my return 2002

Chapter 348 The Iron Triangle of Tomb Raiders

Three days later, Hou Hongliang came to the Inspur Industrial Park located in Minhang, the magical city. After waiting in the reception room for an hour, he was taken by his assistant to the president's office on the top floor.

"Producer Hou, I've been waiting for a long time, sit down." Shen Lang greeted casually after signing the last document.

Hou Hongliang was sitting upright, looking at Shen Lang cautiously.

Shen Lang saw that he looked very nervous, so he poured him a cup of tea: "We have already talked about the situation on the phone, how does Producer Hou think?"

Hou Hongliang couldn't help recalling the scene three days ago in his mind. Until now, he was still dreaming. He originally thought that Shen Lang was looking for him for some project of Dew Mountain Films, and he wanted to find him as a producer.

In the end, Shen Lang told him that he wanted him to be the CEO of Mountain Dew Films.

Although Mountain Dew Films is still in its infancy at this time, and it doesn't even have a single work, but this company is backed by the big tree of Shen Lang, and the resources it has in its hands make even Huayi envious, and he is so relaxed One step up to the sky?

"Mr. Shen, can you tell me why you asked me to be the CEO of Mountain Dew?" Hou Hongliang licked his dry lips and asked cautiously.

Shen Lang said sternly: "I believe you have some understanding of Mountain Dew. The main service target of this film and television production company is actually 360 film and television. In the future, dramas and variety shows will also be developed around online platforms. There are still differences between companies, although the Internet is developing rapidly now, but there is still a big gap with TV platforms.”

"I need a CEO who is familiar with the business and at the same time bold and innovative to take the helm for Mountain Dew. In my opinion, the conditions of Producer Hou fully meet my needs."

Hou Hongliang has worked as a screenwriter himself, as well as a director of TV dramas, and also worked as a producer of "Crossing the Guandong". Just a platform to play.

Judging from the follow-up development of Sunshine at Noon, Hou Hongliang is a man at the helm who really wants to make a good film. Compared with other film and television companies who fool the audience and treat the audience as fools, Sunshine at Noon’s drama is not to mention how exciting it is , but basically above the passing line.

In fact, this is not easy. When the whole market is a scene of bad money driving out good money, there are only a handful of people who can stick to the bottom line.

Hou Hongliang didn't hesitate this time, and as soon as he grabbed Shen Lang's hand, he wanted to seize this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

Shen Lang smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Let's go, I'll take you to identify the door."

In the meeting room, Shen Lang solemnly announced his acceptance of Hou Hongliang's fate. No one dared to make trouble for the CEO who the big boss personally accepted his fate. Hou Hongliang quickly began to understand the project status of Dew Mountain.

Shen Lang directly gave up the stage to Hou Hongliang, and listened by himself, giving Hou Hongliang momentum.

After listening to the projects submitted by various producers, Hou Hongliang reacted similarly to Shen Lang, directly killing all singing variety shows.

"The variety show we want to do is to bear the responsibility of attracting members and users for 360 videos. For this kind of show, every TV station is doing it. They have much more resources than us. Why do users want to watch us specifically? In the future, don’t waste everyone’s time in meetings like this completely uninspired project.” Hou Hongliang was not at all stage frightened, and he criticized it bitterly.

The producers present were all looking at Shen Lang's expression. Seeing that he hadn't made a sound, none of them dared to pierce him. Obviously, Shen Lang came today to show Hou Hongliang's prestige. If anyone jumps out at this time, that is I'm looking for death.

After Hou Hongliang criticized, he did not continue to embarrass the producers present, but came up with a solution: "Since we are serving 360 video users, the programs we make must fully consider what young people on the Internet like to watch. , is it possible to present some hot topics on the Internet in the form of entertainment + debate using variety shows as a carrier?"

After hearing Hou Hongliang's words, Shen Lang knew that he had found the right person.

"Well, after the meeting, within a week, whoever comes up with the best plan will be the producer of this new program."

As Hou Hongliang spoke, he began to understand the project status of the film and television drama department. He said after learning that there is currently only one online drama project of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

"Adapting a mature novel is indeed a good way, not to mention that we have an IP resource library like Xingchen Chinese.com, which can be fully utilized. Screenwriters can put more effort into it when creating."

