Don't call me Master, call me Director

However, now he was able to relax and laugh.

Because HF is already on fire.

There were 10 new subscribers in October and 42 new subscribers in November.

The new subscribers in the first two months alone are enough to make Mr. Sever put his heart in his stomach.

December is not over yet, but 12 new users have been added since the third episode of HF premiered, and the final result will definitely not be bad.

What's more, the word-of-mouth of the album is also very good, especially in the eyes of some core Fate fans, it is also a high-quality work.

"This is the Fate I've never seen before!"

Many fans wrote such comments on the message board of IMDB.

For die-hard fans who have seen the same actor play the role for the third time, that's the highest praise.

"This is the sequel to FZ! Fate of pure darkness!"

This is a message from FZ fans only.

It can be seen that for those fans who like dark stories like FZ, the first two editions of FSN are a bit too domineering.

But in any case, it is the support of these Fate fans that has greatly pushed up the subscription of the HBO channel and made HF attract much attention.

This is one of the characteristics of spin-off albums.

Chapter 176 Come on, Shen Er, it's time to exercise

In the film market before Shen Er's time travel, purely original film projects have been very sluggish, and there are not a few big productions in a year, but adaptations and sequels are still popular.

This is because there is a key factor between the two - the fan base.

Movies are like buying lottery tickets. In order to ensure that the largest audience can enter the movie theater at the first time, attracting enough fans is undoubtedly the safest way.

After all, it takes time for word-of-mouth to ferment, and even a good word-of-mouth may not necessarily translate into box office.

But fans are different, because those people will actually buy tickets and walk into the cinema the first time—whether the quality of the movie is good or bad.

This is why some film producers will still set up a project to produce a film even though they know it is bad. Anyway, as long as there is a fan base, no matter how bad it is, fans will pay for it.

After all, there are only a small number of viewers who will repeatedly swipe, and the vast majority of viewers will only contribute one movie ticket to one movie.

In the final analysis, a movie is a one-shot deal, and all decisions made by the producer have only one purpose-to trick the audience into the theater.

Therefore, in the eyes of the producers, the evaluation of a film project is never good or bad, but whether it can make money.

Bad movies are good movies as long as they make money.

Some film companies even specialize in producing this kind of bad movies with a fan base, as long as they can control the cost well, they can quickly make a wave of money.

It's just a pity that those fans of the original works, who obviously had a rare opportunity to make their favorite works into a film, turned out to be victims of the interests of the film company.

And in order to preserve the value of the IP, after a bad film is produced, the IP is likely to be hidden. If you want to wait for it to be filmed again, it will be a series in your lifetime.

However, Shen Er will not do this kind of behavior of destroying IP in order to earn a dollar. Xingyue company has not expanded to the point where it can burn IP to play, and must take every work seriously.

Shen Er never minds others saying that UBW and HF are fried rice works, because these two albums are essentially fried rice.

But as long as the cold rice is fried well and fragrant, such cold rice can produce more commercial value than new rice.

Just like now, after the launch of the third episode of HF, the ratings of the first broadcast exceeded 1000 million. Counting the only on-demand broadcasts, the ratings of the third episode have exceeded 1500 million.

"It's really a firework!"

Looking at the report in his hand, Cypher Flora waved his fist vigorously excitedly.

You must know that HBO is a paid channel, and every viewer who watches it represents a real income of the channel.

Although UBW was still being serialized, Mr. Seffer felt the possibility that HF ​​would also become popular.

But before the fact came, he still couldn't believe this reality.

Until now, he has seen the most accurate data.

"The paid channel works proposed by Matou Shinji should increase the advantages of restricted ratings. The decision to add blood and violence is very successful."

Cypher's secretary gave feedback: "The group plans to make several more similar TV series according to this idea, and is currently looking for scripts."

"Hmph, those people want to eat alone." Sai Fu sneered, "If you really have the heart, wouldn't it be better to go to Shen Er directly? After all, you still don't want to bear the profit."

With his ass, Cypher can think of what the senior executives in the Time Group are struggling with.

The success of HF naturally proves that it is the right choice for them to cooperate with Shinji Matou to develop the Fate series.

But on the other hand, the success of the Fate series made them regret why they didn't snatch the copyright of Fate back then.

Don't look at Fate's director and original story is Matou Shinji, the original is someone else, but the copyright is completely owned by Times Group, and there are more works.

That's right, the publisher is so domineering. It is obviously the story of the creator, but the copyright owner can completely control it in his own hands.

Even this practice is the norm for film distribution companies.

The reason why Fate didn't do this was mainly because the cost of Shen Er's publicity plan was too high, so high that Times Group had to make concessions on copyright.

It's just that this move that seemed extremely wise at the beginning and could greatly reduce the investment and risk of Times Group, now looks like a stupid pig.

"Those idiots in the headquarters, I'm afraid they are grabbing the land with their heads, are they regretting it?"

Cypher Flora thought gloatingly.

Anyway, the decision-making of the headquarters has nothing to do with him, and as a shareholder, as long as the company makes some money, his dividends will not be small.

Now, Mr. Seffer, what he hopes most is to further increase the ratings of the album HF.

as well as......

"Lissie, is she still in Japan?"

"Yes, she said that she was a little negligent before, and she wanted to restore her favorability while she was not busy at work."

"That girl!"

Thinking of his daughter gave Cypher a headache.

