Chapter 304: "Trip to Bangkok" and "Breaking Bad"

In March, spring returns to the earth, but unfortunately Yanjing is still very cold, and there are very few pedestrians on the streets.

Liangmahe Building Fenghua Film and Television Company is a little different today.

In the office of the company's CEO, Li Shengyao was sitting with Hong Jinbao and Wang Jingwei.

During this period of time, with the big sale of "Beyond Hell", it was sold to Fox for 8 million US dollars, making Li Shengyao the hottest figure in China Entertainment in one fell swoop.

Not only Chai Zhiping looked for him, but many Hong Kong Island directors also wanted to cooperate with Li Shengyao.

Among them is Wu Baige, who returned to Hong Kong Island from Hollywood.

This is a great director who used to direct Nicolas Cage in Hollywood, but Lee Shengyao doesn't like it very much.

This guy obviously uses Hong Kong Island crooked actors to belittle mainland actors.

Even if he has the strength, Li Shengyao is unwilling to deal with it.

Not to mention that Wu Baige is now old, and his concept can no longer keep up with the times.

also filmed by releasing pigeons, and the audience was already tired of it.

As for Wu Baige's blockbuster, it is even more funny, and the war scenes are filmed like street gangsters fighting.

Wu Baige's people contacted Fenghua, and after Li Shengyao found out, he unceremoniously refused.

However, Li Shengyao rejected Wu Baige, and there are still many Hong Kong Island directors who want to cooperate with Fenghua.

Quite a few people found his phone, and some people came to visit in person.

Li Shengyao refused, he already had two people, Wang Fatzi and Hong Jinbao, and he felt that it was enough.

Needless to say, Wang Fatzi's strength is needless to say, he directs seriously, and he is definitely a very good commercial film director.

Hong Jinbao is also a good director, and many of his early plays were directed and acted by himself.

As far as the director of the actor is concerned, Hong Jinbao's directing ability should be better than Zhou Xingxing.

This time, he made an appointment with Hong Jinbao and Wang Fatzi to discuss the next cooperation projects.

The assistant poured tea for Li Shengyao and the three of them, and Wang Jing couldn't help but say: "Director Li, why is it a male assistant, change to a woman, and work harder."

Li Shengyao smiled, "In the future, now I rarely raise a female assistant in the company, and the gray hair is paid for several months." ”

"Director Li, of course you have to enjoy making money."

Hong Jinbao nodded, "Yes, when I was young, it was a dragon on Portland Street." ”

Men are like that, when it comes to this topic, they can talk for a lot of time.

About twenty minutes later, Wang Jing took the lead and said: "Director Li, the filming of "Beyond Hell" has been completed, what are we going to shoot in the next film?"

If there is no accident in "Beyond Hell", it will eventually be able to sell for 200 million, and the two will be divided into seven or three, and Wang Fatzi can still earn more than 40 million.

Wang Jing has never experienced such a lucrative TV series.

However, of the fifteen million on his side, only 5 million were paid by himself, and the other 10 million were invested by him.

This profit is already much higher than all of Wang Jing's past movies.

He is now eager to shoot "Beyond Hell 2" and "Beyond Hell 3" immediately.

However, on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve, Li Shengyao refused.

The same routine is constantly filmed, and the audience will naturally be disgusted, "Beyond Hell" has been filmed for eighty episodes, which is enough.

In fact, the last time Wang Fatzi had a phone call with Li Shengyao, he carefully considered this issue.

He then thought of the high-scoring American drama, which is called the most wonderful American drama by many fans.

Then I wrote a synopsis of the story, and asked the screenwriters under my hand to expand it, and I haven't written it in its entirety yet, but most of the plot has been written.

Li Shengyao heard Wang Jing's words at this time, got up with a smile, took the script from the desk, and handed it to Wang Jing, "Our next drama is called "Breaking Bad", which tells the experience of an ordinary person who went to the drug lord, you see." ”

The actor of "Breaking Bad" is a drug maker, and finally became a drug lord, which naturally cannot be filmed in the mainland.

But the script of this drama is definitely hard enough.

It's more than enough to shoot for Wang Fatzi.

Compared with "Prison Break", the plot of "Breaking Bad" is not so curious, and the ups and downs are not so big.

Beautiful countries may not necessarily buy it, even if it is the Southeast Asian market, it will not necessarily buy it.

After all, Southeast Asia likes idol dramas, and "Breaking Bad" is a relatively heavy drama.

But if you can look at it, it's very exciting.

In Li Shengyao's previous life, whether it was awards or ratings in the beautiful country, "Breaking Bad" was higher than "Breaking Bad".

