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Chapter 695 YouTube helps "Prison Break" explode, and "The Disciple" premieres

Jiang Yan's new drama will premiere soon.

This has attracted the attention of film and television practitioners across the United States.

Different from music, Jiang Yan's strength in music has been recognized as strong. After all, "Zonzi of the Wind" is full of divinity, and the legendary color cannot be erased.

But in terms of film and television, Jiang Yan's influence is still much weaker.

Even if Jiang Yan's "Kill Bill 1" became a hit, "The Man From Earth" was also a hit before, "The Departed" also won an Oscar, and "Lord of the Rings" invested a lot of money in the midst of a downturn and then turned it around. It's full of money, but in fact, in the eyes of the old and beautiful film and television practitioners, the relationship between these films and Joey is not that great.

After all, investment behavior and personally participating in the production are two different things.

And "Prison Break" advertises that Joey personally wrote the screenplay, personally selected the cast, edited and scored the music himself, and only took the camera to shoot it himself, but this also shows that this is basically Joey's personal work.

Well, for Joey's personal first work in North America, everyone has expectations for sure, but it must not be too high.

So many media are discussing:
"I believe that the theme song that Joey said will be great, but I reserve my opinion on the TV series itself."

"Joey may have made a lot of preparations, but Asian culture is very different from ours. Joey may need to stumble a few times before he can really understand."

"Joey is the strongest cross-language singer I have ever seen. He has mastered more than ten foreign languages ​​and is proficient in multiculturalism. The novel "Prison Break" is also very suitable for our taste, so I think "Prison Break" will have good results."

"It's different. It doesn't matter whether he wrote the novel or not, and how can novels and film and television dramas be the same? These two are completely different arts..."

Some are supportive, some are pessimistic, and most are pessimistic.

This is normal. In Laomei, unless you are a senior practitioner who has succeeded many times, otherwise you are Cameron, and your first work will be viewed poorly.

Of course, there is another reason, of course, because of competition, so the publicity of "Prison Break" in traditional media is not very smooth.

So much so that many people think, is Joey overestimating his fame?Is it really not prepared to spend money on publicity, and it all depends on Grammy to shout?

But what these people don't know is that Jiang Yan has already achieved saturation attacks on other propaganda channels!
At Caltech, Hank returned to the dormitory after class, and immediately turned on the computer and opened YouTube.

YouTube has completed its first round of financing a few days ago. At present, the website has been greatly upgraded. Specifically, the interface and correlation coefficients have been optimized to make video playback more adaptable to the current low network speed. In addition, there is a registration function. After registration Users can like and comment on the video. In terms of video content, YouTube is not only Joey's own personal channel, but also videos from other organizations and individuals. There are not many videos at present, but I believe it will definitely become more and more in the future. more and more abundant.

Seeing such a change, Hank felt very satisfied and at the same time a little more anxious, because these optimizations coincided with his own ideas, and he had many other ideas, so his reply to the YouTube team also I look forward to it even more.

He felt that if the YouTube official did not reply to his cover letter after this week, he would reveal his identity as the son of the new shareholder and surprise Joey himself!
But that's for later, now Hank is here to support Joey.

These days, the American and arrogant traditional media have continued to look down on Joey's American drama "Prison Break", saying that he can't make American dramas well, Hanke is very dismissive of this statement.

Who do you think Joey is?People are "sons of the wind"!It's genius!Is the world's greatest cross-lingual singer!People's understanding of global culture is something you rookies can achieve? The success of Joey's "Kill Bill" is the best proof!

So this time "Prison Break" will definitely work!

Thinking of this, Hank clicked on Joey's personal channel, and then directly found the first series trailer of "Prison Break".

It was the second trailer after the first trailer of "Kung Fu Panda", titled ""Prison Break", written by Joey, will premiere this Saturday night".

Hanke didn't talk nonsense, just clicked in and watched it again, and then there was a wonderful clip of more than two minutes.

With the theme song of "Prison Break" that can be engraved into DNA, there are flashes of various characters and reminiscent lines.

