"Huaiqian quickly took over "Interview with Mr. Cheng at Night."" Chen Siqi put a piece of lobster meat on Lu Yanhe's plate. "Originally, we thought he would hesitate because this play is more literary. , a lot of dialogue, and the plot conflict is not very big. It is an experimental play in Jump Theater, so the cost is controlled at a lower level. The salary offered to him is basically not much higher than that of "Whirlpool", and I thought he would refuse. ”
Lu Yanhe knows the story "Interview with Mr. Cheng at Night". This is a short story written by Ma Chao, a traditional literature writer, for "Jump Up". It tells the story of a young writer who contacted a company in order to draw material for his next novel. A once-famous Peking Opera actor happened to see his former apprentice come to visit him. The two had a fierce dispute over the adaptation of a play, which led to their old grudges from the past and eventually broke up. story.
The role Huaiqian plays in this drama is the famous disciple.
This kind of play is all about the fight between two people. The actor's performance is extremely important and also shows his skill.
And its subject matter is destined to be difficult to become popular, and it is enthusiastically liked by the audience. After all, it is too literary——
But Chen Siqi and his team’s design of the Jump Theater also left room for this type of drama.
They internally believe that although the threshold is a bit high, but the content is actually good, at least two to three stories can be produced every year.
"Maybe the audience will like whichever one becomes popular." Chen Siqi said, "No one can say for sure. When we made "China in Classics", who could have imagined such a culture? Such programs can also have a large number of loyal viewers."
Lu Yanhe nodded.
“That’s good,” he said.
Chen Siqi: "Now we have to look at the results of "The Intern" next week. If the ratings can still be stable above 0.6%, Yuehu TV and Northern Lights Video will have enough confidence to go to the investment negotiations held next week. Ask for a price increase In this way, we can increase the production budget for each subsequent drama, and we don’t have to split one dollar into two dollars like now.”
“The Intern” stars Yan Liang. Right?" Lu Yanhe asked.
"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded, "The actress who played Yan Liang's female boss is called Yu Ling. She was recommended by Liu Zi. She was a colleague who she had worked with. She had acted in plays. Later, in order to raise her children, she Returning to the family. I have already watched the drama "The Intern" in advance. Her skills are very good, but she doesn’t have an agency yet. I have already recommended her to Sister Ziyan. I also asked Tiaoqi Theater to sign three additional dramas with her, and the total salary will be 100,000 yuan." br>
In order to save money for Jump Up Theater, Chen Siqi and the others also thought of many ways. In a situation like Yu Ling's, if there is no well-known actor at all, but her acting skills are good, Chen Siqi will directly sign several drama contracts at one time for one package price, saving money on the actor's salary.
Chen Siqi doesn’t think it’s thanks to his treatment. The selling point of the drama "Intern" is Yan Liang. It is conceivable that as the heroine of the drama, Yu Ling will receive a lot of attention once the drama airs. The potential income this brings to her is far beyond what a salary of tens of thousands of dollars can match.
In the market, business talks.
Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Siqi meant.
Chen Siqi told him now to let him know in advance.
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Lu Yanhe went to Yuehu, met with the leaders of Yuehutai, and determined cooperation on several important follow-up projects.
One is the second season of "The Birth of an Actor", the other is the drama "Legend of Sword and Fairy", and the third one is Jump Up Theater.
Judging from the two dramas that have been aired so far, "Girl's Adventures" and "Whirlpool", this theater has not exploded in ratings like "Friends" and "Wulin Gaiden". But it also exceeded Yuehutai’s original performance during the same period.
The key is that the investment cost of Yuehutai’s Jump Theater is much lower than the investment cost of the corresponding period in the past.
The copyright of the plays in Jump Up Theater belongs to Linghe. However, because the drama in this theater only has an exclusive window of 24 hours for Yuehutai, after 24 hours, it will be online on Northern Lights Video. Therefore, in fact, the purchase price of Yuehutai is higher than The Northern Lights video is much lower.
Every time Jump Up Theater releases a new movie, it will drive the audience to click and watch the previous plays——
This cannot be achieved by traditional TV stations.
It is also impossible to say that these plays are played in turn twenty-four hours a day.
Yuehutai is very satisfied.
The twenty-four-hour window period is enough to get the ratings of the first wave of viewers, which is enough to help this theater drive the TV station’s ratings.
Xu Senjin, the director of Yuehu Station, received Lu Yanhe very warmly. Not only did he treat him to a dinner personally, but he also signed an agreement with him, mainly to hire Lu Yanhe as the director of Yuehu Station. Creative partner, agreement to provide program creativity for Yuehu TV, without any substantive work requirements, for a period of three years, with an annual salary of 1 million——
Lu Yanhe originally didn't want to sign.
There is no free pie in the world.
Lu Yanhe also understood why Xu Senjin wanted to sign such an agreement with him. To put it bluntly, he wanted to bind Lu Yanhe to Yuehu Terrace for a long time and establish a friendly and cooperative relationship.
One million a year is already a huge sum of money for ordinary people, but for a creator like Lu Yanhe who has made amazing achievements in movies, TV series and variety shows, In fact, it is too little.
If Lu Yanhe is willing, there are many platforms outside that are willing to add a zero at the end to cooperate with him.
But Lu Yanhe doesn't like receiving blank checks -
Money is easy to repay, but favors are hard to repay.
In this matter, the one million yuan that seemed to be given without any request and was almost free of charge would affect the normal business negotiations of many of his future projects.
