Shenhao who plays around the world

Chapter 158 It’s about to take off

The New Year's Eve and Spring Festival alone, two limited-time currency swaps, brought Lin Shen 1.2 billion in income.

Even a millionaire with a net worth of tens of billions may not have as abundant cash flow as Lin Shen.

Most of the so-called rich are just false net worth supported by stock prices.

There are many people who are neither today’s tens of billions nor tomorrow’s billionaires.

At any time, whether there is sufficient cash or not is the benchmark for measuring a super rich person.

Zhong Xia has been very busy recently, dealing with many venture capital investors who are interested in Forest Pictures and politely rejecting their investment.

With Lin Shen as his backer, Zhong Xia has plenty of funds.

Today's Forest Pictures, in addition to the great master Jiang Ye, has signed three directors in one go, all of whom are quite outstanding.

As for actors, the acting skills of the two newly signed male artists were also praised by Jiang Ye.

If there is a suitable film and television project in the future, Jiang Ye will definitely choose them first.

The five outstanding employee quotas previously awarded to Lin Shen by the system were all used up by Lin Shen in one go, enriching Forest Pictures' talent pool.

There are three outstanding directors, two men and one woman, all around 35 years old. All of them have the ability of first-line directors in the industry, and they are good at shooting subjects with different emphasis.

Road administration, specializing in police and military-themed film and television dramas.

Zhu Rui is good at film and television dramas with the theme of fairy tales and ancient dolls.

Xue Lu is good at love and youth-themed film and television dramas.

Suddenly there were three more powerful directors, and Zhong Xia felt confident.

If Jiang Ye is added to the list, Forest Pictures can start four projects at the same time.

The two male actors are both tall and handsome, and their looks are enough to kill domestic entertainment traffic instantly.

More importantly, both Lu Yao and Ren Hao have excellent acting skills.

Among young artists in the industry, they are definitely at the ceiling level.

What they lack is just an explosive drama.

Coincidentally, Lin Shen's most indispensable thing is a hit script.

Lu Yao is handsome, gentle and elegant, the kind of guy who is a campus hero.

Ren Hao is handsome, he is bohemian and naughty.

Both styles have their own audiences, and there is no need to worry about how the two of them will be affected.

With new people, there is no need to flatter outsiders in the future.

Although he is very handsome, his acting skills were also praised by Jiang Ye.

But after all, they are still newcomers.

Going from 0 to 1 is the hardest.

Fortunately, Forest Pictures doesn't have much else but a lot of hit movies and TV series.

After a few dramas, it will be difficult for both of them not to grow into first-line niche actors.

Lu Yao is very easy to arrange, just arrange the scenes according to his temperament and that's it.

Zhong Xia dug out the script of "Little Beauty" from several scripts given to him by Lin Shen, and planned to let Lu Yao play the male lead, and he could just find a female artist to match him.

After reading several scripts Lin Shen gave her, Zhong Xia felt a little doubtful about life.

Most film and television companies receive so many scripts every year that it is hard to find even one hit drama.

But Lin Shen, all of them have the potential to become hits.

The original male protagonist of "Little Beautiful" had his Weibo followers increase from 710,000 to 6.6 million during the show's broadcast.

Lu Yao's acting skills are naturally more than a hundred times better than the original male lead, and he will only attract more fans.

As for Ren Hao and Zhong Xia, they came up with the "Dear" script.

This drama has more potential to be a hit than "Little Beautiful".

The original male protagonist also had a sudden increase of 13 million fans from 4 million when it was broadcast, and was promoted to the top niche in one fell swoop.

Both of these dramas can be considered low-cost web dramas.

Lin Shen's cost of purchasing these two dramas from the system was only 30 million.

As for the production cost, the former mainly focuses on filming in campuses and hospitals, plus post-production publicity, 20 million is enough.

The cost of the latter was 50 million. To be on the safe side, Lin Shen asked Zhong Xia to find a way to find the original heroine Yang Zi.

Speaking of which, Yang Zi was miserable enough.

The popular film and television dramas produced in recent years have almost all been banned because of the actors they collaborated with.

Nowadays, due to salary caps, film remuneration has also dropped a lot.

Fortunately, in the ancient puppet theater market, she is considered a golden brand and is recognized by a lot of capital.

As for Ren Hao's lack of fame, this is not a problem.

As long as the money is available, are you worried that you won't be able to hire anyone?

After the salary limit order was introduced, the male and female protagonists' remuneration must not exceed 10% of the total production cost, causing the salary of many actors to more than double.

Even a 10% remuneration is an astronomical figure for ordinary people.

