Chapter 464 'Wulin Gaiden' is scheduled to be broadcast
Xu Ji and Sha Yetong had a good vacation during this period.
Although their parents were traveling, Xu Ji and Sha Yetong continued to stay in Yicheng.
With Xu Ji and Sha Yetong's current popularity, being recognized seems inevitable.
But it is still different in Yicheng and other places.
After all, this small county town is where the two of them grew up together, and most of them can actually be considered acquaintances.
So even if I was recognized, I just said hello and asked for a photo, and there was no situation where I was surrounded by a bunch of people.
Strictly speaking, it's quite free.
In Sha Yetong's words, this year's vacation is a chance for them to experience retirement life in advance.
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When passing by a certain brand of milk tea shop, Sha Yetong suddenly remembered it on a whim.
This was the milk tea shop she joined when she was planning to come back.
If Xu Ji had not established a company, she might have been the proprietress of a milk tea shop now.
If that's the case, even though I feel unwilling to do so, it's probably pretty good.
Xu Ji was deeply skeptical about this. After all, Sha Yetong's cooking skills might not be of the same level if he really made milk tea.
At that time, it went bankrupt in less than half a year.
Of course, Xu Ji didn't dare to say this.
Sha Yetong is still very confident in her cooking skills and is always ready to cook and research new dishes.
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The entire company of Tongji Entertainment is on holiday here, but on the other side, "Detective Chinatown" has led the Spring Festival season with a box office of 1.1 billion within one week of its release.
If nothing else happens, there won’t be much change in this year’s Spring Festival champion.
As a director, Pang Er is quite busy during this time.
Although he himself was not willing to participate in some interviews with the media, he had no choice but to agree for the sake of promoting the movie.
In fact, these media still want to interview the screenwriter of Xu Ji's movie.
But Xu Ji was on vacation, and his whereabouts were mysterious, so the media didn't hold out much hope.
Of course, despite this, Pang Er is no longer an unknown person.
With so many previous works accumulated, his cumulative box office performance is now among the best even among first-line directors.
After "Detective Chinatown" is released this time, it is estimated that it will earn at least 3 billion in box office.
It is only a matter of time before he becomes the number one box-office director among A-list directors.
Not to mention the several phenomenal TV series we have filmed before.
Pang Er's current achievements are something that many directors who have been making movies for more than ten years cannot achieve.
If it weren't for the fact that he debuted late and that Xu Ji, as a screenwriter, has always suppressed Pang Er's reputation, his current popularity would actually be even higher.
But even so, many people predict that if nothing unexpected happens to Pang Er this year, he should be able to successfully advance to a super first-line director.
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"At present, it seems that the box office of "Desert Traveler" is unlikely to be a big hit."
Phoenix Entertainment, Li Bokai was not surprised at all by this news.
In other words, he actually didn't care very much.
Although this movie didn't make much money, the final box office will definitely be around 8.9 billion, so it won't lose money.
In recent years, since Li Bokai took over, most of his energy has been focused on developing new businesses.
A very traditional film and television project like this one has a super first-line director as a guarantee. In fact, he has not cared much about it since the project was established.
It's not because of trust, but because Li Bokai feels that the future development of Phoenix Entertainment does not lie in this.
Relying on these super first-line directors or the company's original popular artists and following the original path is just an act of resting on one's laurels.
Li Bokai has great ambitions and is not satisfied with the current status quo of the three major entertainment companies being equally famous.
So he terminated the contracts of a bunch of old people, vigorously trained new people, and at the same time developed a core system of screenwriters.
He believes that these are the key development directions of Phoenix Entertainment in the future.
Moreover, there is a new movie from Tongji Entertainment during the Spring Festival, so it is not incomprehensible that Phoenix Entertainment’s box office is not ideal.
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Realizing that Li Bokai did not pay much attention to the box office results of "Desert Traveler", the assistant also began to quickly report on some other projects.
"Yu Li, Xu Yan, and Wang Yuhong, the company has begun to allocate resources to them."
"but......"
"The effect is somewhat unsatisfactory."
The assistant hesitated for a moment and then said truthfully.
Li Bokai's face, which had not fluctuated much this time, finally had an expression.
