The popular team in this year is: Hong Kong and Taiwan director + Hong Kong and Taiwan male protagonist + mainland actress + Hong Kong behind-the-scenes team.

The Tang people have been like this in the past few years, "The Legend of Heaven and Earth: The Lotus Lamp", "The Female General of the Yang Gate", "The Book of Swords and Enmity", "The World is Unparalleled"...

And most of them are Taiwanese actors.

Why is this happening?

Because the competition in Taiwan TV stations was fierce in those years, they were willing to spend money to buy dramas...

I am also willing to buy mainland dramas!

This is thanks to CCTV!

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "Mansion Gate", and "Yongzheng Dynasty" have sparked a lot of discussion after they were broadcast in Wanwan, and the ratings are also very high.

No way, in addition to idol dramas, the most common thing on Taiwan TV is actually a smelly and long local drama.

Local dramas are also known as "longevity dramas", and their slogan is probably not the longest, only longer: 136 episodes of "Goodbye Ah Lang", 415 episodes of "Mother's Family", 410 episodes of "Night Market Life", 386 episodes of "Love", 311 episodes of "The Heart of Parents in the World", 248 episodes of "Flying Dragon in the Sky", 107 episodes of "The Story of Time"...

By the way, episode 526 of "Unforgettable"...

The key is that the ratings of these episodes are high!

"Flying Dragon in the Sky" was the first in the province for 79 consecutive days, and beat 15 serials in the same period, which lasted seven months and broadcast a total of 212 episodes, setting a total of 211 days of the first rating in Taiwan Province;

"Unforgettable", set a record for the longest life local drama in the history of Taiwan's eight-o'clock file, an episode of one and a half hours, a total of 526 episodes, broadcast in Taiwan for 378 days, of which 369 days won the ratings championship, with the highest rating of 10.59%...

The most ridiculous thing is that the drama "Unforgettable" was not only introduced to the mainland, but also sold to Malaysia and Singapore in Southeast Asia, and when CCTV 8 was broadcast, it also set a ratings myth in the same period...

Local dramas are generally broadcast on Mintv, so what competition do other TV stations have?

Buy mainland dramas!

Of course, priority is given to the procurement of one's own people with the participation of...

Therefore, Tang Ren's dramas will use a lot of crooked actors...

Tang Ren's early entrepreneurial idea was very clear: to produce dramas on Taiwan TV, Tang Ren produced the production team and cast the cast, and then transferred the copyright to the mainland and overseas markets.

It was during this period that Tang Ren determined the production idea of focusing on costume legendary dramas, and the historical part was mostly jokes; There are many martial arts scenes; The actors cover the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan, for example, the protagonists of "The Legend of Heaven and Earth: The Fish Beauty" are Guo Jinan of Hong Kong, Xu Huaiyu of Taiwan, and Sun Li of the mainland.

Cai Yinong previously worked as the coordinator of the Academy Awards, and also worked as an agent for stars such as Guan Yonghe and Guo Jinan, and worked in the casting department of a production company.

The business logic of overseas distribution determines that Tang Ren mainly produces costume dramas.

In the early years, domestic dramas only sold in ancient costumes overseas.

Tang Ren Film and Television relied on the production capacity of costume dramas and signed a three-year contract with a Singapore film company, which is also the reason why "Fairy Sword" and "Strange Tales from Liaozhai" have Wang Lujiang...

"The Legend of Sword and Fairy" is a work born under this idea.

When he first came into contact with this project, Cai Yinong was actually a little hesitant. But after some investigation, she found out that the game has a group of heavy fans...

is like this, every time a Tang Dynasty drama is broadcast, Cai Yinong will watch the discussion of netizens on forums in Taiwan and the mainland. She found that online viewers would discuss a drama over and over again, and would also fill in the plot to have a very deep understanding of the drama.

Well, she attaches great importance to the Internet, especially Tianya...

Therefore, in the early days, Tang Ren's water army was really all over the world, and he also won the title of first sister for Liu Shishi!

Including this time I asked Shen Xudong to write the script of "Fairy Sword", in fact, I also saw netizens discussing "Zhu Xian", saying that he was the first person in Xianxia...

Otherwise, just based on Feng Baiyuan's recommendation, the two high-level leaders will move into the nest...

She also talked to Shen Xudong about casting, but the latter was very slippery, and only said that Zhao Linger liked Liu Yifei, and didn't say anything about the other characters...

Liu Yifei, of course Cai Yinong knows, Wang Yuyan!

