Chapter 046, meet the audition
The clouds cover the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the snow lights up during the Lantern Festival. Today, the moon in Taiyuan is hazy and half-occupied, I don't know what the Lantern Festival will be like and, what about other places? All in all, I hope you all do well in the future!
After Liao Yiyuan returned to Hong Kong, he met with Mo Fei at the first time and had a face-to-face exchange on the distribution of Phoenix Culture's TV drama works in other cities.
The final result is very satisfied, for the long-term cooperation in the future, Yindu is willing to reduce the agency distribution fee to 15 percent of the royalty.
Although Yindu has reduced the price by a quarter, it has won the long-term cooperation of Phoenix Culture, and with the means shown in the movie, it is not difficult to make money through TV episodes, and Yindu collects 15% of the distribution fee, which should be absolutely very profitable.
The co-production of "Journey to the West" was finally agreed to contribute 1.5 million US dollars, accounting for half of the copyright of the co-production drama. But you can't just shoot the current 25 episodes, you have to shoot the 16 episodes of the script that Mo Fei took out together.
It's not going to be done all at once, saving you from having to make up the next sixteen episodes after more than ten years, and by then the advantages of this series have been fully demonstrated, and it's not so easy to co-produce it, at least it will be quite ridiculous.
Phoenix Culture and Yindu can only sign an agreement on the agency distribution of TV dramas in other cities, and Yindu is not qualified to sign the agreement for co-production dramas with Mo Fei, and must go to the headquarters of the international television company and sign it with the party in charge there, which means that Mo Fei must go to Beijing for a trip.
"One and a half million dollars, do you know how many TV series can be filmed? This is more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars, which is enough for me to shoot six "Nightclubs", even if I can shoot two "Peace Hotel", you can only buy half of the copyright of a TV series? Wang Jing's eyes widened, and his eyeballs were about to fall out.
Mo Fei handed over the tea, Wang Jing took two sips, put down the cup and continued: "Ah Mo, you shouldn't be coerced, you have other nationalities, don't care about those people." ”
The more the fat man talked, the more outrageous it became, so he hurriedly interrupted him and said, "Stop, stop, how can it be as terrifying as you say." I'm actually making a long-term investment this time, and the return may be five or even ten years from now, but the return is amazing. Maybe you won't believe it, but if I invest $1.5 million now, I will reap hundreds of $1.5 million in the future. ”
Wang Jing has always believed in Mo Fei in movies, but in this matter, he chose to believe in himself and said: "It's what you said is too terrifying, 1,100,000,150,000, that's 1.5 billion US dollars, just rely on a TV series You will earn 1.5 billion US dollars, I think you are faint." ”
Mo Fei felt that he should really popularize some knowledge for Wang Jing, otherwise he would definitely be laughed at, and asked: "You are stupid, did I say that it is a TV series, and it is good to say that it is good to invest for a long time." Then let me ask you, do you know how many people there are in the mainland now? ”
Wang Jing shook his head, he really didn't know about this question, but how many people there were in the mainland, it was impossible for you to make so much money.
"A billion people, a billion, do you know how much a billion is?" Mo Fei was a little anxious when he spoke, stretched out the index fingers of his left and right hands and crossed them together, and said: "We don't count the future growth, let's take these billion people as the basic data, you can think about it, if thirty percent of these billion people go to watch a TV series, what kind of concept will it be, and how influential will it be?"
I'm investing 1.5 million now, just to let everyone know me first, and know that there is a Phoenix Culture Company in Hong Kong, which is much faster than the promotion of the movie, and as a co-production, the government will also give a lot of publicity. Then I will shoot more dramas to be released in the mainland, and gradually let all Chinese TV viewers know Phoenix Culture and recognize the artists under Phoenix Culture.
When the film market on the mainland takes shape, Phoenix Culture and its artists have long been well-known to mainland audiences, and that is when I can really make profits. ”
"But how can you be sure that if you can make all the mainland audiences watch the TV series you made, the mainland will also produce TV dramas." Wang Jing is still a little unsure, but the market of one billion people is huge, but how to occupy it is a bigger problem.
Mo Fei looked at the future king of Hong Kong commercial films, and really doubted how he achieved such good results, and said with a little hatred: "Please, can you use your brain, do you only know how to eat when you have such a big head." If you also speculate in stocks, you should know how the dealer operates, the reason here is almost the same, that is, to speculate and speculate, move here to that side, and then move back to this side, and the interests appear in the back and forth. As the saying goes, the body has to exercise, the funds have to flow, and if a star wants to be popular, he has to move more.
First of all, we must continue to invest in some good TV series in the mainland, and then tap some mainland actors to develop in Phoenix Culture, so as to attract the attention of mainland audiences. Then you can take the films made by these actors to the mainland to be broadcast, and when they see the films of these actors, they will naturally have a sense of closeness and even pride. After a long time, this feeling of closeness and worship has been slowly cultivated, are you still afraid that there will be no market? ”
Wang Jing nodded as if he didn't understand, and said, "Although I still don't understand much about what you said, I can also see that you are cunning enough, and now you will start preparing for ten years from now." But I'm still a little worried, wouldn't it be a pity for you to give up the Taiwan market like this? ”
"Who said that I was going to give up the Taiwan market, the Taiwan market is not as terrifying and absolute as I imagined, as long as it is a good film, are you afraid that no one will watch it? You can rest assured, there are a lot of distribution companies in Taiwan, what they do, is to highlight their role at this time, otherwise what do they have to do with the distribution company, really those issuance fees are very profitable. Even if it's for profit, there will be distribution companies that will do it, and as long as you can connect with their interests, they can do a lot of things you can't imagine, and that's the same everywhere. ”
There are some things that cannot be said now, China's film and television industry is developing at an extremely rapid pace, and the development of the entertainment industry is also advancing by leaps and bounds; it will not take 10 years at all, and in five years' time, China's entertainment market and cultural market will have earth-shaking changes; if we do not seize this opportunity now, we will fall into a situation of strangulation by crocodiles, and the development of the mainland market will be delayed for several years.
