Depressive Screenwriter

March ended, and April arrived.

Rurouni Kenshin's box office finally settled at 3.042 billion, temporarily ranking as this year's movie box office champion.

After the completion of FZ, the popularity of the work has instead risen. The number of online broadcasts on Sakura.com is climbing every day. On Su Yan's official website and various shopping platforms in Xia, the sales of FZ merchandise are even more popular than during the TV series' broadcast.

Zhuang Yuxin's commercial performance price has soared, and her schedule is packed for several months to come.

For Zhuang Yuxin, since she has a mixed-race face, there are relatively few film and television dramas suitable for her. Su Yan doesn't have too many arrangements for her. Anyway, with the Fate series continuing to launch sequels, the role of Artoria is enough for her to reap the benefits for a dozen or twenty years.

Although she is now a contracted artist under Su Yan's company, Su Yan still divides the commercial performances and GG income she receives through the Artoria role image with her according to the higher proportion of contracted artists in the market.

Although it's not much compared to the money earned from the Fate series, it's already very satisfying for her, who was still a sophomore last year and has temporarily ranked among the top female stars this year.

Not everyone is unable to distinguish between the big and small kings and prepares to use their influence to manipulate their old employer after becoming famous.

Zhuang Yuxin is not stupid. Even if some capital really pays her contract termination fee at this time and digs her away, Artoria is a character created by Su Yan, and the copyright is with Su Yan. She and this character are combined to be Xia's popularity king Artoria. Without the image aura of the Saber King, who in Xia's film and television industry would know her?

So she has no objections to Su Yan's arrangements, and she actively cooperates with the company's arranged schedule. There is no brainless operation of giving Su Yan a wave of playing big after becoming famous.

At the same time, the filming of Your Name and From Me to You in the Tokyo area has also reached the later stages.

The filming progress of From Me to You is slightly slower. After all, this drama will have to be broadcast for several months, leaving Su Yan and the crew more than half a year.

But the progress of Your Name has to be accelerated.

With only three months until the release, there is still a series of post-production work to be processed.

Although FZ has ended, Su Yan has not had an easy week.

However, from Su Yan's perspective, hundreds of people up and down the company need to eat. Although the two works have not yet been completed, Su Yan has to think about the company's next work.

At Su Yan's current level, the works he basically produces must be works with considerable quality, and most of these works cannot be filmed and broadcasted at the same time like the previous low-cost dramas.

Post-production work is time-consuming and labor-intensive. For example, film and television special effects must be produced at least half a year in advance.

So although FZ has just ended, in order to capitalize on the heat and hype the popularity of Fate, after Su Yan released the trailer for FSN, Su Yan naturally did not hesitate and spent a lot of emotional value to exchange for the work of FSN. At the same time, Rurouni Kenshin's first movie was a great success at the box office in Xia, so Su Yan naturally exchanged for the second one. The script will be created within a month, and then the crew will be assembled.

For this kind of series, it is more reasonable to launch one per year. After filming several live-action movies in four or five years, the Kenshin IP will basically take shape.

Su Yan's company is now considered rich, and the game department is also starting to be established.

At that time, the original animation can be exchanged and made into a swordsmanship fighting JRPG game like Sekiro in the previous life according to the plot, or directly filmed into a series of TV series. With the length of the Kenshin original, it is estimated that the popularity of the work can be maintained for more than ten years.

Of course, Su Yan is also implementing the same operation in the Fate series.

Although Su Yan is preparing to gamify the Fate series, it will definitely not be made into a galgame. That thing has very average commercial value. Moreover, in Xia's game market, gal is really a niche. If it is really made into a game, it will be made into a large-scale stand-alone game or a high-quality mobile game.

Su Yan sat in front of the computer, his thoughts paused slightly.

Kenshin and Fate are the two major IP works that the company will mainly promote in the future.

However, it is impossible for Su Yan to rely on these two works to live off his past achievements. After exchanging for FSN and Kenshin Movie Part 2, there are still a lot of emotional values left in the system.

"Let's write the scripts for these two works first, and then draw a lottery to exchange for a work," Su Yan took a deep breath and gave up the idea of drawing a lottery now.

"Also, in the future, I will try to participate less in important roles in this kind of long series," Su Yan muttered in the office.

Although Xia's fans buy his account, like Kenshin, this work cannot be started without Su Yan at all.

As the boss of Dimensional Film and Television Company, Su Yan has to deal with a lot of company affairs every day, and also has to go to the crew to film according to the schedule. The original script, music, etc. have to be moved over in his spare time. Even Su Yan can't bear this workload.

"But it doesn't matter if I occasionally participate in medium and short dramas like From Me to You. Maintaining my personal popularity is equal to maintaining the popularity of the company and other works I produce. Completely retiring from being an actor would be a waste of the film and television drama fans I have accumulated over the years."

Su Yan let out a long breath and smiled bitterly.

In the entire Xia, Su Yan is the only capital tycoon who is so rich and successful who is still fighting diligently on the front line of the crew, and will probably have to continue in the future. Su Yan can be regarded as the first in the industry.

And

Su Yan looked at the several envelopes on his desk.

