Chapter 208: Maybe Xu Ji is really about to overturn?
"Wen Hao?"
Xu Ji was also a little surprised when he heard Youman's words.
Xu Ji still had a deep impression on the vice president of Penguin Video.
In other words, the many contacts between Tongji Entertainment and Penguin Video for such a long time were all represented by Wen Hao.
Youman nodded.
This time Wen Hao took the initiative to send an email and told Xu Ji about joining Tongji Entertainment.
As the vice president of Penguin Video, Wen Hao will not worry about finding a job even if he leaves Penguin.
The other party suddenly expressed his desire to come to Tongji Entertainment, which was beyond Youman's expectation.
In the past, Youman could only look up to people of Wenhao's level and didn't even have many opportunities to meet him.
Now I can actually decide whether the other person can become my subordinate, which is really unpredictable.
That's right, Xu Ji let Youman decide whether he wanted to join Wenhao or not.
Youman has long been used to Xu Ji's unquestioning attitude towards employing people.
Although she still takes the initiative to seek the opinion of her boss Xu Ji every time, in fact, You Man makes most decisions in Tongji Entertainment.
Now as Tongji Entertainment has more and more people, Youman actually feels a little overwhelmed.
If a Vice President of Penguin Video like Wen Hao could help, she would be able to relax.
Of course, Penguin Video is a video website after all, while Tongji Entertainment is an entertainment company. There are still differences between the two.
But executives like Wen Hao should be able to gradually adapt after giving the other party a period of time to adapt.
The most important thing is that the salary request Wen Hao put forward in the email was not high.
In Youman's opinion, recruiting Wenhao will definitely be profitable for Tongji Entertainment.
However, it is still required for relevant interviews.
Youman also felt a little confused as to why Wenhao would take the initiative to send an email.
Moreover, he also lowered his salary to a level that is not in line with the other party's worth, fearing that the other party's intention to join is not pure.
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The time is approaching the Spring Festival.
Migrant workers from all walks of life are a little unmotivated to go to work at this time, waiting for the arrival of the Spring Festival holiday.
However, the major video platforms are still busy and feel like they are in full swing.
In the past, the two major platforms of Kiwi and Penguin Video were just tentative.
Although the new drama that has been released has a bad reputation, it cannot be said to be a big production.
It's just beyond everyone's expectation that the subsequent impact of Sword and Sword II has been so long-lasting.
However, this time the two major platforms have directly produced new dramas with large investments made by their own platforms.
First of all, "Underworld", which the official website of Kiwi Video has been vigorously promoting, is scheduled to be broadcast on Saturday.
Almost at the same time, less than ten minutes apart, Penguin Video's "The Legend of Immortal Killer" also announced the specific broadcast time, one day earlier than Kiwi's, and it will be broadcast on Friday night.
And there are plans to release eight episodes directly.
A lot of people have been paying attention to these two dramas, and even netizens who are not interested in the large number of new dramas recently are looking forward to them.
""Underworld" has finally been released! The lineup of veteran actor Tan Xuerong and newcomer Noyan is very exciting!"
"For urban fantasy dramas, watching premonition films and officially announced new dramas will whet your appetite!"
"When a movie star like Tan Xuerong comes to the film and television drama industry, isn't this a dimensionality reduction attack?"
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Obviously, everyone's expectations for "Underworld" are the highest.
As for Penguin Video's "The Legend of Immortal Killer", although it is also very popular, it has some negative voices.
Although it is fueled by the opposite kiwi fruit, it is indeed related to the theme and cast of the entire drama.
Compared with veteran movie stars like Tan Xuerong and young actor Nuo Yan, who is recognized for his good acting skills, the leading actors in "The Legend of Immortal Killer" are all popular actors.
He is the kind of actor who, although very popular, is not recognized by the public for his acting skills.
At the same time, the most important point is that "The Legend of Killing the Immortal" claims to be a fairy tale drama, and it has a sense of déjà vu following the popular Fairy Sword II.
Although fairy tale dramas are also very popular now, many dramas that follow the trend of the two fairy swordsman dramas are not very good in terms of reputation.
Although the traffic can match the finale of Fairy Sword II, it will not be low no matter what.
But the backlash is also a big problem.
Of course, we have to wait until the show is aired to know how the market and audience will react.
However, both in terms of publicity and popularity of the dramas themselves, they are unique among the new dramas that are about to be aired.