By the mid-90s, Hong Kong cinema was sluggish and had to make conceptual compromises in order to cater to the tastes of a wider audience. This phenomenon will continue for more than 20 years, until the era before the time of Mo Fei, the annual output is only a few dozen, not to mention making Hong Kong films go global, it is very difficult to keep the current situation.
In addition, this classic "Journey to the West", in the eighties, when China's television media was not very developed, set a rating of more than 80 percent, and the number of replays exceeded 2,000 times, setting a Guinness record for the most broadcasts. In the following three decades, more than one director has remade it, but no one has reached the level of this one.
What is the concept of replaying more than 2,000 times, and a copyright fee will be collected for each broadcast, and how much will the copyright fee be for 2,000 times. In terms of the smallest number possible, every replay can earn an average of 100,000 royalties, 2,000 times is 200 million, and now it is only an investment of a few million Hong Kong dollars, not to mention that it is impossible to be such a small number, just as an investment, it has made a lot of money.
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When he was in the car, he could hold on for a while, but as soon as the plane took off, he began to fall asleep, which made Liao Yiyuan and others, who accompanied him to Beijing, inexplicable, and thought that he was faint to this extent.
As everyone knows, last night was busy enough, the ghost sister just broke through the bottom line with him for a few days, and when he needed it the most, he had to go for several days, so he naturally had to toss in every way.
Even if it is an iron body, it can't withstand the extreme madness for three consecutive days. After hours of continuous fighting at night, you have to continue fighting in the morning; During the day, you have to deal with the company's affairs, and you have to deal with the harassment of the ghost girl's sudden appearance.
Happiness is happiness, and hi is enough, but the high excitement of more than ten hours a day also makes the body a little unbearable. Fortunately, Mo Fei's body is quite strong, and his energy is much more vigorous than that of ordinary people after experiencing the crossing, otherwise he would have become a soft-footed crab long ago, and whether he can step on the plane is a problem.
Because Hong Kong has not yet returned, Mo Fei and others are still foreign guests, and it is the first Sino-foreign joint venture TV series since the establishment of the International Television Company, Mo Fei's arrival has been greeted and courtesy. Not only the leaders of the international television company, but also the superior leaders of the national television and the leaders of the local government all appeared at the welcome banquet and the subsequent signing of the agreement.
In this era of extreme lack of foreign exchange, it is quite remarkable to be able to invest 1 million yuan, which has brought 1.5 million US dollars to invest, in the current view, although the effect is not more than 15 million yuan, but it is basically no problem to make a discount.
Even some local government officials expressed their goodwill to Mo Fei and welcomed him to invest in the mainland, and if he was willing to do so, the local authorities could give him as many preferential policies as possible and encouraging support measures.
Investing in the mainland is naturally willing, and while developing itself to make money, it can also support China's economic development, but not at this time. At present, he doesn't have much money himself, and there are too many places to use it next, and he is unwilling to be the kind of profiteer who uses shell investment to arbitrage loans and operate, so he has to say that he will definitely consider it if he has the opportunity.
The next day, Mo Fei was invited to visit the TV production center of National Television, and also stopped by to see the shooting of "Journey to the West" in the interior part of the production center.
Invested such a large amount of money, the effect is naturally needless to say, everywhere you go, there is a special person responsible for guidance and introduction, and there are high-level executives of national television to accompany you, even the governor of Hong Kong in Hong Kong does not have such a big travel scene.
Although it cannot be said that this is the charm of money, when your money can bring benefits to others, they will definitely treat you well. This is the case on the mainland, where the social atmosphere and work attitude are quite formal, and one can imagine how many people will want to open the way for you on the more relaxed side of Taiwan, as long as there are interests in front of you.
"Xiao Wang, you go and inform the auditioners of the third group to come in quickly, and the auditions of the fourth and fifth groups will be moved to the afternoon, there are important foreign guests visiting this morning, and we must pay attention to maintaining order." Mo Fei was visiting accompanied by the national television side, and a slightly abrupt voice came not far away.
The leader of Guotv glanced at the person who spoke, and was just about to go over to drink, but was stopped by Mo Fei and said: "Mr. Niu, are these actors going to audition for the crew of "Journey to the West", if so, should we watch it up close?" ”
Mr. Niu asked a few words to the people around him, and he was sure that it was the audition of the crew of "Journey to the West", and said: "Of course, Mr. Mo is one of the producers of this TV series, of course you can watch it casually." ”
With that, the group followed behind the group and walked to the audition hall. Mr. Niu's assistant explained as he walked: "For this TV series, Guoshi has put a lot of thought into it, and these actors are all selected from the list recommended by various schools in Beijing, and all of them have dancing or stage performance skills to ensure that they can achieve excellence." ”
There are more than one billion people in China, and it is much easier than any country to pick out some people who are talented or have a foundation in a certain aspect.
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