In September, due to the popularity of "Happy Family", Huang Bo became one of the most popular artists nowadays, the other two being Fan Xiaopang and Zhou Gongzi.
The former is similar to Huang Bo, and the latter is due to "Li Mi's Conjecture" which was released at the same time.
This movie has a mediocre box office, which can even be described as shabby. It was released for just a few days and was released behind the scenes of "Happy Family". The former almost exceeded 60 million in two weeks, while "Li Mi's Conjecture" did not even reach 6 million.
The box office difference is nearly ten times!
However, unlike the box office, the movie "Li Mi's Conjecture" has a good reputation, especially Zhou Gongzi's performance, which is amazing and is not much worse than the praise received by Huang Bo.
It's a pity that the film studio is not strong enough and is not willing to promote and market it, and the theaters are only in contact with it. In the end, it is in vain to watch the word-of-mouth fermentation, but it cannot be converted into actual box office.
However, although the box office performance was poor, it still allowed Mr. Zhou to regain a lot of reputation and regain some of the reputation he had sacrificed due to "The King of Kung Fu".
But no matter what, "The King of Kung Fu", "Women Are Not Bad" and "Li Mi's Conjecture", Mr. Zhou has appeared in three movies at once this year. He needs to have box office and good reputation.
While International Chapter has not released a new film in the past two years, Huayi is also crazy about the rhythm, allowing Zhou Gongzi to firmly secure the throne of the number one movie actress in the mainland.
This has also made Mr. Zhou one of the actors that many directors want to work with, such as Gao Qunshu.
"The script is very good, but I heard that Director Gao named Zhou Xun to play the role?"
Fanxing Building, top floor conference room
Cao Xuan glanced at the outline of the script in his hand and looked at Ding Ying, the vice president in charge of film and television.
"Not only him, but the author of the original work, Mai Jia, also has this idea. Lao Gao has already taken the lead in getting the project started, and now one of the investors is us, one is China Film Group, and the other is Huayi.
China Film is not sure yet, but I heard that Huayi is very interested and wants to package Li Bingbing and Mr. Zhou to play the dual female leads."
"Not a small appetite."
A Fanxing executive sneered: "The book we are interested in is also Huayi's turn?"
"Don't underestimate Huayi. I heard that it is now preparing to cooperate with Jack Ma in Hangzhou to receive a large amount of capital injection and plan to go public. It will become the first listed entertainment stock. If it succeeds, there will be a huge supplement in terms of funds."
Speaking of this, the senior executives at the scene were vaguely looking at Cao Xuan. Many of them wanted Fanxing to go public, show off their faces, and get some shares.
But Cao Xuan didn't want to, and Fanxing had always had sufficient funds, so there was no need to go public to make money.
Therefore, so far, only some senior executives have received some dry stock dividends, but the shares are still firmly in Cao Xuan's hands.
Seeing that Huayi is preparing to go public, it’s strange that the company has no ideas...
Cao Xuan himself knew it well, but he blocked out all these probing and probing voices. No one knew better than him the fate of Huayi's listing, and no one understood better than him how harmful Alibaba's Jack Ma was to people.
As for the shares, you can call him stingy or stingy.
He will not be short of the dividends that senior executives and even artists deserve, but on the issue of shares, he dare not say that he will always fully hold Fanxing, but he will never give in easily.
As for who will leave because of this, it is not that Cao Xuan is arrogant. Fanxing has reached this point and will not be severely damaged by anyone leaving, including himself.
"We will discuss Huayi's issues later. The key now is to win the project "The Wind"."
Cao Xuan knocked on the table and brought back the topic.
In fact, this problem is not difficult to solve. Gao Qunshu has cooperated with Fanxing before and it was quite pleasant. I also tend to cooperate with Fanxing. Fanxing has a high chance of winning this project.
But now there is a disagreement, that is, Gao Bi wants Mr. Zhou to participate in the show, while Fanxing wants to praise his own people.
"Women Are Not Bad" is just that, "Painted Skin" almost elevated Zhou Gongzi to the status of the number one Chinese actress, which gave Huayi an advantage in vain, and there was a lot of murmuring within the company.
They don't think about who can play the role of Xiao Wei well except Mr. Zhou. They only care about benefiting the outsider like Mr. Zhou in the end.
This is also a common situation for every company that develops to a certain scale, with internal fighting and extreme exclusion.
