In the year from last year to this year, the highest rating was "Wind x Doctor x Nurse", which won this honor for five consecutive years, with an average viewership of more than 80 million.

But the most popular TV series is "Happy Hotel" produced by Disney.

In April, the final episode of "Happy Hotel" ended perfectly with 66 million viewers, setting a rating second only to "Wind x Doctor x Nurse", which made all the viewers sigh.

"Wind x Doctor x Nurse" has a large number of viewers because of the audience it has cultivated over the years, and in its first season, it did not have such an exaggerated number of viewers as 66 million, and it did not even exceed 40 million.

There are so many people in "Happy Hotel", it is completely based on strength, and the counterattack step by step has become the TV series that people like to watch and talk about the most.

Although the ratings are not as good as "Wind X Doctor X Nurse", in terms of word-of-mouth, "Happy Hotel" has completely exploded "Wind X Doctor X Nurse".

"Wind x Doctor x Nurse" is actually a sitcom with American humor and a bit of meat jokes, and it just so happens that "Happy Hotel" is also.

But "Happy Hotel" is mainly warm and warm, closer to life, the people in it are all people you and I can meet in life, and each character has his own prototype, which makes the audience have a very strong sense of substitution.

What is particularly awesome is that as long as the people who appear in "Happy Hotel" definitely have their own scenes, they are definitely not passers-by who act as a background board.

This reflects the seriousness of the screenwriter and director, and reflects their responsible attitude.

Whether you are good or not about a TV series or movie, the audience can see it, and they will also give you back after various insights based on the feelings you convey to them.

That's why some TV dramas and movies spend so much money and invite so many big stars, but in the end the ratings or box office are so poor - no matter what the appearance is, how fragrant the seasoning is, you serve the audience a pot of stinky meat, do you think they can eat it? Why would others want to eat it?

The plot of "Happy Hotel" is good, the audience likes it very much, and those actors are even more so, all of them are not very famous, and they are not even handsome men and women, but they act very seriously, and they play a character vividly, flesh and blood, so that the audience can see laughter, emotion, and sadness......

In this way, what can mobilize the audience's various emotions and allow the audience to go deep into it is a good TV series, and it is a good TV series that is worth watching every week!

With so many die-hard supporters, Hotel Joy is certainly the undisputed biggest winner.

The advertising fee is constantly skyrocketing, making the profit of "Happy Hotel" in the United States as high as more than 40 million US dollars, which is equivalent to the total profit of all TV dramas of many TV stations in a year!

The profit is so good, the theme is so good, the second season was set at the end of last year, and it will continue to be produced this year.

And because of the large number of viewers, there are already many changes to the original plan.

For example, the production cost was originally 50,000 US dollars per episode, and then the second season is expected to be 200,000 per episode, and all kinds of labor salaries have to increase a lot, so that they can keep up with the market.

However, the number of viewers of 66 million Gao Shan Yangzhi made the production cost of 200,000 episodes a little cold, so Tang Shuxuan consulted everyone's opinions after thinking about it, and doubled it to 400,000 US dollars per episode.

In this way, each actor will receive an average of $3,000-5,000 per episode, and the salaries and bonuses of the production staff have also increased significantly.

In this way, even if an actor with few roles does not have many roles, his monthly salary will reach around 12,000 US dollars, which is already good in 1982.

The key is that this price increase made them see Disney's sincerity and knew that Disney would not let them suffer, and such a company was worth continuing to work for.

Everyone is not stupid, and they all know how much money the Disney TV channel has made this time - the entertainment information in the United States is so developed that other newspaper news has already been revealed.

Disney didn't just make more than $40 million in the United States.

Because it is so popular in the United States, those TV stations that are also English-speaking countries immediately came to negotiate the purchase of broadcasts, and then countries such as South America, Japan and South Korea also put forward requests to buy copyrights.

These are pure profits in addition to costs!

Overall, there are reports that Disney will probably get $40 million in net profits from overseas, and the Disney TV channel will get at least $80 million in profits from the United States.

