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On the eve of the summer vacation, the weekly drama "The Great Ming Doctor" created by Huaxia TV Station finally broke the ratings record for the same period of the year with a national rating of 26.22% after two months of airing.

At the same time, the Golden Weekend Theater, which was originally launched temporarily by Hengxuan Studio and Huaxia TV Station to snipe "The Miraculous Doctor", also took the lead when most people in the industry were not optimistic about it. Various TV stations across the country have seen the prospect of weekly dramas, and Hengxuan Studio and Huaxia TV have adopted a series of marketing campaigns in which weekly dramas cooperate with popular science programs, such as prize quizzes and other forms of interaction between viewers and netizens to promote audience stickiness and discussion enthusiasm for TV dramas. The combination boxing promotion also opened the eyes of major TV stations and entertainment film and television companies, and consciously benefited a lot.

For a while, major TV stations held frequent meetings. On the one hand, they carried out in-depth research on the influence and discussion enthusiasm caused by various netizen interactive activities planned during the weekly broadcast period of "Da Ming Miracle Doctor", and on the other hand, they actively prepared for the weekly broadcast of this station. Theater——Although everyone was not able to be the first person to eat crabs, after the first person to eat crabs received generous returns, everyone was not hesitant to become the first wave of people to follow suit and benefit.

So as the summer vacation approached, Chinese audiences were shocked to find that the major TV stations had launched weekend theaters one after another. Tasting fear.For a while, many viewers "slammed" Huaxia TV and "The Doctor of Ming Dynasty" for bringing everyone a bad boss——

Under the "strike", some netizens couldn't bear it anymore and launched a joint campaign against Hengxuan Studio and Huaxia TV Station on the Internet.In the essay, he earnestly listed the heinous "ten deadly sins" that Huaxia TV and Hengxuan Studio jointly launched the weekly theater. After the essay post was posted on the gossip forum, it was immediately seconded by the vast majority of netizens and viewers. and reproduced.For a while, there was an uproar, and in the end, gossip media followed up and reported on the matter, which invisibly brought another wave of publicity to "The Genius Doctor of Ming Dynasty".

Affected by this wave of publicity, many netizens inevitably recalled the bitterness, emotion, excitement and anticipation of watching the series in the past two months, so while continuing to follow the series, they would occasionally click on " "The Great Ming Doctor" recalls the previous plot.Coupled with the coming of summer vacation, students with heavy schoolwork can finally put aside their heavy books and enjoy a relaxed summer vacation life.And these students, generally aged between 7 and 22, are the main group of star-chasers, and they are the guarantee of the ratings during the summer vacation.Thanks to these people's overwhelming support, the broadcast volume of "Da Ming Miracle Doctor" on Huaxia Video Network exceeded 100 billion hits in just one week.

The miraculous webcast data set off an uproar in the vibrant entertainment circle as soon as netizens and industry media noticed it.

Prior to this, although Wei Linxuan and Hengxuan studios spared no effort in promotion and publicity, the TV dramas broadcast on Huaxia Video Network were basically old movie sources that had already been released, although some production companies would put their own The new film of the film is put on the Internet, but it is only for the purpose of finding a promotional selling point after being broadcast on the TV station.To use a vivid sentence to describe it, it is "no matter how small a mosquito is, it is still meat".

Until this time, under the impetus of Wei Linxuan, the number of hits on the online broadcast of "The Great Ming Doctor" actually created a miracle of on-demand broadcasting breaking through the 30 billion mark. This powerful and shocking data record also made colleagues in the circle realize once again that The network platform plays an important role in the publicity and promotion of TV dramas.Especially after Hengxuan Studio announced the astronomical advertising sponsorship fee for the first [-] seconds of each episode of "The Great Ming Doctor", the huge amount of advertising revenue made the TV station jealous.At the same time, producers and film and television companies in the circle who want to sell dramas are also deeply aware of the benefits they can get after selling their own works to China Video Network.

For a while, more and more producers wanted to simultaneously broadcast TV dramas on Huaxia Video Network.

However, for Wei Linxuan and Lu Heng, Yingdun Entertainment’s plot to preemptively broadcast dramas to gain popularity can be smashed, and the rest of the profit finishing work is just some business chores, and only Hengxuan Studio, Huaxia TV and Huaxia Video are needed The people on the Internet can handle it step by step, and there is no need for them to pay attention to it in person.

