After the filming of "Eternal Dragon Sword" was completed, Cao Xuan still had some work, the opening and ending themes of the TV series
"Beloved" and "Falling in Love with Zhang Wuji"
These two songs are also relatively famous film and television theme songs. Cao Xuan wrote them conveniently and sang the opening song "Beloved" himself.
As for the song "Falling in Love with Zhang Wuji", the style of the song was actually sung by my eldest sister, but the lyrics were too popular and straightforward, far less sophisticated than "Lovesickness", so I hired the original version of Mao Amin.
Although Mao Amin has been a bit outdated in the past two years, his status and qualifications in the music industry are still there. Together with Cao Xuan, the lineup of singers in "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword" is definitely sufficient.
These two songs have been produced before, and the singing is not that difficult for Cao Xuan and Mao Amin. As long as the accompaniment is done well, they can be completed in a few days.
"Eternal Dragon Sword" has a total of 40 episodes. Because there are some special effects production, the post-production time may be a little longer, but the finished product will definitely be available before the end of the year.
The summer schedule is a little longer, so Cao Xuan's goal is to air it on New Year's Day or after the Spring Festival.
This is also one of the best schedules in the field of TV dramas, except for summer. Even summer has not been fully developed at this stage, and it may not be better than the beginning of New Year's Day and after the Spring Festival.
Many TV series will be broadcast at this time. For example, this year, there are "Golden Family", "Iron Teeth Bronze Teeth Ji Xiaolan 2", "Xiao Shiyi Lang", "World Granary", "Nine-year-old County Prince", "Li Wei is an Official", etc.
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"The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer" is a project that Cao Xuan values more than anything else. The joint investment cost is as high as over 30 million. It is definitely a first-class production in the current field of TV dramas.
Making money from this project is secondary, the most important thing is building reputation.
It proves that Fanxing has the ability to operate medium-sized productions and even top-notch large-scale film and television projects.
Of course, it is best to make more money while building a reputation.
The investment of more than 30 million yuan is divided equally between the two families, and Zhang Guoli also wants to take a small share. With Cao Xuan's appetite, the income will reach more than 50 million yuan no matter what.
Ordinary TV stations don’t need to worry about this amount, especially the first-round broadcast rights, which must be guaranteed by first-tier TV stations or above.
Cao Xuan is more optimistic about CCTV. Although CCTV is a bit tricky, it cannot overcome the platform advantage. Fanxing can make back its losses from other aspects.
But this year CCTV has a new leader, and this leader doesn’t seem to be too cold about martial arts.
Zhang Beard's "Legend of the Condor Heroes" originally wanted to go to CCTV and specially cut a few episodes for review, but the response was not ideal.
From the very beginning of the filming of "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Sword", the crew of "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Sword" has been contacted by representatives from major television stations. CCTV also sent personnel at the beginning, but after the new leadership took over, their attitude became obviously cold.
Even CCTV sent people to "Li Wei Becomes an Official", but no one paid attention to "The Legend of Heaven and Sword of the Dragon".
In this way, Cao Xuan couldn't help but recall a gossip from the original time and space. It was rumored that after CCTV produced "The Swordsman", because it was too controversial and because he felt that fighting and killing was not good, there were no martial arts dramas for several years.
This is actually somewhat untenable. CCTV is not very keen on martial arts dramas and pays more attention to dramas, main themes or reality-oriented movies.
However, the ban on broadcasting because of the killing is completely untrue. After all, CCTV has many similar violent plots in other themes.
The main reason is the decline of martial arts movies and TV shows. There are too few high-quality products and the overall situation is in decline. Moreover, because the cost is not cheap and CCTV has no shortage of TV series, they are not broadcast much.
On the other hand, there is also the rise of local satellite TV. People who have money to buy dramas no longer flock to CCTV, and competition is fierce, leaving CCTV with even fewer choices.
Of course, it now seems that leadership preference may also be part of the reason.
Although Cao Xuan still contacted CCTV, he also prepared a fallback path and contacted several other first-tier provincial TV stations.
Regardless of CCTV or local satellite TV, the drama "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer" has no worries about selling.
Even if it involves prices and subsequent earnings, it won't affect too much. After all, the relationship between supply and demand is here, and there are always people willing to spend money.
The project involves tens of millions, and the broadcast period is expected to be long anyway. Let's talk slowly until both parties are satisfied. At the worst, it will be postponed to the summer schedule, which won't delay it for long.
"The Story of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer" will be discussed slowly, while "The Unruly Princess" will be much easier to read.
In other words, after this project was approved and the original cast was confirmed, Jingcheng TV Station, which got a taste of the success of "Love Through Time" last year, came to the door.
A fixed price of RMB 15 million for the exclusive premiere rights of "The Unruly Princess".
This price is not low. You must know that "The Golden Family" originally sold 25 million yuan, breaking CCTV's record of buying eight dramas.
Although this price did not break Beijing TV’s drama purchase record, it was not much different.
But Fanxing felt that the price could still be raised, so he kept negotiating with Jingcheng Taimo.
It's not that Cao Xuan is greedy, it's that "The Unruly Princess" is worth the price.
The companion piece to the hit drama "Love Through Time", the heroine is a four-star actress, and the hero Pan Yueming is also a first-line actor, and there are a large number of familiar supporting characters. Just the words "original cast members" are worth 3 million.
In addition, the cost price of this drama has also gone up.
The total remuneration alone is only 4 million, Hu Jing alone is 1.5 million, and Pan Yueming is 1 million. These two are still friendly prices. Even so, plus the production fee, the investment of "The Unruly Princess" has steadily exceeded eight figures.
