China Entertainment Mythology 2004

Chapter 300 15 Billion Crazy in 27 Days, Liu Shishi Turned Over

The box office of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" dropped sharply on the fourth day of the Lunar New Year, from 3.5 million in the third day to 2.63 million, then dropped to 2.35 million on the fifth day, and 2.07 million on the sixth day. The seventh day is the Spring Festival holiday On the last day of the film, many viewers who hadn't had time to watch it before chose today, so the box office has reversed, reaching 2.51 million in a single day, so that the cumulative box office of the film in the seven days before its release reached 18.91 billion yuan.

Generally speaking, the box office of a film released during the Spring Festival in the first seven days can account for more than 60% of the total box office. Based on this calculation, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" is likely to be the first domestic film with a box office of over 30 billion. .

There is no doubt that the box office performance of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" far exceeded Li Mu's previous expectations. He originally thought that if he could sell 20 billion, he would be qualified, if he sold 25 billion, he would be a big hit, and if he sold 30 billion, to be honest, he was I don't dare to think about it, after all, it is only 2014.

Although because of him, the Chinese film market in this time and space has matured faster, but judging from the current scale of the domestic film market and the number of screens, it is still very difficult for a single film to obtain a box office of up to 30 billion.

Because the box office performance of "The Richest Man in Xihong City" exceeded Li Mu's previous best estimate, he also specially called Director Shen Junsheng and praised him well.Of course, Li Mu is not used to empty words and praise, so there will definitely be red envelopes, but the amount will not be very large.

As a veteran director of Huashang Media, Shen Junsheng now does more than simply get a director's salary. "The Richest Man in Xihong City" was a hit, and he can also get a share of the film's box office.

Not only him, but Shen Teng, the leading actor in the film, will also get a share of dividends, and the amount will not be very low, and then other actors will not have this kind of treatment.

Like Jin Chen, being able to use her as the heroine of the movie is already the biggest benefit for her. As a newcomer actor who is the heroine for the first time, even if she is the heroine in the movie, she still won’t get a lot of money. The salary is high, and even the salary of some supporting actors in the film is still higher than that. For example, the salary of Liu Jiannan's actor Chang Yuan is several million higher than that of her heroine.

Jin Chen's salary is almost at the same level as Xu Dongdong's, both around 200 million yuan. In addition, although Wang Lihong only played for 3 minutes, his film salary is as high as 100 million yuan.

The entertainment industry is a very realistic industry. The actors at the top of the pyramid often earn 2000 million to 3000 million yuan in salary, while the bottom of the pyramid, most of the actors who account for more than 90% of the actor industry, often only live in the basement. Even when buying vegetables, I am only willing to buy discounted vegetables before closing.

On the seventh day of the lunar new year, Li Mu and Liu Yifei flew back to Beijing, and the key members of the company had already returned to their posts one after another. Li Mu seized the opportunity before "Let's Get Married" officially launched and held several meetings of the key members of the company. Arrange the specific work for 2014.

Leaving aside the fight group and Manwu animation, let's just talk about Huashang Media. Everyone first decided on the main actors of "Looking for the Dragon".

The main actors of "Looking for the Dragon" have already been confirmed - Pan Yueming as Hu Bayi, Zhao Da as Wang Kaixuan, Yue Yang as Da Jinya, Yang Xinming as Professor Chen, and Lu Zhong as Hongjie.What was not confirmed at the time was Shirley Yang's candidate. Some time ago, Chen Zhixi met Zhang Yuqi and Lu Jingshan respectively. After comprehensive consideration, it was finally decided that Zhang Yuqi would play this role.

In addition, the company also sold the premiere and online video copyright of the modern drama "One Servant, Two Masters" a few years ago. The TV station had one round, two rounds and three rounds, plus the video website copyright. The total unit price reached 780 million yuan per episode. The total number of TV series is 43 episodes, and the total contract price is 3.35 million yuan.

During the New Year's Eve, the TV drama has been officially broadcast on the stars, and has achieved a good score of 1.5 on both channels. Among them, the average audience rating in Beijing is as high as 2.03%, which has surpassed the highest average audience rating in Beijing and Taiwan in 2013. .

Many companies and individuals in the industry who were looking forward to the capsize of Huashang Media in the gutter are obviously disappointed again. Now "Huashang produces, must be a boutique" is not just a slogan, but a real fact, even in the hearts of the majority of drama fans. faith.

"One Servant, Two Masters" has a lot of actors who are popular in the ratings. Among them, the most outstanding couple is of course Zhang Jiayi and Yan Ni. The two have a strong sense of CP in the play. Many viewers even said after watching the play that they are two People must also like each other in reality, but it is only limited by Zhang Jiayi's family.

Guan Xiaotong, the princess in the Beijing circle, also made a small hit with this drama, and her manager even came to express her loyalty to Hua Shang, saying that in the future, as long as it is Hua Shang's drama, Xiaotong will be able to act with a reduced salary. If the script is very suitable, They can even accept zero pay.

