Chapter 198. ["American Idol" became popular]
In other words, Dream Pictures' entry into the American TV circle is very successful!
If the previous "Dance Floor Fight" was just a test of Fantasy Pictures' TV entertainment program, then "American Idol" is a solid foundation for Dream Pictures and FOX TV to lay a solid foundation for grassroots talent shows in the United States.
"American Idol" is a TV talent show for national entertainment, and the only restriction is that American nationality is required - in the original history, there was also an age limit, but Yi Feiyang intended to make this show a place where the American dream is truly realized, so age or anything is not a problem at all.
The competition starts with auditions in various cities in the United States, and each year the auditions will be held in several representative cities in the United States, and the contestants only need to impress the three judges with their own songs to qualify for the semi-finals in Hollywood. Originally, Yi Feiyang was considering bringing them to Broadway in New York for a rematch, but considering the cost, there was also the issue of influence...... So Yi Feiyang chose Hollywood, and FOX TV also agreed.
At Hollywood Round, 150 to 200 contestants from all audition cities will be screened for a second time. The 24 winners of the semi-finals, including 12 male and 12 female players, began to take to the stage and compete on the same stage in front of the national audience through the silver screen.
On the national stage, Yi Feiyang will once again sacrifice his "secret weapon", that is, invite Mike Jackson to appear as a judge.
Yes, it's Mike Jackson who is filming with Yi Feiyang. In fact, since agreeing to take over Yi Feiyang's movie, Mike plans to re-emerge and create a new self. No more nostalgia for the glory of the past. He's going to rebuild his glory. So when Yi Feiyang proposed to make him a judge of "American Idol". Mike thought it a little and agreed.
As Mike Jackson's agent, Mr. Peter also sees this as a rare opportunity to show his face. Although Mike has also participated in some large-scale variety shows before, it was a series of moves made before he became popular in order to increase popularity and increase exposure, but after Mike became a superstar, these show activities basically disappeared. One is because Mike's schedule is so full that he can't pull away; Second, to attend such an event, Mike asked for too much pay. Intimidatingly high; The third reason is that Mike's self-care identity is not what it used to be, and this kind of low-grade activity is still a little reserved, and it is better not to participate.
Because of this, Mike hasn't participated in any variety entertainment shows for several years, and it's difficult to see his face here, and many TV stations can't ask for it, so it can be said that he is too big.
Mike's promise made Dream Pictures' partner FOX TV overjoyed, and he couldn't help but look at a cow like Yi Feiyang even more. After all, it is definitely not easy for someone who can convince King Mike three times and twice.
Originally, the historical "American Idol" was voted by the audience in the form of mobile phone text messages and the Internet. However, Yi Feiyang took into account the profits obtained, so he created another form of voting. That is to vote by phone. The TV station uses an automatic answering mechanism, using the Celeron supercomputer as the core of the system.
When the user calls, they will enter the intelligent system, and then they only need to vote according to the prompts.
Even so, there are always a lot of enthusiastic audiences, so sometimes manual services are needed to provide supplements, and sometimes there are problems with busy lines, but this is also no way.
When the phone voting was first introduced, there was some concern, but later they found that it was quite popular. After all, this is the first time that the contestants are decided by the audience's vote rather than by the judges alone, and this alone makes the audience much more attractive.
And this approach has the advantage of being a more objective reflection of the potential record market.
If someone gets the favor of the judges and ends up being the champion and signing a contract with Universal. But the audience doesn't like this person, so his future records will still not be popular, and such a "pseudo-star" is useless.
But since it is the champion chosen by the audience themselves, it must be that this person has enough attraction to the audience, and because of this, this person can become a real pop singer and star in the future.
In this way, the Internet, mobile phones, and landline phones are all collected, and according to Yi Feiyang's calculations, the profit in voting alone is an astronomical amount. Let's say a landline vote is 8 cents per vote, the phone company gets 4 cents, and the other 4 cents goes to Dream and FOX, so if 2 million people vote in Los Angeles, then Dream Pictures will get 40,000 dollars!
