Chinese Entertainment's Shining Star

If you make a statistics, you will find that 100% of all the prime time of Pearl Channel's programs and TV series in the past ten years has been occupied by Starry programs.

In recent years, Pearl Channel's self-produced entertainment variety shows have only occupied 20% of the broadcast time, and the rest are all star programs.

The same goes for TV dramas. Huayi is also a close partner of Pearl Channel. More than half of the TV series it produces are first broadcast on Pearl Channel.

The Pearl Channel accepts all types of TV series produced by Huayi. As a result, Huayi’s TV series account for nearly 60% of the TV series produced by Pearl Channel throughout the year.

Fanxing's variety shows and Huayi's TV series have created a record for Pearl Channel to have the highest ratings in ten years, beating the previous entertainment hegemon, Xiangnan Channel.

But similarly, Pearl TV's self-control ability is also declining.

This is an inevitable result, just like when a couple gets along, if one is diligent, the other is destined to gradually become lazy instead of becoming diligent.

Pearl Channel has cooperated with Fanxing and Huayi over the years, and its revenue has easily ranked among the top three of all Chinese TV stations every year. Its influence has been more than ten times greater than before the cooperation.

For the chiefs of the station, this is a political achievement within reach. In recent years, the promotion speed of Mingzhu Station is one of the fastest among all TV stations in China, just because of its good performance.

Based on this alone, even if everyone on the Pearl Stage knew that they were too dependent on Huayi and Fanxing, they would not be willing to cut off Fanxing and Huayi.

And what if they cut it off? Variety shows and TV series produced by Fanxing and Huayi have never been short of partners. Nie Wei has always chosen Pearl TV as a partner over the years. This is not the only partner, but because he has always The accumulated tacit understanding is of course related to Pearl TV's deep wealth. Basically, every time a price is raised, Pearl TV gives the highest price in the industry.

Moreover, Pearl TV has a very good reputation. It has never defaulted on any balance payment and settled on time every quarter.

This is also the basis for happy cooperation between both parties.

The news that the band's new variety show will be broadcast on the Pearl Channel spread quickly, and the happiest people are naturally those bands who are expected to participate in the show.

Fanxing Video originally ranked first in online video share, and with the simultaneous broadcast by the top three Pearl TV stations in the country, this is definitely a treatment that can only be obtained by the top variety show resources in the industry.

As a result, the number of registered bands, which was already flat, has reached a small peak again. Many bands that were originally not prepared to "come out" finally decided to put down their pretensions and participate in this variety show.

For this reason, Fanxing had no choice but to send hundreds of employees to various places to review the band's qualifications. Especially the more unknown the bands, the more serious Fanxing's review was.

On the one hand, because the other party is unknown, there is not much information to learn about it. Just relying on the little information on the application report written by yourself and a band's original music disk can't explain much at all.

Fanxing also has very strict standards for reviewing these bands. Not only does their music need to be good enough, but their personal qualities must also be positive. The mistakes made by the hip-hop show last year must be eliminated by this show.

On the other hand, it is also responsible for these bands.

If we only look at the paper strength, then Fanxing can just choose those well-known domestic bands. Why bother to spend so much effort and have thousands of employees across the country to review the band's qualifications.

Just because I don’t want to have any regrets, I respect the strength and talent of these unknown bands. You must know that these reviewers have the right to recommend. If they exercise this circle, the company will also take it seriously and further evaluate the band’s strength. , to determine whether the band can be selected.

The name of the program was quickly decided, and it was called "Spring of the Band".

First of all, the preparation, production and broadcast of the program will take at least February or March of the coming year, and spring also means the recovery of all things, which is a metaphor for the band's resurrection in the Chinese music circle. This can also be regarded as a good sign for the program and many bands.

There is another very interesting thing on the Internet recently, that is, with the airing of the "Infinite Challenge" music festival, many singers of the band who seemed to have been separated from each other have reposted the official WeChat account of Infinite Challenge.