Of course, this is not wrong. Fanxing’s own resources must give priority to Fanxing artists, so even Cao Xuan did not forcefully suppress this voice.
However, Cao Xuan still liked Mr. Zhou more, so he put forward his opinion tactfully.
"The two heroines of "The Wind" left by Yuan Yuan. Yang Xuega is not enough. Qian Qian and Yang Mi are still shallow. Even if Bing Bing can take on one heroine, who will be the one left?"
"Vice President Hu."
Jiang Yue, who had been silent just now, gave the final answer: "Bing Bing and Vice President Hu, the two generations of stars and the first sister, have joined forces. The gimmick is enough, and in terms of acting skills, Vice President Hu is no worse than Zhou Xun. In terms of appeal, our Vice President Hu
She is also the heroine of "Painted Skin"."
Hu Jing's acting skills are similar to Mr. Zhou's.
There must be many people in the outside world who don't agree with it, and Cao Xuan himself also has reservations, but looking at the Empress of the East Palace next to him, he doesn't have the guts to refute this statement anyway.
Wang Jinhua, who came over temporarily, also gave her an opinion: "Actually, Bingbing can do publicity alone. If acting skills are considered, Yuanquan is no problem."
Yuan Quan has won the Golden Rooster Award for Best Supporting Actress twice, the Hundred Flowers Best Supporting Actress once, and has been nominated for the Golden Rooster Best Actress. She is currently the most outstanding actress in the drama industry.
There is nothing to say about his professional skills, his reputation is not bad, and he is an artist under Wang Jinhua, so he is mostly one of his own.
The most important thing is that Yuanquan is a die-hard West Palace Party member and has a good relationship with East Palace, so nepotism is common.
"Ahem..."
Cao Xuan was defeated by these two candidates, especially Hu Jing, who is also one of the four major actresses. Her acting skills may be a little worse, but the gap is really not big. She is not inferior to the famous celebrity. What's more important is that people within the company are convinced.
In terms of roles, Li Lingyu can be played by Fan Xiaopang, and Hu Jing does not have any sensitive scenes, and she is particularly brilliant.
Lian Cao Xuan couldn't find any reason to refuse for a while, and finally he could only look at Hu Jing.
"What do you think?"
Hu Jing neither agreed nor refused, but simply said: "I'll read the script first."
Ding Ying also said that he could talk to Gao Qunshu. No matter how good Mr. Zhou is, Fanxing’s candidate is not bad. Lao Gao is not qualified enough to challenge investors. No matter what, the project must be finalized first.
Cao Xuan is not entangled. He does have some feelings for Mr. Zhou, but he doesn't necessarily have to do it for her. The main reason is for the sake of quality.
After all, among these big flowers, the one who has both acting skills and fame is really Mr. Zhou who ranks first.
Maybe someone supports the International Chapter, but Cao Xuan doesn't like that person...
Today is a high-level meeting, and it is also the last high-level meeting before Cao Xuan joins the cast of "Rescue 2." The discussion must not only be about the casting of "The Wind".
The development of film and television projects, the construction of Fanxing Cinemas and Film and Television City, and the issues of various subsidiaries, including discussions with Penguin on building a video website and variety shows, are all the main topics today.
The most critical ones are film and television, variety shows and video websites that are ready to be launched.
In fact, we don’t talk much about film and television. We mainly focus on the projects of a few leading artists. We just need to determine the main casting, director configuration and investment costs.
In terms of variety shows, it is worth mentioning that after a year of preparation and discussion last year, Stars has launched many variety shows this year.
Among them, "Run" and "If You Are the One" are huge hits. The former launched a national-level variety show group, while the latter's advertising fees are limited, and various topics are also phenomenal.
In addition, variety shows such as "Tonight's Show" have also achieved good results. A few of them have average performance. This discussion is also intended to set the tone of whether to give them another chance or to cancel them directly.
In the end, based on a series of data, two projects with potential or room for improvement were selected to stay, and all the others were axed.
Another issue is that the star variety show "Tomorrow's Star" was originally scheduled to be held every two years. The last time it was held was in 2006. It stands to reason that the third season should be held this year.
However, due to the disaster and the Olympics, Fanxing chose to postpone it. Now that the Olympics have passed, some people have proposed to prepare the third season of "Tomorrow Stars", which can be broadcast during the winter vacation or put into next summer vacation.
However, this proposal was opposed by Cao Xuan and some people.
