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"It's enough to recover the cost!?"

A week later, Alice looked at Meng Huo dumbfounded.

The first episode of "Wine of Eternal Life" has been released, and Phoenix Company is hurrying up to discuss the price of the premiere with the TV station, but at this time, Meng Huo suddenly told Alice who was in charge of this matter that it would be enough to recover the cost of the animation up.

"Why do you have this idea?" Alice felt troubled: "Even if the animation is not good-looking, but with your reputation, the price can't be so low!"

After "Wine of Eternal Life" was released, both Phoenix Company and several TV stations that watched the sample were unanimously unfavorable, but anyway, He Xi's signboard was placed here, and the premiere price of "Wine of Eternal Life" was several hundred Wan is indispensable.

"It doesn't matter, the price is lower, give it to a few more TV stations." Meng Huo said with a smile: "I think they will agree with Suhua TV Station."

He wants to reduce the asking price to the cost price, and also allocate a few more TV stations. In this way, every TV station can almost buy "He Xi's animation" at the price of cabbage. Not bad.

And Alice also knew that the two TV stations closely connected with Phoenix Company, as well as the CCTV animation team, would agree to this matter - because they were not optimistic about the ratings of "Wine of Eternal Life".

This animation has not been promoted much, and it is clearly stated in the Phoenix company's announcement that this is a work prepared for a small audience. At the beginning, everyone didn't believe it, but after watching the sample, everyone felt that "Wine of Eternal Life" was an animation that couldn't be more niche.

Even after the test screening. Ninety percent of the people said that they did not understand and did not know what "Wine of Eternal Life" was about.

"If it wasn't Teacher He Xi's work, we might not take it if it was given to us." Sasaki, the director of TV Tokyo, complained to Alice in private. However, out of trust in 'He Xi', everyone was still generous when bidding.

Now that Meng Huo took the initiative to ask for a lower price, Alice was very puzzled.

But she couldn't figure it out. She was finally persuaded by Meng Huo, and then sold "Wine of Eternal Life" to five TV stations including CCTV. Production costs - Phoenix didn't make a dime.

in these TV stations. Ninghai TV Station also got a share. Guo Letong, who originally came here to make soy sauce, never dreamed that he would get the premiere rights of "Wine of Eternal Life" at the price of cabbage. He was a little dazed when he left.

"What's going on here?" Not to mention representatives from various TV stations,

Even the Zhongxia Company, who knew the news afterwards, was confused and puzzled, and had no idea what Meng Huo was playing.

But Xu Jing, who had read the script, guessed some reasons. During a dinner where Meng Huo was invited, he said with a smile to Meng Huo: "You are throwing a net at a loss of money. You plan to make this animation attract a lot of viewers on various TV stations, right?"

Meng Huo nodded. He wanted to lower the price and increase the audience. Adding a few more popular TV stations would be more effective than any promotion. And broadcasting on so many TV stations can make some viewers watch it patiently.

"Honestly speaking, from my point of view, it takes three attempts to watch this animation." He said, in fact, this is exactly what Meng Huo experienced in his previous life. He tried it three times, but he couldn't stand it the first two times, and it was only the third time that he finished reading "Wine of Eternal Life" properly.

I have to try so many times. Meng Huo couldn't judge how many times the audience in this world had to try, so he wanted to give them more chances, and spread the net on various TV stations. For the first time, he couldn't watch Suhua TV, and the next day, the third day... Watching it on other TV stations, there will always be some people who will watch it curiously.

"Three times... I think four times is also possible..." Xu Jing sighed. He is also really not optimistic about "Wine of Eternal Life", after actually forcing himself to read the script. He thinks "Wine of Eternal Life" will be a very good animation.

But even so, this does not mean that it will be popular, because the storytelling and filming methods are very strange, and the threshold for viewing is very high. It is difficult for most audiences to be patient and watch it all at once.

But on the other hand, the charm of "Wine of Eternal Life" also lies in its alternative way of telling. If it becomes a direct narrative mode like ordinary animation, this animation will not have much to look at.

"Do you think "Wine of Eternal Life" will surpass "Game of Blood" in ratings?" Xu Jing asked again, "Game of Blood" is an animation released by Zhongxia at the same time as "Wine of Eternal Life". It is compared with "The Wine of Immortality".

"Blood Game" is not an angel's work, so the media generally speculates that "Wine of Eternal Life" will be more popular, but Xu Jing can't rest assured - he always feels that "Wine of Eternal Life" is too niche.