Most of the words were praise for the performances of Cheng Kun and Nie Wei.

On the one hand, I really admire Nie Wei's ability, and on the other hand, I do my best to promote the show out of gratitude. After all, the new show produced by Nie Wei is good news for all bands, no matter what. Chosen or not, as long as the program can survive, all the bands in China will benefit from it.

This is the same as Hip-Hop in the previous two years. When the show was popular, not only the hip-hop singers participating in the show, but actually the influence of the entire hip-hop circle was increasing.

Therefore, if the show becomes popular, the entire band circle will benefit. The participating bands will eat meat, and other bands will also be able to eat porridge and soup.

After the Stars Music Festival, Nie Wei returned to Kyoto and began to retreat.

Mainly for the movie script. When inspiration comes, nothing can stop it. Nie Wei can sit in front of the computer all day long, and the progress of the script is also advancing at a rapid pace. It only took a week to complete the entire script. The setting, outline, and first draft of the dialogue situation are complete.

Nie Wei even drew some of the storyboards.

When Nie Wei took the script to Huayi, everyone was immediately alarmed.

"Has Mr. Nie written a new script again?"

"What's the subject matter? Is it science fiction?"

"I don't know, but I'm looking forward to it."

"But doesn't Mr. Nie have to shoot Fantastic Beasts 2? Does he have enough time?"

All kinds of questions and curiosity filled the minds of all employees and executives of Huayi, but no one questioned the quality of Nie Wei's script.

This is the golden signboard that Nie Wei has accumulated little by little with his works in the past ten years. In the subconscious of many people, Nie Wei's works must be fine.

Of course, fame can sometimes bring huge benefits, but it is also a burden, because it is a pressure. The audience has expectations for your work, and will inevitably use higher standards to judge your work. But if it is not as expected by the audience, it will inevitably cause negative effects, or even more serious.

This circle is sometimes like this. When you are always successful, everything you do is right, but even if you fail once, there will be countless people who want to step on you and wish to step you into the abyss.

This is why Nie Wei has become more and more cautious in choosing movies to shoot in recent years, and even gave up his acting career to concentrate on directing, just for fear of making a wrong step.

And Nie Wei has also started to make retirement plans. As his advantages of rebirth become less and less, some things naturally need to be prepared early. Nie Wei's goal is very simple. When his global box office exceeds 10 billion US dollars, it will be the time for him to announce his retirement from the entertainment industry.

At that time, he can be a rich man with peace of mind, spend more time with his relatives, and live more of the days he wants.

Time passed by little by little, and soon it was mid-August. The heat of the Stars Music Festival had dissipated. Of course, this was only a temporary calm. The previous large-scale hot news had already deeply implanted the word "band" in people's hearts. Just waiting for the program to go online, it would surely awaken the enthusiasm of the public.

Nie Wei was not idle during this period. The new script was unanimously affirmed by Huayi, but there were some differences in the choice of director.

Nie Wei was not going to shoot the film himself, and at most agreed to be a nominal producer, but Wang Zhonglei felt that Nie Wei could try to accept it. After all, it was the script written by Nie Wei himself, so he would be most comfortable shooting it.

And in Wang Zhonglei's opinion, Nie Wei was actually somewhat out of touch with the domestic film market in recent years. From "The Martian" to "Inception", to "Interstellar" and "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" which has not yet been released, although Huayi was one of the producers of these films, Nie Wei actually mainly shot these works in Hollywood.

And in terms of film promotion and release, Nie Wei has also focused on Hollywood in recent years.

After all, Hollywood is the world's largest film market. Although China has become the world's second largest film market, the gap with Hollywood is still very large, which can be seen from the total box office of the whole year.

China has a population of 1.4 billion, while the total population of the United States is just over 300 million, but the overall box office of the Chinese film market is less than half of that of Hollywood.

"This movie is very suitable for the style of the mainland. I think you should make a movie for mainland movie fans." Wang Zhonglei advised Nie Wei earnestly at the meeting.