Lee Shengyao planned to take it out and shoot it, and he thought that someone would see it.

In addition, TV series like "Breaking Bad" are very much in line with the taste of Europeans, and island people may like it too.

Even if there is no achievement like "Beyond Hell", there is no big scene in this drama, and the cost of 20 million should be enough, and it is not a problem to return to the capital.

Wang Jing took the script, then got up, came to the glass window, pulled a chair and sat down.

Li Shengyao nodded at Hong Jinbao, then took the script of "Bangkok Travel", handed it to Hong Jinbao, and let Hong Jinbao watch it.

The zombies in "Train to Busan", or the scene is actually not very big, and it is not comparable to "Resident Evil" and "World War Zombies".

This movie focuses on humanistic care and is well written.

College student couple, muscular man and pregnant couple, as well as male protagonist and daughter.

Among them, the leading actor and the muscular man are two particularly important roles, and when making a movie, the actors for these two roles should be carefully considered.

The male protagonist is looking for a tall, good acting actor, and the muscular man is looking for an extremely charismatic, explosive actor.

To be honest, the group of actors on Hong Kong Island, Li Shengyao doesn't look at it very much, and he needs to have a good chat with Hong Jinbao later.

After he handed out the script, he sat quietly on one side, allowing Wang Jing and Hong Jinbao to concentrate on reading the script.

After about two hours, Wang Jing sat back in his original position.

"Director Li, this script is very well written, and the story is very good, but the overall impact is not as strong as "Beyond Hell", it is not commercial enough, and it may not be as successful as "Beyond Hell"."

Wang Fatzi tasted the benefits and naturally wanted to go further.

"Beyond Hell" is a TV series that can shock the eyeballs at first glance.

And "Deadly Poison" is a drama that can be savored and watched repeatedly.

In the beautiful country, the reputation of the "Deadly Poison" series is better than that of the "Beyond Hell" series.

The main reason is that the level of "Deadly Poison" is very high in all five seasons, and "Beyond Hell" is getting more and more exaggerated.

However, from a commercial point of view, dramas like "Beyond Hell" are indeed easier to see.

Li Shengyao nodded, "What you said is not wrong, but this script is more solid, and the character growth is better written. ”

Wang Jing frowned slightly when he heard this.

His first choice is whether he can make money, and as for word of mouth, or awards, he never cares.

"Director Li, is there only this script?"

"At present, there is only this script, if you are not satisfied, then come back in half a year, and Fenghua should have a new script by then."

When Wang Jing heard this, he glanced at Li Shengyao, and saw that his face remained unchanged, and he was slightly moved.

He didn't really want to shoot "Lethal Poison", and at this moment Hong Jinbao coughed.

Wang Jing was excited and came back to his senses.

If he doesn't give Li Dadao face this time, then Li Dadao may not give him face next time.

There will be no more cooperation.

Smart people don't do such things.

Anyway, after "Deadly Poisoner" was apportioned, the investment was only 10 million, and he returned to Hong Kong Island, with the reputation of "Beyond Hell", he could easily fool people into investing, and there was no need to offend Li Shengyao.

Thinking of this, Wang Jing immediately said: "Director Li, since this is the case, then I will shoot "Deadly Poison", the plot of this drama is really good, I like it very much."

Li Shengyao couldn't see Hong Jinbao's small actions just now, but he didn't bother to investigate.

Wang Fatzi shoots well, even if the final results are not good, he can still cooperate.

If you don't shoot well, then change people.

This is a normal thing.

At this time, Hong Jinbao finished reading the script of "Bangkok Travel", and compared with Wang Fatzi, Hong Jinbao was much more excited.

"Director Li, the script of this play is not really well written, we can shoot it."

Li Shengyao nodded, and then Yuhong Jinbao discussed the specific investment share.

Considering that there is a lot of money distributed in all aspects of the movie, it is difficult to recover the cost, and in the end, the two people agreed that Fenghua would produce the script, and the investment would be half of each of the two parties, and the final dividend would be four or six points, six on Fenghua's side, four for Hong Jinbao, and the film copyright belonged to Fenghua.

Then the two of them discussed the filming location and the matching of actors.

Hong Jinbao took the lead and said: "How about the actor let Gu Tianlai play, and the muscular man let An Zhijie play?"

Such a combination is not impossible.

But it's nowhere near as attractive as the Korean version.

Probably because he watched too many bad movies of Gu Tianlat in his previous life, Li Shengyao did not recognize Gu Tianlat's acting skills very much.

As for An Zhijie, he is handsome and can play, but he just lacks personal charm.

