Beijing and Taiwan still attach great importance to "Latent", in recent years, the ratings of military-themed and spy war-themed TV dramas have performed well, especially "Bright Sword", "Soldier Assault", and "Secret Calculation", which have performed well in the ratings of the country, especially in the northern region, and the cast of "Latent" is good, especially Li Mu's reputation has been too loud recently, so "Latent" belongs to the key follow-up dramas in Taiwan.

Director Zhao Haiquan's favorite spy war drama in recent years is "Secret Calculation" directed by Liu Yunlong, the whole drama is divided into three parts, "Listen to the Wind", "Watch the Wind" and "Chasing the Wind", among which "Chasing the Wind" is the most exciting, and it is thrilling to watch.

"Secret Calculation" has pushed the ratings of spy war dramas to a new height, and as the biggest promoter of the introduction of "Secret Calculation", Director Zhao Haiquan has also gained a lot.

"If only 'Latent' could have ninety percent of the potential of 'Secret Calculation'—"

Thinking of this, Director Zhao Haiquan shook his head secretly.

Li Mu is a genius, no one can deny this, last year's grand occasion of a ticket for "Gravity" reaching thousands of yuan still makes Director Zhao remember it vividly, and after his family watched the movie, they were all stunned without exception.

However, if you look closely at director Li Mu's fame experience, it will be very obvious that what he is best at is actually action and science fiction themes.

Director Li Mu's imagination is incomparable, but the kind of spy war drama that walks on thin ice on the tip of a knife, the fierce collision of thoughts and beliefs of the protagonists and supporting characters, and the description of the social landscape and the current situation of the country during the Republic of China are obviously not Li Mu's field of expertise at all.

"The story should be good-looking, and the ratings are likely to be wrong, Li Mu is indeed a genius in terms of market smell, but I'm afraid that this "Latent" can't shoot the flavor of that era after all."

"That's right, it's the taste!" Zhao Haiquan thought, "Li Mu has indeed never shown that kind of tradition and era, but as long as the ratings can be good, it is enough."

When TV stations choose dramas, they generally look at the script, the appeal of the actors, and the production team.

Zhao Haiquan originally planned to do the same, but when he watched the first two episodes, he found that he couldn't stop at all.

Let's talk about the first episode, the reception banquet where Yu Zecheng first arrived in Nanjing, there are sets of words during the banquet, dangers are everywhere, and the most amazing thing is that a dialogue is integrated into multiple historical events, and it is very cleverly combined with the plot, the protagonist Yu Zecheng will immediately be in danger if he says a word wrong.

It seems to be an ordinary dinner, but secretly it is full of traps and strange turmoil, which is amazing.

After watching the number of episodes prepared by Huashang in advance, Zhao Haiquan still asked to watch a few more episodes, and Huashang naturally would not refuse, and as a result, he directly saw it at 9 o'clock in the evening.

After returning home, Zhao Haiquan immediately made a phone call to the director.

"Director, we have to take down this "Latent", it feels like it will explode."

The other end of the phone smiled and said, "Lao Zhao, you can't just get home, right?"

Zhao Haiquan said, "Well, I watched a sample film for a day in Huashang."

The voice on the other end of the phone began to grow startled: "Watched a sample for a day?"

Zhao Haiquan said solemnly: "Director, I have a strong premonition that this "Latent" will be a phenomenal hit drama."

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Recently, Li Mu is busy with the preparation of two new movies, according to the plan, the filming of "The Hunger Games" and "The Martian" will be connected this time, most of the staff of the two crews are the same people, after filming "The Hunger Games", "The Martian" can be completely seamlessly started filming.

In addition, there is the issue of the first round of broadcast rights of the TV series "Latent", and at present, more than a dozen satellite TV, terrestrial stations and CCTV have expressed interest in the first round of broadcast rights of "Latent" to Huashang Media.

Li Mu himself prefers to sell to provincial satellite TV, the reason is very simple, local satellite TV is more willing to spend money and the requirements are far less demanding than CCTV.

When a drama is sold to CCTV, it is often required to be the first

The broadcast rights, the second round of broadcast rights and the rights of audio and video products are packaged and sold, and in most cases, the drama is given to CCTV and has nothing to do with the producer at all, which is to maximize the interests of CCTV and minimize the risk.

And since 07, CCTV has fully implemented the "point price" policy, that is, after CCTV buys your TV series, it will require the TV series to reach a ratings base point after it is broadcast, and if it is not reached, it will be fined, and usually this rating base point will not be set very low.