In addition, Lu Heng's "Heroes Forbidden" has just finished, and Wei Linxuan made up his mind, and the two wanted to take a good rest at home during the summer vacation.But I didn't expect that just after Lu Heng flew back to Yanjing from Hengdian, someone sent Lu Heng a notebook.

According to Lu Heng's filming habits over the years, every time a film is completed, he must rest for at least a month.This month's time is not only used to recharge your energy, but also to gradually withdraw the character's emotions.

After all, Lu Heng is an actor who is used to the experiential school, and he is not afraid of getting too deep into the play every time he acts.After the filming is over, I need more time to sort out my feelings.

This is something that Wei Linxuan has paid special attention to since Lu Heng's depression incident during the filming of "A Action".

But this time, someone sent the notebook to Mai Chengliang himself for the sake of Mai Chengliang.

Because of the Golden Crow Award Ceremony, Wei Linxuan and Lu Heng have inherited a lot of favors from Mai Chengliang. Now Mai Chengliang is entrusted to come to the door in person. Lu Heng doesn't say anything else, as long as he has to watch carefully Read the book and talk about other things.

It turned out that this book was still a suspense drama, and what Lu Heng wanted to play was precisely a psychopathic murderer with high IQ.

"It's too dark, isn't it?"

Wei Linxuan murmured with some lingering fears, because of the role of Cangya, Mr. Xiao Wei is now [-]% vigilant against all characters who are entangled in negativity and need to release their evil psychology as much as possible.

Especially the male protagonist in this script... the complexity of perversion is much higher than that of Dog Fang.

In addition, the films that Lu Heng has made in the past two years - "Rejuvenation" and the other are all rushing to win awards. Because of the subject matter, they dare not have too many expectations at the box office, so Wei Linxuan hopes more The films that Lu Heng chooses can be more commercially oriented.It is best to play a character that is a little more relaxed and funny, and it can also adjust the mood.

Lu Heng himself was quite interested in the role of the perverted murderer, but he also had the same concerns as Wei Linxuan.I'm afraid that I always shoot literary and artistic films and narrow my way - if it was in the past, Lu Heng might not have so many worries, and he would just follow his own temper.But now he has partnered with Wei Linxuan to establish Hengxuan Studio. Wei Linxuan is in charge of all the operations of the studio, and he, Lu Heng, is the face of Hengxuan Studio.

Even if it's for this responsibility, Lu Heng doesn't want to be too self-willed, at least he has to help Wei Linxuan share the pressure of the studio.Unlike the previous two months, when Wei Linxuan rushed to the front line to fight against Yington Entertainment alone, he was still filming in the crew safely.

He also hopes that he can grow into a man who can protect Wei Linxuan.Instead of enjoying Wei Linxuan's protection all the time.Although Lu Heng has not been able to light up other skills other than acting since his last life.But Lu Heng still hopes to fight side by side with Wei Linxuan in his own way.

Of course, Lu Heng would not tell Wei Linxuan about this slightly hypocritical mood.They are all big men, and there are some things that they can do but are too embarrassed to say.Besides, Lu Heng is not the kind of person who can confess himself with a bright tongue.

Faced with the tacit understanding between Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan, as well as the dog abuse behavior that he did not realize at all, Director Mai Chengliang wiped his face helplessly, and rolled his eyes helplessly, wishing he could The one who kicked the dog food angrily poured half a cup of tea, and said directly: "Anyway, I was entrusted by my old friend to bring you the script. If Xiao Heng is interested, I can meet with Director Chen later , let’s talk about the script. If it’s not interesting, how about you read this book, would Hengxuan Studio want to invest in it?”

Director Chen's nickname in Maicheng Liang's mouth is Chen Jian'an, and he is a college classmate of Director Mai. Both of them graduated from the Directing Department of Southern California University.However, unlike Director Mai's choice of returning to the embrace of his motherland to take root in Xiangcheng Films as soon as he graduated, Director Chen chose to stay in Hollywood and work hard.After so many years, Director Chen has worked hard in Hollywood, from an underappreciated studio assistant to a world-renowned Chinese director, Chen Jian'an's hard work and talent are naturally needless to say.

But before that, what Chen Jianan was more familiar to movie fans around the world were basically the various Hollywood popcorn movies he had made, the kind of commercial shootout movies that stimulated adrenaline at the same time with big scene special effects and visual impact.

