Chapter Thirty-Eight: And the Big Money
""Love Hotel" is second only to "Taiping Heavenly Kingdom", with a rating of five percent."
"An incredible romantic drama, everyone is fascinated by Li Yuan."
"Gusu Satellite TV announced that it has purchased the broadcast rights of the second and third rounds of "Love Hotel", and they will broadcast "Love Hotel" throughout the summer vacation."
"Tomorrow's star - Zhao Yang, a child from Yanjing."
"A twenty-year-old director, he has changed the entire domestic entertainment vane."
"The production cost of 1.6 million yuan has created the highest ratings for local stations this year."
"This director is not ordinary."
With the deepening of the plot, "Love Hotel" broke five points in the ratings of Gusu Satellite TV, and it has undoubtedly become the hottest and most discussed drama nowadays.
"Taiping Heavenly Kingdom" has higher ratings, but the audience is mainly middle-aged and elderly, who rarely go online and rarely go to the scene to support stars, so the popularity is naturally not as good as "Love Hotel".
This is the advantage of idol dramas.
In such an environment, more and more young people are watching "Love Hotel", and the ratings behind this drama will undoubtedly be higher.
Zhao Yang and Yan Danchen have become well-known stars, and the two of them go to various places to publicize, and dozens of fans often pick up the plane when they get off the plane.
There are already a lot of advertising endorsements that have approached them.
Because there was no agent, the two of them didn't have time to talk in person, so they pressed advertising endorsements, and they were waiting for Li Shengyao to establish a film and television company.
"A week at most, and I'll get back to you."
Li Shengyao naturally wants to establish a film and television company, but he doesn't have enough funds on his side.
He just got the 2.24 million broadcast rights fee for the peninsula region from kBS.
The cost of the first round of broadcasting rights of "Love Hotel" in China is 2.8 million, excluding the cost, there is 1.2 million, and after deducting taxes, it will only be 170,000 yuan in the hands of Li Shengyao.
The second round of the second round of broadcasting rights is 70,000 episodes, and the third round of broadcasting rights is 50,000 episodes.
Gusu Satellite TV was very refreshing, and it came over early, with a total of 3.36 million, and 470,000 after tax deduction to Li Shengyao.
In the follow-up, Gusu Satellite TV should have hundreds of thousands of rewards, and it will be distributed to Li Shengyao, at most 100,000 yuan, which is better than nothing.
The balance in his bank card is 2.88 million.
In this era, a twenty-year-old young man has 2.88 million, which is undoubtedly very good.
But Li Shengyao felt that it was still not enough.
Naturally, his company has to be magnificent, he doesn't want to rent a house, he wants to buy an office floor.
Two thousand years of Yanjing, the average price of Zhaoyang District is 3,008, TZ District is 1,000, Haiding District is 4,000, and Fengcheng District is 3,005.
At this time, it is a super fool not to buy a house if you have money.
He thinks about it day and night, and waits for the TV station of the island country to send the money.
Finally, on the fifth day after kBS bought the drama, Li Shengyao waited for the rich man in his heart.
A section chief from Fuji TV in the island country, his name is Matsuyama Shigee and he speaks Mandarin.
Matsuyama is in his forties, not tall, and average-looking, but his eyes are bright, very bright, and very confident.
Although the island country is said to be economically stagnant and its society is dead, it is the second largest economic power in the world today.
They were still very rich before 2010, and the production cost of an average urban TV drama was about one million yuan per episode, and if it was a big river drama, it could reach four or five million.
At this time, the production cost of the island nation is the highest in Asia.
They are relatively generous in purchasing TV series, and the Korean version of "Love Hotel" was sold to Fuji TV, with nearly 200,000 episodes.
The 2,000-year-old island nation can be said to be a tyrant in the eyes of other countries.
Li Shengyao does not plan to make a one-shot deal, and he has many TV series to sell to island countries in the future.
Matsuyama asked him the price, and the price he offered was also 200,000.
When Matsuyama heard this, he looked at Li Shengyao, and felt that this person was the roundworm in his heart, and he actually said the price in his heart so accurately.
So young, so talented, and so sensible, there are not many young people like this.
He didn't bargain.
"Well, I like "Love Hotel" very much, especially the role of Li Yuan, I like it very much, I have a hunch that this drama can be popular in the island country."
This hunch was correct.
"Love Hotel" is the fifth most-watched Korean drama in the island country, with an average rating of 9.1%.
At that time, the buyer was Fuji TV, which was a private capital facing the whole country, and its status was similar to that of the current Shonan Satellite TV in China.
There is a state-run TV station in the island country, which is NHK, NHK's TV dramas, which are similar to Huaxia's CCTV dramas, naturally have a large audience base, and the ratings are generally more than ten points, and the average ratings of those big dramas in Kimura are often seventeen or eighteen points.
But that's NHK, and for Fuji TV, they're already very happy that the TV series can have a rating of nine points.
This data can rank among the top three of their TV drama ratings list this year.
Later, the island country remade "Love Hotel", this time it was broadcast on NHK, and the ratings of the premiere were 11%, which was said by many people to be dismal.
In fact, this rating is normal, and at least two-thirds of NHK's dramas premiere without eleven points, so it can only be said that the expectations are too high and the performance is not as expected.
"Mr. Matsuyama, you can trust your judgment."
Hearing this, Songshan nodded and smiled, "Li Jun, this price is very reasonable, but if necessary, I hope that Zhao Yang, Yan Danchen, Guo Xiaodong, and Liu Xiaoqing can come to the island country to publicize, and we will give the venue fee, Zhao Yang is 300,000, and the others are 200,000 each." ”
At this time, the island country is generous.
Li Shengyao laughed, "No problem." ”
The next step is to find a lawyer, then look at the contract, revise some details slightly, and then sign it.
"Li Jun, if we want to remake "Love Hotel", what is the copyright fee?"
"It's not expensive, three million is enough."
One million on the peninsula, three million for the island nation.
They have money at this time, and they only pay for the production of three episodes of TV series.
"Okay, Li Jun, I remember."
That night, Li Shengyao received a remittance from the island nation, which amounted to 5.6 million.
That is to say, he has 8,480,000.
When buying a house, you must buy a house.
If you go to Zhaoyang District to buy, 1,000 square meters is only about 4 million.
Buy an office building, so it is magnificent.
Anyway, he doesn't have to pay for his next drama, and "Funny Family" can shoot 140 episodes, and the overseas copyright broadcast right still belongs to him.
That's tens of millions of dollars.
He then called Zhao Yang and Yan Danchen, "I will set up a film and television company in two days, and arrange an agent for you when the time comes." ”