Chapter 18 Actors
At 10 o'clock in the evening, the three of them finished their dinner and chatted on the side of the road. Chen Mengxi asked, "You guys say, how about doing the Three Kingdoms theme?"
"Why, what do you mean, are interested in the Three Kingdoms theme?"
"With this idea, I now run a film and television company with my friends and have some money..."
Zhang Xiaobei asked casually: "How many are there?"
"Millions can be taken out!"
Long Bing was speechless: "...What are millions of dollars? Now they are all filming blockbusters, but not one hundred million, don't even think about it!"
OK, I've thought a little too much...
Now, better costume blockbusters, at least tens of millions of dollars...
I heard that "Night Banquet" cost $15 million!
Now is the era of blockbusters!
The development of the economy and the prosperity of the film market have made the market bigger and bigger. The original country's weak micro-market was small. The artistic film atmosphere at that time must be dispersed by the surging commercial atmosphere. This is an inevitable law of market development and no one can stop it.
Only those who follow it can survive and make progress.
Chinese directors have experienced the film being made, but now they have to sell it...
How can I sell it?
It has to be interesting to the audience!
How can you attract the audience?
Blockbuster!
It is generally understood that it is not a blockbuster, so there is no need to watch movies in theaters...
Chen Mengxi waved his hand: "I'll think about it again!"
He still thinks that the "Three Kingdoms" has a trick, and the IP characters are all ready-made. He can easily intercept a story and shoot one. The force value is slightly enhanced, and there is no need to be made into the "mythical version of the Three Kingdoms". It should be very good!
The main one is the ready-made "Red Cliff" that can be hyped...
By the way, what year did "Red Cliff" come from?
...
After staying in Weifang for two months, Chen Mengxi spent most of his time thinking about his future except for writing...
I have been in the circle in my previous life and am really not familiar with the outside world!
He won't know if he wants to do business!
Therefore, he had to act in the circle. Originally, he wanted to get the title of a best-selling writer first, point his reputation to more than 500, and at least get involved in the martial arts rookie stage before he could do other things.
You are a newcomer, have no fame, and sell scripts and people ignore them!
Who would have thought that Chen Liming was actually a rich and second generation, waving the money in his hand and preparing to enter the entertainment industry.
It would be a pity that you don’t have to take such a good opportunity!
Chen Mengxi may be a bit troublesome to do other things, but if you want to say which drama is popular, he has read the answer sheet in advance, and getting a full score is not a problem!
Let’s do TV series first, and arrange movies by the way…
If you come up, you will have a movie, and the probability of failure is too high!
So which drama will be the hottest next year?
Of course it is "Crashing the Kanto", "Soldier Assault", "Struggle"...
The problem is that these three parts do not have room for Shen Mengxi to play...
"Crashing the Guandong" Shandong TV and Dalian TV spent 30 million to create a period drama, "Struggle", Zhao Baogang's wholly owned by Xinbaoyuan, "Soldier Assault", produced by Bayi Studio and Huayi...
These are not even enough for Chen Mengxi!
There are actually not many choices left, either to play anti-Japanese dramas or to choose mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas...
There are not many hits after the anti-Japanese drama "Bright Sword", and "Snow Leopard" is not bad, but that is Huace's project, and Chen Mengxi can't reach it...
Just choose a mother-in-law and daughter-in-law drama!
The audience group of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law dramas is stable and the cost is not high. As long as you find a good brother, you can make money!
Good brother means a big shot in the industry who has a connection...
Chen Mengxi and Tao Kun and Liu Mingyi whom Chen Liming went to see tonight were really Huang Lei’s early personal producers. The first ones were the producers, producers and producers of "The Singing in the Middle of the Night" and "The Singing in the Middle of the Night"...
Later, Huang Lei and Huayi got close to each other, and during this period he filmed "Seven Days", "Tian Yi Sheng Water", and "Home", which was very embarrassing and sold very poorly...
After leaving Huayi, he was very close to Hualu Baina.
Tao Kun and Liu Mingyi are now working at Warner Bailu - later they went to Gongfu Film...
Originally in time and space, "Double-sided tape" was the producer Huang Lei fell in love with and recommended it to Hualu Baina, who was personally responsible for the producer...
So, when Chen Mengxi took out "Double-sided tape", Huang Lei was surprised: "You got this adaptation right?"
"Well, I bought it last month, teacher, you know that Liming and I are newcomers... So, I think I can work with you and all the teachers..."
"Stop!" Huang Lei didn't believe this at all: "Liming is a newcomer, I know, isn't your dad from Shaanxi TV?"
"…He is from the movie channel... he can't get involved in the matter of satellite TV!"
Huang Lei nodded and handed over "Double-sided tape": "Kun, Mingyi, this drama is good. It has conflicts between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and differences in cultural differences between the north and the south. If I weren't too late..."
Tao Kun took the book and opened it: "Are you optimistic?"
"Well, dramatic contradictions, characters contradictions are very strong!"
"Okay, I'll take a good look..."
Liu Mingyi was more interested in Chen Mengxi: "I heard that you are the author of "Ghost Blows Out the Light"?"
"…Yes, Teacher Liu is so well-informed. "Ghost Blows Out the Light" is only available, you..."
"I sold 30,000 copies in three days. I'm afraid there are not many people who don't know you!"
Zhang Wei interrupted: "What "Ghost Blows Out the Light"?"
"It is a novel that tells the story of tomb robbery. The first print of 30,000 copies was sold out in three days, and 200,000 copies were printed immediately!"
Chen Liming looked at Chen Mengxi, who was sitting next to him in surprise...
He knew that Chen Mengxi had the ability, but it was too terrible to print 200,000 copies in the second time!
Chen Mengxi waved his hand: "That's because I was not famous before, so the pirated man did not react..."
Huang Lei: "I'm too modest!"
Chen Mengxi took the initiative to bring the topic back: "Let's talk about "Double-sided tape"!"
"After," Tao Kun over there roughly looked at "Double-sided tape" and asked, "How much do you think this drama will cost?"
Let's get to the point...
They are testing Chen Mengxi and Chen Liming whether they understand or not...
Chen Liming replied: "It depends on the actor's pay. This script is made into a maximum of twenty episodes of TV series. If you add something to it, it should be two or three more episodes..."
Don’t underestimate Chen Liming. The company has been established for more than a month and he has done nothing. He has done his best to study the cost, the pay and the cost of buying movies on the TV station...
"Can't do thirty episodes?"
"It depends on Teacher Zhang Wei..."
The latter shook his head: "Twenty-five episodes to die!"
Chen Liming continued: "The cost of general urban dramas is about 6 million to 8 million..."
Huang Lei interrupted him and asked, "Tell me which actors you want to invite!"
"I studied it with Mengxi. If you can invite Teacher Pan Hong and Teacher Li Mingqi, these two old actors, will be half successful..."
"Pan Hong, Li Mingqi..."
"Where are the two protagonists?"
Chapter completed!