But the notebook in Lu Heng's hand was a dark suspense film.Before that, director Chen Jian'an had never shot even a film with a literary theme, let alone a suspense film with a strange style and a strange rhythm.Obviously, this script is not the theme and style that Chen Jianan was good at in the past.It is also because of this that Director Chen Jian'an has received the script for nearly a year, but he still has not been able to find an investor who is willing to support him in making this film, let alone attract those first-line Hollywood superstars who are paid tens of millions of dollars.

So director Chen Jian'an, who is quite famous in Hollywood, went around for a while, and finally put his idea on Lu Heng and Heng Xuan's studio.He not only hopes to persuade Lu Heng to be the leading actor, but also hopes to persuade Hengxuan Studio to invest in this movie for him...

This is also the reason why Director Chen Jian'an was embarrassed to come to the door in person, but begged his friend Mai Chengliang to contact Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan first.

Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan were speechless when they heard Director Mai Chengliang's words.

Fortunately, Mai Chengliang didn't expect Lu Heng to give an answer right away. Besides, the other main character, Chen Jian'an, is still making a movie in Hollywood. When Chen Jian'an's movie is finished, it will probably be August or September. According to this Judging from the speed, Lu Heng has at least two months to think about it.

Of course, Lu Heng would not really think about it for that long.It's just that there are some issues that he and Wei Linxuan need to discuss privately, after all, it also involves investment issues.

Director Mai Chengliang finished explaining his friend's entrustment, and couldn't help persuading him: "Actually, I really think this script is good. Although it is not the kind of commercial film that can make a lot of money, the structure of the story is very novel, and the character design of the male protagonist is also very good. Rich. Xiaoheng, you might as well give it a try, maybe you can make some breakthroughs for yourself."

Hearing this, Wei Linxuan glanced at Mai Chengliang as if facing a formidable enemy.

Noticing Mr. Wei's gaze, Mai Chengliang smiled, and said again: "Of course, the reason why I say this is that I hope that Lu Heng can learn the method-style deduction through cooperation with Director Chen. You have to know that when Director Chen was in college, even though he was a top student in the directing department, he was also very accomplished in acting."

After saying this, Mai Chengliang drank another half cup of tea, changed the subject, and continued: "Also, this time I brought the crew to Yanjing to record the announcement. If you are fine, can you come to help? Take a stand."

Before the words fell, Mai Chengliang, who knew that Lu Heng didn't like to participate in variety shows outside the promotional period, paused slightly, and added: "I don't make things difficult for you, I just ask you to help record a VCR, and help me on Weibo. I'll forward it to promote it, it should be fine, right?"

Lu Heng smiled when he heard the words, and nodded without saying a word.

Seeing this, Mai Chengliang laughed and said, "Don't worry, I won't let you record it for nothing. After my new movie is released, if the box office results are satisfactory, how about I treat you to dinner?"

I have to wait until the box office is released to achieve satisfactory results before I can eat this meal...

Lu Heng shook his head with a smile, and couldn't help complaining: "Director Mai, you are really getting more and more stingy!"

Mai Chengliang laughed, waved his hands indifferently and said, "There is no way, my temple has many young monks, and the landlord's family has no surplus food. It is not as rich as you Daluhao!"

Although Mai Chengliang's words were a joke, there was also a bit of inexplicable envy and sourness.When he came back to the capital, besides serving as a lobbyist for his old friends, he also shouldered the important task of promoting his new film.

In the past two years, Xiangcheng's film and television industry has become increasingly lonely, both in terms of box office and ratings.This is mainly because the two places are too small, and the film viewing base is too thin, which has severely restricted the shooting costs that are rising rapidly every day.

For example, a few years ago, filmmakers wanted to make a popular movie, and the investment cost was only hundreds of thousands to several million.However, the box office standard in Xiangcheng or Ben province is between several million to tens of millions, so after a movie is released, after excluding various costs and taxes, the producer can still earn hundreds of 8000 million.

However, in the past two years, with inflation and rising consumption levels, various shooting costs have also increased, especially the remuneration of celebrities who have been on the rocket every year, capped at hundreds of thousands to several million in previous years. , By this year, there is a trend of breaking through tens of millions, and this has to be counted in the box office share for first-line superstars—not to mention international superstars like Lu Heng who have already registered in Hollywood. The price starts at 3000 yuan-plus the major crews want to add weight to the film.In order to win over popular superstars, they even go so far as to raise their prices for vicious competition. After careful calculation, the budget for hiring actors has already exceeded two-thirds of the cost of the entire movie. In addition, the appetite of the audience is now being fed by Hollywood. Simple The plot and iron horse hard bridge action scenes can no longer arouse the adrenaline of the audience. Everyone needs special effects, explosions, and big scenes...