In 2004, "Rising Star" came out, setting off a craze for talent shows, and in 2005, "Super Girl" added to the fire. These two programs have made many stars famous, and now many of them have become the backbone of the Chinese music scene.
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However, the second season of "Rising Star" and the third season of "Super Girl" in 2006 may have good ratings, but their influence and star-making ability have obviously declined off a cliff.
That's why in 2007, Hunan Satellite TV launched "Happy Boys", just to create some freshness and eventually create some success, but this was also the final glory of the talent show boom in recent years.
The talent shows of "Happy Boys" at the same time and after that were all smashed, almost without exception.
In the words of the media, the audience has become tired of these so-called talent shows. Everyone has begun to hate this stereotype of boys and girls pursuing their dreams and then becoming idols with the support of fans.
Audiences crave freshness!
At this juncture, it would be unwise to forcefully promote "Star of Tomorrow" as it might damage the brand of this flagship program.
Therefore, Cao Xuan and the knowledgeable people in the variety show department hope that a new music talent show will appear to temporarily replace "Tomorrow's Star".
And this program already has a successor, that is "The Voice of China".
"Isn't this still the same thing as the "Tomorrow Stars" draft?"
The Variety Show Department distributed projects related to "The Voice of China" to various senior executives. After everyone read it, Hu Jing was the first to raise questions.
In her opinion, the difference between "The Voice of China" and "Star of Tomorrow" is not that big. They both rely on singing talent shows, mentors on this show, and the original show also has celebrity judges.
Since the routine is the same, why do you play the famous "Star of Tomorrow" without using it? Why don't you take off your pants and fart?
"Although the draft routine is the same, the specific operations are different and the effects are also different."
Cao Xuan explained it, and then asked the variety show department to introduce to the senior executives in detail the advantages of "The Voice of China" and the differences with "Stars of Tomorrow".
"We have been discussing the innovation of talent shows before, but we have never had any inspiration. The boss took the initiative to chat with us, gave us ideas, and proposed many very constructive methods. Under the instructions of the boss...
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The relevant person in charge was an old man who always praised the boss and made crazy rainbow farts. Cao Xuan waved his hand, he was not a Xu belt, so he didn't like this.
"No need to flatter me, just get down to business."
The person in charge was very discerning, his face immediately became solemn, and he seriously introduced "The Voice of China" to everyone.
From the perspective of talent show routines, there is actually not much difference between the two programs, but the format and selling points are different.
But in fact, sometimes, it is precisely these that are the most attractive.
In fact, the draft remains the same, it is nothing more than competition + star creation. No matter how it changes, these two cores cannot be avoided, and the rest is to package around these two cores in different ways.
"Tomorrow's Star", "Super Girl" and "Happy Boy" are all packagers, focusing on the shaping of idol singers, while "The Voice of China" is aimed at "voice", and the focus has changed from stars to singers.
The reason why the audience is tired of the talent show is because of the crazy fans and the talent show model that relies on face rather than business, which makes the audience feel that this program is particularly "watery".
To put it bluntly, except for the first season of "Tomorrow's Star", which is relatively focused on strength, the second season and other programs mainly rely on face and popularity to sell.
Even in the first season of "Rising Stars", there were many so-called popular contestants, who mostly gained extra points based on their faces and relative characteristics.
"The Voice of China" has relatively eliminated this. It does not consider other aspects, and even adopts blind selection. The selection is based entirely on the singing skills, voice, stage ability, etc. of the contestants, and only the strong ones are selected.
At the same time, in order to enhance exposure and attractions, links such as mentors competing for people and leading teams to PK each other were added, which made up for the weak popularity of many powerful players.
"So the mentors are completely different from the previous star judges. The previous judges just gave scores and comments and were not very involved. The mentors lead the team, guide and even have various rights. The participation is very high. We recommend inviting big-name singers to come.
Only then can we control the situation."
After listening to the variety show department's explanation, everyone gradually understood the differences between the two programs and many of the selling points. They felt that this program was very exciting.
Hu Jing said directly: "It's easy for a big-name singer. Just let our boss do it. Who in the Chinese music world can compare with him."
"If I go, the other instructors won't have to play."
What Cao Xuan said was a bit Versailles, but it was really the truth. If he wanted to rob someone, as long as the players were not stupid, he would definitely follow him.
Without adding scripts, other instructors would not be able to compete, but adding scripts would make it look particularly fake.
"Then who do you want to invite, Jay Chou?"
"I looked for him, but he was busy filming "The Tomb" and didn't have time."
