1980 My literary era

Just after the CCTV broadcast, the second round of copyright sales for "Flower Season and Rainy Season" was already on the schedule, and the copyrights of six provincial (municipal) TV stations were sold at once. According to Wencheng's package pricing for the TV series, This is a full 18 million, including the 6 million from CCTV's first round of copyrights, this is 24 million.

Later in 1996, "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" created CCTV's highest annual ratings. The copyright sales that year reached more than 24 million, making it the king of dramas in future generations.

But today's "Flower Season and Rainy Season" has already tied the record of "Prime Minister Liu Luoguo" before the TV series has finished broadcasting.

This TV series may bring more profits to the Chinese Literature Society than "Party A and Party B" in the future.

Otherwise, TV series are more profitable than movies!

Making a popular TV series is like robbing money, and there is no need to split the accounts with theaters.

"There are still some TV stations contacting us one after another. This time the copyright sales of "Flower Season and Rainy Season" will definitely break the record in the history of Chinese TV, including overseas sales." Haiyan said with pride.

The development of Chinese TV dramas is relatively late, and even fewer overseas copyrights are sold. It is known that only last year's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" sold a lot of copyrights in East Asia, creating nearly 2 million US dollars in copyright revenue for CCTV.

The overseas income of "Flower Season and Rainy Season" may not be as high as that of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", but the overall income is definitely higher than that of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" because "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" itself was produced by CCTV and did not sell to several local TV stations.

After a few words of thanks to Lin Weimin, Haiyan introduced Wencheng's recent projects.

The script for "The Swordsman" co-produced by Wencheng Film and Television and CCTV has been written, and Zhang Jizhong has been chosen as the director.

Zhang Jizhong is the director of CCTV TV Drama Center. He was an actor in his early years and switched to directing in 1985. He directed the fourth part of the "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" TV series "Southern and Northern War" broadcast by CCTV last year.

As a Mesozoic director of CCTV, Zhang Jizhong has good directing ability. It happened that Wen Cheng lacked directors who were good at costume action scenes, so he was made the director.

"Our mainland team is still inexperienced in the filming of martial arts TV series. I hired a martial arts instructor from Xiangjiang as you said. He is from the Yuan family class and it cost a lot of money."

Speaking of this, Haiyan couldn't help but show a bit of pain.

Xiangjiang's economy is booming these days. If you want to hire a real martial arts instructor from Xiangjiang, it's impossible to pay a high price without spending real money. Later, many domestic film crews paid high prices to hire people, only to find out that they had been cheated after filming started. Haiyan hired people through Xu Feng's relationship, so he didn't expect to be cheated.

Hearing Haiyan say that he invited people from the "Yuan Family Class", Lin Weimin asked curiously: "What's your name?"

"My name is Yuan Xiangren. I used to work with the great director Zhang Che. He is the younger brother of Yuan Heping. He is not well-known. In the past few years, he has been traveling between Hong Kong and Wandao. He does whatever he is given. The key is that he loves acting. I promised to give him a role in the play. He finds an important role, otherwise I might not be able to hire him."

A face flashed in Lin Weimin's mind: Look at your wonderful bones. If you have the energy to break through the heavenly spirit, you must be a martial arts prodigy. I will sell you a copy of "The Palm of the Tathagata" for only 10 yuan!

The picture flashed through his mind, and Lin Weimin smiled and said, "Just give him the leading role."

"You are really good at joking. The male lead is Shao Bing, and the female lead Ren Yingying is given to Jiang Qinqin..."

When Haiyan said this, he secretly looked at Lin Weimin with his eyes. Seeing that his expression did not change at all, he felt slightly disappointed and felt that the flattery was in vain.

Shao Bing was the original male lead in the later CCTV version of "The Swordsman", but something happened and he was replaced by Li Yapeng.

Lin Weimin doesn't like Li Yapeng's versions of Linghu Chong and Guo Jing, but Shao Bing seems to be good too.

"This Jiang Qinqin will soon become your Wencheng queen's heroine, right?" Lin Weimin joked.