However, many celebrities will bring money into the industry to increase their income.

The talks between Zhong Xia and Yang Zi's studio went quite smoothly, and the script was handed over to Yang Zi.

The cost of this drama itself is not very high.

There are only a few main scenes.

An investment of 50 million, including publicity, is more than enough.

But if according to the salary limit order, Yang Zi can only be given a salary of 5 million yuan at most, that would definitely not be justified.

It is impossible for others to accept this drama.

No matter how good the script is, few actors are willing to lower their pay for a good script.

A salary of 5 million + 15% of the film and television copyright income dividends was the condition offered by Forestry Pictures.

Yang Zi herself read the script and really liked the character of the heroine Tong Nian. The pay was a bit low, but fortunately there was a share of the copyright income.

Zhongxia promised to ensure that Yang Zi’s income would not be less than 20 million.

If it is not enough, Forest Film will make up for it.

After talking about this, Yang Zi readily agreed and will report to the crew when the schedule is coordinated.

Among the three directors, Xue Lu was in charge of filming "Little Beautiful", while Zhu Rui was in charge of filming "Dear".

According to the salary limit order, the director, screenwriter, and male lead actor's respective share shall not exceed 10% of the total cost.

The director's remuneration for Zhongxia is directly calculated at 10%.

The screenwriter's remuneration was saved and used on filming.

As for the two newcomers, the resources and remuneration provided by their own company will be fine.

It’s only 200,000, which is not as much as an A-list actor’s salary for one episode.

But after it became popular after it aired, the two of them were paid tens of millions for basic operations.

Being top-notch, it’s not just the salary that makes money.

Various business titles are the highlight.

…

The completion of two high-quality online dramas has made Lemon Films a new force that cannot be underestimated in the industry.

"White Night Chase" alone attracted more than 10 million new members for Lemon Films.

The suspense drama itself has a strong stickiness and can easily attract users to continue to follow the drama.

Super high quality, full acting skills online, movie-level editing, continues to be on the hot search...

The fierce pursuit of the villain in the white night is also popular.

However, some netizens couldn’t help complaining that although Lemon Movies membership is very cheap, it can’t hold up to the entire App’s movie and TV library, just two dramas.

Some impatient ones have already finished their second or even third brush.

No matter how good the show is, you will get bored after watching it over and over again.

For a web drama, it takes at least two and a half months from start to finish.

Generally, the shooting time is more than three months, plus post-production editing, soundtrack and promotion, the whole process takes four months.

How to spend these four months is the top problem facing Song Kun.

Since it is difficult to provide new and excellent dramas in the short term in terms of film and television dramas, let’s start with variety shows.

Lin Shen treats both companies equally.

Lemon Film and Television also has 500 million funds in its account.

With this money, Song Kun also began to recruit people. The size of the company jumped to thousands of people just like blowing up a balloon.

Among them, Song Kun did not have sole power in the recruitment of technical talents, but invited Yao Xin to check it.

The capable ones are at the top and the mediocre ones are at the bottom. There is nothing to say.

They are in business, not charity.

During this period, Song Kun acquired a romance production company and absorbed its team talents.

Let them start producing two romance dramas at the same time, and they must be very careful in selecting people.

As we all know, it is not uncommon for guests who are dating pornographic movies to have their houses collapse.

But it is undeniable that it is easy to use small things to make a big difference in the romance genre.

In terms of production costs, they are not as exaggerated as mainstream music variety shows.

Of course, in order to ensure the flow of the program, some celebrities are usually invited to act as observers.

Otherwise, just pointing at some ‘amateurs’ will hardly cause a big splash.

In fact, these romance variety shows are all scripted.

Who the amateurs are paired with, which episode they start to feel like falling in love with, and even the love triangle that appears later are all arranged in advance by the show team, not free love.

The two program plans that Lin Shen handed over to Song Kun were "Half Lovers" and "Heart Signal" which have a good reputation among love dramas.

The former ran around naked in the first season to attract investment, but gained the love of thousands of netizens. The 30+ view of love has frequently been on the hot searches.

The latter is not as exaggerated as the former, but it can continue to be produced until the fifth season, which shows the fan base accumulated by the show.

Due to budget considerations, Song Kun did not plan to invite those celebrities to act as observers.

Recruiting celebrities is nothing more than ensuring that the program will not die prematurely so that it can attract some advertisers and sponsors.

But equally, coordinating celebrity schedules is also a troublesome matter.

Instead of going through so many twists and turns, it would be better to abolish the observation room and create a 'real' love directly around these amateurs.

