Millennium director

Beijing, Wu Yuan's home.

Liu Yifei, who had just finished filming on the set and returned to the capital after a long journey, curiously looked at the documents Wu Yuan placed on the table in the living room.

"So, there will be a lot of co-produced TV series coming online from Light and Shadow Kuaibo in the future?"

Although Wu Yuan is not responsible for the day-to-day operations of Guangying Qvod, of course he will be informed of any big moves made by the company as soon as possible. Even these specific cooperation documents must be signed and sealed by him before they can be confirmed and implemented.

Therefore, the news that Guangying Kuaibo had recently negotiated cooperation with three film and television companies was immediately sent to Wu Yuan.

Coincidentally, Liu Yifei also finished her work and returned home at this time, and saw these documents.

"Speaking of which, I haven't acted in a TV series for many years." Liu Yifei held her chin and said with some nostalgia: "I haven't acted in a TV series since "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". Making a movie.”

"At that time, everyone inside and outside the industry agreed that movie actors were higher than TV drama actors. Actors who can act in movies would not condescend to act in TV dramas. My mother thought so too, and later she never accepted TV dramas for me."

"But this statement is actually not wrong. Actors such as Gong Li, Zhang Ziyi, Michelle Yeoh, Jet Li, Cheng Long, and Tang Wei seem to have never acted in TV series."

"For example, some actors who started out as actors in TV dramas will never act in TV dramas again after acting in movies. Chen Kun and Sister Xun haven't acted in TV dramas for many years, right?"

"Huh." Wu Yuan, who was scrolling through Weibo on his phone, raised his head and glanced at his wife, and said in a teasing tone: "You are a little behind on the news."

"Chen Kun is back to act in a TV series. It's called Tiansheng Changge. It just started airing in August."

"Sister Xun has also made a comeback, starring in "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" as Huo Jianhua, which will also be aired in August."

"The same goes for Tang Wei. He acted in the drama "The Ming Dynasty" last year. However, this drama had some twists and turns. During the filming period, it went through three changes of investors. The submission process was also quite tortuous. After submitting it for review many times, it was rejected and asked for revision. It’s still stuck at the review stage, and I guess I’ll have to reshoot some of the plot.”

"I heard that it was because of disrespect for historical facts and the portrayal of the heroine, Queen Mother Sun, was too different from history. It was suspected of tampering with history, and the radio and television did not approve it."

"In short, these actors who are not filming TV series have been hired by the management to film TV series at a huge price."

"I heard that the producer of "The Ming Dynasty" had been fighting Tang Wei for nine months before convincing her to star. Of course, the money was in place."

"Sister Xun is even more outrageous. When I was filming "Red Sorghum" a few years ago, the salary was only 30 million. This time, the management spent 53 million on "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace", and the male lead was also 50 million. The two protagonists plus He took away a salary of 100 million, but the total investment of this TV series was only 300 million. "

"I don't know the exact amount of Kun Er's salary for starring in "Tian Sheng Long Song", but it is definitely not low. Anyway, Kun Er said that he was directly convinced by the money."

"Otherwise, with his talkative personality in recent years, why would he come out and make another TV series?"

"Really?" Liu Yifei was very surprised. She really didn't know much about the TV drama market in the past two years. The main reason is that these movie stars were basically convinced by capital in 2017 and joined the TV series again. Most of the dramas they filmed were It only started broadcasting in the second half of this year. If you don't pay special attention to it, you really don't understand it.

Like Liu Yifei, she receives invitations to TV series all year round, and her salary has increased from about 20 million at the beginning to the current asking price of 70 to 80 million. However, she stopped accepting TV series a few years ago, so naturally she doesn't care too much. These.

Liu Yifei's development in this life is much smoother than in her previous life. In the film industry, she has box office and box office awards, and she also has Golden Rooster Best Actress. Coupled with her national appeal, the full-blooded fairy sister who has never been bled is really worth more than Zhou Xun Xun and Tang Wei are both tall.

"The pay for TV dramas nowadays is too high. When I acted in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", I only got 200,000 yuan for the whole show. Now actors can get millions for one episode. It's too Terrible."

Liu Yifei patted her chest. Even if she was not very sensitive to finance, she could still feel that the current Chinese TV drama market was a little out of shape, especially the high pay in the industry, which was even several times higher than that of American TV dramas. Times, the salary of a Chinese TV drama actor can match that of a second-tier to first-tier movie actor in Hollywood.

Not to mention Japan and South Korea, the money spent on one Chinese-language TV series can be used to shoot 10 Japanese or Korean dramas, but there is no obvious difference in quality between the two. There is even a higher probability that Japanese and Korean dramas will produce high-quality products.

The only place where domestic dramas are ahead of Japanese and Korean dramas is that they use more special effects and their fight scenes are more gorgeous.

Yes, I’m talking about those fairy tales and ancient puppet shows.

As for the gap in other places, it is really not obvious, because most of the money is still used to pay actors, and not much is actually spent on producing TV series.

"That's how the market is." Wu Yuan looked unconcerned and shrugged indifferently: "The market now is crazy, just like when the domestic film industry first recovered. Everyone thought they would invite the best actor. If you become a superstar, you can get a big hit at the box office and make a lot of money, so you spend hundreds of millions in salary to hire superstars from Hong Kong and Taiwan to star in movies.”

"Then all those so-called blockbusters lost all their money, and the market sobered up. Look at the current domestic film industry. Which movie actor can still get high pay? People pay more attention to the script rather than the actor."

"Andy Lau and Brother Long can only get 20 million."

"The current TV industry is just repeating this mistake. When all the dramas shot by these big-name movie actors with high pay this year fail and the ratings fall below, the market will sober up and know that it is useless to hire actors with high pay."

"And by that time, it will be the time when the real new generation of TV actors will begin to emerge. Various capitals, mainly major video platforms, will focus on promoting their own new generation of TV actors, instead of thinking about spending a lot of money to hire movie actors, because the audience will not buy it."

" There is indeed a gap between TV series and movies. Even the audience groups of the two are completely different. Those TV viewers who love to watch ancient puppet dramas are not many who actually go to the cinema to watch movies. The same is true in reverse. Most moviegoers don’t really watch this kind of ancient puppet drama. "

"The future of domestic TV series still depends on the new generation of TV actors born after 1995. Zhao Lusi, Bai Mengyan and other talents who cooperate with Guangying Kuaibo are the future."

"Although they may not be able to carry the box office in movies, and may even be discriminated by fans, they will definitely be able to call the shots and control the traffic in the field of TV series."

"In the future, the degree of separation between the two industries of movies and TV series should be greater, and our film industry should also discover a new generation of movie actors, otherwise I am afraid that we will fall into a period of transition."

"There is a long way to go!" (End of this chapter)