On March 20, "Shocking Demon Thieves" was officially announced.

After the banquet, at the hotel, Liu Yifei leaned his head on Li Mu's shoulder and asked, "What are you doing after the Demon Thieves Troupe?" ”

Li Mu held Liu Yifei's hand: "Filming "Interstellar", you won't even forget this, right?" ”

Liu Yifei didn't answer, but continued to ask: "What about after "Interstellar"? Do? ”

Li Mu's hand rubbed lightly on her hand and said, "I should be able to make a TV series, I've been making movies in the past few years, and I'm tired enough, it's time to take a proper break and change my taste." ”

Liu Yifei sighed and said, "Got it." ”

In fact, she wanted to find an opportunity to take a good rest with Li Mu and play around the world, but looking at Li Mu's workaholic posture and the importance she attached to her career, she suppressed the thoughts in her heart.

It's not good to delay his work.

After Liu Yifei went to sleep first, Li Mu took out his notebook and had a small meeting with Liu Siying.

Liu Siying first reported: "The progress of the copyright negotiation of "Flower Thousand Bone" is not very fast, and "The Legend of Chu Qiao" will premiere on the 28th, and it is estimated that TV stations and video websites want to see the results of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" first. ”

Li Mu said: "It's understandable, it's human nature, if I were the leader of a TV station and a video website, I would plan to do the same." ”

Liu Siying said: "In recent years, the price of TV series copyright has indeed risen a lot, and there is a lot of pressure on TV stations and video websites, "The Legend of Chu Qiao" sold 482 million, which was unimaginable before, and this transaction price should have begun to feel difficult for all of them, if the premiere of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is average, I am afraid that it will inevitably affect the final transaction price of the follow-up "Hua Qiangu". ”

"If the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" hit the street, "Flower Thousand Bone" will not be able to sell and we deserve it." Then Li Mu turned his head and said, "After "Interstellar", I will direct and act in "Let's Get Married", and the company will prepare in advance. ”

"Congratulations to Mr. Li, this is a great event for our group and even the entire Chinese entertainment industry."

"Hahaha, it's not that exaggerated."

Liu Siying, as the vice president of Huashang Media, knows some insiders, for example, when Mr. Li launched the TV series that the company has been preparing for many years, it means that Mr. Li is really going to get married, and this is of course the most important thing for Huashang Media.

Ending the video call with Liu Siying, Li Mu leaned on the sofa and closed his eyes to recuperate. During this time, he has been dealing with issues related to equity, assets, etc., in fact, in preparation for marriage.

The finale banquet of "Let's Get Married" was directly held as a proposal banquet, which made a big point and called all the best friends of the two to be a witness - by the way, should you tell Liu Yifei in advance?

"No, I'm going to dress nicely for tonight's finale, I'm going to propose to you in public!"

Thinking of this, Li Mu shook her head, feeling that it was better to hide it from Liu Yiyi, but if she did, what if she didn't agree to herself at that time?

"Thinking too much, thinking too much, how could she not agree to me? I'm so handsome after all?! Hahaha......"

Li Mu thought rather narcissistically.

After the Demon Thieves Regiment was completed, the crew stayed in the United States for another day, and then set off for China.

Next, although "Interstellar" is still a work for global audiences, it will no longer be filmed in the United States, Li Mu's Huashang Media has built a very large area in the magic capital, and at the same time very advanced studio, when the time comes, most of the scenes in "Interstellar" will be filmed in the magic capital.

A week after returning to China, that is, on March 28, "The Legend of Chu Qiao" officially landed on Su Province, Jinmen Satellite TV and Youku Video Network.

At the same time, it has been 20 days since "To Youth" was fully released, and just yesterday, that is, on March 27, the daily box office of "To Youth" was 22.3 million yuan, which is still the national champion. The runner-up "Giant Catcher Jack" has a daily box office of only 14 million yuan, and the third runner-up "Die Hard 5" has only been released for 15 days, but the daily box office is only about 5 million yuan.

As of the end of yesterday, the cumulative box office of "To Youth" was 1.47 billion yuan, and it seems that it has broken the 1.5 billion mark in the past few days.

At the same time, the predicted box office of Maoyan Movies was raised again, reaching 1.697 billion yuan.

How exaggerated is this achievement?

Let's just say that if "To Youth" can really get this result in the end, it will already be in the top five in the history of Chinese films, only after "Monster Hunt", "Frozen", "Fei Embarrassment", "Avatar", and even in front of "The Martian", "Gravity", "Thai Embarrassment" and other films that have created a series of miracles.

Even if it is slightly increased by 20 million, it will properly surpass "Avatar".

