If at the beginning, Boss Li only regarded film and television investment as a hobby, now he has completely changed his mentality.
Datang Film and Television is developing so well, can it be treated as its main business?
It’s better than taking a lot of money to buy a house or a luxury car.
It seems that the assets are rich, but there is no ability to resist risks at all.
On the contrary, the film and television company can make Boss Li both famous and wealthy, and he can also have great social influence. When others want to touch him, they must consider the consequences.
Didn’t I see that at the beginning, Boss Li still wanted to promote young stars to the top, but later he gave up the idea of working in a film and television company?
With the wealth and resources he has at his disposal at this time, it is a bit risky to be interested in first-tier stars, but second-tier and third-tier stars are certainly not a problem.
But Datang Film and Television, although it can't compare with the atmosphere of Star Director Studio, it can be regarded as a fairly decent film and television company.
Since you want to become bigger and stronger, everything must be formalized.
Of course, the most important thing is to have enough excellent scripts to continuously produce excellent film and television works.
Privately, Boss Li has even started to contact some novel websites.
However, Wu Dong’s novel website has great advantages. With the improvement of the welfare system and effective copyright development, it has attracted more and more writers to join.
This situation has forced other novel websites to follow closely, otherwise they may be completely wiped out.
Fortunately, Starry Sky Director Studio has made a good start, and other novel websites have gradually attracted the attention of other film and television companies and capital.
Not to mention anything else, the original overlord of online novels, Huanjian Shumeng, has received a large amount of capital injection, and is currently trying to find ways to convert the excellent novels on the website into movies and TV shows to generate more profits.
And 17,A, which had made a lot of noise before, is currently in the process of burning money, and has also attracted the attention of many film and television companies.
There are also specialized military and historical novel websites, as well as romance novel websites, which have received considerable attention.
However, neither capital nor other film and television companies are very skilled in adapting online novels, and they dare not make big bets for a while.
Boss Li doesn't have such pressure. He has been working with Star Director Studio for several years, and at least he knows the basics of adapting online novels.
The key lies with the screenwriter!
In this process, those veteran screenwriters have little advantage, and may even change an excellent work into something completely different and horrific.
We still have to rely on young screenwriters. Although they lack experience, they are fans of novels themselves. For high-quality online novels that need to be adapted, they will definitely read them at least once, not to mention three or four times.
They know the essence of the novel and Shuangdian very well. If it is adapted into a script, it only needs the help of the original author to control the main context, and it will basically be the same.
If you want to keep improving, the best way is to let a veteran screenwriter carefully work on it and refine the plot and dialogue.
In this way, a high-quality script is freshly released.
Boss Li has done some research on this, but he doesn’t think there are many problems.
Of course, the main problem he faces is that he is not sure whether those high-quality online novels can be adapted smoothly, which ones are not suitable for adaptation, and which ones are suitable for adaptation in other ways?
In this regard, he admired Wu Dong's vision, so he firmly bound Datang Film and Television when it was first established.
The price paid by Boss Li is not small. About 30% of the original shares are currently worth a lot of money.
Fortunately, Wu Dong did not disappoint him.
Not to mention the previous trilogy of "Kung Fu Girl" and "Kung Fu Miracle Doctor", which were Wu Dong's necessary investment to bring him into the film and television industry.
Don’t think that Boss Li was taken advantage of!
Not to mention that Wu Dong did not play any tricks during the accounting process afterwards, allowing Boss Li to make a lot of money from the investment in these films.
Boss Li is not the only coal boss who has spent a lot of money investing in the film and television industry.
The results of it?
Except for Boss Li, who successfully stood out and established a firm foothold in the film and television industry, the other coal bosses can be said to have lost everything.
Of course, such losses are nothing to the coal boss.
Anyway, their purpose of investing in the film and television industry is not simple. During the filming process, they have basically achieved their goal, and from another perspective, it is not a loss.
It’s just that I’m always afraid of comparison!
The more prominent Boss Li is in the film and television industry, the more he highlights the "incompetence" and "silliness" of other coal bosses.
By the way, Datang Film and Television originally planned to develop TV series and movies at the same time.
He was only dissuaded by Wu Dong. At that time, Datang Film and Television did not have such strength at all, and there was a shortage of outstanding behind-the-scenes talents. It was impossible to really build a few grass-roots teams and toss. That would be too unreasonable.
Excellent behind-the-scenes personnel are basically tied to certain film and television companies or major director studios, and it is not easy to poach them.