"The Voice of China" was brought over just for discussion. In fact, the project has been basically approved, and Cao Xuan has almost even found a lineup of mentors.
"Brother Huan, I have already said hello to Teacher Liu Huan. You can sign the contract directly. There is no problem with Brother Xiaoqi.
King Liu of Xiangjiang doesn’t have time and is discussing with the two kings Zhang and Li. If it doesn’t work, go to Principal Tan. If not, there’s Eason.”
Liu Huan, a mainland boss, needless to say, is also the mentor of the original "The Voice of China".
Ren Xianqi, the King of Taiwan Province, although he has been a bit outdated in the past two years, but relying on the afterglow of "Nan Ren Bei Cao", his historical status is much higher than before. Even Xiao Zhou dare not say that he can beat him.
This person is definitely more impressive than Harlin in the original time and space, and at the same time, Cao Xuan can win over his old friend.
Mainland China and Taiwan Province have them, and the remaining Cao Xuan wants to find him from Xiangjiang. The candidate has not been decided yet, but even the youngest singer, Eason Chan, is the most popular singer in Xiangjiang, better than the original Yang Sanshilang.
There are three big names from Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, and the remaining one must be a female singer.
Neither Na Young nor Jang Hye-mei Cao Xuan wanted to be hired in the original version. If I wanted to find someone who could surpass these two, I could only think about Wang Fei.
He also talked with Wang Fei, but Wang Fei was focused on breastfeeding the baby at home and was basically in a semi-reclusive state and had little interest in the program.
The rest of the new generation, Sun Yanzi and Cai Yilin, are famous enough, but their status and qualifications are still weaker. Due to their personalities, it is difficult for them to compete with the seniors.
Although Queen Na has many problems, her sense of variety...or her ability to cause trouble is still pretty good.
Ning Jing and Ning Jing are famous for their ability to play, and even Mango couldn't help but use them as the selling points of "Lang Jing 3". Most big-name female singers are really not as easy to shine as her.
If you really want to find someone who is famous enough and not afraid of causing trouble, Cao Xuan thinks Han Hong should be fine.
He has a straightforward personality, is carefree, dares to speak out, and can easily create variety show effects.
However, just in case, Cao Xuan still made certain candidates, such as Wei Wei, Tian Zhen, Li Wen, Mo Wenwei, etc., who are all considered to be queens.
Liu, Ren Ding, will do his best to publicize Han and Xiangjiang singers. It doesn't matter if one or two mentors perform less well. At worst, they will be replaced in the second season.
After talking about variety shows, we came to the last issue video website.
In fact, speaking of it, the launch of video websites in 2008 was already a bit late.
Youku, one of the three major video websites in later generations, was launched as early as 2006, and Tudou, which many people know, also started operating in April 2005.
Boss Jia's LeTV network started its layout two years ago. This year, it has begun to buy copyrights, strive for exclusive online broadcast rights of some TV movies, and even invest in the filming of movies.
"Roboman", co-produced by Sun Niangniang and Hu Jun, is the work of LeTV, and Boss Gan from the group "Bingxue Weitian" is also officially launched.
In addition, there is Sohu, one of the three major portals. This website is personally supervised by Zhang Fox and has developed rapidly. It is currently the most popular video website on the Internet along with Youku and Tudou.
There is also the famous Qvod, but this one takes the player route, so it is not included.
In addition, there are Ku6.com, Mango TV, which has just been launched in Hunan Province, and the barrage 2D website Station A, but they are not popular at this time or have a single positioning, and they are not taken seriously by Fanxing and Penguin for the time being.
Both companies are very confident about the layout of the video website, and this is not the first time they have cooperated.
This is the case with QQ Star Music. One company produces content and the other company produces traffic, which can kill all of its peers.
The video website now temporarily named [Penguin Star Video] has a huge user base and traffic of QQ, as well as a large number of exclusive copyrights from Fanxing. It is really a dimensionality-reducing blow to the current video websites.
Of course, current video websites are not just about movies and TV shows, many personalized videos are also a top priority.
For Penguin Star Video, which has not yet started, it is a small weakness that it does not have enough video creation talents.
But after Cao Xuan and Brother Xiao Ma discussed it, they felt that if this was the case, then they should maximize their strengths and avoid their weaknesses.
Ignore these personalized creations for the time being and focus on the broadcast of film and television variety shows, using high-definition picture quality and experience as well as a large number of exclusive high-quality film and television variety shows to capture users.
