Chapter 381: Conclusive
Although An Shuyi is not the kind of strong woman who has to rely on herself for everything, she does not plan to completely return to the family and become a full-time wife, but after getting married and having children, she needs to coordinate the relationship between work and family, arrange her time more reasonably, and try to take care of both.
This forced her studio to undergo a corresponding restructuring and transform from a company that served her completely alone.
Since it is a company, she can no longer be the only artist.
However, there are many young people with star dreams, and how to choose the materials that can be made from them is a difficult problem.
And "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" is a very platform to help her solve this problem.
So, when "Zhenghao Studio" talked to her about joining the second season, An Shuyi put forward an additional condition - allowing her to choose suitable students from among the participating students to sign a contract!
In short, it is to snatch food from the tiger's mouth of "Zhenghao Studio".
Liu Runze and Ju Qinghao's corporatization process of their respective studios was carried out earlier than An Shuyi, and now they each have several singers, but the development situation is not ideal, despite the backing of kings like them, they can still only struggle between the second and third lines.
The reason for this is that in addition to its own strength, there is still a lack of publicity resources, and there is also a shortage of publicity resources and unfavorable promotion.
And now the "Voice of the Dragon Country" can be regarded as building a platform for publicity and promotion for these little singers who are in urgent need of exposure!
If it weren't for Liu Runze and Ju Qinghao, who were really cheeky, let those old faces who had debuted under their studio for several years sign up for the "Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", which can be said to be the best way to solve the dilemma they are facing now.
After learning that An Shuyi was going to intercept Hu from "Zhenghao Studio", Liu Runze and Ju Qinghao also changed their thinking, and they couldn't let their singers participate in the "Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", and couldn't they recruit a few talents from the "Voice of the Dragon Kingdom"?
Therefore, they also asked to compare An Shuyi's conditions, and asked "Zhenghao Studio" not to create additional obstacles when they contacted the students of the second season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom"!
In fact, "Zhenghao Studio" does not have the idea of monopolizing all the dividends of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" at all, because this idea is simply impossible to realize.
Even in the previous first season, "Zhenghao Studio" only signed contracts with the top ten players, and there were no restrictions on the whereabouts of other students.
And an important reason why "Zhenghao Studio" was able to sweep the top ten in the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" is because other music companies can't see the debut prospects of these contestants clearly, so they don't dare to bet heavily on them, and none of the conditions offered are better than "Zhenghao Studio"!
An Shuyi, Liu Runze, Ju Qinghao, or other music companies, if they can come up with better conditions than "Zhenghao Studio", and can provide better development opportunities and development space for students who come out of "The Voice of Longguo", "Zhenghao Studio" will not only not set up obstacles, but will be happy to see it!
The scale of the music department of "Zhenghao Studio" is to expand, but it is impossible to expand indefinitely, to provide them with contracts with quality and quantity for their contracted singers, the number of contracted singers will have a certain upper limit, and it is impossible to recruit ten people at once like last year!
Therefore, even if An Shuyi, Liu Runze, Ju Qinghao and others did not take the initiative to share the pressure for "Zhenghao Studio", "Zhenghao Studio" will not be able to sign all the top ten contestants in the second season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" this time.
Inside the "Zhenghao Studio", the set goal is to sign a maximum of five people, and it doesn't matter if there are two or three less, it would rather be lacking than excessive!
Therefore, for the additional conditions proposed by An Shuyi, Liu Runze, and Ju Qinghao, the "Zhenghao Studio" did not consider it at all, and accepted it in one bite, which was so happy, but it made the three of them a little confused.
Wang Yulan, who was in charge of face-to-face consultations with them, did not conceal the plans of the "Zhenghao Studio", and put out her own plans together to dispel their concerns.
To put it bluntly, who will be the best among the students in this season, everyone will recruit according to their abilities, and whoever recruits will be whoever!
Moreover, in the later competitions, the "Zhenghao Studio" will definitely not treat any students differently because they did not choose Zhao Zhenghao and did not sign a contract with the "Zhenghao Studio".
Even if it is the final champion, it is still from the team of the three of them, and it has nothing to do with Zhao Zhenghao and "Zhenghao Studio", so it doesn't matter!
Wang Yulan patted her not-so-majestic chest and said, "We do things, that's how atmospheric we are!"
After saying this, An Shuyi, Liu Runze, and Ju Qinghao, how could they be like the first season, when recruiting team members, they still had some politeness to each other, and they directly saw the red with bayonets.
Zhao Zhenghao had to often speak out to appease the three of them when they were fighting each other, pull a fight, control the field, and let the scene not get too out of control.
The four mentors strive for high-quality students, which is one of the highlights of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", and now the four mentors are fighting in this link, which makes this link more tense and exciting, and the effect of the program is more significant.
Zhao Zhenghao and the "Zhenghao Studio", who were enjoying it, covered their mouths and snickered on the side.
Due to the frequent situations in the competition for students, the recording took a lot longer than in the first season, so the recording of the "blind audition" stage, which was originally scheduled to end in six days, had to be extended by one day before it was all over.
Because the four mentors were too enthusiastic in the selection process, and because the comprehensive strength of the participating students in this season was indeed much higher than in the first season, this time, the number of the four mentors' respective teams was increased to sixteen after urgent consultations!
So, through the blind audition, it entered the second stage of the second season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" - the number of students selected by the team reached a total of forty-eight, accounting for half of the list of 100 people!
According to the plan, the recording of the second phase of "The Voice of the Dragon" - the team selection will be carried out more than a month later, after the fourth episode of the program is broadcast.
During this period, the four mentors will conduct intensive training for the members of their respective teams.