As for Tudou Video, another one of the three major websites, it did not participate.
Tudou Video is still far behind Penguin and Kiwi in terms of funding and strength.
Compared with the head-to-head approach, avoiding the sharp edges and picking up the slack is the way to survive.
Tudou Video also has some self-made dramas, but most of them are small and broad.
There is no project with huge investment.
Of course, as for the new drama "The Silent Truth" that was announced before, G Station's new drama "The Silent Truth" is now in a rather embarrassing situation. As a new drama that was launched at the same time, not many people paid attention to it.
Regardless of whether it is Tongji Entertainment or G Station, in fact, the resources and experience in publicity are not as good as those of the other three websites.
In addition, the director of this new drama is not Xu Ji, and the new drama is still a suspense theme with a small investment.
Compared with the new dramas of Kiwi and Penguin, it really suffers.
However, at this time, in the film and television department of Station G, Chi Jiang still seemed very unsettled.
In other words, he was actually prepared in his heart.
This time, "The Silent Truth" is really incomparable with the other two big investment dramas in terms of popularity.
Chi Jiang's expectations for "The Silent Truth" did not require the drama to be as big a hit as "Sword of Immortality".
Due to limitations in subject matter and content, Chi Jiang had already anticipated that this drama would lay the foundation for the suspense theater co-operated by G Station and Tongji Entertainment.
Previously, Chi Jiang was also nervous because of the ending of Fairy Sword II.
But now I have completely figured it out.
The foundation of G station is too weak, and there is still a big gap between it and the three major websites.
Although the two fairy swords brought huge growth in membership.
But taking too big a step is not a good thing.
Xu Ji has come up with such a drama, which is not necessarily a bad thing for G Station.
At the very least, for viewers who are interested in suspense themes, G Station will be their best choice.
The appeal of suspense theater is still great for this segment of the audience.
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At the same time, Sang Shaolong, the up owner of station G, was in a very good mood at this time.
Since the finale of Sword and Sword II, there has been an explosion of new film and television dramas of all types.
Sang Shaolong also watched basically every chapter.
But he can only sum up the process of watching these dramas in two words.
That’s “boring”!
There is absolutely no excitement like chasing Sword and Sword II.
That’s why he made the video of Fairy Sword II expelling good money from bad money not long ago.
This time, Kiwi and Penguin finally came up with their first big move of the new year.
Sang Shaolong is relatively optimistic about "Underworld" and "The Legend of Immortal Killer".
Judging from the relevant trailers released by the two dramas, Sang Shaolong is at least not worried about the investment in graphics and special effects of the two dramas.
For example, "The Legend of Immortal Killer" is also a fairy tale drama. Its special effects are definitely not inferior to those of the two Fairy Sword series.
The other party, like Xu Ji, found the top ten special effects studios at the same level as Honghu Studio.
Although the cast consists of some popular actors, the Xianxia drama is originally positioned to use young actors.
Just like in Fairy Sword, it is really possible for actors like Ji Yiyang and She Yue to appear.
The only thing that worries Sang Haolong is the script.
In addition to the huge investment in Xu Ji's two Fairy Sword films, the real important thing is actually the script.
It is not difficult to imitate Fu Huadao, but if the script is imitated, it will become plagiarism.
Xianxia dramas are really not that easy to film.
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"By the way, it seems that a new drama on station G is about to be released too."
Sang Shaolong suddenly remembered.
Although he has a good impression of Xu Ji, Sang Shaolong cannot be said to be his fan.
He prefers that more and more directors and screenwriters who are better than Xu Ji emerge and produce better dramas.
This is a good thing for him.
Although this time it is a new drama produced by Xu Ji Company, Sang Shaolong did not pay too much attention to it.
Mainly because Xu Ji is just a screenwriter.
In addition, Sang Shaolong watched the trailer of "The Silent Truth", but because it is a suspense drama, other than the cast, no other information was disclosed.
Moreover, there has been an explosion of new dramas recently. It was not until I saw the promotion on the homepage of G station that I noticed that this drama was aired at the same time as the two new dramas of Kiwi and Penguin Video.
"I didn't choose the right time!"
After all, he was still a partner of G station, so Sang Shaolong couldn't help but worry about it.
However, when I thought about it later, it seemed that the g station had set the schedule first, and I realized that this time the g station was obviously targeted by the other two major websites.
