Chapter 169 TV Series for Sale, Coming of Age Ceremony Is Coming

Director Han agreed very quickly. It didn't make sense that Wu Baige would dare to invest in a 600 million production, but he wouldn't dare to invest in Wu Yuan's 300 million production.

However, the specific investment ratio and matters had to wait until the budget of the first phase was made before they could start negotiating.

The first thing Director Han had to do was to help Wu Yuan contact the National Space Administration.

Until now, he still hadn't realized that Wu Yuan was actually trying to snipe Red Cliff with his noble and righteous reasons for making Gravity.

Red Cliff hadn't even started filming yet, and Director Han didn't even know when the film would be released. How could he have expected that Wu Yuan wanted to clash with Red Cliff?

Director Han was very positive. When the National Space Administration heard that a domestic director wanted to make a space-themed movie, and that Wu Yuan was a world-renowned director, they also responded very positively.

Don't think that great scientists who do science don't watch movies and are oblivious to what's happening outside.

In fact, most of them also know Wu Yuan, the talented director who has won glory for the country internationally.

If other directors said they wanted to make a Chinese space science fiction movie, they would definitely sneer at them.

Scientists value professionalism more.

In their opinion, space science fiction is a complex and difficult movie that China has never made before. Ordinary Chinese directors can't handle it at all, and the movie they make will definitely be a bad movie.

The Space Administration also has to save face. It is not that any cat or dog will agree to cooperate in making a movie.

But the one who came to the door was Wu Yuan, and the situation was different.

This is the director who is best at making special effects movies in China. If he can't make space science fiction movies, then there is no director in China who can do it, not even Zhang Yimou.

Without seeing the script, the leaders of the Space Administration agreed to it and made an appointment to meet at the National Space Administration next weekend.

They plan to discuss the specific matters with the great director Wu Yuan.

Wu Yuan has no objection to this.

It's just a week, he can still wait.

After returning from the United States, Wu Yuan finally had a small long vacation.

"Love", "Painted Skin" and "Pirates of the Caribbean 2" have all been filmed, and the only work he has agreed to do is "Rush Hour 3".

Although the early preparations for "Rush Hour 3" have begun, it will not start filming until the end of the year at the earliest.

In other words, Wu Yuan can enjoy about three or four months of vacation.

However, before starting his vacation, Wu Yuan still needs to deal with the trivial matters of the domestic company.

The professional manager he has always wanted to find has finally been found.

Li Xiaoping, the former chief image designer of CCTV's "Economic Half Hour", resigned from CCTV in 1999 and joined Guangguang Media. Finally, she was poached by the headhunting company that Wu Yuan found.

Li Xiaoping's name is not known to many people, but the movies she produced are well-known.

From "Crazy Alien" to "Nezha: The Devil Child Comes to the World" to "My People, My Country", they are all movies produced by her.

Of course, she is not a professional producer, she is actually the helmsman of a professional film production company.

Since March 2011, she has served as the president of Enlight Pictures, and led Enlight Pictures to ride the wind and waves when the film market exploded, and the market value doubled again and again.

This is undoubtedly a senior manager who is very suitable for the position of general manager of Guangying Times.

Fortunately, it is only 2005 now. Although Li Xiaoping has shown her talent in Guangying Times, she is not yet indispensable.

The annual salary after tax is 1 million in the headhunting company. After five years of employment, she will receive option rewards, and receive 0.5% of stock options every year for 5 years.

And these option shares will be immediately unblocked after Guangying Times goes public, and Li Xiaoping can cash out and leave at any time.

Under the temptation of such conditions, Li Xiaoping agreed to change jobs.

Enlight Pictures seems to be quite good at present, but Wu Yuan’s own company is not bad either!

The most important thing is that Li Xiaoping feels that Guangying has not held the cooperation contract of the big director, which is a big disadvantage!

Huayi has Feng Xiaogang, and Guangying Times has Wu Yuan himself and the cutting-edge Zhang Guorong.

From this point of view, it seems that Guangying Times has a better future.