It is because of the accumulated costs of various aspects, Lin Lin always calculates that the investment budget of a film must be at least 2000 million, and even more than [-] million.However, based on the purchasing power of the film market in Xiangchengwan Province, a film that can earn tens of millions at the box office is already sky-high.

If things go on like this, the film people in Xiangchengwan Province will naturally feel that they can't make ends meet, and those investors who don't see rabbits and don't spread eagles can't make money, which greatly reduces their enthusiasm for investing in film and television.

In contrast, the mainland film and television industry, which has always been relatively backward in all aspects, has become more prosperous and thriving in the past two years.This is also determined by the huge consumption base of the mainland market.Therefore, the two island film and television producers who originally did not pay much attention to the mainland market will pay more and more attention to the promotion effect of the mainland when promoting their works.Many artists from Xiangchengwan Province were bewitched by their interests, and they gave up sticking to the small land and went north to the mainland to seek a way to make money.

Director Mai Chengliang, who has always liked to shoot large-scale commercial films, is even more outstanding.So this time when he flew to Yanjing, the main purpose of director Mai Chengliang was to bring the main creative staff of the crew to participate in the variety show of Huaxia TV station, as well as the reality show of Huaxia Live Network, to promote his new movie.

It's just that when Lu Heng first entered the industry, the Xiangcheng Film Festival had countless scenes in China, and when he thought of the embarrassing situation in the past two years, even director Mai Chengliang with a big heart, couldn't help but sigh.

Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan just smiled at Director Mai's inadvertently envious and sad joke.Lu Heng, who is familiar with the future development of China's entertainment industry, knows well that in the past two years, Xiangcheng's film and television dramas have only gone downhill.

It is even said that in China's film and television industry, although money-making works emerge in endlessly, there are fewer and fewer classics that can make people memorable.This is not only because of the speculative ethos of hot money brought about by capital entering the film and television industry, but also because of the ethos of the entire industry...

Thinking of this, Lu Heng felt a little bit relieved.Fortunately, I was reborn at a very good time. By chance, I took several good films and created several classic characters.It is a pity that such opportunities will become less and less from now on.After another ten years, he will also be in the embarrassing situation of having no films to shoot.

Thinking of this, Lu Heng involuntarily glanced at the script on the coffee table again—although the style is a bit slanted, the character design of the male protagonist is very suitable for Lu Heng's taste.If possible, he hoped to sit down with that Director Chen and discuss it to see if he could improve the book.

Of course, these thoughts were just fleeting.After all, no matter what Lu Heng thought, this script was conceived by Chen Jian'an for more than a year. Without Director Chen's permission, he would not do something impolite.

Because of Mai Chengliang's heavy responsibility, it is obvious that he has no more time to waste on this pair of little lovers who want to abuse dogs with every gesture.He didn't even eat the lunch graciously invited by Lu Heng and Wei Linxuan, because he had to hold a press conference with the film crew to meet with Yanjing's media to promote their new movie.

So Mai Chengliang sat for a while and got up to leave.

After sending Mai Chengliang away, Lu Heng shared his thoughts with Wei Linxuan.

Wei Linxuan frowned upon hearing the words, and couldn't help muttering: "But I'm worried. You know that director Chen was much better than Mai Chengliang when he was filming. Remember the Hollywood gossip news we saw a few years ago. Yes A first-line Hollywood actor finally drove himself crazy in order to take the role of Director Chen. He committed suicide after filming that film..."

Wei Linxuan looked at Lu Heng hesitant to speak, and scratched his hair upset: "Xiao Heng, I can understand your desire to become a good actor and create more classic characters. But I hope you can be happy Happily stay by my side, the two of us will live a good life together."

Instead of trying to create a classic character, make yourself a ghost or a ghost, and finally cause irreparable regrets.

It is precisely because Wei Linxuan has this idea all the time, so after "A Action", most of the films he took on for Lu Heng were characters that required a test of acting skills, but were not so paranoid and extreme on the spiritual level. .