However, at this time, whether it is Tang Ren or Daewoo, Yao Zhuangxian's first choice is He Meitian!

Famous sweet girl, simple, naïve and the like...

Yi Lin in "Smiling Proud Jianghu", Zhong Ling in "Dragon Babu"...

However, He Meitian is at the peak of her career, with two or three dramas a year, and she cooperates with popular stars such as Zhang Weijian and Lin Zhiying, and they are all female number one...

There is not enough schedule...

As for Li Xiaoyao, he didn't think about Brother Hu at all.

The current costume drama pays attention to a round face, and the head is shaved to look good!

Zhou Yumin, Xie Tingfeng, and Lin Zhiying are the first choices, by the way, including Sun Xiezhi, the captain of 5566 who has cooperated...

"West Street Boy" is produced by Tang Ren, and the cast includes Sun Xiezhi, Huo Jianhua, Liu Pinyan and Wang Xinling...

Liu Pinyan was first invited to play Lin Yueru...

Anyway, it's quite chaotic, and it's hard to get started!

However, these have little to do with Shen Xudong, the script of "Fairy Sword" is finalized, the script fee has arrived, and the follow-up casting or something, although he was invited, he didn't feel the need to participate...

The casting of "Sword and Fairy" is very good, what's the point of you inserting a kick?

Besides, it hasn't started yet, what's the idea?

You have to wait for them to be helpless, come over to ask for advice, and speak at that time, and call for charcoal in the snow!

……

Shen Xudong is busy with "Outstanding Citizen"...

I was invited to meet with the producers, the producers, and by the way, the filmmakers of the Venice Film Festival...

Why the Venice Film Festival?

The main thing is that they can't catch up with Berlin, and the probability of winning the prize in Cannes is too low, so let's do Venice, it just so happens that they have a little friendship with Lao Ma.

Lao Ma is Mark Muller, in 86, Lao Ma began to be the Asian filmmaker of the Venice Film Festival, and has a deep friendship with the fifth generation;

Beginning in 91, Lao Ma served as the chairman of the Locarno Film Festival for ten years, during which time, Wang Shuo's "I Am Your Dad" and Lu Le's "Mr. Zhao" sold well at the Locarno Film Festival, and starting next year, Lao Ma took over as the chairman of the Venice Film Festival for four years...

Oh, these are all what Chen Daoming took him to!

blamed Shen Xudong himself, and for a while he quickly told Chen Daoming that he wanted to be a producer in the future, and Chen Daoming felt that the producer should understand the whole process of a project from scratch...

Just pulled him on...

To be honest, it's awkward, other people are okay to say, just talk about the script, and it's different to go to the sponsor...

The attitude of people is to look down on them with a capital letter!

Although the other party said that Mr. Chen and Mr. Shen were talking about it, they couldn't look down on it in their hearts - the sponsorship of 500,000 yuan was pushed back...

"Outstanding Citizen" has a plot to promote drinks, and the producer wants to find a beverage company to sponsor it, which can be regarded as product placement!

……

In the car, Shen Xudong took the mineral water handed by Chen Daoming's assistant, took a sip, and then sighed a little: "I used to think that forming a film team was very simple, find a script, pull some investment, and then shoot, I didn't expect it to be so complicated!" ”

“… Is that complicated? ”

"It's running the release again, and it's contacting the filmmaker..."

Chen Daoming said: "We have to consider the problem of returning to the capital... After all, this movie also needs 8 million to be made! ”

The cost of 8 million, relying on the market to recover the cost alone, to say the least, will cost 20 million box office...

So far this year, the highest-grossing movie is "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" with 41 million, then "Mice Fall in Love with Cats" with 22 million, and "Zhou Yu's Train" with 19 million...

The cost of these three films is more than 10 million, and the cost of "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" is even as high as 80 million!

There are also big stars joining...

In contrast, the cast of "Outstanding Citizen" is good, Chen Daoming, Fu Biao, Yingda, the writer's first love found Liu Bei to play...

are all good actors, but... None of them have the ability to sell out!

"Making a movie is like this, you have to ask for money, people, investors, distributors, and you have to run around the country for publicity..."

“… It's too much trouble..."

"That's how it was in the beginning, but it's different if you're famous, and those investors are rushing to beg you... Your phone is ringing! ”

“… Oh. ”

Shen Xudong took out his mobile phone and was a little surprised, it was actually Qi Xiaolei, the assistant producer he met when he was in "Dragon Babu"...