In recent years, Xingchen Chinese website has developed very rapidly relying on the resources of Inspur Group. In addition to its own business growth, it has also acquired websites such as Xiaoxiang Academy, Novels Reading Network, Jinjiang Literature City, etc. In addition, Shanda has basically given up on odd In other words, it is too much to say that the entire web literature arena is unified, but it is definitely the only one with the copyright of a large number of excellent works.

With the presence of Hou Hongliang, Mountain Dew Films began to enter the fast lane of development. After the approval of the "Ghost Blowing Lantern" project, the script was submitted for review six times, and the shooting permission was finally obtained. As the first work of Mountain Dew Films, Hou Hongliang was also responsible for the production The filmmaker, Zhou Shengjun also made a wave of publicity for the establishment of "Ghost Blowing the Lantern".

After many years, although it is a little late to say that the film and game linkage is a bit late, the popularity of the [Ghost Blowing Lantern] game has not declined. Coupled with the popularity of the novel itself, it quickly attracted the attention of a large number of novel fans and game fans.

"Holy shit, after waiting for so many years [Ghost Blowing Lantern] is finally going to be adapted into a TV series, looking forward to it."

"I hope it can be changed better. To be honest, I feel a little uneasy. In order to pass the review, this kind of subject matter will not be changed beyond recognition, right?"

"By the way, have the actors been decided? Who will play Hu Bayi? Who will play Shirley Yang? And Fatty Wang, don't be too confused. The Iron Triangle of Tomb Raiders is incomplete without one of them."

The main reason why film and television companies like to promote IP is the advantages in publicity. In many cases, film and television companies don’t even need to spend too much publicity expenses to get good publicity effects. Compared with it, the money for adaptation is really not What kind of.

Of course, the adaptation of online novels at this time is still in its infancy. The movie "Zhu Xian" promoted by Shen Lang before can only be regarded as a guaranteed breakeven at the box office. The real money is made by the online game "Zhu Xian".

Many film and television companies feel that Mountain Dew is putting the cart before the horse by doing this. The game has been on the line for so many years, and what kind of TV series are still being made, and they cannot be launched on the TV platform, and they will definitely lose money.

Hou Hongliang is actually under a lot of pressure. For him, [Ghost Blowing the Lantern] is his first project, and Shen Lang also specially approved a shooting budget of 2000 million. Although 2000 million does not sound like a lot, you must know , this is a web drama, and there are only 21 episodes in the entire first season.

On average, the production cost of an episode is as high as 100 million. For a newly established film and television company, this is undoubtedly extravagant, and many colleagues are drooling with envy.

Since the funds are sufficient, Hou Hongliang did not save costs on actors. The role of Hu Bayi was decided to be Liu Ye. Speaking of which, the candidate for this role was proposed by the original author Tianxia Bachang when he participated in the adaptation of the script. According to himself It is said that the role of Hu Bayi was portrayed according to the image of Zhong Yuemin when he watched "Blood Romance".

Fatty Wang found Jiang Chao, the actor who played Li Dazui in Wulin Biography. In fact, Sammo Hung was definitely the most suitable to play Fatty Wang when he was young. Unfortunately, Sammo Hung is a little older, and it is also unlikely. Take this kind of web drama.

Only the role of Shirley Yang has not been settled. The role of Shirley Yang is an overseas Chinese who grew up in the United States. In addition, she is a descendant of Jingjue Country. It is most suitable to have some exotic flavor. , For a while, Hou Hongliang went through the information of domestic actresses, but couldn't find a suitable one.

In fact, Michelle Yeoh is very suitable, but like Sammo Hung, she has passed the age of the best acting.

What's more interesting is that Cai Yinong heard the news from nowhere, and recommended Liu Shishi. Although Shen Lang wanted to praise Liu Shishi, the role was really not suitable for her, so he directly rejected it.

Later, it was Wang Zhonglei who introduced a Xiangjiang actor, Lu Jingshan who just debuted last year and participated in the filming of Wu Jing's first film "Spike Fang".

After auditioning, Hou Hongliang finally handed over the role to her.

