If you want to say the most unlucky guy in Hollywood during this time, Josh Schwartz is definitely one of them, in fact, he has now reached the point of desperation. The reason for the incident was that he fell in love with a novel written by a female writer in New York, bought out the copyright for $450,000, and after adapting the novel into a screenplay, he found the producer of CW TV.

The two sides soon reached a cooperation intention, and CW funded the filming of this TV series. This kind of youth idol drama TV series has always been the favored sponsorship of major clothing brands, and Josh Schwartz soon signed cooperation agreements with many clothing brands under the sign of cooperation with CW.

But at this time, there were some sudden changes on the CW side, the producer who was in charge of contacting Josh Schwartz suddenly left, and Josh Schwartz went to CW TV again, but was told that the funds were tight and the filming was postponed indefinitely. Because the two sides had only reached a verbal agreement before, Josh Schwartz did not expect CW to change his mind halfway through.

But Josh Schwartz, the money of those costume sponsors, has already gotten his hands on it, and has spent a lot of money in the process of finding cast and crew. If the TV series does not go ahead of the filming, he will be sued by the sponsors for breach of contract.

Josh Schwartz didn't dare to answer any phone calls these days, he has been looking for the right investors for the TV series, but other TV stations either lack enough interest in the scripts he writes, or offer too low a price for him to accept. During this time, the sponsor's lawyer kept coming to the door, and Josh Schwartz now wears sunglasses when he goes out, in case he is caught by the opposing lawyer.

At noon that day, he walked out of the apartment building, and wanted to reach out to stop a taxi, but as soon as he touched the shriveled wallet in his pocket, the hand he was about to raise was put down again, and in order to save money, he still decided to go to the subway.

Standing on the street and sighing for his downfall, Josh Schwartz was about to take a step when a voice suddenly sounded behind him: "Mr. Schwartz, are you going to go out?" ”

Normal people should turn around when they hear someone call their name, but Josh Schwartz made an unexpected move, he didn't look back at all, but walked straight forward without turning a deaf ear.

"Mr. Schwartz!" The man who told him thought that Schwartz did not hear him, and shouted again, but instead of stopping, Schwartz quickened his pace, but the man still chased after him and blocked his way.

Standing in front of Josh Schwartz was a tall blonde beauty, although the other party was wearing big sunglasses and couldn't see his face clearly, but with Schwartz's "fiery eyes" that he had practiced for many years, he concluded that the other party was a beauty at first sight.

In the past, if a beautiful woman accosted him on the street, this was Josh Schwartz's unbelievable affair, but now he doesn't think that the other party will stop him for no reason, so he resorted to the first trick: death and no confession.

"Miss, I'm sure you've mistaken someone, I'm not Mr. Schwartz!" Josh Schwartz also had a facial expression when he said this, and it could be seen that he had used this excuse many times, and even his expression had reached the point where he was free to put it away.

"Mr. Schwartz, I'm Blake Fraley, we've met before, are you finished?" The beautiful woman who stopped him in his way took off her sunglasses, and Schwartz saw her face clearly.

"It's you!" Josh Schwartz let out a long sigh of relief, he looked around warily before pulling Freley aside, "Didn't I have someone inform you... You can also see the situation I am in now, I am chased behind the ass by the lawyers of those sponsors all day long, do you think this TV series will still be filmed? ”

"Mr. Schwartz, but I—" Before Freiley could finish speaking, he was interrupted by the other party.

Josh Schwartz shook his head resolutely, "There's nothing left, the TV series can't be filmed, and the character I talked to you about before will naturally be invalid... Maybe I'll get a summons from the court in a few days, and you'll have to go to jail if you want to find me... I'm busy figuring out what to do right now, so I don't have time to explain it to you again, so that's the end of it, okay? ”

After saying that, he turned his head and left, and Frelli shouted behind him with a smile: "Mr. Schwartz, I know someone who can help you!" ”

Hearing this, Josh Schwartz suddenly stopped, he was very suspicious that his ears were wrong, but seeing Friley's unmistakable expression, he felt that the other party should not be joking with him.

"Miss Black, are you telling the truth?"

