Episode 326: Difficulty in choosing a double script
"HOW DO THEY KNOW WHERE I AM?" Zheng Xiyi looked at the photo of himself on the phone screen, isn't this the photo of himself when he had dinner with Liu Zaishi and Jiang Hudong last Saturday?
Kim Young-min hated iron and steel, and said: "You have always only worn a hat on the street, and at most you have black-framed glasses frames, which used to have no obvious features except for being taller, but now you have long hair, and any FAN can recognize you when they see it." ”
Zheng Xiyi looked at the screen with his mouth open, not knowing what to say.
"Xiyi's fan base used to be dominated by women in the 20s, and women in the 30s also accounted for 30% of the total number of fans, so the average age was about 24 years old, but after the temporary signing of the Kyobo library and the SJ car accident, in just three weeks, the average age of Xiyi's fan base has dropped to 21 years old......"
Zheng Xiyi looked at the blue sky and white clouds outside the window, and muttered, "Do you mean that I have brainless fans now......"
Kim Young-min stroked his palms and laughed and said, "Although this description is very appropriate, as artists and entertainment industry practitioners, we should still say die-hard fans!"
Zheng Xiyi smiled bitterly, and finally understood what was going on with the recent increase in the number of autographs and photos of fans on the road.
His previous fans are all older, and even if they meet him on the road, they generally don't bother him, because they know that he doesn't like to be surrounded by fans. Of course, there are also people who come to ask for autographs, group photos, etc., but few people will immediately post them on the Internet to show off, and they usually upload them to other fans when they are occasionally on an unofficial fan site one day.
Because of the SJ car accident, many ELFs have become Zheng Xiyi's fans at the same time, these young underage fans are not as "old-fashioned" as his former fans, as soon as they saw him, they immediately gathered around him to sign a group photo, and then uploaded it to SNS and unofficial fan sites, and more SJ Maniac turned to include Zheng Xiyi in the scope of tracking and tailgating, in the last week, to know Zheng Xiyi's whereabouts, you only need to refresh a few of the largest unofficial fan sites at any time.
Jung Hee-yi handed Kim Young-min's phone back to him, touched his chin and said, "Is this why President NIM wants to manage my fans?"
Kim Young-min shook his head with a smile and said, "I'm not so noble. I'm just a businessman, and I'm just worried about the annual fee income of so many of your fans. ”
Zheng Xiyi smiled, what Kim Yingmin said was very realistic, this is indeed one of the most important reasons.
South Korea's official fan club has to charge membership fees, and IDOL's fan club membership fees are cheaper, about 1000 won to 2000 won per month for each registered member, and there are more expensive ones, but that has to be strong and status enough to go to the heavenly group;
If the estimated 200,000 fans are calculated at 2,000 won per person per month, there will be a gross income of 4.8 billion won a year, and the gross profit will be at least 70% or more in a year after deducting the costs of network lines, servers, operation and maintenance personnel, etc. Although it is not possible for every fan of Jung Hee-yi to join the official fan club, even if only half of them sign up as members, 1.5 billion won a year is not a small amount of money for CC, a company with total assets of 10 billion won.
What's more, nearly half of Zheng Xiyi's current 200,000 fans are female fans under the age of 20, and these underage fans are not at all exclusive to buying Zheng Xiyi-related photos, posters, Q version of water cups, thermos cups, lunch boxes, hats, gloves and even socks and underwear, and this part of the profit is one of the biggest sources of profit for the brokerage company.
Two years ago, Zheng Xiyi's own mother and sister would never allow CC to consume Zheng Xiyi's identity and status like this, and the number of fans fluctuated very much because he made a big incident because he had nothing to do, so CC didn't care about establishing Zheng Xiyi's official fan club, but now Zheng Xiyi's reputation in South Korea is so good, and a large number of underage fans have come to pay for peripheral products, how could Kim Young-min miss this opportunity not to come again.
When Zheng Xiyi left South Korea two years ago, his number of fans was less than 50,000, more than 80% of his fans were adults, and about 40% were aunts in their 30s (the real reason is that almost all the younger fans quit in the eternal sibling incident...... With Jung Hee-yi starring in two seasons of "Criminal Minds", his fans have increased significantly, especially South Koreans around 20 who like to watch American dramas through the Internet and Korean students studying in the United States.
When Zheng Xiyi returned to South Korea in April 2007, his Korean fans had exceeded 100,000, and Zheng Xiyi's respect for fans and active maintenance of public order after the temporary signing of Kyobo Bunku increased his number of fans a lot, reaching 130,000.
After the SJ car accident, ELFs have joined the unofficial fan station, and the number of Zheng Xiyi's fans exceeded 200,000 in a week, and it is still growing slowly but firmly, but most of these fans are minors under the age of 20.
Considering that his followers had nearly doubled in less than a month, and that the vast majority of them were minors, Zheng Xiyi felt that he could no longer allow his fans to gather on unofficial fan sites. It is obviously unrealistic to rely on the loyal fans left behind two years ago to manage these children, so it is better to expect the parents of these children to discipline them, the establishment of an official fan club has become imperative, and the benefits of such a large number of fans will attract the directors of S.M, rather than waiting for them to speak, it is better to do it themselves, so that they can still have some initiative.
