Chapter 122: Wang Zhongjun's thoughts
During the days when Shao Yingying left the capital to visit people from all walks of life, a sitcom called "Wulin Gaiden" became popular, which was so absurd that even the protagonist could tell the audience that when he read the lines of "Shakespeare" more than 200 years later, I don't know how many viewers were amused to laugh. The most interesting thing is that Ning Hao's storytelling technique is completely incomprehensible to the original play, he can stitch the same story into a completely different look, and make the audience achieve a sudden understanding of the plot effect in a way that is cushioned to the order.
The combination of Ning Caishen + Ning Hao made the sitcom "Wulin Gaiden" take its own prosperous road under the criticism of many beasts and bricks, and several leading actors pushed the ratings all the way to the peak, directly surpassing the popular "Jinghua Yanyun", and the peak of the ratings broke the barrier that Huayi dramas could not break through 30% in recent days.
Some people in the circle have calculated an account for the biography of "Wulin Gaiden", which reads: "With the relationship between the investment of "Wulin Gaiden" and Shao Yingying, the total income of this TV series can easily enter the 50 million net profit mark, and it will become the top ten TV series in net profit since Shao Yingying became the owner of Huayi. But in fact, can the income of "Wulin Gaiden" be reflected only in money? Several actors signed by Hua Yi just became cash cows almost at the same time and started a career with continuous film contracts, isn't this a profit? Yan Ni, Yao Chen, and Sha Yi, several actors who were named and signed by Shao Yingying, did not even have time to return to the company to appear after "Wulin Gaiden" became popular, and they moved to major studios one after another.
In addition to "Wulin Gaiden", directed by Shao Yingying. "Wang Gui and Anna" starring Zhang Jiayi and Hai Qing also caused a violent response, although the ratings and net profit of this TV series were not as good as "Wulin Gaiden", but Shao Yingying won two powerful actors for Huayi and personally praised them. Zhang Jiayi and Hai Qing, two actors who don't seem to have the slightest 'star' spirit, simply played "Wang Gui and Anna" with a strong flavor of life. The total profit of the show of 35 million also made the two who had just signed a contract with Huayi famous, and now they have followed Yoyo and Teng Huatao into the crew of "Double-sided Tape" early.
"Life and Death Line", a TV series filmed by most of the original cast of "My Regiment Leader, My Group", landed on CCTV after "Wang Gui and Anna", and the highest ratings also reached 25% when "Life and Death Line" was broadcast. The meaning of this sentence is very simple, the failure of "Life and Death" to reach 30% of the ratings is not a bad TV series of Huayi. It's that there are too many classics in this type of TV series, and the audience has developed visual resistance.
Although the ratings of these three TV series are presented on the ratings report in a trapezoidal structure from high to low, each of them is the ratings champion of the same period. At least this point is very satisfying to Shao Yingying, the big boss of Huayi who has just returned from the south and north, and even more satisfied with Wang Zhongjun's decision.
Wang Zhongjun decided to frantically hype the 'Erning' combination to defeat 'Shao Yingying' when Shao Yingying hadn't come back yet, and the advantage of this was not only to launch 'Ning Caishen' and 'Ning Hao' at the same time, but also the most important thing. It is to build momentum for Ning Hao's movie released in 2006.
Shao Yingxing is almost invincible in the TV drama market. And Ning Hao defeated Shao Yingying's "Wang Gui and Anna" with a "Wulin Gaiden", can't this make people look forward to the actions that 'Ning Hao' will do on the big screen?
Just when Huayi's newcomers sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, Ning Hao had completely finished filming "Crazy Jewels" and Xu Jinglei's "Hippie Smiling Face" was about to be completed, Shao Yingying couldn't be idle even if he returned home, and he had to arrange next year's plan.
Shao Yingying, who took out the bitter drama script of "Home Cooking", found Huang Zhizhong, who once had a relationship, and asked this buddy who kept helping him carry the black pot in the crew of "Mansion Gate" to rush to Huayi to sign the film contract, and used his connections to find Gao Xixi as the director and Zuo Xiaoqing as the female number one. make every effort to create a new trend of TV dramas; Immediately afterwards, Shao Yingying found the Tianjing Writers' Association. At that time, Long Yi hadn't written "Latent", but he won the Big Red Eagle Literature Award for "Days Without Heroes", so Shao Yingying told Long Yi an idea and hooked up with Long Yi to write "Latent" for Huayi.
The play "Latent" is not that Shao Yingying is unwilling to write it, the main reason is that he really doesn't have time, and he has to continue to visit the grandmaster with the King of Sunglasses after the New Year, and he has to write the script of "The Grandmaster", and he can't take care of "Latent" at all. After talking about "Latent", Shao Yingying told a low-end story that evolved from "Latent", this story is called "Borrowing a Gun".
With these three dramas, Shao Yingying can fully guarantee that Huayi will continue to dominate the small screen market in 2006, and he will be able to devote himself to "The Grandmaster", as for the urban drama market, Shao Yingying is really not worried at all, as long as the combination of Yoyo, Teng Huatao and Haiqing does not meet Zhao Baogang, a strong rival, they can win the ratings championship in the same period. Now, Huayi is the dominant family in the small screen market.