It seems that Guangying Times and Huayi are more likely to be successfully listed in the future when the upper authorities lift the ban on the listing of film production companies.

Well, the annual salary of 1 million in 2005 is indeed an irresistible condition.

On the second floor of Guangying Times' headquarters, Wu Yuan met this future company general.

"Mr. Li, have you sorted out the company's situation in the past two days?"

Wu Yuan smiled and looked at the girl with bangs who occupied his general manager's office in front of him.

After Li Xiaoping arrived at the company, Wu Yuan stepped down as the general manager of the company.

Guangying Times did not go public, so naturally there was no board of directors, president's office or other institutions. The biggest boss of the company was the general manager.

In the past, Wu Yuan had always held this position concurrently. Now that the company has a manager who is truly responsible for daily operations, he will certainly not occupy the position anymore.

Perhaps when Guangying Times successfully goes public in the future, he will hold the position of chairman again, and he can also be called Mr. Wu in the future.

Well, it feels better to call him Director Wu.

"Director Wu, I'm familiar with all the film projects that the company has completed before. There are no problems with the billing process or anything like that."

Li Xiaoping stood up and welcomed Wu Yuan to sit on the sofa in the office.

She is not very old this year, only 28 years old, and she is still young.

According to the original trajectory, she should work hard in Guangying Times for another five or six years before becoming the president.

Li Xiaoping is still a little immature now, but she is definitely capable enough to manage the small company Guangying Times.

"All the box office revenues of Director Zhang's If Love have been settled. After the share with China Film, our company's net profit is more than 13 million, which is a small profit."

"Director Wu, your film Love sold copyrights in Europe for 7.52 million US dollars, and the money has been received."

"According to the cooperation agreement between the company and Tangren Film and Television, and your request, the company has assumed half of the production cost of Fairy From the Other World and co-produced this TV series with Tangren."

"Tangren also sent a script for Young Generals of the Yang Family, saying that the project will be launched at the end of this year, and asked if we have any investment intentions."

"What do you think?" Li Xiaoping looked at Wu Yuan with an inquiring look.

"Young Generals of the Yang Family?" Wu Yuan pondered in his heart.

At that time, he signed a cooperation agreement with Tangren for a total of five TV series. Now he has invested in Fairy From the Other World 1 and Fairy From the Other World, and there are still three spots left.

The only TV series that Tangren can sell well in the next few years are Fairy From the Other World 3 and Startling by Each Step.

Among the remaining TV series, Young Generals of the Yang Family and The Legend of the Condor Heroes are about the same.

By the way, it is worth mentioning that Hu Ge, who won 2.8 billion box office in Asia with Your Name, still came back to shoot Tangren's self-made drama.

It's because there is no place for him in the current film market.

Just like Jing Boran after starring in Monster Hunt, although he has become the owner of the mainland box office record, there is no suitable drama for him in the circle, or his connections are not enough for him to get access to the top cake.

Hu Ge is the same.

Without Wu Yuan, neither he himself nor Tangren Film and Television behind him could have won him big-budget movies such as Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige.

Including Red Cliff, which Wu Baige is preparing, Wu Baige does not use him, not even for a handsome supporting role.

Who told Wu Baige to dislike Wu Yuan? How could he use someone from the "Wu Yuan system"?

What's even more embarrassing is that the directors who make commercial films don't use Hu Ge, and the directors who make art films don't want to use Hu Ge either.

Because Hu Ge became famous overnight with commercial films, his acting skills are not guaranteed. In addition, he has so many box office hits, so many art film directors think he must be too expensive to use.

Cai Yinong took Hu Ge around and tried many movies directed by big directors, but didn't get any roles, or could only get some "low-end" leading roles. She had no choice but to grit her teeth and bring Hu Ge back to shoot her own drama.

"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" was broadcast on Hunan TV at the beginning of the year, and it was broadcast before the government issued a policy to ban the broadcast of TV series adapted from games.

It can only be said that Mango TV is really something.

