China Entertainment King of Science Fiction

Chapter 542 Hot views

"Sometimes I don't know whether it's because your brain is too weird or because you're lucky. What are you doing?"

Zhang Jingyan, who looked increasingly elegant, looked at Chen Jingxing, her expression unclear whether it was a complaint or a simple sigh.

When he walked out of the studio, Zhang Jingyan, the vice president of Huanshi.com, was waiting for him. Chen Jingxing's schedule was tight, so he didn't say hello to his old friends from Huanshi.com when he came to record the show, but Huanshi.com planned to receive him well.

.

When the big boss of DreamWorks comes, Fantasy World cannot turn a blind eye.

It happened to be time for dinner, so the two of them went to a restaurant next to Huanshi.com for dinner.

In fact, Chen Jingxing often dines here, because since the completion of DreamWorks' headquarters building, the distance between the two companies is actually not far, both are in the second phase of Zhongguancun Software Park.

Zhang Jingyan is now the vice president of Huanshi.com, responsible for the development of TV series, movies and other businesses.

Chen Jingxing can indeed be regarded as helping his career, but mainly due to his own abilities and opportunities. The two of them are also old friends who have known each other for a long time, and they can talk more easily.

"Luck, it's all luck."

You have to say that it is understandable that "The Walking Dead" has achieved such results, and in fact, the viewing volume of "The Walking Dead II" is basically the same as that of "The Beginning". After all, it is a slightly heavy drama, but it still dissuades many viewers.

.

Although Zhao Jinmai's reputation is a plus, this drama is indeed a low-cost science fiction sketch, coupled with the hasty release and one-time release, these are his shortcomings.

If Chen Jingxing expressed similar views, it would be much more convincing.

Although he said: "There are many kinds of directors. Some directors are very literary and artistic, and some directors are about emotions. As for me, I like to talk about box office... The number of movies I have made is not matched by many directors, and I have basically not lost any money. I can afford it."

Investors are worthy of actors and audiences."

The popularity of "The Beginning" is somewhat beyond the expectations of the three major platforms. Even with Zhao Jinmai's blessing, it is surprising.

It is regarded as a blockbuster work by Huanshi.com to get off to a good start in 2020. The pre-heating has been going on for more than a month, and it has attracted countless purchases from hot searches.

But even so, it is surprising that someone can stand up and say such words, especially a director who has achieved such an achievement.

Of course, these results are all achieved after radio and television began to require network platforms to dehydrate data in 2019.

It is a fact that it is worthy of investors, but it may not be true that it is worthy of the audience.

Although Chen Jingxing's films have many fans and critics who are responsible for interpreting, refining ideas, and exploring connotations, there is no shortage of people who do reading comprehension and spread reading comprehension. He said these words quite like standing up and talking without pain in the back.

What really struck her as rare was Chen Jingxing's extraordinary calmness and restraint.

Although there is still moisture, it is much more reliable than in the past.

Zhang Jingyan has a mixture of sadness and joy about this. She is happy that "The Beginning" has been played very well, and because the entire episode was released at once, the membership conversion data is quite impressive. After all, the audience is really capable of impulsive consumption.

Then she sighed again: "But you handled the interview well today. It's rare. You deserve your success. Anyone who says you relied on luck is talking nonsense."

Even many netizens have been using Chen Jingxing's quotations to refute certain remarks that educate the audience.

After all, when the water injection was at its peak, it was normal for TV series to have a total broadcast volume of 20 billion to 30 billion, and a single episode could reach a maximum of 7 to 8 billion. Chinese people would only watch dramas in one day, and VIP members were still required to watch the dramas.

The reason why Zhang Jingyan lamented that he "achieves whatever he does" refers to "The Beginning", which continues to be very popular.

As an old acquaintance, she is of course very familiar with Chen Jingxing's "showy Versailles modesty".

The special effects of "The Beginning" have really improved a lot compared to the original version of the previous life. In the original version, the crew chose a scene with low traffic flow for filming, but this version chose the background of Jiangcheng, a road and the Yangtze River Bridge with a population of tens of millions.

It's more crowded, and the green screen special effects workload is much higher and more demanding.

For example, Huanshi.com spent 360 million to buy the IP-adapted solo drama "The Return of the King" starring top stars - a story about a talented e-sports player who did not give up his dream after suffering hardships, returned to the league, and achieved greater glory.

"The Beginning" started playing two weeks before it was released.

"35 million, the special effects cost is also very high."

It's really hard to say it's a good deal.

The sad thing is that "The Beginning" is not an exclusive drama of Huanshi.com, and the other two major platforms will also benefit. And if there are no other platforms to share the profits, Huanshi.com's revenue and stock price increase are expected to be even greater.

"The production cost of "The Beginning" should not exceed 50 million, right?"

But now, at this moment, Chen Jingxing can still say "My thoughts are not important, your happiness is the most important." It is simply too rare.

Among the people she has met in the industry, no matter how talented they are, whether they are actors, screenwriters, or directors, even those who are even one percent as successful as Chen Jingxing would have overcome gravity long ago.

As a result, by the time "The Beginning" was released, only a third of it had been updated, and then it was directly pushed down from the playlist by "The Beginning", which released the entire episode at once.