At Huayi's year-end meeting, Shao Yingying put forward the idea of 'digital cinema' for the first time, he thought that once his idea was launched, it would inevitably cause opposition from the entire venue, but what he didn't expect was that Wang Zhongjun was the first to stand up and support, Wang Zhonglei reconsidered, these three stood on the same front, and it was useless for others to say anything.
Cinemas are a dream that every company wants, especially since the Film Bureau has created a digital cinema chain consisting of 166 theaters, and the benefits and concessions of this cinema chain are coveted by all companies. But in such a big country, can there be only one digital cinema chain?
Of course not enough! Therefore, as soon as Shao Yingying's idea of building his own company's theater came out, Wang Zhongjun immediately agreed.
"Xiao Shao, since we already have this idea, we have to quickly enter the implementation, otherwise once other companies are allowed to take the lead, and when the domestic digital cinema market is saturated in the future, the state will definitely introduce a series of corresponding regulations. At that time, I am afraid that there will be many constraints. ”
This is what Wang Zhongjun said at the meeting. How could Shao Yingying not know?
"Mr. Wang, what do you mean?"
"I'll do it next year!"
Wang Zhongjun's words startled Shao Yingying!
Do it next year?
Shao Yingying took out 300 million yuan from the sky, he had to keep some money anyway, and Huayi's internal capital flow could not be emptied, so who would invest the rest of the money?
When he looked at Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei, he understood. After these two brothers lost their controlling stake in Huayi, they are eyeing the cinema chain!!
"Investing is a problem, isn't it?" Shao Yingying hooked up and said.
Wang Zhongjun nodded, and said as if he was thoughtful: "I can take out a maximum of 500 million privately." Xiao Lei has no problem taking out 200 million......"
At the meeting, everyone looked at Shao Yingying, who gritted his teeth at this moment and waited without saying a word.
Wang Zhongjun saw that the atmosphere was deadlocked, and said, "That's it." Xiao Shao. You take out 300 million, our brothers can make up enough 100 million, and then use Huayi and Huayi Performing Arts Network to take out loans, and the initial investment will reach 1.5 billion, and the acquisition of theaters and theater renovation work can be carried out. ”
Shao Yingying smiled: "What about the money in the later stage?" ”
"Our company is just a mortgage, and the money earned during the mortgage period is still ours, and when the time comes, we should be able to build the theater line. As long as the theater chain forms a scale, with the annual release of our national films. The payback is fast. ”
"Mr. Wang, I think this matter, let's still discuss it."
Shao Yingying didn't continue to entangle, and he didn't give an answer, and he couldn't give an answer at all.
Huayi's current money-making tools were created by him, and when it came to the construction of the cinema line, it became the majority of the Wang brothers, who would pay back the loan money? Don't Shao Yingying earn it with one hand or the other? A TV series and a movie to push? So how do you say this share is divided? Isn't this a mess?
Because of the messy accounts, there have been brothers Xiao Wall since ancient times, and once Huayi forms a situation of confrontation between the Wang brothers and Shao Yingying, it will face the division of the entire company, and Huayi's good situation will instantly become a plate of scattered sand.
After the meeting ended, Shao Yingying went home directly, and this mention was never mentioned from then on, and it did not even prevent Huayi's profit dividends at the shareholders' meeting. Originally, he wanted to stop this dividend, and then turn Huayi into a reservoir, and fill the reservoir with his own ability, but now it seems that this path is not feasible.
During the Spring Festival, Shao Yingying's home was more lively, Xiao Shao Nian became everyone's pistachio, almost every old man in the two families couldn't close his mouth when he saw Shao Nian, and Gao Yuanyuan also began to gradually get rich, but she still remembered Shao Yingying's habits and remembered his favorite dishes, although in his busy career, Shao Yingying rarely went home once.
"Am I fat?"
On the night of the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the two old people slept in the guest room, Shao Nian was also coaxed to sleep by the nanny, only Gao Yuanyuan and Shao Yingying were two people, when they were keeping the year, they looked at Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei's sketches and talked softly.
"It's fat." Shao Yingying hugged Gao Yuanyuan and said with a smile.
Gao Yuanyuan stretched out her hand and hammered Shao Yingying's leg, and scolded with a smile: "Bastard, you dislike me." ”
"Sort of."
The moment Gao Yuanyuan raised her head, Shao Yingying kissed her on the lips as if she was listening to a little water, and said softly: "Whether we dislike each other or not, our relationship will not change." ”
"There is no love between us, but you will always be my wife, Shao Nian's mother, the woman I think about wherever I go, and the bookkeeper who will hand it over to you no matter how much money I make."
Gao Yuanyuan was a little moved and didn't speak, the two of them would no longer burst into tears because of this touch, they would only snuggle together: "Read the lines with me again, you haven't shown enough script skills outside?" ”
Neither of them spoke, hugged each other, and slowly grinned and laughed out loud in the sketches of Zhao Benshan and Fan Wei.
Gao Yuanyuan said: "Zhao Benshan is old. ”
Shao Yingying replied: "I'm in my early thirties, can he still be old?" ”
Yes, Shao Yingying is middle-aged. (To be continued......)