"I'm here for you!" Friley shrugged helplessly, "But you won't give me a chance to speak." ”

In order to firmly grasp this life-saving straw, Josh Schwartz immediately piled up a flattering smile on his face, "I don't know who the person you are talking about, he can really help me?" ”

Fraley pointed to an SUV parked on the side of the road, "The other person is in that car, if you have any doubts, go and ask him." ”

---Lin Mingyang looked at Josh Schwartz, who was sitting in the passenger seat with a worried face, and said directly: "I definitely can't help you, but I can give you a chance to help yourself!" ”

"I don't know what you mean," Schwartz blinked, "I'm in a really difficult situation right now. ”

"The situation is a little different from what I imagined, you actually pulled so many clothing brands to sponsor before you officially signed the agreement with the investor. I thought I was bold, but now it looks like you're better than me! Lin Mingyang patted the steering wheel in his hand lightly, "I don't mean to be sarcastic when I say this, in fact, if your plan is not unexpected, this will be a very good plan in business." ”

Schwartz smiled wryly and said, "But I still failed." ”

"Maybe you're not lucky." Lin Mingyang nodded sympathetically, "I heard about this TV series from Fraley, and to be honest, I'm very interested in your script, so now I have two sets of cooperation plans on my hands for you to choose from." ”

Lin Mingyang raised his first finger: "You offer a suitable price, I will buy your script and the copyright of the TV series, and the contracts you signed with those clothing brands are still valid, and I will try my best to meet their requirements in the filming of the TV series." That way you won't go bankrupt and you won't be taken to court! ”

Then he raised his second finger: "The investment in filming the TV series is made by me, the copyright belongs to me, you are the producer, and then 30% of the income after the broadcast belongs to you!" ”

No matter which plan it is, it actually has a bit of a taste of robbery, but the conditions given by Lin Mingyang are already very rich, whether it is emotionally or intellectually, Josh Schwartz prefers to choose the second set of cooperation plans.

The most helpless thing is that in the face of this multiple-choice question, Josh Schwartz has no other options.

-- Lin Mingyang's appearance was like an angel descending to hell, and he rescued Josh Schwartz from a dire situation at once, and the clothing sponsors who were ready to take him to court immediately changed their attitudes 180 degrees when they heard that Lin Mingyang had taken over the filming of this TV series. The senior management of CW Company was even more moved when they heard the news, and immediately sent relevant representatives to find Lin Mingyang, hoping to buy the broadcast rights of this TV series.

Josh Schwartz felt that Lin Mingyang should "knock" the other party hard, but Lin Mingyang sold the TV broadcast rights of "Gossip Girl" to CW TV at a very low price, which surprised Josh Schwartz.

"If I only sold at this price, I would have been able to work directly with other TV stations... I can't believe you'll accept a contract like this, and we won't even get the cost back according to CW's offer! When it came to his own interests, Josh Schwartz had to go to Lin Mingyang for serious negotiations.

"It's definitely not going to be able to recoup the cost of TV broadcasting..."

Before Lin Mingyang finished speaking, Josh Schwartz interrupted him impatiently, "Even with the sale of DVDs, I think the revenue is very limited!" ”

"In my opinion, these are not the main channels for TV dramas to make profits, you have overlooked a very important form of communication, that is, the Internet!" Lin Mingyang shook his head, "What I sold to CW is only the broadcast rights of TV, and the episodes can be updated synchronously on the network, and YouTube will be our network partner this time!" ”

"Episodes that can be seen on TV, no one will pay to click through on the network." Josh Schwartz is not optimistic about this novel model of network cooperation.

"YouTube is a free video-sharing site, and you still need to pay to watch TV, but on this website, you can watch it online as long as you click on it, and it's completely free." Lin Mingyang explained.

Josh Schwartz felt a little funny, "So why do we make money?" ”

"It's free to watch, but users have to pay to download it from the web." In the explanation of this problem, Lin Mingyang seems to be very patient, and the acceptance of new things always has to have a cognitive process: "You will definitely say that the number of downloads is limited, after all, not all people will watch a TV series twice." The biggest source of income for online broadcasting is still in advertising sharing, TV is the ratings, and we rely on clicks, which is a lot of income. Don't forget, the audience of this TV series, today's young people, their viewing habits are not limited to only using TV. Do you know why the ratings of those popular youth idol dramas have not been able to compete with family ethics dramas? ”

Josh Schwartz shook his head blankly.

Lin Mingyang smiled slightly, "Because the people who hold the remote control in front of the TV are always those middle-aged women!" ”

(To be continued)