Chapter 89: Xu Xiaoming's Plea for Help
The wireless side urgently convened high-level officials to discuss countermeasures, and Qiu Degen on the ATV side was also considering the same problem, the only difference was that he only called Xu Xiaoming to the office alone.
This move undoubtedly regarded Xu Xiaoming as a confidant, which made Xu Xiaoming very excited, but on the surface, he still had to pretend to be very calm.
The office door was not closed, Qiu Degen sat at his desk, and in front of him was the ratings statistics table of "Chu Liuxiang" for the previous week.
Hearing the knock on the door, Qiu Degen raised his head and glanced at the door, and when he saw that it was Xu Xiaoming, he stood up and waved to him.
Xu Xiaoming followed Qiu Degen to the lounge area of the office and sat down on the sofa face to face.
Qiu Degen did not deliberately maintain the majestic expression in front of his subordinates, but the whole person seemed very casual, and at the beginning of the conversation, he was not talking about business, but talked about some other things.
Xu Xiaoming dealt with it carefully, but he felt more and more that Qiu Degen's reaction today was a little strange.
"Xiaoming, have you been in contact with Lin Xi recently?"
Xu Xiaoming was stunned, he made a phone call to Lin Xi when "Chu Liuxiang" was broadcast and achieved record-breaking ratings, and there seemed to be no contact after that, and I don't know why Qiu Degen suddenly asked about this.
Xu Xiaoming didn't hide it, and told the truth about the situation, Qiu Degen let out an "oh", and the expression in his eyes was slightly disappointed.
"So you know what he's up to right now? Write a novel, make a TV series, or are you going to do something else? ”
Hearing that Qiu Degen was so concerned about Lin Xi's recent situation, Xu Xiaoming thought that Qiu Degen was preparing to further woo Lin Xi, but he really didn't know what Lin Xi was doing recently, so he could only shake his head regretfully.
"I know that the posters, stickers, and all kinds of products related to the drama "Chu Liuxiang" that are being sold on the market are all made by Lin Xi, and everyone knows that these things can make money, and I heard that many people are ready to follow his example."
"Obviously a literati, but he has a shrewd brain like a businessman, this kid is getting more and more incomprehensible!" Qiu Degen sighed with emotion.
Xu Xiaoming heard from these words that Qiu Degen's perception of Lin Xi seemed to be a little complicated, so he was cautious in his speech.
"Do you think he's going to make movies now?" Qiu Degen asked suddenly.
These words reminded Xu Xiaoming and reminded him of one thing.
"When Lin Xi asked Cheng Xiaodong to be the martial arts instructor of "Chu Liuxiang", he seemed to have promised the other party that if this drama was successful, he would support Cheng Xiaodong as a director to make a movie, and I don't know where this matter has progressed now."
Qiu Degen couldn't help frowning when he heard this, "Cheng Xiaodong's contract with ATV still has more than a year to expire, how can he have time to make movies during this period?" ”
"I guess it's after the contract expires, right?" Xu Xiaoming knew that he had lost his words, so he hurriedly remedied.
Qiu Degen nodded, this incident also reminded him that it was time to consider signing a new contract with Cheng Xiaodong.
"You arrange it in two days, I will meet Cheng Xiaodong in person, he will help Lin Xi make a movie, I will not interfere, but I must not be poached by the wireless side!"
Xu Xiaoming nodded solemnly, and followed Qiu Degen to talk to him about another thing.
"Chu Liuxiang" can be regarded as helping us ATV take the lead, but what should we do after this drama is broadcast?"
When Lin Xi proposed to Qiu Degen to implement the separation system of production and broadcasting on ATV, Qiu Degen asked him this question, and Lin Xi gave Qiu Degen's construction of a two-step process, while continuing to attract film and television companies to help produce high-quality new dramas, while ATV's own production department should also make full use of it, the most ideal state is to introduce TV series and self-made TV series to form a kind of healthy competition.
Because of the excessive success of "Chu Liuxiang", Qiu Degen is now worried about this.
"Although we are now cooperating with outsiders, ATV's production department can't be idle, and we must come up with our own high-quality dramas!" Qiu Degen said and fell his earnest gaze on Xu Xiaoming, "I don't feel at ease if this matter is handed over to others, and you have to be responsible." ”
In front of Qiu Degen, Xu Xiaoming of course agreed without hesitation, and said that he would definitely do this thing well.
But after coming out of the office, Xu Xiaoming's face immediately changed to a worried expression.
With a jewel like "Chu Liuxiang" in front, ATV's self-made TV series can't be too bad, otherwise it won't meet Qiu Degen's requirements at all.
But the high-level TV drama project, where did Xu Xiaoming go to find it for a while?
In desperation, Xu Xiaoming had no choice but to find Cheng Xiaodong and ask him if he had any good buildings.
In the hot pot restaurant, the two sat opposite each other.
Cheng Xiaodong fished out a piece of meat from the boiling soup pot, looked at Xu Xiaoming and said, "You threw me a script and asked me to design the action, but you came to me without even thinking about what to shoot, do you think I can help you with this?" ”
Xu Xiaoming had nothing to hide from Cheng Xiaodong, and directly said his thoughts: "I think that after the broadcast of "Chu Liuxiang", it will inevitably bring a wave of martial arts TV series to the boom, so I also want to start from this aspect. ”
Cheng Xiaodong stuffed the piece of meat into his mouth, chewed it twice and said, "Do you want to hear the truth?" ”
Xu Xiaoming glared at him angrily and said, "Aren't you talking nonsense?" ”
Cheng Xiaodong shrugged his shoulders, "The truth is, I don't think you can do it!" ”
Xu Xiaoming was stunned for a moment, looking at Cheng Xiaodong with an expression of disbelief.
"Don't look at me like this, it's not that I deliberately want to hit you, but you really can't shoot well, because now it's not a casual story, and you can make the audience buy it by putting on the coat of martial arts, and the audience's appetite for "Chu Liuxiang" is basically raised, if you don't have a good script, I advise you to forget it."
Cheng Xiaodong's words made Xu Xiaoming silent for a long time, because he didn't know how to refute.
After a while, Cheng Xiaodong said: "It's really useless for you to ask me about this matter, but I can recommend someone to you, and he should be able to help you." ”
Xu Xiaoming seemed to grasp a life-saving straw, and asked anxiously: "Who?" ”
"Lin Xi!"
Xu Xiaoming was stunned for a moment, then shook his head with a wry smile and said: "Do you know why Uncle Gen is so anxious to let me make a drama, it is because "Chu Liuxiang" is so successful, he is worried that Lin Xi's side will be too big because of this, Lin Xi must also know Uncle Gen's intention to do this, to help others deal with himself, how could he do such a stupid thing?" ”
Cheng Xiaodong put down his chopsticks, put his hands on the table and looked at Xu Xiaoming seriously: "This is because you don't know Lin Xi, when he first cooperated with "Chu Liuxiang", he told me that he wanted to shoot this TV series as a movie, it can be seen that his ambitions are more than that, and he is a very proud person, you think you may be a threat to him, but in fact, he doesn't regard you as an opponent at all...... Anyway, you don't have anyone else to turn to right now, so it's better to find him, and maybe there will be an unexpected gain. ”
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