The so-called script is very suitable mostly refers to the protagonist role, or the script written by director Li Mu himself.

As one of the heroines, Jiang Shuying naturally became popular with the popularity of the TV series, but she also received a lot of doubts when she became popular. Many netizens said that her performance in the drama was not good. Lily is not as brilliant as Zhu Ni's supporting role.

The role played by Jiang Shuying in the play is an older leftover woman. Because she looks a lot like the ex-wife of the actor Yang Shu, Yang Shu's daughter arranges a blind date for her father without authorization.

Yang Shu’s boss, Tang Hong, who is the character played by Yan Ni, is a bit interested in Yang Shu, so she often buys clothes for Yang Shu with various reasons. Tang Hong's Cadillac is the most luxurious model, so Jiang Shuying's character caught him on a blind date.

In the final analysis, Yang Shu was attracted by his famous brand and luxury car. Later, Yang Shu had to explain that he was a driver, not a rich boss. In the end, the more he explained, the more unclear he became. The more he explained Jiang Shuying’s role, the more he felt Yang Shu is a rich man, and the reason why he denied it was a test for her, and then he took the initiative to stick to her.

My best friend went to Yang Shu's company to find out the truth, but just saw that the company's senior management was very polite to Yang Shu, and finally decided that Yang Shu was a rich man.

She kept claiming that it was not Yang Shu's money that she fell in love with, but Yang Shu's person. However, the truth finally came out and she immediately broke up with her.

The characters are really not very likable.

On the contrary, the best friend named Lily in the role of Jiang Shuying is much more real. Although the setting is a mistress, her acting style is very open-minded, and there are many famous sayings that are quite unreasonable, which actually makes many audiences like it.

"One Servant, Two Masters" has become popular. Although it is not as popular as "The Legend of Zhen Huan" before, it is still amazing enough to break 1.5% of the ratings for both channels and 2% for a single channel.

Therefore, various TV stations and video websites must have more confidence in Huashang dramas than before. In fact, more than half a year after the broadcast of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", the TV drama industry across the country has completely looked up to Huashang. .

The premiere ratings of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" are very high, and the number of views on the video site is also amazing. Everyone has known these things for a long time. Although it is shocking, it is still acceptable, but since the end of the TV series for more than half a year However, the popularity of "Zhen Huan's Legend" doesn't seem to have dropped much, which is very frightening.

From the perspective of the industry, no matter how popular your drama is, the tide should ebb in half a year, right?The result was not at all, and the popularity of "Zhen Huan's Legend" has intensified. Even many satellite TVs in the second and third rounds have achieved ratings of 1.7 or 1.8, and the popularity of video websites has been higher and higher.

No one thought that "The Legend of Zhen Huan" could continue to ferment to this extent.

When "The Legend of Zhen Huan" sold 1000 million episodes, the industry still thought it was unbelievable. Looking back now, I think the copyright fee is not so outrageous.

The current situation is that the ratings of "The Legend of Zhen Huan" exploded before, and the ratings of "One Servant and Two Masters" exploded later, and now Huashang Media has completed all the preliminary work for a palace drama. How much does it cost to buy it?
"One Servant, Two Masters" has sold for 780 million per episode. How much is the right price for "Story of Yanxi Palace" starring Liu Shishi, one of the new four female roles born in 85?
To be honest, without Hua Shang asking, both the TV station and the video site will understand that the total price of a single episode is less than 900 million without even thinking about it.

The question now is how the quality of "Story of Yanxi Palace" is. If it can reach the level of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", then everything is negotiable.

Li Mu feels that the quality of "Story of Yanxi Palace" is still not as good as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", so "The Story of Zhen Huan" has sold 1000 million single episodes, so it is entirely possible that the price of a single episode of "Story of Yanxi Palace" is appropriately lower than "The Story of Zhen Huan" accepted.

However, the market does not follow this logic.

For example, the copyright fee for "The Legend of Zhen Huan" in the original space-time was only about 200 million yuan per episode, but when it came to "Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" by the same author, it directly soared to more than 1400 million yuan per episode.

"Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace" is certainly not as good as "The Legend of Zhen Huan", but the copyright fee far exceeds the former.

The same is true for Hua Shang's "Story of Yanxi Palace" this time.

There is a successful example of "The Legend of Zhen Huan", "Story of Yanxi Palace" was spared no effort to compete for it, and finally the price of a single episode was pushed to a high level of 1100 million yuan, of which the first round, the second round and the third round of the TV station added up to 600 million For one episode, the unit price sold to iQiyi was as high as 500 million per episode.

The total number of episodes of "Story of Yanxi Palace" is as high as 70 episodes, so the total contract price is as high as 7.7 million.

Huashang drama set a new record again.

