Chapter 426: Harry Potter who is not adaptable
Although the money invested in the special effects budget of "Harry Potter" is far less than half of the special effects company that is re-established, at this stage, Liu Ruoyi, who is not too short of money, pays more attention to the ecological integration of film and television dramas.
Now there are two satellite TV platforms broadcast on the terminal, one is Qionghai Satellite TV's variety show column and film and television drama column, which have achieved very good ratings in the mainland, and have sprung up on the mainland satellite TV channel.
Another platform is the ATV satellite TV station that has just started, judging from the current situation, of course, it is not very good, the ratings have been so low that they can't be lower, and the advertising costs can't even keep the operating expenses, resulting in losses every year.
For Liu Ruoyi, of course, he can't follow the old path of ATV, so the first step after ATV is in Liu Ruoyi's hands is to adjust the strategic direction of ATV.
From the original news and the introduction of TV dramas, it has been changed to cancel news information, broadcast news from other stations at this stage, and completely cancel news-related columns in the future.
This not only cuts a large part of the ATV's manpower expenses, after all, it is not easy to feed a large number of Xiangjiang news reporters and directors. Now this "pot" has been thrown to the big portal that needs more news.
After correcting the strategy in this way, ATV concentrates its energy and financial resources on "music", "variety shows" and "film and television dramas", and naturally needs to make great achievements in variety shows and film and television dramas in order to bring back the audience.
However, some people have not yet figured out why ATV has completely abandoned news and information, for them, news is the core of a TV media, and they can't point to the country and hit the truth.
Such people are not only people who have feelings for ATVs in the outside world beating their chests, but also some people feel regrets within the Aurora culture. It's just that for such doubts or expectations, Liu Ruoyi didn't give any explanation, and simply and rudely let Lu Buping start.
Don't look at the ATV hanging overseas, but there is no direct control over the things involved in this kind of public opinion, if you take jujube pills and can't go with the mainland, how can you talk about landing happily in the mainland?
As for handing over to online gathering to do news, people have a whole set of operating procedures and norms in the mainland, and no matter how biased the butt is, it will not be able to run the main style.
In this regard, Liu Ruoyi has actually given Ding Shi good advice through Zhao Shaodong, everyone can report more about the things that you like to see, and don't blindly participate in sensitive topics and online gatherings.
In a word, it is much safer to be a new media with temperature than to be a new media with attitude. Now the shares of Wangju are basically in the hands of Ding Shi and Zhao Shaodong, and there is basically no need to look at the faces of anyone else.
So in this case, if Ding Shi wasn't brain-dead, Zhao Shaodong's euphemistic suggestion should be understandable.
Everyone has worked so hard, after all, it is mainly to develop themselves, and other things, such as the portal with a simple background of network gathering, it is better to honestly recognize the reality and stay away.
Although Liu Ruoyi did not have much intersection with that piece in her past and present lives, of course Liu Ruoyi knew very well about the risks, so she should return to the field she was good at and do a good job with the expression in her hands.
There are enough things in the entertainment industry to make people busy, and with the development of Aurora culture, you will find that you have more and more shortcomings, and the fields that need to be involved have begun to expand.
Things like special effects, Aurora Culture is really hard to get around now, how many film and television dramas in the future will need special effects support, Liu Ruoyi knows this, if you can hear a sound when you throw money in, Liu Ruoyi is satisfied, as for how much money she wants to make in this piece, Liu Ruoyi really doesn't count on it.
Piert got the terms he had put forward and went back to resign satisfied. Although it is a little unspeakable for a small company like Matrix Vision for the time being.
However, the United States is still very tolerant of this kind of personnel flow, and a few of Piert's hardcore friends are still very excited about Piert's lobbying after inquiring about some actual situations.
After all, Piert promised a 30% increase in his annual salary, and he still worked in the United States, but he just changed his city life, and for American people, this is no problem at all.
A company that can support different teams on both sides of the Pacific Ocean is a rich man, and anyway, for these senior digital engineers, they don't have to worry about finding a job now, and it's not too late to change places if they can't do it.