After reading the script, everyone agreed that this was not a movie suitable for screening in Hollywood, but it would have a huge market in Asia.

After all, compared to Westerners, Orientals are more delicate in understanding emotions and can better understand the emotions that this movie wants to express.

"I'll think about it, no hurry." Nie Wei did not completely reject it in the end. Wang Zhonglei's persuasion made him hesitate.

Wang Zhonglei was not in a hurry to persuade. Seeing Nie Wei's hesitation, he felt that this thing could be done, and he was not in a hurry. After all, Nie Wei has many tasks now. Not only does he have to shoot the second part of "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them", but there is also a "Three-Body" waiting for him to adapt and shoot.

So even if Nie Wei agrees, this movie may have to wait until a year later before Nie Wei has free time to shoot it. This is based on Nie Wei giving up his long vacation, otherwise it will be delayed even longer.

But good food is not afraid of being late. Wang Zhonglei believes that if this movie is from Nie Wei's hands, the box office will definitely not be less than 1 billion, and this kind of literary movie does not require much investment. The company budget is even 30 or 40 million.

After all, if the male and female protagonists are new generation actors, as long as they are not those popular artists, basically there is not much pay. For the supporting roles, some old actors can also be very affordable. This is also the reason why the budget of this movie is very low. It is not that Huayi is reluctant to spend money, but there is really no place to spend money.

If Nie Wei is willing to take it, this movie will also become the cheapest movie Nie Wei has shot in recent years.

The news that Nie Wei wrote a new script cannot be concealed at all, and in fact Huayi has no intention of concealing it.

As soon as the news spread, many artists' agents immediately asked for information through their connections, hoping to get a chance for their own artists.

In recent years, Nie Wei has been a "golden eye" in the circle. There has been no failure in any of the ones he favors, not to mention that this is a script written by Nie Wei himself.

Therefore, many big names, even if they only know a simple outline and do not know the specific role at all, have expressed their willingness to act.

Of course, those actors who really pursue it can resist their desire even if they are very tempted, and decide whether to act or not when the real casting comes.

Two episodes of the song festival of "Infinite Challenge" have been aired.

The story about Nishimiya was also agreed by Nishimiya's family, and Alan simply narrated it in the program, because this is the basis of song creation, and it would be abrupt if it is not explained clearly.

At this time, netizens really understood why Nie Wei would create such a song.

The day of the third episode of the song festival finally came. In this episode, the audience finally didn't have to endure the noise to listen to the gun version video circulated at night, because the content of this episode was the performance process of several members with their own members at the Star Music Festival.

4K video, original sound broadcast, both the picture quality and the sound quality are a hundred times better than the gun version.

Although most people have heard it over and over again on the Internet, when Alan held the microphone tightly and Nie Wei beat the drums, the people sitting in front of the TV couldn't help but get goose bumps.

This song is really magical. It is not the kind of poisonous melody of saliva, but a power that can arouse human emotions.

Just as a well-known music critic said, listening to this song is like listening to a tragic story. It is only four and a half minutes long, but after listening to it, it seems as if you feel the girl's miserable years.

When the music stopped, I don't know how many people were sitting in front of the TV, already in tears.

Mingzhu TV was very busy that night. The program manager called the ratings statistics company almost every ten minutes to ask for real-time data.

And when Nie Wei's group finished the performance, the ratings statistics company took the initiative to call without the manager calling.

The program manager answered the call calmly, and only said "hmm" twice during the whole process.

When he put down the phone, he saw the worried faces of the whole group.

"Boss, it won't be bad, right? It shouldn't be. This scene is so exciting that my scalp is numb."

"Could it be because of the previous video that was circulated? Alas, we can't do anything. There are so many people on the scene, how can we control it?"

Everyone saw that the manager was not excited and ecstatic, and they all thought that the ratings were not as expected, and they were all disappointed.

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