At first, Fairy Sword II really overwhelmed other websites and was a little breathless.
Although I can't say that I hold a grudge, I am definitely willing to take a sniper at G station's new drama.
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As the weekend gets closer and closer, the tit-for-tat promotions of the two dramas "Underworld" and "The Legend of the Immortal" have entered a phase of intense intensity.
The two dramas rely on burning money to operate, and they appear on the hot search list on Weibo.
Of course, this effect is also significant.
On their respective platforms, the number of people who made reservations to watch both dramas exceeded one million before they were aired online.
The worst thing is "The Silent Truth". Chi Jiang originally planned to invest money in promoting it.
But after discovering the madness of the other two companies, I gave up this idea.
With G station’s financial capabilities, if it really burns money for publicity like crazy, this drama might end up losing money.
Chi Jiang now counts every dollar he has in his hands carefully, so naturally he doesn’t want to be taken advantage of and give all his money to the troll companies in the market.
They even decisively cut off a large portion of the previous publicity budget.
As for the producer, Tongji Entertainment is even more calm than Chi Jiang.
In addition to the official daily publicity on Weibo and the active reposting of Ran Bai as the leading actor, the largest publicity channel may be the friendly help of Tongji Entertainment artists.
As for the so-called navy companies, it seems that they have no idea at all.
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"Is Station G really planning to give up completely?"
At the headquarters of the Kiwi Video Company, when the company’s boss Hu Lei chose to go online on the same day as "The Silent Truth", Congzhu was worried.
Unexpectedly, Xu Ji’s company’s new drama has no sense of existence at all.
Instead, he was stabbed in the back by Penguin Video, who took the initiative to advance the meeting by Kiwi Guo.
It was obviously planned to steal the audience traffic of "Underworld".
I had been worrying about Cong Zhu at station G before, but now I suddenly felt like I was overthinking.
Compared with G Station, Penguin’s old rival is their main enemy.
"Xu Ji is not a god, do you really think you can make hits every time?"
"Our main attention now is still on the penguins!"
Thinking of CEO Hu Lei's words, Congzhu couldn't help but feel a little complicated at this time.
Maybe this time Xu Ji...
Is it really going to overturn?
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After much anticipation, the time finally arrived on Friday.
While many office workers are ushering in the weekend, Penguin Video's new drama "The Legend of Immortal Killer" is finally online.
And eight episodes were released at once.
As the video platform with the largest number of paying members, coupled with the overwhelming publicity in recent times.
As soon as this drama was launched, many people already clicked on it.
Sang Shaolong has also been squatting in front of the computer waiting for a long time.
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As a film and television self-media, of course he cannot miss a new drama like this when it comes online.
"This picture is actually not inferior to Xu Ji's two fairy swords..."
While watching the title, Sang Shaolong gave his own evaluation in his mind.
The story of "The Legend of Immortal Killer" is actually not complicated. An ordinary young man accidentally broke into the world of cultivating immortals.
Then he acted chivalrously and righteously all the way, defeating and killing those superior immortals.
The setting is obviously a reference to Xu Ji’s two Fairy Swords, and the story mode is also the direction of the adventure of the protagonist group.
But it is still very different from Fairy Sword. In Fairy Sword, the supporting characters have a lot of roles, and the perspective changes are also switched between various characters.
Overall, the protagonist actually plays a lot more roles than some of the other supporting characters.
But Penguin's "The Immortal Killer" is always centered on the male protagonist and his master.
The story design is also a bit lacking.
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After Sang Shaolong finished watching the first episode, he turned on the double speed mode and watched the eight episodes at once.
I also came up with my own evaluation.
Overall, these two fairy swords are not as good as promised.
However, compared with the previous bad dramas that followed the trend of Legend of Sword and Fairy, this high-investment fairy tale drama is still much better.
Although there are already many things that make people want to complain about the plot just after watching the first eight episodes.
But now that Sword and Sword II has brought such great popularity, this drama may not be well received in the future, but it is estimated that there will still be a lot of viewers following the drama.
Penguin Video chose to launch "The Legend of Immortal Killer" during the period after the finale of Sword and Sword II, which is indeed a good choice.
You can take the opportunity to get part of the traffic of Sword and Sword II.
In Sang Shaolong's mind, the whole drama can probably be rated as a 6-7.