Looking at the protagonist Mi Shuai's captivating eyes and the tattoos all over his back, a tense and suspenseful atmosphere burst out of the screen instantly.

In addition to the official trailer, YouTube also includes more than a dozen behind-the-scenes video videos, including simple interviews with the main characters and some short stories about the main creative team. Each video is only about 1 minute long, but it can still arouse the audience. No small interest.

After reading it again, Hank is still very excited. The novel "Prison Break" has been published a long time ago. As a die-hard fan of Joey, Hank has also bought and read it a long time ago, so he does not support Joey entirely with enthusiasm. , so now seeing the casting, music, scenes and the lines revealed in the trailer, he feels that he can draw a conclusion based on these. This is definitely the most sincere restoration of the original work!Because when he read the novel, that's what he thought in his mind!

So just looking at these, Hanke feels that even if "Prison Break" can't be a big hit, the quality will definitely not be a problem!
There are countless netizens who have the same idea as him. At this time, there are hundreds of thousands of comments under the "Prison Break" trailer.

Hank looked over one by one, and most of them were Joey fans like him who came to support them.

Although there are a lot of pessimistic ones in it, it doesn't matter, after all, this is just a trailer, and when the show starts, I believe these people will definitely adapt their attitudes by then!

Hank thought so, he was confident.

Of course, Hank will naturally have a little bit of worry, after all, he is not a blindly optimistic person.

So in the end he just left a "wait for it, Joey is going to rock the world!"

After posting the comment, Hank glanced at the time, there are still three hours before tonight's broadcast, soon, soon. . .

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"The number of comments on a single YouTube video has exceeded 55!"

In Modu, Jiang Yan's mobile phone came out with a happy report from the person in charge of YouTube, and he was very satisfied.

Now there is only one online video site in the world, and there is only one video site in the world that has a social attribute function of commenting, and Jiang Yan is the only "Internet celebrity" in the world.

So if Jiang Yan now adds a "follow" function, he can have millions of followers in minutes.

The most ruthless thing is that when he decided to put the trailer on YouTube, YouTube became the only promotional platform for film and television dramas on the Internet in the world!

That is to say, the current Internet publicity function of "Prison Break" is unique!As long as netizens watch videos on the Internet, they will go to the YouTube website, and then they can see the trailer of "Prison Break".

This can be seen from the fact that videos on YouTube can easily receive tens of thousands of comments.

According to the background display, the page views of "Prison Break" have exceeded 300 million per day!And the closer it is to Saturday, the higher the pageviews.

So if "Prison Break" becomes a big hit next time, not only the TV station and Jiang Yan, but also YouTube will benefit!

The higher the degree of discussion of "Prison Break", the more YouTube users will be, and the greater the publicity bonus will be brought to the various projects of the North American branch of Stars and Oceans. How cost-effective this account is, I believe that when the time comes to see Hollywood's You can tell by the anxious expressions of a bunch of guys.

So the next step is to look at the performance of "Prison Break".

Then "Prison Break" will explode after being driven by the popularity of Grammy and the unique promotion of YouTube?

In fact, at the beginning of this question, Jiang Yan didn't even have much confidence.

"Prison Break" started filming in November 2001 and ended in early January 11. It took two and a half months to finish filming.

The original "Prison Break" only had 13 episodes at the beginning, but after the ratings exceeded expectations, it was hastily added to 22 episodes.

Jiang Yan's version of "Prison Break Season 16" only has [-] episodes. This version retains the original flavor of the original "Prison Break", and removes some useless plots added by the original version for the sake of water plots.

So now the show as a whole looks better than the original.

However, this show encountered some resistance when it first found a TV station to sell it.

The main reason is that Lao Mei has little confidence in TV dramas made by Chinese people, even if you are a "son of the wind".

In fact, there are some reasons for this kind of thinking. In December last year, the 12 episodes of Jiang Yan's "Swordsman" was released on Laomei. As a result, the cultural shock was unacceptable, and all the people watching were Chinese and some Jianghu. Fans of Yan Yan, other European and American people are also watching, but the actual audience is calculated according to the audience, it is a bit horrible.

