Millennium director

Wu Yuan has an impression of the three web dramas "Forensic Qin Ming", "He's Coming, Please Close Your Eyes" and "Day and Night Chase".

"Day and Night Chase" and "Forensic Qin Ming" are relatively outstanding. The former is an original web drama, which made the male lead Pan Yueming popular again and became the biggest dark horse in 2017.

As for "Forensic Qin Ming", this IP has many works with different leading actors. Although the ratings of these different versions of web dramas vary, the reviews are still good. The main reason is that the original work has a great influence and can be regarded as the best novel in the field of forensic criminal investigation. As long as the adaptation is slightly better, the performance of the web drama will not be bad.

Although the drama "He's Coming, Please Close Your Eyes" is not as popular as the previous two works, it is the first work in the original time and space that was reversely exported from the Internet to the first-tier satellite TV.

The original cast is quite good, Huo Jianhua is paired with Ma Sichun. Huo Jianhua plays a psychology expert with superior IQ in the play, which has won the pursuit of many fans of the original work.

Ma Sichun was at her peak in this drama, and she performed well.

This web drama was produced by Sohu, and the film and television company that undertook the production was Noon Sunshine. It can be said that Sohu was the one that lagged behind.

Even so, the number of online broadcasts of this drama exceeded 200 million, and it was recognized by many industry insiders and loved by the audience.

If it was replaced by Guangying Kuaibo, with a user base and influence far exceeding Sohu, it might have achieved better results.

Wu Yuan was surprised and extremely satisfied that Guangying Kuaibo could target these three dramas, which shows that even without his "guidance", Guangying Kuaibo has capable people.

"With these three dramas as the focus, create a light and shadow fast broadcast web drama - Misty Theater?" Looking at the plan in his hand, Wu Yuan nodded in agreement and said, "The idea is very good."

"This Misty Theater can be done, and it must be done on a large scale!"

"The current domestic film and television industry is indeed lacking in criminal investigation and suspense-type film and television dramas."

"After the previous wave of TV dramas such as "Serious Case Group 6", the General Administration tightened the review standards for criminal investigation dramas. There have been no good criminal investigation dramas for many years, let alone suspense and horror themes."

"Now the market really needs dramas of this theme, and this theme can be said to be popular among men, women, young and old. The market is much larger than idol dramas, and at the same time it can avoid competition with satellite TV."

"This idea is very good, let's do it, I support this plan."

Wu Yuan gave Chen Dewei absolute affirmation, and even asked which master proposed this plan.

After asking, I found out that it was actually the head of the production department of Guangying Kuaibo. He had this idea after watching many excellent criminal investigation suspense dramas in Japan, South Korea and the United States.

To be precise, he had this idea after watching the classic forensic American drama "Bones".

As a latecomer, the Chinese film and television industry can actually copy the answers directly, but many domestic producers are disdainful or unwilling to copy the answers.

The reasons are very complicated. One of the biggest factors is that after the successful path of idol dramas, domestic film and television companies are unwilling to open up new paths.

In comparison, Guangying Kuaibo, as a company based in Asia with a broader vision, is more daring to take risks.

After all, the Japanese drama "Unnatural Death" made by the company in Japan was very successful, which has verified that similar TV dramas are also very popular in Asia, especially in China. "Unnatural Death" has been successfully exported and sold domestically, and the total number of views on Guangying Kuaibo's Chinese site has also exceeded 200 million!

"Let's just settle the matter of Misty Theater. We will do a good job of publicity when the time comes." Wu Yuan said with the final word.

So far, his mission to the company has been basically completed. The main direction of Guangying Kuaibo's efforts in the future is to conduct the first round of financing, get some hot money and continue to invest in the development of the company.

Expanding servers, making TV series and variety shows, all of these cost a lot of money. Even if there is 1.8 billion US dollars, it is estimated that it will be spent in one or two years.

In the foreseeable future, Guangying Kuaibo will have to conduct the second and third rounds of financing, and then go public to raise some money, and finally share the cost with the majority of shareholders.

After finally instructing Chen Dewei, leaving an encouraging look, Wu Yuan left the company.

In fact, there is another company of his upstairs in Guangying Kuaibo, that is Guangying Times Cinema.

However, unlike the turbulent Light and Shadow Fast Broadcast, the cinema chain of Light and Shadow Times has developed very smoothly. The executives poached from North American cinema chains have not been overwhelmed by the bear market in the domestic film market. They have been expanding madly regardless of everything and have always been in a steady expansion rhythm.

At present, Light and Shadow Times Cinema Chain has ten cinemas and nearly 200 theaters in China, including Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, covering almost 90% of prefecture-level cities.

In non-China regions, mainly Malaysia and Singapore, Light and Shadow Times Cinema Chain also has more than a dozen theaters.

After the scale of the cinema chain reached this level, the company has shifted from the expansion era to the stable development era, and the number of new theaters built each year is only a few.

No need to invest most of the annual theater profits into snowball expansion, now Light and Shadow Times Cinema Chain can also bring Wu Yuan more than 10 billion yuan in net income every year.

Most of this net income was invested by Wu Yuan in the upgrading of cinemas.

That is, IMAX theaters.

This thing is still very expensive.

At present, there is only one cinema chain in China, Wanda Cinema Line, which can ensure that every cinema under its umbrella has an IMAX theater.

Other cinema chains such as Dadi and Xingmei only have 30% of their theaters with IMAX theaters. Although the proportion of Guangying Times is a little higher, it is only 50%, and it can only achieve one IMAX theater in one cinema.

Such a number certainly cannot satisfy Wu Yuan. After the cinemas stopped expanding, he asked the cinema chain to start increasing the number of IMAX theaters.

3D IMAX movies are the general trend in the next five years and are also the main creators of commercial movies. Whoever controls more IMAX theaters will naturally make more money.

And to put it in a smaller way, Wu Yuan's "Ready Player One" can only get the best viewing effect in 3D IMAX theaters. The charm of this science fiction movie cannot be fully felt in ordinary 3D theaters.

Even if it is for the sake of his new movie to have higher box office and better viewing experience for moviegoers, he also hopes that there will be more IMAX theaters in China.

And this is exactly the catalyst of the industrial chain. In order to cooperate with the release of a movie, the upstream and downstream are upgrading and developing!

Under this harmonious development, Wu Yuan can also safely invest in the post-production of the two movies at hand. (End of this chapter)