Of course, the current Oriental people have begun to slowly change their thinking, and many companies do not talk about starting from the beginning, because the Oriental has been going downhill for more than ten years, and many companies have found that they can't start from the beginning to the end of their employees.
When he returned to Xiangjiang with the equipment purchase list, he was naturally warmly greeted by Zhao Shaodong.
As for Chang Hong, from a company boss to the director of the Xiangjiang team, and then another foreigner as his own boss, he did not feel frustrated, but was very pleased, although Piert is not well-known, but he really has dry goods at hand, and Chang Hong was impressed by a few exchanges.
For a tech nerd like Chang Hong, the best thing is to meet a big bull, and obviously, Piert from Hollywood is fully worthy of the title of tech master.
As for the CEO of Matrix Vision, Zhao Shaodong is currently in charge of it.
No way, this is to set up a point on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, and to build two big pits in the mainland to pull out hundreds of people, not Zhao someone out of the horse some things are really difficult to do, now the stall at hand is small, but in the next three years, this pit will be invested in no less than 300 million Hong Kong dollars, and it is really difficult to change to an ordinary manager.
As high as 100 million yuan of the first batch of software and hardware procurement list, Zhao Shaodong received all the orders, and happily approved the money for Peltt to toss, of course, the manager of the procurement, naturally rooted in the United States, plums and shop around.
When it comes to money, Zhao Shaodong, a person who has been cultivated in Greater London, naturally will not test human nature, Li Zihe has strict Aurora cultural procurement procedures and systems over there, of course, doing these things are very methodical, not to mention that the things purchased by Piert are not unknown small factory things, all are produced by well-known manufacturers, such a large order is released, and there is naturally more than one agent who comes to hear the news, and the United States negotiations are much less than the mainland routines, so it is impossible to do this without plum and too many things.
As for Chang Hong drooling over the list made by Piert, there is no need to elaborate, after the shotgun was replaced, there was a big bull like Pilt, Chang Hong patted Lu Buping on his chest and assured that the special effects of "Harry Potter" in the future will definitely be at the level of Hollywood special effects.
In his opinion, in terms of equipment, the shotgun is changed and the Hollywood bull is brought with it, and the current matrix vision will definitely not be worse than Xiantao!
Lu Buping doesn't care whether Chang Hong is bragging or not, anyway, Liu Ruoyi did not hesitate to get a special effects company to support his work, although this support is a little weird, but what else can he say so far is completely beyond his imagination!
Now, he needs to consider the second hurdle of how to choose actors.
Frankly speaking, with the extremely successful "Harry Potter" movie Zhuyu in front of him, Lu Buping seems to have no choice but to find a group of blonde and blue-eyed children to reshape the image of the TV screen, and it is possible to win the attention of the market.
But the trick is that the copyright of this TV series adaptation is given to the Asian market!
To put it bluntly, the audience in the future will mainly be the Chinese circle.
If you want to shoot a Western-style magic drama in its original form, wouldn't it be possible to say that these actors and costs are the only ones that a group of blonde and blue-eyed kids can be recognized by the Asian people?
Lu Buping was really a little unconvinced.
At this time, Lu Buping found that he seemed to have stepped into an incomparably huge pit, and the joy of giving this big production to the head office earlier was now long gone.
Frankly speaking, it is not impossible to find some blonde and blue-eyed children with acting skills in Xiangjiang, and in this regard, Lu Buping is still very confident that he can dig out a few spiritual children from the ghosts in Xiangjiang, but if it is filmed in a purely foreign-style way, and it costs such a large price to make a TV series that Asian people don't want to see and the West can't go, this joke will be big.
Yes, Lu Buping couldn't handle this matter, so he had to go back to Liu Ruoyi, who is said to be the driving force behind "Harry Potter".
"Who said that with the "Harry Potter" movie, it should be filmed like it?" Liu Ruoyi was a little surprised when she heard this question, and felt that people in this era were a little misunderstood.
There are several versions of Sun Wukong, and it still does not delay the ruffian-like Supreme Treasure to become a new classic.
"But if the audience has a preconceived notion, will they be a little unacceptable to the change of character in our TV series version?" Lu Buping asked with some concern.