After the TV series was broadcast, the ratings were very good, almost sweeping the entire Chinese young people group. Even in Internet cafes across the country, there was a trend of watching "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

2005 was the first year of the online video platform. "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" took advantage of this trend and became the first TV series to explode on the Internet.

Although all the TV series resources on the Internet are pirated now,

Hu Ge and Liu Yifei really made a big splash in front of young people across the country after half a year.

Not only that, "The Legend of Sword and Fairy" was also broadcast in Japan.

Fuji TV in Japan put this TV series in the night time slot, that is, from 23:30 in the evening to 2 o'clock in the morning.

This is the time slot for late-night dramas, which is second only to the prime time in terms of the number of viewers.

The response after the broadcast was also good. Most Japanese viewers who watched "Your Name" were very respectful and came to support "The Legend of Sword and Fairy".

The Japanese version of "The Legend of Sword and Fairy", which was specially dubbed in Japanese, caused quite a stir among Japanese drama fans with its special "sword fairy color" and the "monster culture" that Japanese people can still understand.

During the broadcast, it won the championship in late-night drama ratings for three consecutive weeks.

Light and Shadow Times and Tangren made a lot of money. Hu Ge and Liu Yifei's popularity in Japan was consolidated again. Both of them got a lot of endorsements.

Liu Yifei has decided to announce the news of signing with Sony Japan at the coming-of-age ceremony held by Sony this year, and then go to Japan to release records.

As for Hu Ge, Tangren can't find a channel to enter Japan, so of course they can only bring Hu Ge back to continue to shoot self-made dramas, and then rely on the relationship with Light and Shadow Times to continue to sell the dramas to Japan.

Considering this, Wu Yuan received the notice of the establishment of "Fairy from the Other World" when he was filming "Pirates of the Caribbean 2", and then agreed to invest in this drama.

This is a mythological drama, and Hu Ge continues to star again. He can indeed invest in it, and then try to sell it in Japan and make a lot of money.

But "Young Generals of the Yang Family"

Although Cai Yinong promised that Hu Ge would continue to star, the background of this TV series is not the Three Kingdoms period that Japan is more familiar with.

"It doesn't feel as good as "The Legend of the Condor Heroes". At least it is a martial arts film. There is still a market for martial arts films in Japan." Wu Yuan thought to himself, and decisively said to Li Xiaoping: "Reject it."

"This TV show feels so-so."

Now if he invests in a Tang Dynasty drama, he must meet one of two conditions, either it can become a hit in China, or he can sell it in Japan and make two bucks, otherwise he will not invest.

Li Xiaoping immediately nodded to express her understanding, and then opened the memo.

"One last thing, the TV series "Destined to Love You" was the project that you personally ordered before, Director Wu, right?"

"This TV series has been filmed, and the post-production and editing have been completed. I have asked Li Jichang to take the samples to the film purchasing departments of major TV stations to try to sell them."

It is different from "Sword and Fairy 1", which became popular even before the male and female protagonists were sold, and major TV stations rushed to get it.

Although the protagonist of "Destined to Love You" has the fiery young boy Lu Yi, it is a brand-new idol drama after all, so people won't rush to buy it as soon as it is finished. We still have to go through the normal promotion process.

"How is it?" Wu Yuan asked curiously.

He is very curious about the current vision of the film purchasing departments of domestic TV stations.

"The situation is not bad." Li Xiaoping said with a smile.

She has watched the finished film of "Destined to Love You". As a 28-year-old working woman, Li Xiaoping really likes this TV series and feels that this TV series has the potential to become a hit.

She dutifully reported: "The northern provinces don't dare to try to broadcast such idol dramas in prime time, so even if they want to buy it, the price is not high, and they all want to broadcast it in the afternoon or morning ”

"The TV stations in the south, Dragon TV, Jiangsu and Zhejiang TV, and Mango Channel are all very interested in this TV series. They are also bold and willing to broadcast it in prime time, but the price they offer is not very high."

"The highest bidder is Mango Channel, which is transforming to create a younger and more entertaining channel. It is willing to buy the first-round exclusive broadcast rights for 300,000 yuan an episode."