These are the envelopes sent by the front desk assistant this morning.

It is the nomination invitation sent by the organizing committee of Xia's largest film award event, the "Di Jing Film Festival".

Shen Liqian was nominated for Best Actress and Best New Actress for the work Love Like a Bouquet.

After all, Love Like a Bouquet is Shen Liqian's first film, and the results are so good, ranking among the top ten in the box office charts for the whole year last year.

She has a very good chance of winning this Best New Actress award.

As for the Best Actress Award, Su Yan didn't hold out much hope. The organizing committee's judges are not Su Yan's biological fathers, and it is unlikely that they will give Su Yan and his artists so much face.

There has never been a case in Xia's history where the first film won the Best Actress Award and ascended to the throne of the film queen.

As for Su Yan himself, the movie 5 Centimeters Per Second was nominated for the Best Screenplay Award.

Because Su Yan's film debut was The Garden of Words, which was released the year before last, the Best New Screenwriter Award has nothing to do with Su Yan and does not meet the nomination requirements.

As for other miscellaneous nominations such as Best Music Award, Lighting, and Art Award, Su Yan doesn't care much.

For people of his level, the nomination or even the final award of these small awards for his works is just the icing on the cake.

End of April?

Su Yan muttered in his heart.

He is actually most concerned about the Best Film Award.

It's a pity that neither Love Like a Bouquet nor 5 Centimeters Per Second was nominated last year, which made him not very interested in this Di Jing Film Award.

But Xiao Zaki Ikumi and Shen Liqian are different.

Especially Shen Liqian, after she learned that she was nominated, she screamed directly in Su Yan's office.

"Is it necessary for you to be like this? At any rate, you are also the Xia Yan Award TV Queen. You are so excited just to be nominated for a movie's Best Actress. I don't know how many TV fans in Xia will definitely look down on movie fans," Su Yan said helplessly.

"Su Yan, you are successful and don't care about these. I have been in the Xia film and television industry for almost ten years. It has been almost ten years before I entered the film industry and was nominated for the Di Jing Award for Best Actress. How can a genius like you understand my feelings."

"You are also a genius, okay. You debuted as the seventh place in the Xia Violin Youth Group at the age of a teenager and was spotted by an entertainment company. The second TV series you starred in topped the quarterly championship in ratings," Su Yan quickly corrected.

"Then what about comparing with you? Isn't it just being blown into an ordinary person," Shen Liqian looked at Su Yan with an even more speechless expression.

People like her who have been in the industry for ten years and were nominated for Best Actress at the age of twenty-six are already geniuses in the industry.

But compared with Su Yan, who went from being penniless to becoming a screenwriter, actor, and investor who has topped the charts in both TV series and movies, it is really not enough.

"Okay, don't argue, it's just a genius encountering a perverted story. The more I listen to it, the more angry I get," Xiao Zaki Ikumi, who was next to her, realized that her producer had no nominations at all and had been sulking there for a long time, so she quickly stopped them after listening to their Versailles remarks.

"Besides, Shen Liqian, you should know in your heart that the possibility of you winning this Best Actress nomination is extremely low. On the contrary, the probability of you winning the Best New Actress award is extremely high. The influence of your competing nomination opponents in the film and television industry is now hundreds of thousands of miles away from you."

"I will be satisfied as long as I can be nominated," Shen Liqian said with a smile.

Gu Qingyuan sat next to her, covered her mouth and chuckled, and then said.

"This year, you will be nominated for the Best New Actress Award with Love Like a Bouquet, and next year, you will be nominated for the Best Actress Award with Kenshin and ascend to the throne of the film queen."

Gu Qingyuan rarely flatters others, but she will make an exception for Shen Liqian, who has a very good relationship with her.

"Qingyuan, you can talk," Shen Liqian immediately beamed.

"Don't be too happy," Su Yan poured cold water on them at this time.

"It will still be extremely difficult for Shen Liqian to win the Best Actress Award next year, even if you are nominated."

"Eh?"

The three women looked at Su Yan together. This is not what Su Yan would say! When would he say such self-deprecating words?

"When you two were staging a deep friendship between girlfriends here, have you ever thought that Mitsuha Miyamizu, the heroine of Your Name, which will be released in mid-July, will also be a member of the Best Actress nomination for the Di Jing Film Award next year," Su Yan said.

The nomination for these awards in Xia can be said to be very down-to-earth.

Whether a work can win an award is important to the opinions of the judges, but the influence and score of the work are the same. What is the influence of a movie with a box office of less than 100 million? It's just a niche.

But at the same time, winning an award must take into account the reputation of the work, otherwise the commercial value of popcorn movies is simply invincible.

But Rurouni Kenshin is a movie that combines both box office and word-of-mouth.

At the same time, Your Name is likely to be the same.

"It seems that this is the case in the TV series circle. Qingyuan and I are always nominated for TV Queen competition at the same time. Why is it the same in the film circle?" Shen Liqian said speechlessly.

"This shows that Teacher Su Yan's works are all classics!" Gu Qingyuan flattered Su Yan again without a trace.

"Oh, Qingyuan, you have changed. You have also become worldly and sophisticated."

"No way."