"how come?"
"After the Spring Festival Gala, the popularity of the three of them should be very high."
The assistant also replied at this time: "It's true that it is popular."
"But many of the invitations to perform are actually for the three of them to sing the song "Love" in the Spring Festival Gala."
Li Bokai didn't realize anything was wrong, so he said along the way: "Then just sing!"
"Now is the time to solidify the popularity of the three of them."
The assistant couldn't help but replied with a wry smile: "It's not that they don't want to sing, and it's not that our company doesn't allow them to sing."
"But the copyright of this song "Love" is in the hands of Tongji Entertainment, so they can't sing it."
Hearing this, Li Bokai also reacted.
The main reason why the three became popular on the Spring Festival Gala was because of the original new song "Love" written by Xu Ji for them.
Most of the audience's impressions of the three people are probably still based on their performance at the Spring Festival Gala.
Now that I'm on the show and have participated in some performances, but I can't sing this song, the audience will definitely be disappointed.
It's just that there's really no way to solve this problem.
After all, their relationship with Tongji Entertainment, let’s not talk about their previous grievances for the time being.
But talking about cooperation is definitely unrealistic.
Could it be said that it was Xu Ji who single-handedly made the three of them famous? Without Xu Ji, even the resources of their Phoenix Entertainment would be of no use?
Li Bokai frowned, and then thought for a while before speaking again:
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "In this case, let the company's songwriters help them write songs!"
"If you want good-quality songs, go to the studios of the company's top-tier songwriters and try to tailor them."
"It would be better if it was a three-person chorus similar to the style of the song "Love"!"
After hearing this, the assistant quickly agreed.
In fact, Phoenix Entertainment's resources are good enough, at least they are resources that most artists in the entertainment industry would envy.
But without the blessing of the song "Love", even if the three of them appeared frequently, their popularity was still declining.
There is simply no way to maintain the level that it was when the Spring Festival Gala was first aired.
In fact, the three of them don't make much money for Phoenix Entertainment now, and even in terms of commercial value, they are not that high.
But as a newcomer who joined later, Li Bokai’s idea is also very simple.
We must first create successful cases, at least to prove that Phoenix Entertainment’s new talent training plan is OK.
And it was quite successful.
Just wanting to do this, Li Bokai, the high-ranking chairman, had no idea how difficult it would be.
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Phoenix Entertainment is still having a headache over the development of the three newcomers, Yu Li, Xu Yan, and Wang Yuhong.
The film and television department at Station G has also begun to return to work after its annual leave.
Chi Jiang was too busy to stop during this period.
Mainly because Tongji Entertainment's new drama "Wulin Gaiden" will be aired soon.
At the same time, as the time for his previous contract with Tongji Entertainment approaches, he must always prepare for the next negotiation with Tongji.
Both matters are very important, and there is no room for carelessness. Chi Jiang must be personally responsible for both.
"Mr. Chi, "Wulin Gaiden" is tentatively scheduled to be broadcast in March. We plan to start the corresponding publicity work after the 15th day."
After hearing the assistant's words, Chi Jiang nodded.
He took the time to watch basically all of this TV series during this period. The long-running TV series with more than 80 episodes did take a lot of Chi Jiang's time.
But the only good thing is that because I know that the quality of Tongji Entertainment dramas is guaranteed, I don't care too much about the quality of the dramas.
It's just a TV series that I watch for entertainment, and it doesn't count as a big mission.
But this kind of mentality makes Chi Jiang feel extra relaxed every time he watches this drama.
After watching the last episode, I even felt a little reluctant to leave it.
However, this "Wulin Gaiden" is indeed somewhat different from previous Tongji Entertainment dramas.
In a sitcom, the plot is a bit more out-of-the-box.
The main theme is a light-hearted and funny one, but actually there is not much sadistic plot.
This time Xu Ji finally had a conscience and stopped cutting the knife carelessly.
Of course, the show itself is indeed very exciting, but this kind of sitcom has never been a big hit before.
I don’t know if Tongji Entertainment can create a miracle this time.
To what extent will the audience accept this type of sitcom?