This can be regarded as a small selfish move by Cao Xuan. He will focus on film and television first, and then win the basic base of film and television video websites.
As for personalized video creation, a pink software will be released next year.
The married uncle who loves money has just successfully started a business and became the founder of Shell Security. The funder and major shareholder of this software is called [Jiaoyang Venture Capital].
Also receiving the same treatment is a young man named Huang who is currently engaged in the e-commerce industry and Jiaoyang Venture Capital also participated in the investment.
There is also a young man named Zhang who worked as an intern at Box Games for half a year, and later went to Microsoft. Recently he wants to start his own business, which seems to be a vertical real estate search engine.
In addition, Wang Xing, who is establishing Fanfou.com, and Dong Ge, who is recently discussing investment with Jiao Yang.
Among entrepreneurs in the entire Internet circle, no one knows that Boss Cao is the most charitable person.
As long as he is optimistic about the project, pays him happily, does not like to interfere in the company, and has a long-term relationship, he will invest next time even if he loses money.
Coupled with the fact that he is backed by Box Games, Penguin, and multiple Internet companies, the Internet resources at Boss Cao’s disposal are terrifying.
Putting money and funds aside, these resources alone are enough to make countless knowledgeable people excited.
For many young people who are interested in starting an Internet business, the first thing they think of when seeking investment is Boss Cao and Jiaoyang Venture Capital. Sequoia, Goldman Sachs, and Lei Jun all have to step aside...
Of course, these are a bit far away from the current Penguin Stars. Now Penguins and Fanxing each have to overcome a problem.
Penguin tries its best to improve the performance of the website. It is best to surpass all websites in the same period and crush its peers with super performance.
Fanxing took advantage of the bargain and hurriedly bought the film and television copyrights as much as possible. At the same time, it contacted relevant departments to try to obtain some licenses and permissions to film web dramas and web variety shows.
In 2008, the video website period was in a stage of barbaric development. The scale was very large, and a brand could be used to shoot some subjects that were inconvenient to cover in normal movies and TV series.
Apart from other things, Fanxing has a lot of Internet copyrights and related ideas in his hands, and he can use them to try out a few projects.
After a meeting, a lot of the company's future development directions were decided.
After the meeting, Cao Xuan went back to the office to drink water. He was about to go through the small door next door to ask Hu Jing what she thought of the movie "The Wind" when secretary Hu Ya came in with a letter.
"Boss, Director Jiang Wen sent a letter to you, saying it was written for you personally."
"Jiang Wen?"
Cao Xuan frowned. He had no friendship with this person, so why did he write a letter to him?
Although he was confused, Cao Xuan still opened the envelope and took out the letter paper inside. The fonts inside were very similar to Jiang Wen's style. Looking at the writing, it looked more like it.
[To my brother Cao Xuan:
It has been a few months since I said goodbye to the last activity in the magic city. The spring breeze and autumn moon, the willows hugging each other, I miss you so much.
Now there is a story, which has been refined for several years, and the wonderful characters are astonishing to the past and the present...
My brother is well-known, knowledgeable at home and abroad, honest in his art, and his skills are superior to those of others. This role will help my brother carry forward the glory he has achieved and reach a higher peak...
My brother Ge You is also expected to participate in the performance. It can be said that dragons and tigers meet together. I am very happy and fortunate...
I sincerely invite my brother to work together to achieve beautiful things. I can’t describe them all in this book, and I can’t describe them in detail...]
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The plot of "Apple" in the previous chapter has been modified. Besides, it's not that I don't watch many dramas, it's just that I don't think it's a big deal, because many big names have filmed similar passionate scenes, and they weren't the heroines, so they just filmed them.
This was the trend back then, where actresses were competing for awards and passionate scenes were given extra points. But after thinking about it, I kind of ignored the existence of the stars, so I decided to delete it.
As for the child who is 1 year and 3 months old and has clear logical thinking, my sister is indeed like this. I asked my dad specifically, and he said that when he is less than 1 and a half years old, my sister can speak similar long and short sentences relatively clearly.
He remembers it very clearly, because my sister and Cao Li in the book are about one month apart in age. It was also the Olympic Games at that time, so he has some memory points.
And I also added Cao Li’s clever patch, which is not considered self-indulgence.
When I write about children or similar characters, I basically use my family and relatives as a reference. If there are any minor discrepancies, just take it as an example...