""Blood Game"?" Sure enough, Meng Huo immediately replied with a smile: "How is it possible, it is very popular recently, and "Wine of Eternal Life" will definitely not be able to surpass it when it is broadcast!"

Of course Meng Huo knew about "Blood Game", there were too many advertisements for it on the streets of Ninghai City. In fact, as a non-angel animation work, Zhongxia Company did not plan such a large-scale publicity at the beginning, but when the news of "Wine of Eternal Life" was announced, the situation changed.

When Phoenix Company announced the animation news of "Wine of Eternal Life", it adopted the obvious label of "niche animation". In addition, there were no advertisements, and the posture was unprecedentedly low-key. This surprised Zhongxia Company, and after collecting some information about "Wine of Eternal Life", they were even more ecstatic.

Such a niche animation work, maybe "Blood Game" can defeat it - Zhongxia Company thought so, and then stepped up the promotion of this animation.

"I read the information about "Blood Game." Meng Huo said in admiration, "I think it will be a blockbuster animation."

"Blood Game" is another new work of the animation company that produced "Nation of Ice and Fire". "Nation of Ice and Fire" has brought a lot of prestige to that company, and this time it has also received a lot of attention.

The content of "Blood Game" is about an incredible game that happened in a modern city. A group of ordinary people were involved in this game to fight each other. Judging from the poster, the characters of this animation are very beautiful, but the theme is quite bloody-full of contradictions, very exciting, enough to attract attention.

This is a rare type of animation in China. In fact, the style is a bit similar to "Wine of Eternal Life". It went well, and Meng Huo believed it would be even more successful.

"When it airs, "Blood Game" will definitely be more popular than "Wine of Eternal Life." Meng Huo looked at Xu Jing and comforted him, "But after the broadcast, the situation will be different...don't worry. "

Xu Jing shook his head lightly, and murmured: "Then we have to wait for four months..."

The serial length of "Wine of Eternal Life" is four months, which is quite a long period of time, but other people don't know that Meng Huo has set his sights on four months later. For many people, now is the most critical time.

"Can "Blood Game" surpass the ratings of "Wine of Eternal Life"?" Zhongxia Company, Dong Ding is worrying about this question. In order to fight against "Wine of Eternal Life", the company invested more money in "Blood Game" The production cost of the animation itself, if there is no result, they will lose a lot.

"Don't worry." Jiang Tianshi, who was sitting in his office, looked at a newspaper, crossed his legs and said, "Didn't Ninghai TV say that "Wine of Eternal Life" is nothing to look at? Some people in the Phoenix company described it as a waste of time." Boring animation for the time being, "Blood Game" should be able to surpass it in the ratings."

In fact, he is also very envious of "Blood Game", the luck of this animation is really good. At the beginning, everyone thought that He Xi would launch a popular and interesting animation like last year's animations after the end of "Little Monster".

Who would have thought that the final result would be eye-popping. In the comments of those who have seen the samples of "Wine of Eternal Life", this animation can no longer be niche, and the beginning of "Magic Girl Madoka Magica" back then was not too small. It's so hard to read.

"The difference between that animation and ordinary animation is like a philosophy book and a popular novel. It is too complicated, and ordinary audiences simply can't read it!"

When he heard such a report, Jiang Tianshi regretted why he didn't prepare the new animation in advance, and gave up the godsend opportunity to "Blood Game" in vain, because it can be easily seen that "Wine of Eternal Life" is He Xi is the easiest work to surpass.

"But I really can't figure it out. Is it necessary for Teacher He Xi to do this?" Jiang Tianshi put down the newspaper and said strangely: "Obviously he can make more popular animations, why did he go to make such an unpopular work?"

Dong Ding was silent, then frowned.

"Maybe it's because he judged that he no longer needs to produce popular works to prove himself?" To be honest, he was also a little puzzled, but he could more or less guess Meng Huo's mind: "He is moving towards a more free You can no longer put your interests first, but choose works that you are interested in.”

It is not surprising that the cartoonist He Xi has come to this point. He has long been qualified to escape from the vortex of interests and make more meaningful animations.

However, Dong Ding still has complicated feelings about this conjecture, because if this is the case, it proves that He Xi has already achieved the goal of surpassing Zhongxia - he had the same conditions to produce niche works before, but in order to be in harmony with Zhongxia In order to compete with Xia Company, Phoenix Company had to launch a series of popular works.

Now that He Xi has started to produce niche works, perhaps it is an expression of absolute confidence that he no longer regards Zhong Xia as an opponent. (to be continued)