Just one play!

One drama earned 80 million US dollars!

It's equivalent to a blockbuster with a box office of more than $300 million!

In such a situation, how can you say that the actors don't mumble a few times in their hearts?

Their performance income in the first season was only around $800-1,500 per episode, which is very low compared to the income of this TV series.

Although after the production of the first season was completely over, both the crew and the staff received a big red envelope ranging from tens of thousands of dollars, but for the second season, many people have different ideas.

In the United States, everyone is not ashamed to talk about their salary, because in their eyes, this is the embodiment of their labor, this is the recognition of their life value.

Of course, this is a big problem related to how much they eat and drink.

So everyone has great expectations for the salary in the second quarter.

Yes, you have their 15-year contract, and you have to finish filming "Happy Hotel" before the contract can be considered over.

But if you only give a little money that is not enough for food and clothing, and force them to act, then it is difficult to say if everyone can't contribute in the process of filming, if they deliberately make mistakes and delay the progress of filming, what should you do?

Termination?

They still want you to terminate the contract so that you can get back to your own hands and leave!

Although you can say that this group of people who want to terminate the contract are stupid, they have to wait until the plot is stable, a few more seasons are broadcast, and their position is stable, so that if they leave, there will be companies that want them.

But under impulse, these people have no reason, and they just leave, so they don't care so much.

On the other hand, if they leave, the impact on the plot will still be a bit big.

You said that if there is an accident, can you redesign a character so that this character exits and a new character joins?

Of course!

However, this is also a matter of two actors, if you have to change seven or eight or ten or so every season, how do you make the audience happy and into the play?

There is a proverb in the West: if you succeed, don't change.

The same is true for TV series, if you can, try not to change it, otherwise no one can say what follow-up problems it will cause.

If the ratings of "Happy Hotel" fall because of this, it will really not be worth it!

In the case of the Disney TV channel, and indeed for the entire Disney company, they are not short of money.

Since becoming a subsidiary of Kirin Group, the boss has never asked them for their earning ability, but let them do a good job step by step, and it doesn't matter what the expenses are.

It is precisely because Yin Jun is so atmospheric and values them so much, so after several consecutive projects with money, Disney has recovered a lot of vitality.

Well, it's the same with United Arts Films.

However, the Disney Company lacks some treasures that can stand tall.

In other words, if you go out, you can let people know that this is unique to Disney, and it is the gold medal shows, TV series, movies, etc. made by Disney.

To put it bluntly, it is the company's recognition.

It's the same as people.

For example, there are some actors who you look familiar with, but you don't know what special impression you have.

Some actors are different.

At the first glance of Zhao Wei, you must blurt out "Little Swallow".

At the first glance of Chen Yulian, you must blurt out "aunt".

At the first glance of Li Lianjie, most of them were still "Huang Feihong".

This is the recognition they bring to the audience, the higher the recognition, the stronger your image in people's hearts, the more film companies and film companies like to film with you and spend a lot of money to ask you to film.

Audiences in later generations, as long as they see the movie produced by "Marvel Studios", they will buy tickets without thinking about it, this is the prestige of Marvel.

Now Disney is not as majestic as it was later, and after so many years of ups and downs, they are bent on raising their reputation again and becoming one of the top comprehensive entertainment groups in the United States.

Therefore, for the TV series "Happy Hotel", which has exploded, they attach great importance to it and are unwilling to make mistakes.

This is also the reason why the director of the crew discussed with Tang Shuxuan in advance before the actors asked for a salary increase - this is also thanks to Tang Shuxuan who is the planner, director and director of "Happy Hotel" in the early stage, otherwise the current director would not be able to talk to the president directly.

Tang Shuxuan took into account their ideas and felt that it was actually good to do this, which could not only ensure the continuous growth of the company's TV series, but also give some remuneration to those hard-working actors.

And this amount is not high relative to the overall profit.

It's not like you can give a lot at once, and then you don't know how to increase the price in the future.