My daughter is good at everything, but staring at a man all day long.

Although that man made him a lot of money, as a father, seeing his watery Chinese cabbage being taken advantage of by others, he always felt uncomfortable.

That is to say, the Matou family and the Flora family are family friends, and if it were the wild boy from other families, Mr. Sever would have come to the door with a chainsaw.

Cypher let out a long sigh: "I just hope that boy Shen Er won't hurt Lizzy's heart."

Compared with the entanglement with HF that everyone in the Times Group has, Shen Er is different.

Although the ratings of HF exploded and word-of-mouth exploded, since the album has been fully produced, it is not the focus of Shinji's work.

Even though he still has to deal with some publicity and promotion work as the producer and director of the series, his work focus has shifted to other projects.

The preparatory work of FA is still going on, Shen Er pulls out a list of holy relics and asks various magician families to help x find them.

However, such highly directional antiques are not so easy to find, and it is unlikely that there will be any results in the short term.

In contrast, the progress of "Magical Girl☆Illya", which was approved later, has advanced to the stage where the script outline has been completed.

There is no way, compared to FA who can take it slowly, "Magic" needs to be reported to the TV station immediately, and the series composition must be produced as soon as possible.

Fortunately, most of the leading actors in this show are old faces, and the scripts are all ready-made. Compared with FA, which has to be changed from scratch, the preparation is quite a bit more brainless.

But even so, Shen Er had to close the door to write the script during the New Year's holiday, and didn't leave the office until the end of the holiday.

In addition to getting the manuscript out before the deadline, another reason for Shen Er to hide is——

Boom!

With a dull sound, Rin Tohsaka was thrown heavily to the ground by Luvia with a diamond cut.

"OK!"

Ms. R stepped forward to separate the emotionally agitated two.

"In the 346th game, Luvia Edelfelt won! The current score is 148 wins for Tosaka Rin, 149 wins for Luvia Edelfelt, and 49 draws."

"Bah!"

Rin spat out the hair from his mouth, and glared at Luvia unhappily.

Luvia rested her hands on her chest, straightened out the chest that Tohsaka Rin would not be able to reach in ten lifetimes, and said with a meaningful smile: "Tohsaka, you are really useless."

"Oh, sister Luvia is really amazing!"

Sakura clapped her little hands on the side, and said with a look of admiration.

"It's nothing."

Luvia flipped her blond hair handsomely, and proudly said, "If you want to learn, Sakura, I can teach you."

"Really? That's great!"

A smile like Yamato Nadeko appeared on Sakura's face.

"Hey, Sakura." Rin said with a cold face, "Why do you learn fighting skills from this person who you have known for less than a week!"

Sakura nodded her chin, tilted her head and said, "Because senior Tohsaka's fighting skills are too focused on technique, compared to sister Luvia's fighting skills are more focused on strength."

"Shen Er, is this how you taught your sister? Just ran away with a woman of unknown origin in just a few days?" Rin asked.

"Sorry, I've always lost face in front of my sister, and it's not like you don't know."

Shinji blinked with an innocent look on his face.

In just a few days, Rin and Luvia have fought more than 300 rounds. It can be seen that the two are incompatible with each other, second only to the King Knights who have fought more than 1000 times in a month.

Because the conflict was too intense, Shen Er didn't want to get involved in this vortex at all.

Unexpectedly, it took almost a week, and the bickering between these two is not over yet.

"Also, Luvia's path might really suit Sakura."

Seeing that Sakura is so sticky to Luvia, Shinji thought of the setting of the Tosaka family in FA - Rin who almost became the founder of "a brand new martial art composed of magic and Chinese boxing", and was adopted by distant relatives since childhood, becoming an unimaginable Sakura of the meatball wrestler...

[This may be God's will, I just hope Sakura won't use me as a practice dummy after learning those tricks. 】

Shinji prayed from the bottom of his heart.

"Isn't this good? Girls, especially female magicians, should learn some fighting skills to defend themselves."

"What nonsense are you talking about? Shouldn't the female magicians of Fuyuki City learn Bajiquan as a group? Isn't this a tradition?"

"Huh? When did this kind of tradition exist?" Shen Er complained, "It's just that Grandpa Lizheng took care of us when we were young. Learning Bajiquan is not necessary at all!"

"Humph!"

Rin folded his arms and let out a cold snort, still staring directly at Luvia.

"Hehe, you are unattractive but despise others, that's all you can do, Tohsaka." Luvia squinted at Rin.

"Luvia Edelfelt!"

"Tohsaka Rin!"

The eyes of the two beautiful girls with inviolable temperament collided, and even Shinji had to surrender at this scene.

Unlike Cloris and the two ceremonies, these two didn't care about their quarrel at all, and he couldn't calm down their anger by betraying his lust.

So Shen Er decided to run away.

In the end, Rin grabbed Shinji's shoulder.

"Wait, Shen Er. I think it is necessary to let you know the difference between Bajiquan and that Nordic monkey trick!"

"Nani?!"

Shinji was shocked.

Rin smiled, and she ordered: "I believe that only in this way can you make the right choice for your lovely touch."

"She Matou Sakura's choice doesn't care about my Matou Shinji, Rin, don't blame me!"

"That's not bad. I think it should be more objective if you let outsiders taste it."

Luvia nodded, and she grabbed Shinji's other arm.

"and many more......"

Shinji struggled to back away, and a pair of soft balls rested on his head.