Of course, this data is compared with the ratings of TV dramas in the United States, but if you count overseas imported films, especially East Asian imported films, the ratings of "Swordsman" is actually a record-breaking one.

But this is of no help to "Prison Break". After all, "Prison Break" is advertised as a pure American drama, but you "Zono" did not act in it, and the fan base does not expect much. The key is that you are a Chinese screenwriter. , can this work?

Can it work, give it a try and watch one or two episodes first, which can actually change the attitude of all TV stations.

But there is still a fact that Jiang Yan can't ignore, that is, the popularity of the original "Prison Break Season [-]" when it was broadcast in Laomei was not as high as expected.

The original version of "Prison Break" only ranked 2006st in the 2007-51 ratings list of American dramas, and the highest number of viewers for a single episode in North America was less than 1000 million. You must know that if you want to be ranked in the top five ratings in North America, the number of viewers must be at least There are 2000 million!
Some people have also analyzed the main reason why the show is not popular in North America, that is, in 06, when there were too many crime dramas in the United States, the theme of "Prison Break" determined that it could not be a hit with differentiation.

However, there are reasons why "Prison Break" can shoot so many seasons.

The reason is that it is not popular in China, but it is popular abroad, especially in China.

The popularity of "Prison Break" in China in 2006 was a phenomenon, especially among college students at that time.

Because of the rise of the Internet sharing era, resource download sites are also being fired. Tired of watching martial arts dramas and lingering romance dramas over and over again, "Prison Break" has a novel theme, a tense rhythm, and an episode that costs millions of dollars to produce. The high-quality series of "The Great Wall" was very attractive to the Chinese moviegoers at that time.

It has opened the eyes of many young people, even middle-aged people and children. It turns out that apart from the blockbuster movies produced by Hollywood, even serial dramas are so powerful and beautiful.

And this theme is quite attractive. The movie "The Shawshank Redemption" touched the hearts of countless people, and Mi Shuai's performance in "Prison Break" also received different responses. His wisdom, calmness, and composure are a perfect example of a good man.

A tense plot, stylish actors, and lively music make for a brilliant series.

But Jiang Yan also knew that he was filming "Prison Break" in the old America, and the results in the old America were the key.

So from the very beginning, when Jiang Yan communicated about "Prison Break" with everyone outside, his expectations were not high. It would be good if the number of people reached 500 million, so that the show would not be canceled midway.

In business, humility is a must. This is the bottom line thinking. Lao Mei values ​​this, otherwise she will immediately shout out high expectations.

Of course, bottom-line thinking is indeed necessary, but sometimes other situations have to be taken into consideration, such as did it really explode?

After all, if the show is really sold according to the expectation of 500 million viewers, then the film will not be able to sell at a high price. If there is a big hit at that time, all the profits will be made by the TV station, so what should I do?
So the VAM agreement came into being, and finally "Prison Break" was handed over to the FOX public television station who dared to play like this. The second tier is 800 million people, and the price of a single episode will be 50 million. The third tier is 80 million, and the price of a single episode is 1000 million. . .The highest grade is 100 million, and the price of a single episode is 1200 million.

The cost of a single episode of "Prison Break" is actually less than 16 US dollars, so as long as the number of viewers reaches the minimum requirement of 50 million, it will not be a loss.

But now it seems that the gambling agreement is done right, because the response from the Internet is quite good, and the traffic of "Son of the Wind" is still underestimated by himself.

This made Jiang Yan feel that the show could really exceed 1500 million viewers. In this case, one episode can earn more than 100 million US dollars. With the follow-up DVD and advertising revenue, this first season can be received in the old American land alone. Come back 4000 million US dollars, blood earned.

FOX's thinking is similar, although they signed a betting agreement with Jiang Yan, and it seems that the higher the ratings, the more they will suffer, but they are not stupid, they can sign a betting agreement with the advertiser.

So "Prison Break" has become a situation where the higher the ratings, the more the producer and the distributor can earn. This is a win-win situation.

