Entertainment: I really want to make progress

Today is different from the past.

Today's Jiangdong Entertainment is fully capable of handling some low-cost film and television drama projects on its own.

For example, "Hello, Old Times" is a campus youth drama with a low production cost. It is basically produced by the company's own people. However, because of the good reputation in the industry, it is labeled as a high-quality product and sold after the viewing party. The price is naturally not low, and the first round alone is expected to bring eight-digit profits to the company.

However, a film project like "The Lonely Agent" requires the involvement of multiple forces in order to maximize profits.

The status of the company's projects was mentioned at the annual meeting.

Last year, Jiangdong Entertainment's two phenomenal hits, "Latent" and "My Love from the Star," were able to bring at least more than 200 million in profits to the company.

"To Youth", which dominated the box office during the Lunar New Year period, also participated in the investment, earning at least eight figures.

At the company's annual meeting two years ago, a seven-figure bonus was awarded.

Brand new banknotes are stacked in a small mountain.

It's spectacular.

Zhou Yutang is so down-to-earth and direct in his work. If he does things with his heart, he will eat meat seriously.

The deputy manager of the film and television department respectfully asked: "Mr. Zhou, "Let the Bullets Fly" is still being filmed, and "Sword Rain" and "The Lost Road" have been completed. How to arrange the schedules of these two films?"

Zhou Yutang browsed the schedule sent by Han Sanping.

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""Sword Rain" is scheduled to be released on May 1st. We will communicate with Guangbo and start preparing a publicity plan as soon as possible."

Zhou Yutang pondered for a moment and quickly made a decision: "As for "People on the Road", let's put it in August."

"Earthquake" is a film with a mission in nature, so there will definitely be care in scheduling, and whoever touches it will die during the same period.

In the second half of this year, there will be even more blockbusters, and several major directors have works. It is conceivable that there will be extremely fierce fighting.

The rivals of "Sword Rain" at the same time include "Ip Man 2" by Universe Dan, and the literary romance film "Moonlight Sinixuan" starring Zhang Xueyou and Tang Wei.

That's right, Sister Tang Wei, who was banned for two years, has returned to the world. She settled in Xiangjiang through the Talents Program. This movie was released in the mainland as an imported film, successfully defeating the "blocking" magic with the magic of "unity" .

People from the film and television department were carefully taking notes. Zhou Yutang turned around and continued: ""Big Shot" sent people to the Magic City to scout the location first. In addition, the agency department arranged for Zhu Yilong to audition for "The Love of the Hawthorn Tree"."

"Okay, Mr. Zhou."

The work of the film and television department is well arranged, and it is the turn of the variety show department to report on its work.

The person in charge, Zhang Yibei, was also participating in the company meeting for the first time. Facing the gazes of all the senior executives, she felt a little nervous. She took a few deep breaths and took the initiative to report: "Mr. Zhou, on the variety show side, the princess in the third season of The Voice may not be available due to schedule conflicts. The contract will not be renewed, and Mao Amin and Li Wen have been initially selected as replacement candidates."

"Just Mao Amin, communicate with Mr. Tian."

Zhou Yutang put down his pen and rubbed his forehead.

The princess took the initiative to talk to him about this matter after the Spring Festival Gala. It seemed that the queen's marriage had some problems and needed to be dealt with.

"The ratings of the first season of "I Am a Singer" were huge. Mango Channel renewed the contract for a second season. A TV station in South Korea is interested in the copyright of this variety show."

"I'll go to South Korea in a few days and leave it to me to talk about it."

"The current episodes of "If You Are the One" have received very good responses, with an average viewership rating of 2.87%, an average viewership share of 11.48%, and a maximum viewership rating of 3.2%."

"Deng Ziqi's debut album will be released in March, and she will participate in the second season of I Am a Singer in the second half of this year."

"The ratings of The Voice programs in Japan, South Korea, and Thailand are currently benchmarked against the ratings of top variety shows in their respective countries."

People from the film and television department of Jiangdong Entertainment Company headquarters looked at the earnings report projected on the projector.

Everyone was shocked.

I originally thought that the projects produced by the company's film and television department were already unbeatable.

Unexpectedly, the profit from the variety show was not much higher.

Zhou Yutang’s variety shows and films blossomed last year.

Several popular variety shows have made a lot of money.

Everyone looked at Zhou Yutang with fanatical admiration and respect.

Zhou Yutang also nodded with satisfaction and tapped his fingers on the table: "How are the preparations for the two programs "The King of Masked Singer" and "Running Man" going?"