Even the popular drama "Kangxi Weifu Private Interview 3" was fined for failing to reach the basis point in some areas. A certain region meets the standard and is awarded, and a certain region is fined for failing to meet the standard, and the same drama will have a different fate when it is broadcast in different regions.

Therefore, popular dramas such as "Golden Wedding", "New Shanghai Beach", and "Three Kingdoms" have turned their heads to local stations.

At present, Beijing TV, Zhejiang TV, Dongfang, Liaoshi and other four companies intend to jointly fund the first round of broadcast rights of "Latent", each of which will contribute 500,000 yuan per episode, so that the price of the first round of broadcast rights of "Latent" will reach 60 million yuan.

"Latent" has a total investment of 20 million yuan, and has earned back 40 million profits for the company in the first round alone.

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At the beginning of April, Li Mu flew to the United States with the starring role and other main creators of the film, and "The Hunger Games" was officially launched.

Zhao Jinmai is still young, her parents put down their work to accompany their daughter to the United States, the little girl has very few scenes, under normal circumstances, she can return to China within three days, and Tao Huimin who plays the mother also has few scenes.

Li Mu did not increase the number of Chinese actors in this play, whether it is the male protagonist Pita or the heroine's childhood sweetheart Gail, they are still white in Li Mu's script this time.

The main market for "The Hunger Games" is in Europe and the United States, and its domestic box office share is likely to be very low, so there is no need for Li Mu to take the risk of replacing the actor with a Chinese actor.

In mid-April, the large-scale drama announcement of the new "Three Kingdoms" in China was in full swing, and domestic netizens felt that the boss "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was almost unsurpassable, and on the other hand, they were full of curiosity and expectations for the new "Three Kingdoms".

At the same time, the news about the imminent release of director Li Mu's first TV series "Latent" has also begun to spread widely on the Internet, and no one thinks that "Latent" can compete with the new "Three Kingdoms" at this time, whether it is netizens or relevant parties of various TV stations.

This can be seen from the program arrangements of Beijing TV, Zhejiang TV, Dongfang, Liao TV and other four satellite TVs, the premiere date of the new "Three Kingdoms" is May 2nd, and the four satellite TVs will obviously be able to arrange the premiere of "Latent" in May, but they have a very tacit understanding with each other to set the premiere date of "Latent" in July.

On April 16th, the premiere of the new "Three Kingdoms" kicked off in Beijing, and director Gao Xixi led dozens of actors such as Chen Jianbin, Lu Yi, He Yundong, Huang Weide and other actors in the play to congratulate them.

"Director, now the Internet is spreading that in order to avoid our new "Three Kingdoms", channels such as Beijing and Taiwan have very tacitly pressed the premiere of "Latent" for a month, is this true?"

After seeing that the staff member finished speaking, a large number of stars in the entire backstage all looked at director Gao Xixi. From the end of last year to the beginning of this year, Li Mu's tossing movement was too big.

"Gravity" first opened the 3 era of global movies and caused a sensation in the whole world, "Gravity" has been dominant for five consecutive times plus "Avatar" for seven consecutive years, and the epoch-making two 3 movies have directly dominated the North American box office list for 13 weeks.

In the market where the best box office results in the country are at most three or four hundred million, "Gravity" was stunned to cut a box office of nearly 1.6 billion yuan in one fell swoop. "Gravity" has a global box office of $1.7 billion, "Avatar" has a global box office of $2.7 billion, and the two epoch-making 3 movies have a total global box office of more than $4.4 billion.

Not to mention that last month, Li Mu's movie won six Oscars including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress, and Best Actor.

Now there is director Li Mu's first TV series work to avoid

The rumors of the new "Three Kingdoms" schedule made the entire "Three Kingdoms" crew a little excited.

That's Li Mu! even avoided our new "Three Kingdoms"?

At this moment, Director Gao Xixi's face was already full of smiles, he smiled reservedly, and said in a rather serious tone: "Director Li Mu is a world-class director, a great director on a par with Spielberg and James Cameron, Director Li Mu's level is absolutely top, his "Gravity" has opened a new era, and in terms of films, he has made all directors in the country unreachable."

"However, people's energy is limited after all, and director Li Mu's main energy is focused on movies. I heard that the quality of "Latent" is still very good, and Beijing and Taiwan are also very optimistic about this drama, but our new "Three Kingdoms" is a remake of the four masterpieces, and I think everyone understands the status of the four masterpieces in the hearts of the Chinese people, and the old version of the four masterpieces has passed more than ten or twenty years, and it has been talked about by audiences across the country."