Of course, what Chi Jiang found amusing the most was that Xu Ji unexpectedly reintegrated his previous martial arts elements into it.
However, the sense of martial arts is completely gone. Instead, it has been re-deconstructed to make it funny and at the same time feel very reasonable.
Like Guo Furong's so-called father Guo Juxia, people will inevitably think of Guo Jing and Guo Fu in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes".
Although I know they are completely different characters, Xu Ji's bad taste really makes people smile after watching it.
There are also some very out-of-the-box plots in it that would definitely feel out of place if placed in previous Tongji Entertainment dramas.
Even in the ancient background, modern elements suddenly appeared.
But I have to say that even though everything was so unreasonable, everything became reasonable again.
This is the first time Chi Jiang has seen such a drama.
It was beyond his knowledge, even beyond his knowledge of traditional sitcoms.
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"By the way, Mr. Chen asked you to call him again today."
The assistant spoke again.
Chi Jiang was not surprised at all.
Although Chen Wu hasn't come to the company in the past two days, he basically has to explain something to him.
Although there was nothing too important, Chi Jiang could understand the other party's mood.
After all, the cooperation with Tongji Entertainment is about to expire. Under such circumstances, it would be false to say that we are not panicking.
Chen Wu was indeed a little hesitant before. After persuasion from many senior executives, he also felt that the importance of Tongji Entertainment was not that high.
But as "The Legend of Zhen Huan" once again caused the number of G station members to skyrocket, even the related advertising fees reached a terrifyingly high price.
Chen Wu finally came to his senses. If it weren't for Tongji Entertainment, it wouldn't be possible to return to the prototype from a few years ago.
But it will definitely be severely damaged, and more importantly, it is very likely that G Station’s next earnings will also plummet.
This is the most fatal for G station.
After all, G station has received a lot of financing in recent years. In addition to their own people, the company's financial reports also have to be explained to some investors.
Of course, Chen Wu was very smart. Even when Station G's financial situation was at its worst, he still did not hand over control of the company.
So now I can still have an absolute say in the company's decisions.
Then, relying on the efforts of the film and television department and the bonus of these dramas from Tongji Entertainment, Station G has finally come through.
Even last year's financial report showed that we made a lot of money.
It obviously makes sense for video websites to make money. Whether it is paid membership or advertising, it is a huge amount of income.
The previous G station did not have film and television resources to attract members, nor could it attract many advertisers.
But with the emergence of one phenomenal blockbuster drama after another, G Station’s situation in this regard has improved a lot.
It's not a phenomenon at all.
Those senior executives thought that they were running the business well, but Chi Jiang dismissed it.
If there were no Tongji Entertainment dramas, the number of active users on G station alone would be reduced by an unknown amount.
Not to mention, attracting more viewers to renew their memberships, and advertisers to place ads.
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"Isn't the contract between Station G and Tongji about to expire?"
"Why are there new dramas to be aired at this time?"
Qi Guo, Congzhu was stunned for a moment when he saw the official announcement from Station G about the broadcast time of "Wulin Gaiden".
This was indeed beyond his original imagination.
"I don't know, but what is certain is that it should be voluntary from Tongji Entertainment."
Hearing what this senior executive said, Congzhu couldn't help but roll his eyes.
Isn’t this nonsense?
If Tongji Entertainment is unwilling, how can Station G hope to obtain the film source?
Although the details of the cooperation between Tongji Entertainment and G Station have not been announced, Congzhu basically made a close guess.
There is a high probability that it will still be a model of royalties plus shares.
As for the number of collaborative dramas each year, there is obviously a lower limit but not an upper limit.
Judging from the number of dramas Tongji Entertainment has broadcast over the years, with such a high production rate, it must have met the requirements.
In other words, if Tongji Entertainment doesn't want to, it can not be broadcast on G station before the end of the contract.
This is obviously not good news for Qi Guo, who has always wanted to cooperate with Tongji Entertainment.
At this time, they also chose to let the new drama be broadcast on Station G, which at least proved that there were no cracks in the cooperation between the two parties.
What's worse, the potential news revealed from this incident is that Tongji Entertainment is likely to be inclined to renew its contract with Station G.