So whether it can really come true next time, the answer will soon be revealed.

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A few hours later, countless viewers in North America stood in front of FOX TV station.

The disadvantage of being a public TV channel is that there are many advertisement thieves.

Fortunately, the pre-publicity of "Prison Break" is very powerful.

Although there are not many reports on "Prison Break" by traditional media, almost the entire Internet is full of "Prison Break".

YouTube is the only video website in the entire network, which is much stronger than the Internet propaganda campaign of "The Blair Witch".

After all, the average daily viewership of YouTube has exceeded [-] million during this period, and it is full of various funny and interesting videos that Joey did not know where to shoot. The upgraded YouTube has more videos from institutions and individual users. All of a sudden, it has been enriched so much that even if there are other video sites, they can't compete if they want to.

So "Prison Break" has become "tepid" in the traditional media, but it is "highly anticipated" among netizens and fans. Under such a premise, when the first episode of "Prison Break" finally starts, then When the tense and suspenseful theme song announced by "Zonda" that it will be engraved into the public's DNA sounded, the executives of NBC TV station were shocked by the report of the technicians.

"How many?"

"The number of real-time viewers is at least 1000 million! And it's still rising!"

"Selling Gage! It's too much beyond expectations, notify the advertisers and get them ready for Dao Le!"

The person in charge of FOX excitedly gave the order directly, and then turned around and began to pray: "I hope it will go smoothly!"

After all, the better his grades, the more likely he will be promoted and raise his salary!
So "Son of the Wind", "Son of the Wind", you have to give some strength!

At this time, the old and beautiful audience in front of the TV were already attracted by the plot.

The content of the first episode of the first season of Prison Break probably taught the situation clearly:
The handsome and awesome Michael Scofield is in a hopeless situation - his brother Lincoln Barrows has been convicted of murder and put on death row at Fox River Prison.

Although all the evidence points to Lincoln as the murderer, Schofield still firmly believes that his brother is innocent.

Lincoln's execution day is getting closer and closer. With no other choice, Michael broke into a bank with a gun, was arrested and imprisoned, and then came to Lincoln's side.

As a construction engineer, Michael participated in the renovation project of the prison and knew everything about it. He designed a complete escape plan, and the only purpose of going to prison was to save Lincoln from birth and return his innocence.

In this first episode, there are many foreshadowings buried in the plot, such as the relationship between Schofield’s defense lawyer and Lincoln, the branch line of the prison boss, and various supporting roles that are memorable as soon as they appear.

The progress of the whole story is not sloppy at all, whether it is the topographic map of the male protagonist with tattoos all over his body, or every small detail is designed to the advantage.

Every ten minutes there is a reversal of the plot, so that there is no urine spot in the whole first episode, oh, there is still a urine spot, that is the advertisement in the middle, so as soon as the advertisement came out, countless viewers cursed and quickly resolved their internal urgency, and then hurried Come back and continue to watch in front of the TV.

The plot continued, with conflicts and reversals in each episode, which can be described as shocking step by step. When the hero Schofield finally showed the secret of the tattoo, it turned out that the tattoo was a map of the prison, which made the show give everyone a hard time. Planting a hook made countless people shout after the first episode: Why is there only one episode? !

Then there were countless phone calls that blew up FOX TV station.

As for FOX, it has already laughed.

Because the data shows that for the first episode alone, the peak viewership has exceeded 1500 million, reaching 1520 million!
Last year, this figure was already ranked among the top 25 in the annual ratings!
And according to this trend, "Prison Break" may break through 2000 million, or even 2500 million!
2500 million is basically able to lock in the first place of the year!
However, the relevant person in charge is quite rational. Whether it can be done or not is not a requirement, because even now the result has far exceeded expectations!
So "Son of the Wind" really has a bit of divinity in him, it's amazing!

The person in charge was full of spirits, and then ordered again:
"Let them fulfill the contract, and Dao Le will send it to me! Also, send out the rating announcement! From now on, I only recognize money, not people!!"

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"Jiang Yan's new drama has exploded in ratings in North America."