"With the full support of Jiangsu Province TV Station, the working group of "The King of Masked Singer" has been implemented. Guests are currently being invited. We just need to wait for the equipment to be in place. It will be recorded by the end of March. "Running Man" needs you to discuss it with Mr. Tian. , there is no precedent for this type of outdoor variety show before.”

"Let Deng Ziqi do "The King of Masked Singer". As for "Running Man", I will go to Shanghai to talk to him when the time comes."

Jiangdong Entertainment currently has a single horizontal decision-making and flat management, which emphasizes directness and efficiency.

The meeting was held to formulate the company's work plan for this year. The key TV drama projects are "Snow Leopard" and "The Legend of Zhen Huan", and "Shanshan Is Here" is to support Zhao Liying and make money.

Zhou Yutang originally started his career in youth dramas, which is the most lucrative film and television genre at the moment.

With excellent scripts, coupled with a stable filming team, the TV series produced are finally above the standard, and with stable 8-digit profits, there is no reason not to continue to stabilize the basic market.

The working meeting ends.

Zhou Yutang arrived at the screenwriting department and took the initiative to ask the pretty girl, "Wan Wan, how are you doing in the screenwriting department recently?"

The real name of Wanwan in Zhou Yutang's mouth is Liu Wanhui, and her pen name is August Chang'an. She is currently an employee of the editorial department of Jiangdong Entertainment.

"Hello, Old Time" is her work. In addition to receiving the copyright fee for the work last year, the company also received additional bonuses. She can be considered a rich woman with an annual income of hundreds of thousands.

"Very good, boss." Liu Wanhui looked up and smiled.

"By the way, how is your relationship with Bao Jingjing?"

"It's very good. We often eat and go shopping together in private."

"We just had a meeting, and I saw something was wrong with her. What happened?"

"Boss."

Liu Wanhui was shocked by Zhou Yutang's keen observation, and finally said: "Sister Bao, she seems to have lost her love."

During the meeting just now, Zhou Yutang saw that Bao Jingjing's eyes were a little red.

To say that his ability to observe words and emotions is indeed a talent.

After learning the whole story from Liu Wanhui, Zhou Yutang nodded slightly: "You will graduate this year. Then come directly to the company to work, and I will go over and give her some advice."

"Thank you, boss."

Liu Wanhui looked at Zhou Yutang's back and felt a warm and homely sense of belonging.

Some people will burst into tears when they are broken up in love and go to KTV to vent their emotions. Some people will turn their grief and anger into appetite and eat and drink endlessly.

There are also people who have lost love and turned their grief and anger into the motivation to code.

He devoted himself to the whole story without emotion, revealing the pain of lovelorn to many audiences.

This is the case for Bao Jingjing.

Zhou Yutang stood behind her computer with her arms folded and looked at it for a long time.

There were a lot of wads of tissues on the table. Occasionally she would wipe her tears when she got emotional, and then continue typing.

"Friday, July 29, sunny to cloudy to heavy rain to sunny."

"Wang Xiaojian turned around and looked at me: Huang Xiaoxian'er, I could have played Go with Uncle Hou, but now that I have come all the way to pick you up, aren't you touched? Are those cells of yours that are responsible for touching? Was it excreted by you?"

"I am very touched. Sitting behind Wang Xiaojian, I feel an unparalleled sense of comfort."

Women are really made of water. As she wrote this, Bao Jingjing suddenly laughed, and then began to wipe her tears again.

He stretched his hand to the side and saw that the pack of tissue paper was all used up. Just as he was about to get up and look for paper, he saw a tissue handed over.

"Thanks."

Bao Jingjing wiped her tears and blew her nose, only to realize that her boss was standing behind her. She quickly stood up and said, "Boss, I didn't know you were here."

Zhou Yutang pulled up a chair and sat next to her, comforting her in a warm voice: "It's normal to be broken up in love, just let your emotions out."

"Oh, oh, boss, can you also understand the feeling of being broken up in love?"

"I understand."

"Then how did you get over your breakup?"

"I've never experienced this before. Girls usually take the initiative to chase me..."

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Bao Jingjing was even more sad when she heard this. Zhou Yutang saw that she had a tendency to drop little pearls again, so he quickly changed the topic: "Your novel seems to have received a good response online, and there are many people who support you."

Bao Jingjing was a little embarrassed: "Actually, I just felt sad after falling out of love. I wanted to vent it online so that everyone can understand the pain of people who are falling out of love, so I wrote such a story."

"The writing is very good. Are you interested in adapting the script and making it into a movie?"

"Ah? Boss, are you talking about adapting the script?"