Many viewers are too lazy to watch the celebrity guests in the observation room and usually just skip it.

The platform itself is not well-known enough, and there are no celebrities to support it, so investment promotion can be ignored.

Fortunately, the salary for amateurs is very cheap. A few hundred thousand is enough for them to sign and cooperate obediently.

The variety show production company acquired by Song Kun had previously produced two romance variety shows that made a splash.

In the past, the three major platforms, if they believed that a certain program had the potential to be a hit, would relax investment restrictions and would not require the program to achieve 30%-70% of the investment results.

But now, it doesn’t matter if the program investment is lower than 1. If the investment cannot cover the cost, the program will not be released at all.

Upstream platforms have reduced production budgets, and downstream production companies are naturally having a harder time and are tightening their belts.

Song Kun took action at this time and acquired an extraordinary variety show production company at a relatively low price.

It just so happens that this company itself has an amateur database, which has collected information on amateur guests that meet the requirements of the program for the convenience of filming.

For an amateur romance show, in addition to the difficulty of coordinating the stars' schedules, the most difficult thing is to select qualified amateur guests.

Some guests are real amateurs, but some guests are Internet celebrities. They are chosen to increase the popularity of the topic.

A common problem with this type of romance drama is that the guest profiles are all glamorous and beautiful. They are always a certain turtle or a certain company CEO, and the audience can't help but complain.

Are you really that awesome, why would you even join a love show?

Human design can be established, but it must be close to reality.

Often the more ruthlessly people set things up, the more disastrous it will be when the house collapses.

Looking at those CPs who love variety shows, there are also many who tear each other up after the broadcast.

However, there is one thing that Song Kun specifically emphasized: those who know their best cannot be on the show, those with corrupt personal ethics cannot be on the show, and those with girlfriends will not be considered.

What would be most fatal would be if the house collapsed during the broadcast, and the post-production editing would be exhausting.

Compared with heartbeat signals, semi-acquainted lovers are easier to operate.

If you are over 30 years old, you are already a relatively mature type. Naturally, you will not be like a young person who will collapse your house and have a bunch of shitty things happen to you.

Furthermore, even if the house collapses, it has nothing to do with the show.

As long as it is on air, it will not affect popularity and ratings.

As for the end of the broadcast, who cares?

…

After signing a contract with the company, Zhao Xiaoke was surprised not to see Lin Shen.

After being summoned by Zhong Xia, Zhao Xiaoke quickly came over to listen to the instructions of this strong woman in the company.

"Mr. Zhong."

Zhao Xiaoke is in a good mood during this period. After the broadcast of Yuci Xiaowu, she gained more followers on Weibo.

But in the final analysis, she is just the second female lead.

On the other hand, Huang Mengying became famous thanks to her acting skills and the marketing behind Jiaxing.

The one that really takes the lead in Diaoyutai is Lemon Films, which has gained a lot of users by relying on free broadcasts.

Even though many people uninstalled it after watching it, it also played a big role in attracting new members for Baiye Zhuiji later.

"sit."

Zhong Xia smiled and took out a script from the drawer, "Director Jiang will have a new drama after the year. This is a role prepared for you. It is very challenging."

"ah?"

Zhao Xiaoke quickly took over the script in surprise and saw the words "hidden corner" clearly printed on the first page.

The role she got was called Wang Yao.

In the play, Wang Yao lost her beloved daughter, and she needed to show her heartbreak over the separation of her flesh and blood, her suspicion of potential "enemies", and her unscrupulous efforts to find the real culprit.

This role requires extremely high acting skills.

Just reading through the script made Zhao Xiaoke feel a little stressed.

As an actor, when encountering such a brilliant character, he is naturally very happy.

The entire drama only has 12 episodes, but the production cost is as high as 60 million.

The production budget of 5 million per episode is definitely not low for a suspense-themed drama.

Who is Jiang Ye?

He was at his peak when he debuted, and his debut film was "White Night Chase" with a score of 9.5.

Now the second work has attracted the attention of many people.

Even if it is a web drama, if it has such a good reputation, it will still be competed by actors.

"By the way, after the filming of this drama is completed, your heroine drama will be launched. Friendly reminder, it is a costume drama."

When Zhong Xia stood up from her seat, Zhao Xiaoke suddenly gave her a huge surprise.

"So, let's learn from those veteran actors in this drama. When you take the lead, I don't want our company to have to use outsiders because of your lack of acting skills."

When he left Zhong Xia's office, Zhao Xiaoke looked surprised and a little disbelieving.

The main heroine is still in a costume drama, she is about to take off!

(End of chapter)