"The heroine you have chosen is definitely the right one. This girl's face is both ancient and modern. Although she is still in school, her acting skills are passable. We signed her, and now she is considered one of our own, and her wealth will not go to outsiders. .” Haiyan explained.

Seeing that Lin Weimin no longer cared about this topic, he said: "With the success of "Flower Season and Rainy Season", Wencheng is not short of funds now. As for the project, Buhuo has "The Righteous Way of the World" which is very suitable for adaptation. You can find it later when you have time. Let’s talk about the author Zou Meisen.”

"Okay." Haiyan responded and continued: ""Flower Season and Rainy Season" has become popular, and the young actors who participated in it have also become popular. Now they are all signed by our Wencheng banner. I plan to continue to open a campus movie next year. The theme of the youth idol drama follows the path of "Flower Season and Rainy Season"."

"Are you going to follow the police-robber + romance route?" Lin Weimin asked.

"Let's go. I'm still writing the novel. I'm too busy with work now. I'll wait until when I finish it."

Lin Weimin nodded slightly. Based on this calculation, Wencheng Film and Television will have three projects in the beginning of the year, which is enough for them to work on for a year.

After sending Haiyan away, Lin Weimin had just taken a sip of tea when Zhao Xin entered her office with a smile on her face.

"lead!"

Lin Weimin saw her expression and asked, "Is something wrong?"

Zhao Xin sighed and took out several newspapers from behind, including one "Guowen Bao", which was the revised "Literary Story Newspaper", and two others, "Yanjing Youth Daily" and "Guangming Daily".

From the time when the concept was proposed in the middle of the year to the first issue of the revised "Guowen Bao" officially meeting readers after New Year's Day, Zhao Xin has put in so much effort and hard work in the past six months that ordinary people can't imagine it.

After all, what she wanted to connect with was a chain bookstore with thousands of stores across the country. In an era before big data, it was not easy to create a book sales ranking list from scratch.

The size of the new "Guo Wen Bao" is four pages, which is directly in line with the major newspapers. Each issue has 8 pages of content, which is no different from the previous one, but there is a big difference in content.

The original "Literary Story Newspaper" mainly focused on abstract content, but the revised "Guowen Newspaper" has greatly reduced this type of content. The columns include new book express, hot spot tracking, author interviews, celebrity anecdotes, work reviews, and novel experiments. Mainly gardens, etc.

The most important thing is that Chinese book sales rankings will be published on the front page every other issue.

"Guo Wen Bao" is a weekly newspaper, and the sales ranking of Chinese books is published every half a month.

Just after New Year's Day, the revamped "Guo Wen Bao" was launched, and the Chinese book sales rankings published on the front page immediately attracted the attention of many readers.

On the eve of the listing of "Guowen News", Lin Weimin and Cheng Wanchun communicated and changed the "bestseller ranking" to "book sales ranking", which removed some utilitarian colors and was in line with the consistent style of Guowen News.

This kind of book sales ranking has never been done by any institution in China. As the first institution to take advantage of the situation, the Chinese Literature Society has reaped rewards in a short period of time.

Zhao Xin originally thought that the revamped "Guo Wen Bao" might need an adaptation process before it could reach its previous sales volume, but the response from readers was much faster than she expected.

The sales volume of the first issue of "Guowen Bao" after the revision was as usual. The second issue was launched a few days ago, and sales jumped by 20%.

Because Zhao Xin, who is engaged in book sales rankings, now has a good relationship with major bookstores in the country, she asked various sales points in the bookstore to collect readers' impressions of the revised version of "Guo Wen Bao".

In the past two days, she has received a lot of feedback. Generally speaking, readers have spoken highly of this major change of the "Guo Wen Bao".

Compared with the style of the previous "Literary Story Newspaper", the new "Guowen Newspaper" has innovations in both the newspaper style and the layout content. Especially the new thing of book sales rankings has aroused strong concern among readers. Good reviews.

Many readers who originally subscribed to "Literary Story Newspaper" are book lovers and have the habit of buying books on weekdays. However, most of the time, these readers can only go to bookstores to buy books by themselves.