The key point is that the price to be paid is too high, and some losses outweigh the gains.
Fortunately, Starry Sky Director Studio provided timely support to several directors, and then provided the script of "A Generation of Military Advisors", allowing Datang Film and Television to focus on the TV drama market first.
How could you not hesitate when you first started?
After all, it is a script adapted from an online novel. If Wu Dong is willing to come up with a TV drama adaptation of "The Kung Fu Doctor", Boss Li will definitely invest a lot of money in the filming without hesitation, and he will definitely not lose money.
In the end, he chose to believe in Wu Dong.
As a start-up, Datang Film and Television has almost all its resources focused on "A Generation of Military Advisors", and it can be said that it has put a lot of effort into it.
Funding is a trivial matter, but the key is that the film and television company's first shot can only succeed and not fail, otherwise the blow to morale will be too great.
Facts have proved that Boss Li won the battle and "A Generation of Military Advisors" achieved great success.
It can be said that "The Military Advisor" is definitely the most dazzling TV series in 2008, and it is the only one of its kind.
Next, there is "The Great Ming Doctor" adapted from the high-quality online novel "The Story of a Concubine". As expected, it is also a huge hit.
By this time, Datang Film and Television was well established as a second-tier company in the film and television industry, and it was also a second-tier company with considerable potential.
Boss Li's ambitions became even greater at this time. He not only wanted to continue filming high-quality TV series, but also wanted to increase production like Star Director Studio.
At the same time, we will also start a movie project!
He specially created a high-quality novel analysis team, specifically focusing on several top online novel platforms, specifically searching for novels with potential adaptation prospects.
On the other side, they are closely watching the movements of the Starry Sky Director Studio.
Since Starry Sky Director Studio announced that it would start filming "Fist of Fury", Datang Film and Television, after several analyses, felt that it would be best to participate in the follow-up TV series adaptation of "The Black Fist".
Also, I studied Starry Sky Director Studio and began to collect soft science fiction novels that are not long in length but have quite good stories, and I plan to start adapting them into movies.
In short, Boss Li has great ambitions and wants to develop Datang Film and Television into a large-scale film and television entertainment group.
Wu Dong could naturally feel the blazing ambition of his partners. But he didn't mean to care too much.
Although there are often inexplicable script shortages in the mainland film and television industry, if we really look into it carefully, there are too many script materials.
With five thousand years of history alone, including myths and legends, I don’t know how many movies could be made.
Coupled with the emerging online novels, it can be said to be the largest script material library in the world. There is no reason for the lack of so-called scripts.
It can only be said that those who dominate the film and television industry are either middle-aged or in their twilight years, and their thinking patterns are still the same.
Everything relies on experienced screenwriters, and no one knows when a high-quality script will be produced.
But the problem is that the status and income of screenwriters in the film and television industry are pitiful.
Except for a few top screenwriters, all the other screenwriters have the idea of transforming into directors, which was also forced out by the cruel real life.
Wu Dong had no intention of changing anything, but he naturally had his own set of rules.
Relying on the Literature Department of Guihua College, students and teachers are freely formed into creative groups. No matter what script they create, as long as it meets the requirements of the Starry Sky Director Studio, they will be purchased at a sufficient price.
Not only is it as simple as buying the script and adding subtitles to the name, but if the film and television drama produced does well, there will also be additional bonuses or red envelopes.
It can be said that after the Starry Sky Director Studio's efforts, the Literature Department of Osmanthus Academy was directly transformed into the Script Writing Department, and as the Starry Sky Director Studio became more and more famous, their name also became louder.
They were the second department to suddenly break out after the development of the physical education department of the college, which made the college leaders smile from ear to ear with joy.
They are all young people with active minds and their ability to control popular trends cannot be matched by those older and veteran screenwriters.
Not to mention, many college students themselves are fans of online novels. When they are asked to participate in the adaptation of high-quality novels they have read, their enthusiasm is extraordinary.
Not only online novels, but also famous science fiction novels, and even jokes on the Internet and famous cross talk sketches are all the objects of their adaptation.
According to some college students in the literature department, aren't the current commercial comedies in China just stitched together one joke after another? What's wrong with them?
Wu Dong quite agreed with their statement and even directly allocated a sum of funds to try to film those famous cross talk stories.
For example, famous crosstalk actor Jiang Kun's classic crosstalk "Reverage in the Tiger's Mouth" is being filmed at the city zoo at this time. It can be regarded as an attempt at a comedy genre. If the effect is good, the development of comedy genre films will be huge...