In the Hilton Junior Suite:

Xu Zhi slept until 3 o'clock in the morning from the afternoon of the previous day, and after waking up, he found that the alarm clock he had set had been called, but he did not wake up.

The video I shot was going to be broadcast on the biggest TV station in the United States, but unfortunately I overslept, and it really hurts to think about it.

Although Los Angeles is one of the most developed cities in the United States, Xu Zhi didn't dare to go out casually in the early morning, so he found some food in the refrigerator in his suite, and Xu Zhi made a simple sandwich by himself.

There is no mobile phone to kill time, and the newspapers are all in English, which seems to be too brain-consuming, it is too boring, and Leng is hard to be in a daze for more than 3 hours, and the genius gradually lights up.

Just as Xu Zhi was preparing for a new day, ABC TV was putting the finishing touches on yesterday's celebration.

More than 120 operators are waiting in the customer service department of the headquarters building, ABC TV, one of the largest television stations in the United States, introduced a computer control system as early as the end of the 60s, and in the past ten years, it has undergone several innovations, and at this moment, all operators have a simple personal computer by their side, which is Apple's Apple release at the beginning of this year II personal computers, all computers are connected by a local area network, the customer service after receiving the call, the information will be entered into special software, located in the main section of the building IBM server will unify the data, directly into a table.

The progress of science and technology is actually a variety of inventions made to save time, carefully explained: cars, trains, airplanes and other means of transportation are to save people's leg power, and washing machines are to remove the trouble of human beings doing chores.

The role of the computer is actually the same, of course, not for playing games, the original computer actually existed for statistical data and data analysis, in the case of ABC, it may receive hundreds of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of calls or letters to vote, if you really arrange manpower to count one by one, it is estimated that there may not be a result until Father's Day in the next year.

In the general manager's office, the TV station Thomas is dealing with a bunch of documents, he has also watched last night's TV program, and he is quite satisfied with the whole program, especially the last few videos, some of which are indeed very touching.

However, as the head of the largest TV station in the ABC TV network, there are so many things that he needs to deal with, and a small event in one night is just for him to know, just wait for the final result!

"Thomas, Thomas!"

There was a rush of screams, and Thomas frowned when he heard it, he knew who this man was, but he still felt that it was too rude.

The person who came is the program director of ABC TV Rudiv, who is also the pillar of the TV station, has been struggling at the forefront of the company since graduating in the 40s, in fact, Rudiv is very likely to win the manager position, but after all, a TV station is not just a good program, although Rudiv is very proficient internally, but not externally, and finally the board of directors chose Thomas as an outsider.

But he still has to give face, Thomas smiled: "Rudiv, why are you in such a hurry?"

Rudiv is a rough man and an elder, and he is not polite, he sat down directly, handed Thomas a document and said: "This is the data I just got from the IT department, you can take a look, I promise to surprise you." ”

Thomas opened it and looked at it, exclaiming, "The response to this video is so high?"

Rudiv said: "Yes, I was stunned when I saw this data, and more than half of the phone calls were made to vote for this video. ”

Thomas asked, "Could it be a technical data error?"

Rudiv shook his head and said: "I also thought so, before coming to you, I went to the customer service department, and the result there was the same as this data, almost half of the people called to vote for this video, and a large number of people didn't even watch our show yesterday, but because of a friend's recommendation, they specially called to ask us to replay this video." ”

Thomas came back to his senses and said: "Actually, I have watched it before, and I think it is very good, at that time I also jokingly bet with Jim that this video will definitely win the championship, but Jim is also optimistic, so I didn't bet, but I didn't expect this result to be so good!"

Rudiv smiled: "And what you don't expect is that before I came, I received a call from an old friend from the past, he also watched this video last night, and he thought it was very touching, he wanted to make this idea into a movie, and he just came to ask me about the copyright of this video?"

Thomas asked, "Which film company did your friend have?"

In Europe and the United States, well-known TV series are often turned into movies, and there are also box office blockbuster movies that are adapted into TV series, so the three major TV stations and the eight Hollywood film giants are all in a cooperative relationship with each other, Rudiv has been running a TV station for most of his life, and it is not surprising that he knows some people from film companies.

Rudiv replied: "Paramount, this friend of mine is a director at Paramount, and has also made several small-budget movies, and the box office has also exceeded 10 million US dollars, he told me that as soon as he saw this video, he knew that this was an excellent subject, and the cost of filming was very low, and the box office was very likely to become a dark horse." ”

Thomas recalled the plot, he didn't think about the movie before, but now that he thinks about it, it is indeed very suitable for making a movie.

Rudiv asked, "Who is the person who shot this video? Let's see if we can buy the rights to this video, and again the rights to the film adaptation." ”

Strange as Thomas, asked, "What are we buying it for?"

Rudiv said: "I have analyzed this matter, the cost of making the film adaptation of this video is not high, and the return should not be low, so I think it is most cost-effective for us to make a movie ourselves, what do you think?"

Thomas was taken aback: "We're going to shoot it ourselves, aren't you going to give it to your friends?"

Rudiv said disdainfully: "You also said that you are just a friend, and he asked me if I had to give him such a good opportunity?"

Television stations in the United States are not allowed to make movies according to the law, but this regulation is not strict, and the TV station company can indirectly invest in a new film company to shoot, and a joint venture is OK again, but because of the specialization in the art industry, although several major TV stations also occasionally make movies, but after all, they are not the main business, and the resources invested are not much, so the results are average.

Thomas thought for a while and said: "It's not impossible for us to shoot by ourselves, the shooting itself is not a problem, but our resources are not in place for the follow-up distribution and surrounding development, in order to maximize profits, the best way is to find someone to cooperate, and you can also use this as a condition to obtain other returns." ”

Rudiv thought for a moment and said, "Okay, then we'll change to investment, but this time we'll have to slaughter these Hollywood bastards for once." ”

In the early 70s, the three major television networks launched a number of movie columns in a row, and the demand for films rose sharply, and Hollywood production companies took the opportunity to continuously increase the cost of television broadcasts, and two years ago, ABC paid $3 million for the Oscar winner (Gui Heqiao), although it was your wish, but it also made the ABC executives as uncomfortable as eating flies.

Thomas smiled: "Okay, so let's go and see who made this video together?"