"Jiang Yan's new work "Prison Break" received 1700 million viewers, ranking among the top 15 in North America of the year! The sword points to the top ten!"

"Li Binbin's new role shines beautifully! International Ice is officially launched!"

"Single episode 180 million US dollars, the gambling agreement of "Prison Break" was exposed, and Jiang Yan became the big winner!"

"It's hotly discussed in the United States, and "Prison Break" has become the most popular TV series in the United States..."

By March 3th, when "The Disciple" premiered in the mainland, "Prison Break" had already aired three episodes in Laomei. The speed of two episodes a week was very slow, but it also made countless viewers have more expectations. , So in the third episode, Schofield's new cellmate never sleeps because of permanent nerve damage, which made him discover Schofield who was secretly digging the tunnel.

Once again, the plot came to an abrupt end in suspense, which made the audience in the United States once again yell at them, and at the same time, the number of viewers broke through 1700 million!
So the American media also had to start paying attention, because it was only three episodes, and it is likely to become a phenomenon-level blockbuster in the future!

All kinds of analysis followed, and soon someone discovered that the reason for the explosion of "Prison Break" was that apart from its novel themes, there were no competitors of the same type in the market, and there were even few opponents with crime themes. Joey's YouTube was also a big hit. help.

As a result, the number of hits on YouTube also directly increased, and the Warner team also uploaded more behind-the-scenes videos to YouTube in the first time, which made the fans of "Prison Break" happy, and at the same time made the popularity of "Prison Break" even hotter. This can be seen from the fact that the highest number of comments on a single video on YouTube is close to one million.

The popularity continued to soar, making the protagonists popular, and at the same time, it also made a lot of domestic reporters stationed abroad proud, and then made various reports one after another.

Even at the mainland premiere of "The Disciple", many fans and reporters asked about "Prison Break".

Jiang Yan, who had known the situation for a long time, smiled slightly after hearing this, feeling very satisfied in his heart.

"Prison Break" became an instant hit, which shows that he has established a firm foothold in the North American TV drama market, so that a good project will not be clouded by other reasons.

So the next thing is easy, that is to copy all the high-scoring American dramas on the rankings one by one, how easy it is!
Looking back, facing the reporters' questions, Jiang Yan naturally would not let go of this opportunity to rub his own heat, so he said directly: "The source of inspiration for "Prison Break", to put it a bit boldly, is actually the previous With the help of the relevant departments, it came out when visiting the prison to draw inspiration for "The Disciple."

Ha ha ha ha. . .

Everyone burst out laughing, it was really bold.

The leaders of the relevant departments at the scene were also laughing. They had never seen the prison break, but just hearing the name, they could probably think of what Jiang Yan was thinking at the time.

Jiang Yan continued to play tricks and said: "So if you have the opportunity to watch "Prison Break" in the future, you will find that "Disciple" and "Prison Break" are actually somewhat related. As for what it is, I will not talk about it."

Is there a connection between "The Disciple" and "Prison Break"?
Definitely not, even if there was, Jiang Yan could think of nothing else except that his screenwriter and Li Binbin both participated.

But he also has bad tastes. Now that his screenwriting ability is recognized, he also wants to see what it feels like for readers and audiences to do "reading comprehension", and then let himself, the author, be confused.

Of course, if you really want to say an official explanation, you can definitely come up with it, and that is "drug prohibition".

So Jiang Yan came here suddenly, the most important thing is to increase the popularity of "Disciple".

After all, anti-drug themes are somewhat unpopular in the industry these days. The reason is naturally the age. Drugs are not recognized as untouchable in the current industry.

Jiang Yan doesn't like this, so now he wants to use this method to stir up the heat. The more popular Lao Mei's "Prison Break", the hotter the topic of the "connection" left by "Disciple" and Jiang Yan in the mainland will be. From time to time, Jiang Yan will give an official explanation, and then let some people see how firm Jiang Yan and Xingchen Dahai are in this regard!

Soon, "The Disciple" began its mainland premiere amidst applause. . .

(End of this chapter)