Now with the book sales ranking guide, readers have an important reference when purchasing books.

It also gives readers a clear understanding of which books are popular. Everyone has a herd mentality. When readers realize that more people like the books they like, they will naturally feel a sense of achievement in being recognized.

The book sales rankings may be of greater significance to domestic chain bookstores and publishing institutions than to readers, because from now on in China's book industry, there will be an additional book shopping guide tool, which is good news for the entire industry. .

The listing of "Guo Wen Bao" was silent, but more than a week later, with the help of the Chinese book sales rankings, it attracted the attention of many media such as "Guangming Daily" and "Yanjing Youth Daily". The matter was reported.

Lin Weimin glanced at the contents of several newspapers and said in a relaxed tone: "What's the matter? Are you here to ask for credit?"

Zhao Xin's face showed a bit of embarrassment, "That's not what I meant. I just want to report to the leader on my work..."

"Okay, stop pretending." Lin Weimin interrupted Zhao Xin and said, "Now that the revision of the "Guowen Bao" has been completed, and the book sales ranking list has been established, I will definitely honor my promise to you."

Hearing this, Zhao Xin couldn't control the expression on her eyebrows.

"But..."

Lin Weimin's tone took a turn, and the joy on Zhao Xin's face suddenly solidified, and she looked at him anxiously.

"Don't be nervous. Are you worried that I will break my promise?"

Zhao Xin quickly shook his head in denial, "Look at what you said, can I still believe you?"

Lin Weimin chuckled, "The time is not right now, just wait patiently for a few more months."

When Zhao Xin heard this, her heart moved, she came forward and whispered: "Boss, the president will retire in two months, right?"

Lin Weimin glared at her, "I just think about these useless things all day long!"

After being scolded, Zhao Xin looked a little ashamed, looking at the leader's consciousness.

"Old Cheng will not retreat for the time being." Lin Weimin said.

"Ah!" Zhao Xin said in surprise, "Why?"

"You'll know by then. Why do you ask so much?"

After being scolded again and seeing Lin Weimin being so tight-lipped, Zhao Xin didn't dare to ask any more questions.

The boss asked her to wait, so she should wait a few more months.

After leaving the office, she thought about Lao Cheng's retirement, and quietly inquired in several surrounding editing rooms, and she actually found out.

"I heard that we are switching with Weimin. He will be the editor-in-chief and Weimin will be the president."

"Why do you do this?" Zhao Xin was puzzled.

"There is no suitable candidate for the editor-in-chief. The current deputy editors have good professional abilities, but they are young and have low reputation, so they cannot control the situation!"

The editor-in-chief of the Chinese Literature Society has always been very particular. If you want to be the president, you can be a Buddhist, such as Yan Wenjing. But the editor-in-chief cannot. The Chinese Literature Society is a literary publishing organization. It has to review the most cutting-edge literary works in the country all year round and has to deal with many departments.

Looking back on the recent editor-in-chief of the Chinese Literature Society, Wei Junyi went to China twice to successfully publish "The General's Song" and "Heavy Wings"; Cheng Wuchun argued with the leaders of the Publishing House several times for his works; Lin Weimin, not to mention Having said that, several publishing-related ministries and commissions all gave him a headache.

Now that Cheng Wuchun is retiring, Lin Weimin is expected to take over, but who will be the vacated editor-in-chief is a problem.

The current deputy editors of the Chinese Literature Society include old comrades and some from the Mesozoic generation. However, compared with the previous editors-in-chief, they all seem to be a little behind in terms of reputation and style.

The reputation is easy to say, but if the work style is not tough, suppose the society publishes or publishes a relatively controversial work, some departments put forward some opinions, and the editor-in-chief has a weak style and accepts everything as written, then how can the work of the Chinese Literature Society be done? Dry?

Zhao Xin had been working at the Chinese Literature Society for more than ten years. When he heard the explanation, he understood and he felt a lot more relaxed, as long as the editor-in-chief could take over.

The editor-in-chief is very strict, but it is a pity that this style is not popular in the Chinese Literature Society.