The actor of the Korean version is Kong Yoo, although he has acted in many idol dramas, his acting skills are absolutely excellent.

The muscular man is played by Ma Dongxi, this guy is really strong, punching zombies, punching one punch, one punch, very cool to watch.

Let An Zhijie act, it is better to let Hong Jinbao play the refreshing.

"Brother Sanmao, I don't think these two people are very attractive enough in the movie, especially An Zhijie, we want to find someone who is very cool, he doesn't feel like this."

"So what do you think?"

"Let's prepare first, the actor is actually not in a hurry, the actor uses a Hong Kong Island actor, the heroine uses a mainland actor, that muscular man, if there is really no one, I think you can be on it."

When Hong Jinbao heard this, he also felt that it made sense, there was no need to determine the actors today, just prepare first.

Wang Jing said at this time: "Director Li, Chen Kexin asked me to ask you, are you willing to cooperate with him?"

Chen Kexin is considered to be a person who is more familiar with current affairs among the directors who go north on Hong Kong Island.

"Huaxia Partner" was filmed by him, and several leading actors are from the mainland.

But this person, the commercial attribute is really very heavy.

It's not that he filmed "The Siege of October", but that this person is a pure grassland businessman.

He has a good reputation in the mainland, and he developed in the mainland, but later "Winning the Championship" was a little unsatisfactory, so this guy ran away, saying that he wanted to form a bureau and cooperate with Netflix to shoot film and television dramas that were not affected by the mainland's review.

This is said as if his poor development is the reason for the audit.

He saw that he was not satisfied, but he did not see the time when he made a lot of money.

Li Shengyao doesn't like Chen Kexin very much, he feels that this person has no position, and he will go wherever there is interest.

"Forget it, Director Chen himself is very powerful, where do you need me."

Wang Jing nodded, and didn't say anything more.

Hong Jinbao wanted to speak and stopped.

"Brother Sanmao, what's wrong?"

"Director Li, you may not know Chen Kexin, he is very good at making feature films, he is a powerful director."

Chen Kexin's strength has nothing to say, Li Shengyao rejected him, not because of strength.

It's simply that I don't like this person.

"I know, but I've been busy lately and don't have a suitable project."

Seeing this, Hong Jinbao didn't say anything.

Wang Jing and Hong Jinbao then left Fenghua, and the two planned to return to Hong Kong Island together.

After Hong Jinbao got into the car, he whispered: "Isn't your script good?" ”

He read several scripts written by Li Shengyao, and he thought it was very good, and he didn't believe that Wang Jing's script was not good this time.

Wang Jing thought for a while, "It's not impossible, it's just that I don't think "Beyond Hell" is exciting, and it shouldn't be so easy to sell." ”

When Hong Jinbao heard this, he pursed his lips, "What kind of dream are you doing, it is already a very good thing that "Beyond Hell" can be sold at such a high price, do you still think that future dramas can be like "Beyond Hell"?" ”

"Cheng Long is so powerful, the people of the beautiful country are not tired of watching it."

When Wang Jing heard this, he had a sense of enlightenment and sudden enlightenment.

"You're right, I'm delusional."

He thought about it, but decided to increase it slightly, "Breaking Bad" invested two million, and the other eight million fooled others to invest.

In this way, he won't lose too much, and if he can make a profit, he can make a little bit of it.

……

The day after Wang Jing and Hong Jinbao left, Fenghua announced a big event, they will set up a video website, and it has passed the relevant review, and it will be officially launched in a week.

At that time, this video site will not only be able to watch TV series and movies, but also watch variety shows and MVs.

The video has a looping feature, and you can even use it as a listening software.

In addition, everyone can sign up and post their own videos.

Videos have ads, and publishers can earn money by watching ads from other people.

As soon as the news was released, it immediately attracted a lot of discussions.

Although the big guy can watch TV series online before,Watch movies,But it's not so convenient after all,This time Fenghua video is established,Will it divert the ratings of TV?

Does the TV series producer have an additional sales channel? Can you make more money?

In addition, Fenghua does this, can you do it yourself?

Some smart people immediately thought of following the trend, and they soon got the news that Fenghua bought the exclusive online broadcast rights of most popular dramas.

Dog's day, there is no good TV series, so watch a hammer.

When many people heard this, they were defeated.

However, there are also many people who feel that building a video website and having a media that directly faces the audience is a great help.

They decided to observe Fenghua's operation, and finally decided whether to set up a video website.

Li Shengyao didn't talk about the accident, the first thing he did was to re-edit a few trailers and trailers of "Punch, Dad", and put them on the homepage of Fenghua Video to promote them when the time came.

(End of chapter)