In the program "Run, Brother", Li Kuo knew from the beginning that the production cost and the effort and energy invested were definitely not comparable to online dramas like "Never Expected" and "Grassroots Men". Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Because "Run, Brother" is already very formal, many of the sets and production in it require careful investment, and these things are quite scary when converted into money.

However, this is also a road that must be taken, Li Kuo always feels that there have been too many small fights in the past, and when it comes to handy, he may be deflated, and there is no way to complete the future work.

Although "Run, Brother" is not a film and television work with a huge investment, it involves a lot of scheduling and requires huge preparation, these things will become valuable experiences, and some problems that arise during preparation will also accumulate experience in dealing with problems in the future.

So this is also one of the reasons why Li Kuo wants to do this show, of course, the most important thing is to improve the image of fireworks culture in everyone's hearts, so that they know that fireworks culture can always continue to innovate, including variety shows.

Now, the fireworks culture is also starting to gradually work in preparation for this show.

However, the first thing to face is the issue of celebrity salaries.

The problem of celebrity remuneration is particularly big, but if these stars are not enabled, it will definitely not work, if it is just some passers-by A and B tearing the name plate on it, who will watch it? Variety shows can often drive the explosion of many stars, including Li Kuo, who also became popular because of "Speed Travel", but variety shows also need stars to attract people to watch.

So this show must be indispensable for stars, and the problem now is that these salaries are too high.

"Damn, that's the case in the Chinese film and television industry now." At this time, Xiao Qifan also saw such some salaries, and said a little speechlessly: "It's really a top-heavy, the star gets more and more salaries, and the production quality will go down, and he can't make any money, so he has to find more stars, pile up stars to make gimmicks, and if it goes on like this, eat jujube pills!" ”

What Xiao Qifan said is also a common problem in China's film and television industry.

Piling up stars is like an arms race in World War I, seeing that others are doing that, if you don't follow suit, you will feel empty, and you will always feel inferior to others, so the result of the arms race is that the price of stars is getting higher and higher. The current level of these stars in China is not good, but the salary is indeed very scary, and the salary is often associated with fame, not strength.

But these are all very normal in an era when the market decides everything, and celebrities have a market, so their prices are naturally very high.

However, although these things can find reasons, they can't convince Li Kuo that they will accept such a price, so they have to negotiate with the agents of these stars next.

The key is that Li Kuo and they don't have many choices, after all, this is an online show, or a new thing, many celebrities will feel that this kind of online show is not compulsive, and if they come, they will reduce the compulsion that they have finally gathered together, so this increases the difficulty of Li Kuo and them in selecting actors.

All in all, after everything is combined, the current Li Kuo and they still have to negotiate with these stars, pinching their noses to negotiate.

Soon, such negotiations also began.

In fact, Li Kuo felt that it shouldn't be a big problem to settle these stars before, they should also know what price they are about, and it's not good if it's too high, so they should be able to accept their offer.

But the problem is that after really chatting, he found that things are not so simple at all, these stars have kept their so-called bottom line one by one, basically anyone still asks for a particularly high price, and it is not much lower than the original price.

So this negotiation was also more difficult, and then Xiao Qifan deliberately found some other stars through his own channels and tried to replace these, but the problem is that the stars he found also needed a high price to take over the job.

Obviously, they are all circled by the name of this kind of online variety show, and now they are asking for a high price anyway.

So after a few days of hard negotiations, the number of first-line stars finally dropped to 7 million, which is still a rather terrifying number, of course, there are not many first-line stars in the whole of China, at most less than ten, so the seven million is not too outrageous.

As for the next second-tier stars, the price of each person has dropped to 1.5 million to 3 million, and all of them are 10 million, and the remaining two third-tier stars are priced at 800,000 yuan each.

In this way, the investment in the salary alone has reached 18.6 million, and if you count the price of a few guest guests, the final price should be in the early 20 million, which is less than half of the nearly 40 million expected before.

This achievement is actually quite good, at least it has been reduced by nearly half, and it has also greatly reduced the production cost, which also gives fireworks culture more room to move around.

The actors' salaries have been settled, and the schedule has been arranged for them, and then the scene is prepared.

Although Li Kuo still has a certain ability in this regard, he is still willing to leave the main things to professionals to complete, after all, there is a specialization in the art industry, and Li Kuo has always believed in this.

These people and Li Kuo spent a total of two days planning various scenes, props and venues, and this is only the first three episodes, because Li Kuo has already written out the general program settings and several situations that will occur at that time.

After such two days of calculation, they probably calculated that if the actor's salary is not counted, an average of three million will be spent on a show! In other words, if the first season of this show is recorded, it will cost about 50 million yuan.

50 million to make a web show!

After hearing such news, Qiyi Video Network secretly rejoiced in their hearts, fortunately they didn't have a hot head to follow Li Kuo and them, otherwise, such a situation would be unacceptable to them. They would rather spend so much money to buy a variety show that has been broadcast by a TV station than spend so much money to do an online variety show.

But no matter what they think, now for the fireworks company, it is already a bow and no turning back. (To be continued.) )