Tang Shuxuan has already studied the salary system of the current American TV dramas.

Generally speaking, the superstars of TV series are generally $1-30,000 per episode, first-class stars are $8,000-10,000 per episode, and second-rate stars are about five or six thousand.

Although "Happy Hotel" is popular, it does not mean that the actors are also popular.

In the first season, it must have belonged to the point where the drama celebrities were not popular, and it took a few more seasons for everyone to get familiar with them before they continued to become popular.

Besides, why is "Happy Hotel" popular?

It's not just the people at Disney who know it, but the actors who know it too.

Because this is a script written by the big boss himself!

Who is the big boss?

Yin Jun!

The genius who wrote the script of ".", the first box office in film history!

The genius screenwriter who wrote "Life and Death," "Beverly Hills Detective," "Police School," "Chainsaw," and "The Terminator"!

It is his precise carving in "Happy Hotel" that makes each character brilliant.

The people who came to shoot "Happy Hotel" this time are all old people who have been in the TV circle for several years or even ten or twenty years, and they deeply understand that it is not difficult to make the protagonist in a TV series brilliant, but the difficult thing is to make the supporting roles shine.

But none of this is the most difficult.

The most difficult thing is that in Yin Jun's "Happy Hotel", everyone who appears is flesh and blood, so that "Happy Hotel" is a small society and a dance drama of life.

Therefore, it was Yin Jun who made "Happy Hotel" and their people, not these people who made "Happy Hotel" and Disney.

The relationship between the primary and secondary of this point must not be mistaken, and if you make a mistake, you will not be able to carry yourself, and you will not know what to say.

Otherwise, I'm afraid there will still be some actors who will jump out and ask for a little more salary increase this time.

After all, judging from the results of "Happy Hotel", it is completely possible to get the salary of a first-class star.

However, then again, the characteristics of this TV series are also very distinct.

Although it is based on a small bar, the bar owner Sam Malone is not the absolute protagonist, he just plays a role in channeling, at best, he has a little more scenes.

The rest of the waitress, Diane, and the regulars, there are no less stories that happen among them.

So "Happy Hotel" is a group acting, if dozens of people have similar roles, how can you make them embarrassed to say that they have become first-class stars?

That doesn't make sense!

If "Happy Hotel" gives them all the salaries of first-class stars, then the cost of this drama will be too big and impossible.

And the second season will pay the first-class stars, what about the third season? What about the fourth season?

If anyone dares to increase the salary unscrupulously, I am afraid that the only thing Disney can do is to replace the role of this actor and replace it with another person.

And then, Disney can do even more.

Didn't you sign me a fifteen-year contract? Didn't you sign this play?

Good!

I don't want you to be very active, I will also give you a basic minimum salary, you can stay on the set while I am filming, you can sit, you don't have to do anything else, from morning to night, everyone else is gone, you can leave.

As for what you said to go outside to film?

I'm sorry!

You have to satisfy the contract on my side, it's been set a long time ago.

Even if it's between the filming of "Happy Hotel", you just need to go outside to film, and I'll call you immediately and ask you to come over and participate in post-production - a few more times, which crew dare to invite you?

If Disney really does this, then this actor will not be able to get out of it within three or five years.

Even a lawsuit is unlikely to be resolved quickly.

If you think about it, you finally got a good role and became a little famous, but Disney just held you down for three or five years, and when the matter is settled, who will remember you again? Who is willing to pay for the drama you played?

Don't think that big companies are so formal.

When a large company reorganizes people, it will be even more painful, and there is no way to deal with it.

Most of the actors in "Happy Hotel" are old street actors, and they have long had a lot of understanding of the darkness in the circle, and even suffered a lot of losses.

So when some young actors were a little nervous, they told these people their experiences and some lessons.

And then......

Then these discordant voices immediately dissipated.

After the holiday in May and June, "Happy Hotel" will concentrate on preparing for the second season in July.

Compared to the first season.

Except for director Tang Shuxuan, who won't do it again, everything else has not changed!!