However, Xu Senjin dispelled his concerns with a paragraph.
"Yan He, we all know that such an agreement is not even the icing on the cake for you. However, from "Friends" to Jump Up Theater, including the final episode that is about to be broadcast, "The Birth of an Actor", in less than a year, you have injected fresh blood into our Yuehu TV station, and also brought huge growth to our declining ratings and advertising revenue," he said sincerely. Said, "So, this is not about our future cooperation, but about the past." We all agree that the achievements you have brought to our Yuehu Terrace in the past six months should be expressed." Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said, "Xutai, since these three million are used to pay me. Creativity, how about this, in the name of Yue Hutai and I, use the three million to establish a screenwriting bonus project to support young directors and screenwriters in this industry who may not have found jobs yet, how about everyone? One hundred thousand yuan can support a total of thirty people.”
Xu Senjin was stunned.
Lu Yanhe said seriously: "Xutai, I am very grateful for your consideration for me, but please understand me that I will not sign this agreement. I am a person who cares about no pain and no gain. I will fight for the benefits that people should strive for, but a salary like this , I accepted it, and couldn’t sleep at night. Therefore, it is used to support young directors and screenwriters who are still struggling in this industry. Maybe some of the future masters will be able to stay in this industry and usher in their success because of this funding. Opportunity."
Xu Senjin suddenly smiled.
"Okay, since you said so, I won't persuade you. Anyway, this is what our station expresses to you. It's up to you how you want to use it."
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In the third week of May, "The Intern" finally ushered in its first drama starring a popular actor after experiencing the popularity of the previous two dramas for Jump Theater. .
Yan Liang has three dramas under his belt, "Friends", "Gold Rush" and "Top of the Mountain". In terms of reality in the TV drama industry, he is at the absolute top.
With his popularity and ability to carry dramas, everyone has high expectations for the ratings of "The Intern".
At this time, the last episode of "The Birth of an Actor" is finally aired.
This actor-competition variety show, which has been on the air for three months and has aroused huge discussion and viewing enthusiasm across the country, achieved a good rating of 1.26% in the final episode.
The achievements of variety shows are mostly reflected in the online video broadcast platform. Achieving a ratings score of 1.26% is already the highest among all variety shows on local TV stations in the past two years.
In this episode, Peng Zhixing devoted half a minute to introducing Jump Up Theater and focused on "The Intern" which will be broadcast on Sunday.
As a result, this episode turned out to be the episode with the most complaints from the audience since the launch of "The Birth of an Actor".
Mainly because there are too many advertisements in this issue.
There are three trailers for other film and television dramas alone.
A thirty-second preview of "The Intern", a one-minute preview of "Love Letter", and a preview of another upcoming TV series on Yuehu TV.
However, complaints are complaints, and the effect is still very obvious.
Three dramas were trending that night -
These were all natural searches, not purchased.
Moreover, especially for "Love Letter", this is the first trailer for this movie released in China. Fans who have been waiting for a long time can finally get a glimpse of the true appearance.
However, in this version of the trailer, there is still no scene of Zhang Ruozhi.
Just like the "cold treatment" of her at the Jose Film Festival, Wan Qingqing and the others at that time greeted the domestic media and weakened Zhang Ruozhi's relevant reports - their own media and Linghe Company He and Lu Yanhe have a good relationship. When they heard that Zhang Ruozhi was about to take the college entrance examination, they were very cooperative after knowing their intentions. In this version of the trailer, there is not a single scene of Zhang Ruozhi.
It is already late May, and the college entrance examination is just around the corner. At this time, neither Lu Yanhe nor Chen Ziyan wants anything to go wrong that will affect Zhang Ruozhi's college entrance examination.
As for the news released by the crew itself before, the male and female protagonists of this movie are Lu Yanhe and Chen Bige. Not many people know that there is a hidden female protagonist in "Love Letter".
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On Sunday, "The Intern" starts airing.
Yan Liang also fully demonstrated his current appeal as an actor in this drama.
One minute after the broadcast, the real-time ratings reached 1.1%. After five minutes, they fell back slightly and slowly dropped to 0.8%. After that, the ratings stabilized and began to slowly rise again. .
"Intern" tells a workplace story.
The style is lighthearted and comedic.
Even the part where Yan Liang had trouble dealing with his female boss at the beginning and had frequent conflicts and frictions was filmed very comedicly.
Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi basically kept laughing for the first half hour and never stopped.
"The watchability of "The Intern" is currently the best in jump-up theaters." Chen Siqi commented, "It's so funny."
Lu Yanhe also nodded and said, "Yan Liang I was a little worried about his suitability for this drama. I thought his previous acting roles were more serious and bitter, but I didn't expect that his style would be inexplicably suitable for this young intern who has a bit of a sultry personality."
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"In the past, for this type of subject, if it was a young male intern, it would be biased towards being young, handsome, and attractive to female bosses with young hormones, but in this drama, this is not the direction." Chen Siqi said, "The funniest What’s more, you have to endure everything in front of your boss and laugh with him. The hysterical and crazy states in private are so realistic. This will definitely resonate with the workers.”
Lu Yanhe searched online. Search for real-time updates.
“You’re right.”
“Huh?”
“Many people say they watched “The Intern” to see empathy.” Lu Yanhe said, ""The Intern" has a high degree of discussion on my homepage. Many media people I follow seem to be watching it."
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