At this point, Wei Linxuan admits that he is selfish.Especially after confessing to Lu Heng and the two officially being together, Wei Linxuan was afraid that Lu Heng would get too involved in the character's emotions, consciously or unconsciously, he strictly screened the scripts that Lu Heng could come into contact with.So much so that the movies that Lu Heng took over in the past two years were all notebooks handed over by acquaintances——

Make sure that these books are exciting enough to allow Lu Heng's acting skills to be fully utilized, and at the same time firmly guard Wei Linxuan's bottom line of wanting to protect Lu Heng.

Lu Heng understood Wei Linxuan's intentions very well, so after a brief silence, Lu Heng smiled slightly and said in a relaxed tone: "Forget it, let's not get entangled in this kind of thing. My original thought was not to accept this movie. Movies. But about investment, what do you think?"

Wei Linxuan carefully observed Lu Heng's gentle smile. Although he insisted on the bottom line in his heart, after he noticed the fleeting regret in Lu Heng's words, Wei Linxuan couldn't help but said: "If You really like this character..."

So what can be done?

Wei Linxuan's words stopped abruptly, and in the end he dared not and was reluctant to continue.He could only be embarrassed, and looked at Lu Heng with a little bewilderment.

Lu Heng couldn't help chuckling, stepped forward and hugged Wei Linxuan, and said, "Okay. Actually, I really didn't want to take on this script. I have made two literary films in succession in the past two years, but I really want to take on one. A comedy that hits the ground running."

"Besides, haven't I been following Director Wu to learn how to be a director in the crew of "Heroes Forbidden" recently. I think I haven't accumulated enough, and I want to continue learning with the next crew. If I take on the film directed by Chen Jian'an, I'm afraid my You have to put all your energy into the role, and then you won't have the energy to learn how to direct..."

Listening to Lu Heng's strenuous nonsense, Wei Linxuan smiled lightly and kissed Lu Heng's chattering lips.

The soft touch is accompanied by the unique breath of his lover, and Wei Linxuan said vaguely with guilt: "Sorry, maybe I shouldn't be so selfish."

As Lu Heng's manager and lover, Wei Linxuan watched with his own eyes how Lu Heng went from a newcomer to his current position.He understood better that what he did was, to some extent, depriving Lu Heng of the right to devote himself wholeheartedly to the performance.

However, for Lu Heng, acting is his career and hobby. He can devote all his energy and go all out when acting, but for him, what is more important than this is Wei Linxuan, his parents. family.

In fact, unlike some of Wei Linxuan's concerns, Lu Heng, who was born in martial arts in his previous life, does not have much attachment to acting.Although in this life, by chance, he has embarked on the road of acting awards, but if this working mode will affect the uneasiness of those around him, Lu Heng would rather change his career plan.

In fact, there is nothing wrong with trying to be a box office god of wealth.Although Lie Xinxi was still there when he met a challenging role, Lu Heng felt that he could control that itch—as long as the person around him could feel at ease because of it, then his choice was the most worthwhile.

After thinking through all this, Lu Heng's mentality became more and more relaxed.He couldn't help but put his arms around Wei Linxuan's neck and pressed it down, kissed Wei Linxuan comfortingly and said, "Then let's refuse to discard this book. To be honest, I've been filming for several months. I'm a little tired too. It just so happens that the summer vacation is here, why don't we find a place to spend the summer vacation? Anyway, I'm still a student!"

Since entering university, Lu Heng, who basically doesn't show up at school all year round, finally shamelessly thought of his student status during the winter and summer vacations, and confidently demanded that he must enjoy the right to enjoy the summer vacation!

"What do you think of Hawaii? Beach swimsuits or something..."

Before Lu Heng could fully describe his summer travel wishes, a phone ringing suddenly interrupted his words.

Wei Linxuan frowned, reached out to pick up the mobile phone that was casually placed on the sofa and pressed the answer button.

Amidst the commotion, Dad Wei's voice came from the other end of the phone, asking with a deep sullen voice, "Linxuan, where are you?"

Wei Linxuan was slightly taken aback, and blurted out, "I'm at home with Xiaoheng!"

"Come to Yanjing Hospital!" Wei Zhanjie on the other end of the phone obviously took a deep breath, and explained as if trying to calm his mind: "Your grandfather had a heart attack and has already entered the operating room."

Wei Linxuan's heart sank.Can't help but ask: "What's going on?"

Dad Wei on the other end of the phone didn't answer, but urged: "Come quickly!"