It is a little unbelievable that a youth-themed film can have this achievement, and for a series of leading actors in the film, especially the so-called Huashang Wumei, "To Youth" has brought them not only the improvement of their coffee position, but also the increase in popularity, and even the controversy that has caused a stir.

For example: "Who is the most beautiful of the five beauties in "To Youth"? Or, ""To Youth" was a box office hit, and who gave the most credit to Huashang Wumei?" and other topics.

With the explosion of the film, Wumei's fans have already been fighting for it.

Then on March 28th, "The Legend of Chu Qiao" officially premiered, and on March 29th, the premiere data of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" was officially released, with the ratings of Suzhou Satellite TV being 1.3% and the ratings of Jinmen Satellite TV being 1.1.

Double channels broke 1, the ratings of the premiere of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" are actually very good, but how do you say that? So that everything is afraid of comparison!

What are the ratings for the premiere of "Obstetrician", which just aired not long ago? 1.4%, the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" are 0.1 percentage points lower than that of "Obstetrician".

And that's not all, the score of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is also not ideal, and its Douban score is even only 6.0 points, which is undoubtedly the lowest-rated TV series of Huashang since its establishment.

The most critical problem is that "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is also the most expensive TV series sold by Huashang, and its domestic copyright alone sold for 482 million yuan, which is already a proper sky-high copyright, and the result is that the ratings - it can't be said to be low, it can only be said that it is not high by Huashang's standards, and the score is too stretched, so that Bai Bing, who plays the heroine, will dodge when he sees Li Mu's eyes.

The heroine of Huashang's first crotch-pulling TV series?

Bai Bing deeply felt that he had failed the company's expectations, the trust of Mr. Li, and the expectations of fans.

What is more realistic is that "Flower Thousand Bone" immediately had a tendency to be lowered in the copyright transaction negotiations.

Liu Siying reported the situation to Li Mu: "Several TV stations that are interested, as well as Internet platforms such as Tencent Video and iQiyi Video, all of them have invariably put forward the statement of appropriately reducing the transaction price. ”

Li Mu said: "Even if the ratings of the premiere of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" are slightly lower than expected, it won't be easy to sell in the follow-up "Flower Thousand Bone", right? Even if the premiere ratings are only 1.3%, this is still a ceiling-level achievement for domestic TV dramas, what do they want if they don't want "Flower Thousand Bone"? ”

Liu Siying said with a smile: "On the one hand, the heads of Tencent Video and iQiyi Video all mentioned that they should appropriately reduce the copyright price of head dramas when they were interviewed by reporters, that is, they refer to us. On the other hand, they all found us in private, saying that they were still willing to continue to use the standards of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" to buy "Flower Thousand Bone". ”

Li Mu also smiled: "The negotiations continue, but don't worry, the real negotiations will not officially start until the finale of "The Legend of Chu Qiao". ”

Liu Siying asked: "Mr. Li judged that the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" would go high? ”

Li Mu: "Who said it was good, but I can't wait long." ”

Li Mu doesn't know what the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" will be in this time and space, but he at least knows the performance of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" in his previous life! The premiere rating is 0.8, which is also inferior to "Obstetrician", but the average rating for most days in the later period is above 2%, and in the end, the average rating of the whole drama is pulled to 1.74%, which is far better than the average rating of "Obstetrician", which can be said to be a mess.

So Li Mu thought, since the original time and space are like this, then this time and space should be very similar, right?

After all, the "Legend of Chu Qiao" in the two time and space is almost the same, and the popularity of the white soldiers in this life is not lower than that of Zhao Liying, but if you want to talk about other changes, there are indeed them.

After all, the "Legend of Chu Qiao" in the original time and space had a serious problem of mouth mismatch, and this time and space naturally changed.

Also, the problem of "background cutout" in the original time and space has made "The Legend of Chu Qiao" widely criticized, and of course the problem of this time and space is gone!

In addition, there is a certain plagiarism problem in the original time and space of "The Legend of Chu Qiao", and Li Mu intervened at the beginning of the serialization in this time and space, so this Achilles heel is naturally gone.

In the end, the plot of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is actually not reasonable, the original Chu Qiao is actually a traverser, so he can face the nobles as a slave without groveling.

The original "The Legend of Chu Qiao" has modified the setting due to the country's restrictions on time-traveling dramas, and Chu Qiao is no longer a time-traveler, so it is a little unreasonable to have many modern ideas.

But it's not that it can't be changed, for example, it can completely let Chu Qiaoyin be influenced by other slaves and have some ideas that look quite modern.

As for why the slaves that Chu Qiao had been in contact with had quite modern ideas, could the slave leaders who had been in contact with a certain rebel soldier be okay? As a slave who rises up against it, is it okay to have a modern and modern idea in your mind to build a beautiful new world?