"Destined to Love You" produced by Light and Shadow Times was edited according to the 40-50 minute length of an episode of mainland TV series, with a total of 40 episodes cut out.

One episode is 300,000, and the total of 40 episodes is only 12 million.

In fact, the price is not bad. The total production cost of this TV series was only 13 million, and most of it was spent on renting luxury cars, luxury goods, and high-end shoes and bags.

Urban dramas are second only to sitcoms in terms of saving money to shoot.

Moreover, during the filming of this drama, in order to save money, Li Jichang begged his grandfather and grandma to do some investment promotion and pulled in a lot of pre-roll advertisements. The advertising fee in this area was supplemented by 3 million.

In other words, the first round of broadcasting can recover the cost and make a small profit of 2 million, which is already a very cost-effective thing.

If the response to the next broadcast is good, selling the second, third, and fourth rounds will all be for nothing!

But Wu Yuan was not satisfied with the price.

He shook his head: "Go and talk to Mango Channel again, negotiate a betting agreement with them, and use the ratings to bet. The higher the ratings, the more money they will give, and the lower the ratings, the less they will give. "

"I think their new station director is an ambitious person and will agree to this kind of gambling contract."

"Ah?" Li Xiaoping was stunned for a moment.

This is not the era of crazy gambling among 85-year-olds.

These days, it is rare to use ratings as a bet on TV series sales.

However, Li Xiaoping was also a well-informed person, and she quickly reacted. In addition, she was also very optimistic about the TV series "Destined to Love You", so she nodded: "I understand, I will follow up. of."

"Okay." Wu Yuan stood up. Just as he was about to encourage her a few more words, the phone in his pocket rang.

Taking out his cell phone, Wu Yuan saw a familiar name of the caller.

"Hey, Sissy, what's wrong?" Wu Yuan answered the phone with a smile.

Liu Yifei's sweet voice came from the phone: "Brother, my coming-of-age ceremony will be in two days, don't forget to attend!"

"I got it~" Wu Yuan said amusingly: "This is already the third phone call you have made in the past few days."

"I'm afraid you'll forget about it," Liu Yifei said playfully.

"Don't worry, I will be there on time."

Wu Yuan's tone was still so gentle and steady, without any hint of irritation.

It just so happens that Liu Yifei likes his stable, gentle and patient appearance. It's really easy to get addicted to him.

She said with a smile: "Okay, let's do this for now. I won't disturb you, Senior Brother~"

After saying that, she hung up the phone.

Looking at the end call interface on his phone, Wu Yuan smiled fondly and put it back in his pocket.

When he raised his head, he saw Li Xiaoping looking down at her toes seriously, as if there were flowers on her toes.

Yes, he is a sensible and knowledgeable subordinate.

"That's it for now, and you'll notify me of the results of the negotiations later." Wu Yuan reached out and patted Li Xiaoping's shoulder, narrowed his eyes, and said with a bright smile: "I'll leave the company's daily administrative work to you. "

Li Xiaoping raised her head and met Wu Yuan's bright smile.

Damn, this boss looks so handsome when he smiles!

Li Xiaoping wailed in her heart, what a pity! The boss has already taken over!

Unexpectedly, the scandal between him and Liu Yifei was actually true? !

Any normal person can tell something from Wu Yuan's doting smile on the phone just now.

Li Xiaoping's thinking is also normal.

So, she could only quickly cut off some inappropriate thoughts, put her legs together, held her head high, and promised seriously: "Director Wu, don't worry! The company will never make mistakes!"

It must be worthy of the annual salary of one million and the future option dividends!

Wu Yuan nodded with a smile, and then left the company with peace of mind.

Today is August 22nd, and Liu Yifei's coming-of-age ceremony will be in two or three days.

He should also go to pick up the gift prepared for Liu Yifei.

This chapter is 5,000 words, and I will write two chapters today. I feel dizzy and feel that it is the sequelae of Yang Hou. I have been writing it so hard and have only finished the second chapter. I really can't add more, so I will add more tomorrow.