Thinking of this, Zheng Xiyi nodded and said to Jin Yingmin: "Although I feel that someone is taking pictures in the past few days, I just thought that I was too famous recently so I was concerned, but I didn't expect that my fans have developed into such a scene, which really makes me a little dizzy." But I almost understand what President Kim NIM said.,I'll let Brother Cheng Man discuss it with my colleagues in the Public Relations Room.,If President Kim NIM has any requests, please tell Brother Cheng Man.,Brother Cheng Man is responsible for this matter on my side.。 ”
Kim Yingmin immediately laughed when he heard it, Zheng Xiyi's lack of objection is the biggest good news, as for the details, let the people in the public information room go and talk to Li Chengman, and Zheng Xiyi's ideas will naturally be conveyed through Li Chengman.
Since the general direction has been unified, Zheng Xiyi and Kim Yingmin will not continue to talk face-to-face, in case there is a disagreement on which side issue, it is not good to mess up the things that were originally passed, so both sides put aside the affairs of the official fan club and handed them over to their subordinates to discuss in detail, leaving room for discussion for possible contradictions, which is why the bosses always look like a tea party when they sit together to negotiate, drink two cups of tea and chat casually for a while.
After talking about the fan club, Zheng Xiyi lowered his head and reached out to pick up the script, but when he picked it up, it turned out that what Kim Yingmin gave him just now was not a script, but two scripts together.
Spreading the two scripts on the coffee table, Zheng Xiyi scratched his head as soon as he saw the cover, pointed to the thick one and said, "President NIM, this TV series is about to start filming, right?
Kim Young-min shook his head with a wry smile and said: "The actor has actually been decided in April, but MBC has postponed the signing of the actor after knowing that you have returned to South Korea, hoping that you can play the role." I've repeatedly explained to them that you plan to go back to Korea to recuperate for three to six months, but MBC is very sincere and wants you to read the script for yourself before making a decision, so I can't help it, so I have to ask you to take a look. ”
Zheng Xiyi pointed to another script and said, "Then what's going on with this movie script?"
Kim Yingmin was a little embarrassed just now, after all, Zheng Xiyi had already informed him that he was going to rest for at least three months, and it was really unreasonable to force Zheng Xiyi to read MBC's script today, but when it came to this movie script, he immediately straightened his waist, frowned and said: "This script was actually invited to Zhun Ji at the beginning, but the preparation period and shooting period of this movie are very long, and it is estimated that it will take half a year to complete the filming, and Zhun Ji has just finished filming "Gorgeous Vacation" , I'm about to shoot an MBC Mizuki drama again, and even the schedule for the beginning of next year has been booked by SBS, so I really didn't have time, so I refused, but I didn't know how to send it to Director Lin Xiyin......"
Jin Yingmin didn't continue, Zheng Xiyi understood what he meant, this script had been rejected by CC, but apparently the other party went through the back door and gave the script to Lin Xiyin, Lin Xiyin probably took a fancy to this script, so he crossed the CC artist management room and handed it directly to Kim Yingmin.
Although the person who gave the script to Lin Xiyin was a bit unsophisticated, Lin Xiyin also gave the script to Jin Yingmin on a businesslike basis, after all, she and Jin Yingmin are at the same level, and handing it directly to Jin Yingmin is not considered overstepping, she didn't even jump away from Jin Yingmin and hand it directly to Zheng Xiyi, even if it was to save face.
Since Lin Xiyin saved face for Jin Yingmin, Jin Yingmin had to return Lin Xiyin's face and show Zheng Xiyi the script, but Jin Yingmin still had to complain about his artist management room more or less, so what he said just now was half intercepted and half intercepted, which implied that Zheng Xiyi and Lin Xiyin were not suitable to do so, and they could not have it again in the future.
Zheng Xiyi nodded silently, first reached out and picked up the script of the TV series, and read the title of the play in his mouth: ""Coffee Prince No. 1 Shop", the name is very interesting. ”
Kim Young-min took out another book and put it on the coffee table like magic, "This script is actually based on the best-selling novel by Lee Sun-mi writer IM, if it weren't for Hee-yi, you're on a break, it's really a good choice to come back." ”
Zheng Xiyi raised his eyelids and glanced at Kim Yingmin, which was interesting, Jin Yingmin was hinting that Zheng Xiyi had better take over this TV series.
Smiling slightly, Zheng Xiyi opened the script and looked at the outline, and asked while reading: "Who is the original male protagonist?"
Kim Young-min thought for a while and said, "It's Kong Liu XI of NOA." ”
“NOA?”
Jin Yingmin nodded and said, "Inside, the full name is Network.Of.Asia, and it is a subsidiary of SidusHQ. ”
Zheng Xiyi raised his head and glanced at Jin Yingmin deeply, and said meaningfully, "SidusHQ?"