"I believe that "Latent" will definitely be a good drama, but our new "Three Kingdoms" is actually the old version of the four famous novels."

What did the other main creators of the crew feel when they heard Director Gao Xixi's words?

Privately, everyone discussed.

"Holy,! We heard that Jingtai and others actually pressed "Latent" to be released for more than a month in order to avoid us, and we felt very happy, it was the work of director Li Mu who wrote the script himself! The result? If you want to say that the director pattern is high, in the eyes of others, don't care how you Li Mu is an international director, in the eyes of our Gao Dao, there are only the classic old versions of the four masterpieces!"

"What is a pattern? What is magnanimity? Gao Dao is really high!"

"And the most admirable thing is that Director Gao didn't say a bad word about Director Li from beginning to end, this open-minded, cow!"

"In fact, it is definitely a wise choice for Beijing and Taiwan to avoid the new "Three Kingdoms", "Three Kingdoms" invests 155 million, and "Latent" invests 20 million, which is not a level at all! Why is Li Mu's movie awesome? "Inception" invested $120 million, "Gravity" and "Doomsday Collapse" invested $100 million, and the secret is actually in the money!"

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Time flashed to May 2nd, and on this day, the long-awaited new "Three Kingdoms" finally premiered.

Suzhou Provincial Satellite TV, Hui Provincial Satellite TV, Jinmen Satellite TV, and Chongqing Satellite TV have all launched large-scale propaganda offensives, and several companies have done their best to compete for the ratings of the new "Three Kingdoms".

Among them, the most exaggerated is Hui Provincial Satellite TV, which officially changed the name of the TV station to "Three Kingdoms Satellite TV" from 0:00 on the 2nd, and worked hard to broadcast the new "Three Kingdoms" supporting program for 18 hours. At the same time, the advertising time after "News Network" was abandoned, and the new "Three Kingdoms" was broadcast 5 minutes first.

Suzhou Provincial Satellite TV bundled the new "Three Kingdoms" and "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", Jinmen Satellite TV broadcast a countdown card at the top of the screen, and Chongqing Satellite TV is also playing the promotional video of the new "Three Kingdoms" in a loop.

At the same time, CCTV also came to join in the fun, and CCTV 8 started broadcasting the old version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" on May 2, and "competed on the same stage" with Gao Xixi's version!

The ratings were released the next day, according to Suofurui's ratings statistics for 34 cities, after the new "Three Kingdoms" was launched, the ratings of Su Province, Hui Province, Jinmen, and Chongqing Satellite TV on the same day were 1.36%, 1.06%, 0.55%, and 0.35% respectively - it can be said that the ratings were far lower than the previous expectations.

Immediately, Beijing Television, Zhejiang Television, Dongfang, and Liao Television suddenly announced that director Li Mu's screenwriting work "Latent" will officially premiere on May 5, and at the same time, all stations have invariably increased their publicity efforts to the maximum.

After receiving a call from the TV station, Li Mu and Liu Yifei posted the relevant information on their Weibo in a timely manner. Sina Weibo has been officially launched in July last year, and it has been 10 months since then, although Li Mu and Liu Yifei opened Weibo together as early as the first time, but compared to Liu Yifei, who occasionally posts a dynamic, Li Mu's Weibo is much quieter, basically except for some relevant news when the new movie is released, he usually updates Weibo.

However, the number of his fans is not quite a lot, and he is currently more than 7 million, ranking third in the total fan list.

The first is Liu Yifei, this

Liu Yifei's popularity has completely exploded.

After seeing the relevant information, many fans were very surprised, and everyone was very curious, a director as big as Li Mu still had time to write a TV series script?

"I'm not too interested in the theme of spy wars, but I choose to believe in Director Li's level, and I will watch it after the broadcast."

"Didn't you say it would be broadcast in June? How did it get ahead? Is it because of the new "Three Kingdoms"? Laugh to death!"

"I'm very interested in the theme of spy wars, I said that the pinnacle of domestic spy war dramas in recent years is "Secret Calculation", and no one should object, right?"

The time soon came to May 5th, when the ratings of the new "Three Kingdoms" increased slightly, but it was still far from expectations, and "Latent", which is known as director Li Mu's first TV series work, officially premiered.