Keep in mind that this is only one area of Los Angeles, and if the thirteen states of the United States are developed at the same time, North America, with a population of nearly 300 million, will definitely be able to make a profit of 400,000 or even millions of dollars!
The show starts in November and then picks the real winner before Christmas, airing in primetime on Tuesdays and Wednesdays in the run-up to the tournament, and then on weekends when it's time for the finals.
In today's North American TV industry, there are many types of TV programs, especially the most competitive variety entertainment programs, which are even more minefields, no matter who comes in easily, they will be crushed, but "American Idol" has broken this law. Yi Feiyang's large-scale live-action grassroots talent show directly aimed at the North American people's wind ~ coquecy ~ hole, once it was played, it quickly occupied the bridgehead of TV entertainment and became a banner.
And for a TV program, copyright and advertising are the biggest "golden eggs". The rights to "American Idol" alone can bring millions of dollars in profits to Dream Pictures and FOX every year, and it has to be said that it is a good show.
Because it is a primary election, most people think that the show is not good. But according to Yi Feiyang's words, in fact, the primary election is the most exciting, because those American talents, bulls, ghosts, snakes, and gods will be on the stage at the same time at this moment!
The facts have proved the correctness of Yi Feiyang's sentence, and the primary selection of "American Idol" has just begun, and there are constant jokes and revelations.
First, a black chicken chop girl appeared in a high voice, saying that she was going to be angry with Pavarotti; Then came a white guy who sang Martian songs that no one could understand in his self-created "Martian language"; Then a white aunt who is suspected of being mentally ill ran out and said that she wanted to sing an action-packed American ballad......
Such a thunderous contestant made all the viewers stunned, leaning forward and backward, so that even US President Clinton couldn't help but turn on the TV and have fun in his spare time. Just like when the media interviewed Clinton recently, he said: "Oh man, please hurry up, okay, I'm afraid I missed the start of "American Idol"!" Oh my God, I love that 'Martian brother' so much! He even learned a few words of Martian...... Grunt, coulee whined......"
In addition to the president of the United States, Hollywood's big stars also love this show, for example, superstar Tom Cruise is ready to invite the "black chicken chop girl" to play a small role in his "Mission Impossible" sequel, because Tom loves her rare screams. There is also the big star Madonna, who admires the white aunt who sings with her belly, thinks that singing with her belly can protect her throat well, and she has used exercise to lose weight.
In short, as soon as "American Idol" was launched, it became a mess, with constant right and wrong, constant troubles, constant topics, and news advertisements one after another...... And Yi Feiyang, who concocted all this, was once again called the "father of "American Idol" by some people with a heart, but more Americans like to call him the "father of talents"!
Yes, he was the one who created two American's ever got talent! It is also he who has given countless talents with unique skills but no place to show their talents! It was he who used his intelligence and ingenuity to concoct an interesting entertainment feast for the people of the United States!
It can be said that with the popularity of "American Idol", Yi Feiyang has gained fame and fortune, and has become the most influential Chinese entertainer in the whole of North America!
In the words of the world's media tycoon Mercado, "I don't know if you have seen it, but in short, I have seen that a Chinese entertainment tycoon is slowly rising, from Hollywood to Los Angeles, and then from Los Angeles to North America...... Maybe he will stand at the pinnacle of entertainment in the future, because he is younger than me! ”
Merkdo doesn't judge people easily, nor does he praise people easily, although in this passage he didn't name and say who this young "Chinese tycoon" was, but as long as you pay a little attention to the situation, you will know that except for Yi Feiyang, who is coquettish inside and out, filming, and making TV shows, there are no outsiders!
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Yi Feiyang's fame has risen, especially by Mercado, as a new "entertainment tycoon", which makes many real American "entertainment tycoons" scoff, including the CEO of Disney, the president of Sony, and the bosses of Universal and Warner......
That's right, Dream Pictures has developed fast enough this year, but the foundation is not stable, and the company structure is not solid, especially as an outsider, Guo Jianglong, Yi Feiyang and his company are born with "kidney loss", hard enough, but not strong enough, to put it bluntly, the foundation is still weak. (To be continued......)