Although Chen Jingxing has expressed similar views in the past, what is good-looking is the most important, entertainment comes first, and fun comes first.

And at the same time, there are other dramas gathering in the Spring Festival schedule to seize users' time.

But that was in the past. This statement of "the audience is the boss, your likes are the most important, and it is my honor to entertain you" is Chen Jingxing's self-effacement. For the sake of box office, it is not incomprehensible to lower one's attitude and please the audience.

.

Of course, when she said "rare", she didn't mean how good Chen Jingxing's eloquence was, how fluently he answered questions, or how funny he was.

After its launch, the playback performance was also good, and it even surpassed the popular ancient puppet "Lumen Song" of the same period by its rival Penguin Video on the popularity list of platforms such as Maoyan.

A person used to rely on kitsch to win the box office, but now he has such status and achievements. If you say he is kitsch, he will definitely be anxious: "Don't talk nonsense, I have never flattered anyone, the audience is not God."

Zhang Jingyan shook her head, not wanting to make the young man opposite her even more jealous by saying any more complimentary words.

Not to mention connotation, meaning and thought, which are the lifeblood of literary and artistic workers.

And now not only directors but screenwriters can also come out to educate the audience.

The number of views exceeded 200 million on the first day, 243 million the next day, and the highest single-day number of views on the third day was 285 million. It did not drop to less than 200 million until a week after it was launched.

But who can always remain self-effacing? Who can always please the audience? Is it a shame?

When a person makes a successful and popular movie, isn't it natural for him to say, "If I don't make a movie, what will the Chinese people watch?"

Not to mention a young man like Chen Jingxing who is just approaching his thirties, even a person in his sixties or even seventies with his achievements would be almost impossible to maintain such calmness, such vigilance at all times, and such a tight grip on the ground.

, not floating into the sky.

Chen Jingxing is not a roundworm in Zhang Jingyan’s belly. I don’t intend to go into details about his exclamation. I just passed by and responded to the initial complaint: "Why does it smell a bit sour to me? Shouldn't you be happy that "The Beginning" is so successful? What on earth are you doing?"

Are you happy or unhappy?"

Compared with "Person of Interest", "Black Mirror" is incredibly cheap. Even DreamWorks' first drama "Signal", including Sun Li and Deng Chao's salary, cost 100 million to produce.

The same is true for literary and artistic workers.

She had met so many talented people, but Chen Jingxing's interview was not worthy of her praise just for his eloquence and humor.

But the audience can only reluctantly agree with the first half. Netizens who have watched Wong Jing's bad movie obviously cannot agree that "my movie is entertaining, and if I can make a profit at the box office, even if it is worthy of investors, it is also worthy of the audience."

Even though many movies have started to be released during the Spring Festival, it has not obscured the popularity of "The Beginning".

Chen Jingxing remained low-key and modest as always.

"It's just so so." Chen Jingxing said with a smile: "You asked me just now if I was lucky, and now you say that I don't rely on luck. Are you asking yourself to answer the question?"

Just looking at this data, long video platforms don’t need to pay attention to short video platforms at all, let alone be afraid. After all, Chinese people’s time is divided up by long video platforms, and there will be nothing left.

The advertising investment has also made a lot of money, so Huanshi.com’s technical department has been busy these days adding pre-screening ads and pre-roll ads.

The best-case scenario is that "The Return of the King" is the most popular, and "The Beginning" is the second most popular. Now that the whole thing is flipped, Fantasy World Network will have mixed feelings.

What's even more sad is that "The Return of the King", which was bought with a huge investment of 360 million, was suppressed like this.

If the audience doesn’t care about the connotation, meaning, and thoughts I want to express, or they don’t get it, then of course I’m wronged. Naturally, I can’t accept that there are audiences who think these are not important. Without these, what kind of literary and art worker am I? Wouldn’t I be a king?

Crystallized?

Just like journalists who believe it is their sacred duty to enlighten the rabble.

So far, the total number of views has exceeded 2.3 billion, and the number of single-episode views has exceeded 150 million. The effective number of single-episode views has ranked third in 2019.

Although it is not that no one else has expressed similar views, such as the well-known Hong Kong filmmaker Wang Jing, he has made too many bad movies. Such words coming from him will inevitably give people the impression that he is making box office for himself.

It is suspected that bad movies with good results are trying to gain respect.

Zhang Jingyan rolled her eyes: "The interview is over. There are no cameras staring at you. That's enough."

Because it is more bustling, more people and vehicles are affected by the explosion, and the explosion special effects are more realistic.

Zhang Jingyan's breath was stagnant: "How much is the salary? No need to answer, forget, Zhao Jinmai is your little princess of DreamWorks, how much salary can she ask for?"

According to the current market situation, Zhao Jinmai's salary for a single episode of a TV series exceeding 2 million is a friendly price. Who else but DreamWorks can allow a first-line actor of this level to star in a TV series with a low salary?

The production cost was 35 million yuan, but the three domestic copyright platforms alone sold 100 million yuan, which is already a double return rate. If Netflix is ​​added to it, it will be even more amazing.

(End of chapter)