to gather together, so Emanuel feels that he should be down-to-earth after all and just take a casual look at the big picture in the business plan and don't take it seriously.

Moreover, Emanuel believes that the management of Tencent and iQiyi are not fools and can identify which content is false and empty to please the leaders.

Emanuel plans to rush from Houston to Austin at around seven o'clock tomorrow morning, while Chen Yu and Di Lieba will fly to Miami at around noon.

The couple's honeymoon trip has officially begun, but when it will end has not yet been determined.

It should be finished before mid-June. After all, Chen Yu will report to the crew of "The Mystery of Tide" by then, but it is not ruled out that Di Lieba will choose to act with her husband.

Since Yang Mi is also in the crew of "The Mystery of Storm Riders", it is very likely that Di Lieba went to Australia, the filming location, to have a small gathering with her good sisters.

As for whether Di Lieba and Chen Yu will eventually participate in this variety show, and in what form they will appear, the relevant contracts will be negotiated at the end of the preparation stage.

Guo Jun is responsible for all of Chen Yu's business contracts in Asia. She is drafting the contract details based on the opinions of Chen Yu and Emanuel.

At present, the bottom line of the variety show production team is a little vague. The director and director Chi Yuan, business planner Wang Ying, and operations manager Li Yang have differences on how to use Chen Yu.

Chi Yuan prefers Dilraba Dilmurat to be a regular on the show, while Chen Yu would only occasionally show up as a guest star or task issuer.

One is that although Chen Yu had a flexible schedule this year, the crews were scattered all over the country, which meant that he could not use the manor as a departure point and could not go home often.

The second is that Chen Yu’s presence at the show can easily add invisible pressure to the variety show guests.

Previously, he had caused a lot of headaches for the recording team in "Flowers and Youth Season 3" and "Running Man Season 1".

This guy's arrogant and domineering personality abroad has caused the program's highlights and explosive points to soar exponentially, but it also tests the skills of the post-production editors and the platform's public relations team's ability to cope with radio and television censorship.

Artist coordinator Chen Huanke plans to invite some veteran actors to join the show. Chi Yuan is worried that if Chen Yu becomes a permanent guest, there will be minor frictions with the veteran actors, which will gradually escalate and eventually explode. Director Wu Mengzhi, who created the ratings miracle of "Flowers and Boys Season 3" last year, once said that if Chen Yu participated in the second season, he believed that Xu Qing and others would never dare to quarrel abroad.

If you look back at the third season now, you will find that whenever Chen Yu showed his sharp fangs, the four sisters would subconsciously huddle together to pull Chen Yu back or directly send him away.

Even Song Zuer, the talkative princess of Tianjin who loves to make a lot of noise after getting familiar with everyone, knows to unite with the sisters to hold Chen Yu down.

To be honest, Chi Yuan and Chen Huanke didn't know whether the artists they planned to invite could work together like Guli Nazha, Song Zuer, Jiang Shuying, and Zhou Yangqing to suppress a certain gangster.

In addition, the production team and the director team are also worried that Chen Yu will not buy into the other resident guests' accounts, and will always do his own thing, causing conflicts to gradually accumulate and affect the program recording, and even cause it to collapse and disintegrate.

Therefore, director Chi Yuan and artist coordinator Chen Huanke did not want to include Chen Yu in the permanent list. In their eyes, the latter was like a fuel-air bomb that could explode at any time!
If he were to be ignited, the people and objects around him would probably all be reduced to ashes.

Even if Dilraba Dilmurat was present, director Chi Yuan was still worried. After all, when recording the special episode of "Running Man Season 1" last year, this sister did not stand up to stop her husband from going on strike and leaving.

However, business planner Wang Ying and operations manager Li Yang value the economic benefits that Chen Yu will bring after becoming a permanent guest.

To put it bluntly, Wang Ying and others only care about whether they can make money or not. The reputation and public opinion of the program after it is broadcast have no direct connection with the business side.

The operations department can accept being scolded by the audience, but they are afraid that there will be no ripples at all from beginning to end.

Anyway, the poor quality of the show is the director's responsibility, and the ambivalence, infighting and conflicts among the artists are also the director's fault.

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For business and operations, if they can get various sponsorships, they will complete 70% of their mission.

The domestic variety show and film and television production models are quite different from those in South Korea, Japan, Europe and the United States. The domestic chief directors and the business managers appointed by the platforms and investors usually do not get along well.

Similar checks and balances also exist overseas, but they are not as blatant as in China.

Of course, Chen Yu did not rashly make a judgment on whether it was good or bad, after all, the national conditions they faced were different.

Chen Yu himself and Emanuel have already instructed Guo Jun that he will never be a permanent guest. The reason is very simple: they don't have the time and it's too much trouble. It would be much more relaxing to spend time with his parents and wife.

Besides, Di Lieba is not interested in being a permanent guest.

She plans to travel around Europe and America with Chen Yu.

No matter where the crew is, the couple can rent an apartment or a villa with a yard nearby. Di Lieba lacks confidence in the real estate industry so she firmly disagrees to buy any property.

It turns out that this sister had always planned to buy a small detached villa in Paris or Switzerland, but now she has completely given up the idea and is looking into long-term rental.

But when it comes to the issue of her baby's future schooling, Di Lieba will definitely buy a luxury house without hesitation.

Di Lieba took care of all these things, and Chen Yu only needed to wait for the right time to sign the check.

The couple chatted and laughed as they boarded the flight to the Big Apple via Miami.

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