"Mr. Lu, how many people have seen the movie version of "Harry Potter", and a ticket for an imported blockbuster is 30 yuan or 40 yuan. Of course, we needed to adapt and recreate it and perform it with a localization team. Liu Ruoyi said without hesitation.
"And it's going to be a series, and the child actors we choose have to think about growing up in the future to be able to keep up. Liu Ruoyi continued.
Listening to Liu Ruoyi's words, Lu Buping smiled bitterly, although Liu Ruoyi said it was not unreasonable, but it didn't work, who would dare to pack the ticket now.
"Okay, I'll do it along this line. Lu Buping replied.
"I personally suggest that this TV series should not be completely made into a Chinese-style fantasy, the background is still placed in the original setting, and the characters in it are basically the same as the description, so that the people watching can correspond to the characters of the TV series, then it will be successful. Liu Ruoyi was afraid that Lu Buping would overkill and make a Journey to the West directly, then she wouldn't be able to cry.
"Of course, there are no less blond and blue-eyed characters, after all, in Xiangjiang, it is good to blend China and the West, and the casting is aimed at conforming to the original work, not necessarily completely accommodating specific actors. Liu Ruoyi finally emphasized that the biggest problem in Xiangjiang TV dramas is that any kind of character may be filmed with the same set of people, which is simply the pinnacle of wireless, resulting in a large number of shoddy serials.
As for the background of the performance, it is even more outrageous, saving money to a hopelessly high level.
It wasn't until the development of various film cities in the mainland that it began to improve with the help of these scenes in the mainland.
"As for the location, we have set up a Western-style castle in Qionghai, and most of the filming locations can be completed there. "Qionghai's film and television base, in the first phase, the modern part of the hotel and villa part was naturally built and decorated in accordance with the luxury modern style.
However, the European-style theme building, with someone's intentional or unintentional intervention, has actually established many famous scenes in the Aurora Cultural Copyright Library, with a strong medieval European manor style.
There was even a high imitation of an ancient castle, but Zhao Shaodong at that time was not clear, Liu Ruoyi had already planned for these buildings, and when they were designed, everyone just thought that this was Liu Ruoyi's preference.
Liu Ruoyi's layout is so deep that when the final use is revealed, ordinary people can't think so far.
Lu Buping listened to Liu Ruoyi's casual instructions, and now he didn't feel anything, and when he arrived at the Qionghai Film and Television Base and saw the real castle, he was taken aback, this is too similar to what was described in "Harry Potter", if the person who designed the castle did not take into account the existence of the movie "Harry Potter", Lu Buping would not believe it.
It's just that now it's the first time to cooperate with Liu Ruoyi in business, and Lu Buping hasn't kept up with Liu Ruoyi's rhythm, but Lu Buping has an advantage, he can't hold something unstable, and he is not afraid of losing face and asking more.
got Liu Ruoyi's face-to-face teaching today, Lu Buping didn't feel that he understood the effect that Liu Ruoyi wanted, and after he selected the role, Lu Buping felt that he should also confirm the actors' makeup photos with Liu Ruoyi.
Although in the project "Harry Potter", he Lu Buping is the final producer, the big boss of the whole project.
In the face of the first big IP from the West, Liu Ruoyi actually didn't know the bottom of her heart, but the work "Harry Potter" was too successful in her previous life, so that when Liu Ruoyi had the ability in this life, she didn't hesitate to let people win the Asian adaptation copyright, if it wasn't for the first movie copyright had been signed to Hollywood, Liu Ruoyi would not let go of its film copyright.
It's a pity that the action was a little late and has fallen into the hands of Hollywood giants, and the huge success of the movie has made Liu Ruoyi lose the opportunity for the film copyright forever. In this regard, the Hollywood giants obviously have a complete set of playing styles that make it impossible to exploit loopholes.
missed the big meal of the movie, and Liu Ruoyi could only try to eat a piece of the small cake on the TV series to see if she could eat the next piece. Using Xiangjiang's entertainment talents to create Western stories, if this road is opened, some other IPs from Europe and the United States held by Liu Ruoyi will have a bright future.
Otherwise, these purchased copyrights, although they are worth a lot of money, can only rot in their hands first, waiting for the right time to restart the shooting plan.