Who is the most excited about the 7.7 million sales of "Story of Yanxi Palace"?Li Mu?
His own project was sold at an ideal price. As the owner of the company, Li Mu was naturally excited, but to be honest, he was not that excited.

Now the annual transaction volume of his group fights is close to 500 billion yuan. In terms of earning potential, although the price of 7.7 million TV series is not low, it is not so high that Li Mu is very excited.

In fact, the most excited group of people is probably Liu Shishi's fans.

The fact that Liu Shishi was at the bottom of the new four little Huadans had always made fans worry about it, but those who joined Huashang first would develop better. Fans no longer care about the reputation of being at the bottom, and they can only be helpless in the end acceptance of reality.

But it's different now, the situation seems to have changed. As soon as Shi Shi joined Huashang Media, Li Mu arranged a TV series and a movie for her.

It's hard to say what the future of the movie will be, at least in the TV series, it can be regarded as a complete turnaround.

The copyright fee of "Story of Yanxi Palace" is even higher than that of "The Legend of Zhen Huan"? !

If the response after the broadcast can be close to "The Legend of Zhen Huan", then the gap between Shi Shi and the other little flowers will not be as big as before.

If it goes one step further and the new movie "Going to See You Now" can also become a big hit, then maybe Shi Shi will be able to completely remove the title of the bottom of the new four little female roles.

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Let's talk about Hua Shang.

In the following meeting, Li Mu also proposed that this year the company will launch the "Chicken Feather Flying to the Sky" project. The drama "Chicken Feather Flying to the Sky" does not have an original novel, so Li Mu naturally completed the script by himself.

Because "Chicken Feathers Flying to the Sky" in the previous life is already classic enough, Li Mu does not plan to make drastic changes to the cast this time, at least the male and female protagonists will definitely not change.

Although Zhang Yi is not an artist under Huashang Media, and Yin Tao has not had many opportunities to contact Huashang before, this does not prevent Li Mu from inviting the two to be the male and female protagonists of the new drama.

It is of course important to praise one's own people, but for Li Mu, the overall quality and taste of TV dramas are always the first.

However, apart from the male and female protagonists, other characters are not completely immobile.

For example, for the role of Qiu Yan, Zhang Jiasuo was used in the original version, and Zhang Jiasuo also interpreted this role very well, but at the same time Li Mu also felt that this role could be played by his own Song Yi, so then Is it still necessary to ask Zhang Jiasuo?

Then there is no need.

Another example is the role of Yang Xue, Gao Shuyao was used in the original version, and she also interprets this role very well.The role of Yang Xue has even become a source of controversy for many viewers. Many netizens said that if they were Chen Jianghe, they would definitely choose Yang Xue instead of Luo Yuzhu.

Li Mu wanted to use Bai Bing to play this role.

In fact, normally speaking, with Bai Bing's position at this moment, it is not suitable to play such a role. The entertainment circle is an actress who is much smaller than Bai Bing's position. .

With a celebrity like Bai Bing, playing a supporting role in a TV series where the hero and heroine are not as famous as your own, normally most actors would refuse, but in reality, how can there be so many roles that are suitable for you?
There are more than a dozen well-known actresses under Huashang. If everyone insists on not acting, then many of them may not be able to act in a play of their own for several years.

Therefore, most of the time, Li Mu only considers whether the role is suitable. As for whether the coffee position is suitable, most of the time Li Mu doesn't think much about it.

Of course, it doesn't mean that whoever Li Mu recommends to play a role must play the role, such as the role of Yang Xue. If Bai Bing feels that it is worthy of Yin Tao's role, then of course she has the right to refuse.

But it is clear that Bai Bing did not refuse to play a supporting role.

As for the company's 14-year film planning, with the great success of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", the "Shameful Iron Fist" project was immediately put on the agenda, and the director of the film will continue to be Director Shen Junsheng.

Speaking of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", since the film won a box office of 18.91 billion in seven days during the Spring Festival, its box office on weekdays has experienced a relatively obvious decline.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, it dropped directly from 2.51 million yuan on the seventh day of the first month to 1.64 million yuan. On the ninth day of the first month, it fell further to 1.15 million yuan. Then on the tenth day, it was 9774 million yuan, and on the eleventh day, it was 9244 million yuan. It broke 1.29 million a day, reaching 1.13 million yuan, then 8500 million yuan on the 5366th, and further fell to [-] million yuan on the [-]th, and only [-] million yuan left on the [-]th day of the first month.

So far, as of the fifteenth day of the first month, "The Richest Man in Xihong City" has a cumulative box office of 27.4 billion yuan. It is worth mentioning that "Monster Hunt", which ranks first in the domestic film market, has a cumulative box office of 27.7 billion yuan.

In other words, as long as "The Richest Man in Xihong City" takes another 3000 million yuan at the box office, it will be able to top the box office champion in the mainland market.

Judging from the current box office trend of "The Richest Man in Xihong City", there is no longer any suspense that its final box office surpasses "Monster Hunt".

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