This time in intensive training, Liu Runze and Ju Qinghao will no longer be as vain as they were in the first season, because this is an opportunity for them to get to know the members of their respective teams, and the students they finally choose to sign a contract are 99% likely to come from their respective teams.
This is also an important reason why the competition between the four mentors will be so fierce in the blind selection stage.
The first episode of the second season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" was broadcast on Oriental Channel at 7:35 p.m. on June 14, 2019.
At the same time, on Penguin Video, the online version of the program will also be launched at the same time.
Due to the different broadcast mechanisms, there will be some small differences between the TV version and the online version of the program in terms of program duration and program content, but they are generally the same, and the inattentive audience will not notice the difference.
Countless viewers, who have been looking forward to this moment for a long time, turned on the TV early, or opened the mobile phone APP, tuned to the corresponding channel and page, and waited to watch.
The broadcast program did not disappoint the audience who had been waiting for nine months, and the surprise of Zhao Zhihui's unexpected appearance on stage needless to say, the follow-up contestants also performed wonderfully.
Especially the open and secret battles between the four mentors in the process of grabbing people, the audience was even more smiling and addicted.
During the broadcast of the program, the real-time ratings and on-demand surveys also made the producer of the program, "Zhenghao Studio", the broadcaster Oriental TV and Penguin Video, fall to the ground in their hearts and celebrate.
The first episode of the first season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom" broke three in ratings, and the number of on-demand views on the network exceeded 100 million in 24 hours, creating a record for similar programs.
In the first episode of the second season of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom", the ratings directly broke through the 6% mark, and the 24-hour network on-demand volume exceeded 500 million, which not only broke the "music talent show opening ratings and on-demand record" held by himself, but also raised this record to an unattainable height!
In this episode of the show, while completing his own task, he also took into account another task - to promote Zhao Zhenghao's upcoming new film "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
In fact, now "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" in the Dragon Kingdom, and even around the world, there is no need for special publicity, not only Zhao Zhenghao's loyal fans and fans are looking forward to this movie, but many ordinary fans have long known and understood this movie through various channels.
Especially in Dragon Country, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has been called "the most anticipated movie of 2019" since its inception.
After the schedule was determined and the movie tickets began to accept online reservations, it only took an hour for the number of reservations to break through the 10 million mark!
Major theaters have arranged up to 50% of the film scheduling rate for the first day of release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", but they still can't meet the needs of enthusiastic fans.
Many fans who are slow to start can't grab tickets for the first day of release at all, so they can only settle for the next best thing and book tickets for the next day or even the third day of release.
In the face of this situation, major theaters had to make urgent adjustments, and forcibly increased the first-day scheduling rate of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" from 50% to 60%, and the scheduling rate on the second day of release was further increased to 70%!
Even so, the movie tickets that major theaters were able to provide on the first weekend of the release of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" did not last until the pre-scheduled 24 hours.
The statistical results came out soon, the scheduled box office of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the first day of release was as high as 650 million, and the scheduled box office on the second day of release was as high as 800 million under the guarantee of sufficient film scheduling rate!
The cumulative box office in two days is as high as 1.45 billion, which directly guaranteed a weekly box office champion of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"!
The total production cost of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", "Zhenghao Studio" claimed that it was 500 million, but the actual cost was only a little more than 300 million, even if the publicity expenses in the later stage were added, the actual total cost was only 500 million.
This means that with only the domestic box office of Dragon Country two days before its release, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" has been able to recover all the costs, and the rest is all net earnings!
In this case, Zhao Zhenghao personally promoted "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" on the most popular variety show in Dragon Country at present, and it didn't even play much of a role as icing on the cake, it could only be said that it was just a necessary procedure.
Even so, the specifications of this promotion are still very high!
Not only did Zhao Zhenghao go into battle in person, but also invited An Shuyi, who had just made a comeback after getting married and having children, and the two of them sang the promotional song of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" - "The Wind is Clear" on the stage of "The Voice of the Dragon Kingdom"!
In Zhao Zhenghao's previous life, this song was cooperated by the richest man and the diva, and it was used by Zhao Zhenghao here, which is really appropriate.
Martial arts and chivalry, appeared very early in the traditional culture of the Dragon Kingdom, although for a long period of time, not accepted by the mainstream ideology of society, but in the people, it has always had a large number of fans.
In the New Culture Movement in the thirties and forties of the last century, martial arts, which evolved from the traditional public cases of the Ming and Qing dynasties, was also a force to be reckoned with.
The original work of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was created at that time.
At the beginning of the establishment of the New Dragon Kingdom, the cultural and entertainment industry was strictly controlled, and martial arts, which was considered the dregs of the old society at that time, was the target of the attack, and had to be transferred to Xiangjiang and other places where the social environment was relatively relaxed, and gradually changed from the old school to the new school.
When movies were just emerging in the Dragon Kingdom, martial arts films appeared as an important genre of Dragon Kingdom films, and in the seventies of the last century, they once reached their peak.
Later, with the emergence of more and more genre films, martial arts films gradually declined, but the kung fu films, gunfight films, and gangster films that became popular later still borrowed a lot from the essence of martial arts films.
In the current Dragon Country film market, martial arts films have become an absolute niche, and there are not many films that can be released publicly every year, and even fewer have good box office performance.
Therefore, before, when Zhao Zhenghao announced his new film plan, he said that he would make a martial arts film, which caused an uproar in public opinion.
However, with the continuous launch of the trailers, pilot films, and promotional films of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", everyone has been able to peek at the scales and feathers of this film, and their views on it are also quietly changing.
After Zhao Zhenghao went to Cannes with the film and won four awards including "Best Director" and "Jury Prize" for this film, everyone has only expectations for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon".
Even those who once watched it are now anxiously waiting to go to the cinema to get a full picture before making a final decision.