The hits of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" and "Zombie Road Long-haired Little Fang" have added a lot of entertainment to their lives for the majority of Chinese people, but for Stephen Zhao, it is just two meals before and after the start of filming of "Gravity", and the other two meals are the high price of the premiere rights of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" and "Bright Sword".

Because "Bright Sword" has a strong political factor, the first round of broadcast rights was exclusively bought by CCTV. However, being bought exclusively by CCTV does not mean that the price will be reduced, because many investors will not agree. In the end, after negotiation, CCTV bought it at a price of 5 million for a single episode. As for when it will be broadcast, CCTV chose to broadcast it on a set of eight o'clock golden files on the day of 9?18, for the same reason as Stephen Zhao arranged for "Zhou Wen" to be released on the day of 9?18, in order to fight devils.

The number of episodes of "Bright Sword" is 36 episodes, 5 million per episode, and 180 million were sold in the first round of broadcast rights alone!

"Heaven and Dragon Slayer" is a "Stephen Zhao-style" martial arts drama, which is a guarantee of ratings, starting from "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", and then several martial arts TV series such as "Smiling Proud Jianghu" and "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", each of which is a popular work across the country, and the ratings have broken countless records, so when it was not finished, there were many TV stations that asked to buy the first round of broadcast rights.

In the end, the first round of broadcast rights of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer" was bought by two TV stations, one is Xijiang TV and the other is Tomato TV, and the price of a single episode is equivalent to 6.5 million!

After the final editing of "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", there are a total of 40 episodes, that is, 260 million were sold in the first round of broadcast rights alone!

In terms of price, making martial arts dramas is much more profitable than filming TV series with other themes.

But Stephen Zhao didn't care, because this was just a preliminary phenomenon, because he had no experience in the shooting of TV series with other themes, so the TV station didn't dare to open too high a price. Wait until the TV station sees that the TV station where he shoots any subject is a guarantee of ratings. They dare to open, and they must pay a high price.

Stephen Zhao believes that when "Bright Sword" becomes a sensation across the country, the second round of broadcast rights will be sold at a sky-high price!

Of course, for Stephen Zhao now, money has become more and more a symbolic number, because the profit of any TV series or movie is calculated in billions.

Opposite. Stephen Zhao values their influence even more!

Whether it is a martial arts TV series, a martial arts movie, an anti-Japanese TV series, a ghost TV series, or a magic movie or a science fiction movie, in fact, Zhao Xingchi cannot be satisfied in terms of influence.

For example, the sci-fi movie "Source Code" has a super high box office, but after the painting, the influence has dropped to the freezing point, and not many people pay attention to it.

Let's talk about "Zombie Road Long Hairy Little Fang", although the ratings are very popular on ATV, but because of the amount of the subject matter. It can't be introduced into the mainland, nor is it accepted by European and American countries, so the vast majority of people are just trying to be fresh, and they won't pay attention to it for a long time.

On the contrary, the naïve cartoon "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", although it has been sprayed by countless people, it is also very inconspicuous, but its influence is unprecedentedly strong. It is so powerful that Zhao Xingchi is going to step by side!

First of all, the ratings of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" are very high. It broke the record of the highest ratings since the launch of CCTV Children's Channel, with a direct audience of 40 or 50 million Chinese people, and an indirect audience of all the population of the entire Chinese people.

Secondly, and most importantly, the expansion of the copyright around this cartoon is very powerful!

The book market sold 5 million copies in two days. A series of records were broken, and by the end of August, in less than a month, 40 million copies had been sold in China alone! This is only a genuine book, and there are even fewer pirated books. According to double calculation, the number of sales books will at least exceed 100 million.

Commodity market, or toys, or stationery, or clothing, or shoes and socks...... As long as it is something that children can use, food, clothing, housing and transportation, they have been brushed again and again with the "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" series. Many children were clamoring for joy and wolf.

Food, drink, toys, clothes, shoes, schoolbags, pencils, amusement equipment, floor tiles......

Red Star Media has made a lot of money just by earning licensing fees, and is even ready to engage in "Xiyangyang mobile phone" and "gray wolf mobile phone".

Of course, in the largest toy market, Stephen Zhao has an exclusive license to his family's "Xingyi Toys" company, and the money in his left hand is handed over to his right hand.

In just one month, the scale of Xingyi Toys Company has expanded fivefold, all of which are acquisitions and mergers and acquisitions, with total assets of up to 3 billion; The net profit is even more tumbling upward, and the monthly profit has exceeded 100 million!

Now, as long as you are in China, whether you are in the countryside or in the city, whether you are at home or outside, you can always see something related to "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", which is pervasive and has occupied the whole of China.