Zhuzi Baijia has all kinds of thoughts, some of them coincide with some modern thoughts, Chu Qiao has come into contact with similar people, some seem to be modern, but in fact they are classical thoughts, in fact, it is not surprising.

These are all the problems of the original "The Legend of Chu Qiao", but they are not fatal problems that cause its low rating, in Li Mu's opinion, the biggest problem with this drama is actually too Mary Sue.

Why can a woman who does her own thing and is still a slave get so much favor from the male protagonists and male partners, and even maintain it in every possible way?

As a slave, you dare to shout when you go to bed, and as a slave, you dare to do something that is seriously inconsistent with your identity or even very presumptuous behavior regardless of the occasion, and as a result, all the male protagonists and male partners really eat her set and favor it in every way, is this reasonable?

Of course it's not reasonable!

Mary Sue is of course one of the major problems of "The Legend of Chu Qiao", but Li Mu did not optimize this point specifically.

That's right.,The reason why the male protagonist and the male protagonist and the female protagonist look at each other can be appropriately rationalized.,But the female protagonist gets the collective preferential treatment of most male protagonists and male protagonists, but try not to change it.。

Too Mary Sue is of course a disadvantage, but what can you do if the TV audience at this stage is eating this set?

You have changed all these "shortcomings", yes, the rating of the TV series is likely to increase significantly, but the ratings of the TV series are also likely to be greatly reduced, and in the end, the gains outweigh the losses.

We all know that the reputation of "Step by Step" is much stronger than that of "Palace Lock Heart Jade", but the ratings of the former are really not as good as the latter.

In Li Mu's view, it is not an important reason why the plot of "Palace Lock Heart Jade" is more Mary Sue.

It's unreasonable, but the audience loves to watch it, and that's roughly the case.

For several video websites that are interested in grabbing the online copyright of "Flower Thousand Bone", in fact, price reduction has never been the real purpose of these companies, everyone just wants to take the opportunity to suppress the mood of Huashang Media.

It's no problem for "Flower Thousand Bone" to continue to sell "The Legend of Chu Qiao" at a sky-high price, but it's best not to continue to rise, the online copyright is already 3 million per episode, and if it continues to rise, no matter how thick the family is, sooner or later there will be a day when it can't bear it!

Now there has always been a saying on the market, saying that in the several new dramas that have been filmed in the hands of Huashang Media, the order in which Huashang Media sells dramas is actually based on the ratings potential from low to high, since the dramas are sold in the order from low to high, isn't it natural that the later dramas are more expensive than the previous dramas?

Now the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" are not as good as the first to be traded in this batch, that is, in theory, Huashang thinks that "Obstetrician" has the lowest rating potential, so Huashang's statement that it sells dramas from low to high is untenable, since the quality is not from low to high, then naturally there is no need to sell more and more expensive.

Therefore, the ratings of the premiere of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" are not as good as "Obstetrician", Tengxun Video and iQiyi are still a little happy, the 200 million network copyright fee of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is spent by Youku, and it is not its own, but it can cut the price of "Flower Thousand Bone" because of this, not bad, very good!

But in the next few days, a scene occurred that everyone did not expect.

The next day, the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" rose slightly by 0.15 percentage points to 1.45%.

On the third day, with the continuous fermentation of the plot of the TV series, the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" also climbed directly to 1.67%.

This increase is a bit exaggerated, and it has even far exceeded the increase in ratings when "Obstetrician" was released.

Then on the fourth day, 1.83%.

On the fifth day, the ratings broke 2 for the first time.

Then the ratings climb of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" is still not over.

On the seventh day, the ratings broke 2.5%, and on the eleventh day, the ratings reached 2.96%, which almost didn't break 3!

At this time, the average ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" have far exceeded the previous broadcast of "Obstetrician", and the number of online broadcasts of the TV series is also very amazing, and it even took only ten days to achieve the fastest record of 5 billion cumulative broadcasts.

Seeing that the ratings of "The Legend of Chu Qiao" have increased amazingly, at this time, whether it is major TV stations or video websites such as Aiyouteng, they have already thought clearly that they want to buy Huashang Media's new drama "Hua Qiangu" at the price of "The Legend of Chu Qiao", which is almost impossible!

By the way, at this time, the final box office of "To Youth" also came out, 1.716 billion yuan, just breaking the domestic box office record of 1.715 billion yuan for the phenomenal film "Avatar" in 2010.

In fact, the real data of "To Youth" could not break the record of "Avatar", and in the end, the group released another wave of ticket supplements, which barely surpassed "Avatar" and officially became the fourth in Chinese film history.

If you remove the ticket supplement, "To Youth" is still not as good as "Avatar", but who cares about this among ordinary audiences? Everyone only knows that Huashang Media's "To Youth" surpassed "Avatar" at the box office.

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