With an investment of tens of millions, you must earn as much as you can.
The 15 million guaranteed minimum drama purchase fee has not changed, but an advertising clause has been added.
If the ratings of the follow-up "Princess Diaoman" reach the required ratings, Beijing TV Station will give a share of 3 million in advertising fees, which can also be understood as a bonus.
This is not a bet, at most it is a supplementary contract. The conditions set by Jingcheng Station are very loose. As long as the results can reach good or even passing standards, you will receive a bonus of 3 million.
Based on the conditions of "The Unruly Princess", 18 million is equivalent to putting it in your pocket, and the pre-roll advertising was also very smooth, earning about 10 million, and it is expected to be sold to Hong Kong, Taiwan and Southeast Asia through Boss Wu.
Even before the TV series is aired, Fanxing's revenue from this series has already reached over 30 million.
There is no doubt that this is due to the influence of "Love Through Time", and partly because of the influence of Hu Jing, a four-star actress.
After the official establishment of the Four Little Actresses, Hu Jing was the only mainland female artist to be promoted to the top tier, which greatly contributed to the room for price increases in TV dramas.
After all, in the final analysis, the Four Little Girls are internationally recognized, and a certain Zhao has already moved to movies.
Although Mr. Zhou also made TV series, except for "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", his other themes were all serious dramas and were not very popular.
Therefore, among the four young actresses, Hu Jing is the only one who insists on working on TV series. Moreover, her TV series statistics are among the best, the subject matter is more popular, and she is the most favored by TV stations.
"The Unruly Princess" is now about to be completed, and will be officially premiered on Beijing Satellite TV in late October.
During this time, Hu Jing, who served as the producer, was also following up on this project, and also participated in part of the preliminary preparations for the crews of "Snowflake Goddess Dragon" and "Water Moon Cave Sky".
For the former, after Dong Xuan's scenes in "Dragon" are finished filming, the crew will officially start filming at the end of the year or early next year.
The latter has entered the final stage of casting and will officially start filming in early October. It is expected to shoot for 4 to 5 months, plus post-production, and will be broadcast during the summer vacation next year.
It is worth mentioning that Jiao Enjun was originally scheduled to play the role of the eldest brother Tong Bo, but due to the filming of "The Legend of Heaven and the Dragon Slayer", Jiao Enjun's next drama had a schedule conflict with "Water Moon Cave Sky", and it was a pity that he missed it.
Fortunately, there is "Lotus Lamp" behind Jiao Enjun, so Cao Xuan simply sold Zhou Yi a favor and let Yu Bo play the role in the original version.
But in terms of remuneration, it is enough to buy a courtyard house anyway...
Zhang Jin still played the third child because he was the Earth Tiger Man in "Armor Warrior". Boss Cao had a good impression of him and gave him another chance.
However, the second child has still been replaced. Yan Kuan is not available, so Qiao Zhenyu can join in the drama and adjust the schedule, which will not delay his filming of "Snowflake Goddess Dragon".
The heroines Doudou and Yin Tianxue have also been replaced. Char Siu Fen and Chen Farong are good people, but Hong Kong and Taiwan artists are expensive. Even if the salary is cheap, Yang Xue and Gao Yuanyuan are in the company, so there is no reason not to praise them.
Yang Xue has played supporting roles in three films, and this time she finally plays the heroine for the first time.
Gao Yuanyuan has been trained on the set of "The Legend of Heaven and Dragon Sword" and can challenge Yin Tianxue. Her image and temperament are also suitable for this role.
But this may affect the marriage of Zhang Jin and Char Siu Fen. This pair of happy enemies met in this drama.
But it doesn't matter. Zhang Jin was born in martial arts and is deeply involved in Hong Kong circles. Char Siu Fen is now filming in the north and hanging out with various production crews in the mainland. Their social circles still partially overlap. As long as they are destined, it is not difficult to run into each other.
Hu Jing was named a producer on all three crews and was responsible for part of the casting and planning work. She personally selected several actors.
Especially Yang Xue's heroine was originally chosen by someone else, but it was Hu Jing who argued hard and took the lawsuit to Cao Xuan, who finally promoted her to the top.
It can be said that while Lady Zeng was working hard to educate the flowers of the motherland and prepare to establish the West Palace Party, the Empress of the East Palace was not idle either. The work of opening up the behind-the-scenes branch was going very smoothly, and she had already begun to show her demeanor as a strong woman.
Even Boss Cao had to respectfully call him "Producer Hu" when he saw it.
According to the plan, after working on a few more dramas, Producer Hu was directly promoted to Deputy Director Hu of the Film and Television Production Department, and then to Vice President Hu. He was rightfully below Fanxing and above everyone else.
Teacher Zeng trains students at China National Theater Company, while Mrs. Hu trains employees within Fanxing Company.
The Chinese Opera was influenced by Teacher Zeng, so she supported newcomers from Nortel, Shangxi, other schools, and Yeluzi. Even as a senior sister of the Chinese Opera, she could not break up some of the Chinese Opera students.
After such a calculation, the cards Hu Jing can play are not much worse than those of Zeng Damei.
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However, after the filming of "Eternal Dragon Sword" was completed, Hu Jing temporarily put down her work as a producer of "Snowflake Goddess Dragon" and "Shuiyue Cave".
In mid-September, Cao Xuan officially decided to project Fanxing's first movie "When Men Are in Love".
Hu Jing not only won the heroine without any suspense, she was also appointed as a co-producer of the crew and was responsible for some of the behind-the-scenes work of the film.