What's even more terrifying is that the first season of this cartoon can have a second season, a third season, and a fourth season...... As long as you feel it, it has a sequel, and it is not a problem to maintain it for ten or eight years, or even twenty or thirty years.

With such accumulation and such overwhelmingness, the influence of "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf" can only be said to be "terrifying"!

However, the expansion of peripheral copyrights is not well known to the public, and they often realize it later, so most of them only focus on whether this cartoon is good-looking or not.

Stephen Zhao didn't announce all these results, just make a fortune in a muffled voice, and then he threw the outline of "Bear Infested" to the screenwriter's studio.

"Bear Infested" is a 3D cartoon, in the previous life, many people said that it was much better than "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf", but seriously, it should be much worse!

First of all, Bear Infested is awkward because it is not a children's cartoon, but a teen animation and even an adult animation. However, by the standards of a teenager and an adult, this cartoon should be funny and not funny, and it should be deep and not deep.

Secondly, "Bear Infested" is very rough, and all kinds of dangerous equipment are used casually, even chainsaws. What is this for? What should I do if I teach a bad little pot friend?

I don't know what other people feel, but Stephen Zhao feels like this, this doesn't need to be a mouthpiece, just look at the respective results of "Bear Infested" and "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf".

In the previous life, the results of "Bear Infested" were far worse than "Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf"!

Of course, the poor grades are worse. This is compared with "Joyful and Big Big Wolf", compared with other cartoons, the results of "Bear Infested" are so good that it is heavenly, at least "Bear Infested" has high ratings, and it has also released a movie version, and it has also sold the copyright to more than 50 countries and regions abroad.

In line with the doctrine of taking it, Stephen Zhao once again sold his temperament.

"Bear infested?"

When he got the outline, Zhan Xianjun was stunned at first, and then he was taken aback: "This is a 3D animation? ”

Stephen Zhao smiled: "Is there a problem?" The company's special effects department is not only engaged in movie special effects. You can also do 3D animation. ”

Zhan Xianjun sneered, and then changed the topic and said: "The Legend of the New White Lady, as well as the script of "Dragon Babu" have been completed and sent to your mailbox. ”

Zhao Xingchi raised his eyebrows, then nodded with a smile: "Is it finally done?" I'll take the time to watch it. ”

Zhan Xianjun then walked out of his office with the outline of "Bear Infested".

Stephen Zhao turned on the computer, logged in to the mailbox, and then called up the two completed scripts for review.

The filming of "Gravity" was handed over to the director team. Take a break and "rest" on your own.

Filming "Gravity" was a very complex project and very difficult. After all, it's a real space movie, but you can't really go to space to shoot, so you have to shoot the feeling of space on the ground, so the shooting props and shooting methods involved are very difficult.

Past life, Alfonso? It took Cuarón six years to shoot Gravity. Four years for pre-preparation, two years for formal filming and post-production. During the period, Alfonso? It took Cuarón two and a half years to determine the lighting, shooting angles, and effective visualization of the animated characters before he began selecting the actors.

Stephen Zhao was just an ordinary person in his previous life, but he had heard of Alfonso? Cuarón's filming methods and difficulties. is not qualified to see and experience with his own eyes, so in this life, although he is a traverser, he still can't cheat.

The reason why a master is a master is that you know how he made a shocking film, but you still can't make it!

Stephen Zhao handed over these difficulties to the director team to be responsible, and only gave a script, actors, and Alfonso? A brilliant idea that Cuarón came up with during the shoot: the light box!

The light box is a 6-meter-high house consisting of 196 LED panels, each containing 4,096 individually controllable light points.

This is a god idea, the reason why Stephen Zhao knows it is because "Gravity" is so amazing, many people want to know how it was filmed, so the production company directly announced it in order to meet the requirements of fans.

When the actor stands in the light box, the actor does not move, and the individually controllable light points on the light box move according to the program, which will form a feeling that the actor is moving. If you put coercion on the actor and roll in the air, it is easy to shoot a shot of the actor rolling in space.

Rao is like this, the director team was still shocked by him, and he even thought of this kind of divine creativity.

Stephen Zhao still remembers the shocked expressions of those directors when he said this "god idea".

The director of "Gravity" was originally scheduled to be Zhao Xiaogang, but Zhao Xiaogang wanted to shoot "Cyborg", so he only became an assistant director and cooperated with several other directors to shoot. The other assistant directors are Huang Wen and He Weicheng, all of whom are from Red Star Media, and then there is another director Ding Cheng from Rey Brothers.

The chief director is the "National Teacher" Chen Shuluo, who is a photographer, so it is most suitable for him to shoot "Gravity", which can show those beautiful and spectacular shots vividly. (To be continued......)