This otaku whose profession is to deal with words, suddenly heard these words from Zhou Yutang's mouth, and was surprised and happy.

She is one of those people who can't even get the "one more bottle" out of the bottle cap when drinking a drink.

Never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that an article I casually wrote on the Internet would be favored by Zhou Yutang.

Please, is that Zhou Yutang?

Zhou Yutang chuckled and said: "Talking to others about falling in love calmly will make people feel that falling in love may not be an embarrassing thing. I think it will be a very interesting film."

"Of course I have no problem with that."

"The name needs to be changed. What do you think? It's called "Novel, or Guide". That's too casual."

Zhou Yutang pointed to the title of her story, her expression twitching slightly.

It seems that the female author's brain circuit is a little weird.

"Hello, Old Times" released in Chang'an in August was originally called "Mary Sue Case Report".

"Boss, I didn't expect it to be so popular. Please give it a name."

Zhou Yutang thought for a while, then chuckled and said: "It tells the story of what happened thirty-three days after a broken love, so let's call it "33 Days of Broken Love"."

"Love Is Not Blind" is a very typical chick flick.

Zhou Yutang did research when he entered the film and television industry.

The so-called chick flick was first played in Hollywood in the United States. It is derived from the English "chick flick", which is literally translated as a chick flick. "Chick" comes from British and American slang and is a joking name for a young woman, so "chick flick" Translated as "chick flick".

Filmmaking also requires adapting to local conditions. For the same subject matter, the routines will be different in different cultural backgrounds.

But ultimately, there are several key factors to this type of movie.

The plot is romantic and relaxed, the language is witty and humorous, and it is a romance film with a female character as the core.

In fact, last year's "Perfect" starring Zhou Yutang from International Chapter was a chick flick. Even though the plot was so bad, it still grossed more than 90 million yuan at the box office, which is enough to show the strength of the consumer group of young women.

Zhou Yutang quickly called Li Shuang:

"Sister Shuang, Bao Jingjing's "Thirty-three Days of Love" has notified the screenwriting department to change the script. Please inform the film and television department to add this film to this year's film and television project schedule."

"Okay, are you going to make this film yourself?"

"I will make "Big Shot" and leave it to teacher Xue Xiaolu. She is very sure about this type of female-themed and emotionally delicate film."

……………………

The Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end.

Zhou Yutang, Liu Shishi and Yang Mi had a small gathering in a very private club in Beijing.

"Shi Shi, when will your movie "Sword Rain" be released?"

"From what Yu Tang said, it seems to be set for May 1st."

Seeing Liu Shishi holding Zhou Yutang's arm with a gentle and sweet smile, Yang Mi silently withdrew her gaze and changed the subject: "By the way, Shi Shi, have you seen the post that broke the news on Weibo? It has been trending."

"Is it the matter of returning the pearl to Zhou Jie?"

"Yes, it's really outrageous."

The two women chatted about industry gossip for a while, and Yang Mi talked about Tang Yan: "It's a pity that Tangtang is not here. Have you seen her performance in "Pandaren"?"

"A movie?" Liu Shishi was confused.

"The TV series is broadcast on Huizhou Satellite TV."

Women are really strange creatures.

Since the filming of "Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" became a hit, the relationship between Yang Mi and Tangren Film and Television has taken a sharp turn and dropped to a freezing point.

The reasons are complex and nothing more than related to interests.

Cai Yinong actually has good vision, but she doesn't have enough connections. After Damimi became popular, she naturally looked down on Tangren Film and Television, which had limited resources.

Due to company reasons, the relationship between Liu Shishi and Yang Mi also faded away for a while. The two women rarely interacted with each other. They relied on Tang Yan to act as a lubricant in the middle, maintaining the relationship between the three beauties of the Fairy Sword.

It wasn't until Zhou Yutang and Liu Yifei starred together in "My Love from the Star" that the relationship between Liu Shishi and Yang Mi was miraculously repaired, and last year they were both selected into the Four Little Actresses.

But when it comes to the top position, Liu Shishi should be able to stabilize Yang Mi at this time.

Movie fans \u003e TV fans, this is the consensus in the industry. Liu Shishi has the hit movie "Those Years", and this year Zhou Yutang took her to star in "Sword Rain".

Yang Mi has received a lot of TV dramas, but she has not been able to receive movie resources. This is what she envies Liu Shishi.

And Tang Yan was miserable compared to these two.

After failing in the competition for the top four actresses last year, Tangtang also worked hard and joined several major productions.

However, the final box office of the super-big production "The Storm 2" was only 50 million, and "Pandaren" was even more criticized.

The entertainment industry is very realistic.

Unless there are people behind you, your position as an A-list star is solid and you can do a few dramas without any problem, because the basic market appeal is still there, but for a young actress with a shallow foundation like Tang Yan, once she stars in a film and television drama, the market effect will be If her performance is not good, then there will be another question mark when other crews hire her again.

There is Chengtian Culture behind Tang Yan, but Wu Kebo has gone crazy in order to make money from going public, and the company's management is in chaos.

After the party, everyone got into their own cars and went back to their homes.

As soon as Yang Mi got in the car, her manager Zeng Jia, who was waiting in the car, couldn't wait to ask: "How are you, Mi Mi, did Zhou Yutang say anything?"

"I just mentioned it to Shi Shi without asking."

"Why didn't you ask? Didn't you agree to this when you came?"

Seeing Yang Mi's calm look, Zeng Jia was a little anxious: "Your contract will expire in the first half of the year, so you have to find a way out in advance."

Yang Mi lowered her head and played with her fingers, bit her lip and said, "Just wait a little longer. He still has a chance in the capital. The atmosphere today is not right."

There was something she didn't say.

Mentioning this in front of Liu Shishi felt like losing to her.

Yang Mi didn't want to bow her head.

Liu Shishi raised his head.

Looking at Zhou Yutang's side face through the dim light in the car.

The lower jaw is clear and superior, the nose bones are high, and the eyes are deep while tapping on the phone.

I couldn't help but leaned forward and rested my pillow on his shoulder, "Yu Tang, are you still chatting with Tangtang?"

"Um."

Zhou Yutang didn't shy away from anything. He sent the message in person and said with a chuckle: "Tang Yan is a little depressed because of the double blow of movies and TV series hitting the streets one after another. I comfort her."

"It's really miserable."

Liu Shishi held Zhou Yutang's arm to watch him send the message.

Tang Yan sent several resentful and crying emoticons in the chat box.

Her mind was also filled with random thoughts.

Tangren Film and Television's several dramas after "Legend of Sword and Fairy 3" were all tepid. If I hadn't been led by Zhou Yutang, my situation would not be much better than that of Tang Yan.

Thinking of this, Liu Shishi hugged Zhou Yutang's arms tighter.

Zhou Yutang felt the soft touch. While texting Tang Yan, he turned his head and asked, "I just heard Yang Mi talking to you about the contract?"

"Um."

Liu Shishi nodded: "The contract between Mimi and Lingda is going to expire in the first half of this year. The company is urging her to renew the contract and has sent an extra assistant. Mimi said that he is nominally taking care of her. Life, in fact, is a bit of a comprehensive surveillance to prevent her from contact with the outside world. She managed to sneak out today."

"How long does your contract with Tangren Films last?"

"Three more years."

"Three years and three years. After three years, I will be a talker."

"Hahaha, don't make me laugh all the time. I'll get wrinkles easily."

Liu Shishi burst into laughter in his arms.

In fact, this is how newcomers join entertainment companies. They basically have long-term contracts of more than five years. Cai Yinong treats Liu Shishi pretty well.

"Have you ever thought about what happens after the contract expires?"

"I'll work for you."

Liu Shishi hugged Zhou Yutang's arm and deliberately acted cute: "You don't want me, right?"

Poor Liu Shishi is so lethal that it makes people feel protective.

Zhou Yutang didn't care to reply to Tang Yan's message, threw the phone aside, put his arm around Liu Shishi's waist, held her on his lap, and joked: "Maybe you will be a Tang Dynasty boss lady by then."

"Well"

After some tenderness, Liu Shishi smoothed the stray hair around his ears: "Yu Tang, do you think Mimi will renew her contract?"

"Certainly not."

Zhou Yutang said firmly.

The artist's contract expires. If you want to renew the contract with the company, it is basically finalized half a year ago.

The fact that the contract has not been renewed until now speaks volumes about the problem.

Yang Mi is a very smart woman.

The characteristic of a smart person is that he knows what choices are best for him.

Luchengda is also an old film and television company, but although it is well-known, its strength is limited after all. It can be seen from the departure of Mr. Zhou and Chen Kun one after another. If you want to further your acting career, you can only leave Luchengda.

Zhou Yutang has eight hundred insights and has perfected his skills in observing people's emotions. Although he was just at the party, he was busy sending messages to deal with work matters and comforting Tang Yan.

I didn't talk much to the best friends.

But occasionally his eyes flicker.

Seeing Yang Mi's expression.

He probably knew that she wanted to find a way out on his side in advance.

The only strange thing is.

Yang Mi didn't even say this.