On March [-]st, the crew of [Ghost Blowing the Lantern] officially released the photos of the actors' makeup, which quickly aroused heated discussions across the Internet. Similar topics on various forums and blogs frequently appeared on the homepage.

This made many colleagues who watched Dew Mountain's jokes stop laughing in an instant. A web drama adapted from an online novel has not yet started filming, but it has such a high popularity?

Is it because Liu Ye and the others are so popular?Obviously not, the most well-known Liu Ye here is a person who doesn't like hype, and there are few reports about him in the media. Jiang Chao became famous with the rumors of martial arts, and at the same time he was trapped in this role, and nothing happened after that. With decent results, not to mention Lu Jingshan, many netizens are confused, who is this person?Never heard of it.

The film and television company has once again seen the power of web adaptation. A TV series has attracted so many people's attention before it starts filming. How much trouble will it save in the future?
Of course, there is another reason why the popularity is so high, and that is the casting of the three roles of Hu Bayi. It is difficult for everyone to agree.

Some fans felt that the selection of these three characters was not good, and who should be chosen, and then began to express resistance.

And another part of the fans felt that there was nothing wrong with the choice of roles, so these three people should be allowed to act, so the two sides quickly changed from a calm discussion to a verbal abuse.

Well, for many people, the Internet is a place to release stress. I don’t want you to think, I want me to think, and start greeting each other when there is a disagreement.

The other party saw it, can I lose to you?key!

So in this atmosphere, the crew of [Ghost Blowing the Lantern] officially enjoyed the treatment of a drama that became popular before the filming started. Among them, Lu Jingshan did not expect that a web drama that was originally just for making money, turned out to be All of a sudden, she opened up her popularity in the mainland, and even Xiangjiang's brokerage company gave her a higher salary.

Shen Lang basically didn't ask much about these matters, and left them all to Hou Hongliang. Professional matters were left to professional people to do, and judging from the current situation, the probability of [Ghost Blowing Lantern] failure is very small, after all, at the beginning 【Tomb Raider Notes】Shooting like that can bring such high profits to iQiyi.

During this period, the group-buying market began to surge. Ali launched Juhuasuan, Renren launched Nuomituan, and later, group-buying websites such as Lashou.com and [-]tuan were established one after another.

Wang Xing's life suddenly became sad, and the regular meetings that used to be once a week also became more frequent, and executives were called for a meeting almost every other day.

Wang Xing's style of play is also very simple and rude, which is to tell his employees what they should do every day and what goals to achieve through meetings. After Chen Zihan joined, the offline sales team also began to work hard, and started to compete with many competitors. Fierce offline rivalries, overlapping posters and the like are the order of the day, and sometimes even fights.

Many people think that the business war is a cunning scheme like the Romance of the Three Kingdoms. In fact, the business war is often the final execution, because no matter how good the online advertisement is, it can only attract users, and face-to-face offline communication can Keep your business from being pried away.

After all, what businesses value is profit, whoever can make him make money, he will go there. Many times, offline salesmen see Gao Peng in the store is full, but the customers who go there are group buying from other platforms. Can't get results.

Under the pressure of fierce competition, the Meituan APP finally passed the test, and Wang Xing immediately came to Inspur Group to find Shen Lang.

Shen Lang looked at Wang Xing, who looked like a treasure, and couldn't help being a little funny, but he still took the phone and clicked on the Meituan app. The interface was a bit cumbersome. After registering an account, the app displayed various offline group-buying services in the city he was in. , Generally speaking, it is still mainly about catering and entertainment. Shen Lang tried to order an order, and then ordered my order, but he frowned.

"You need to connect this area with the AutoNavi map. There is only one address on it. If you are not familiar with the road, users will not be able to find it at all. Why not directly connect the navigation function to the Meituan APP?"

Wang Xing smiled wryly when he heard the words: "But in this way, it will take up a lot of memory. I'm afraid it will affect the download volume of users."

This is indeed a problem. At this time, the memory capacity of low-end smart phones is generally only 2G, and the highest memory capacity in thousand yuan phones is only 4G. High-end phones such as Mi 1 and Meizu M7 only have 8G memory. In addition to the 360 ​​series software that will be pre-installed when the star system is installed, insufficient memory has become a common phenomenon.

"At least there should be a ride guide, telling users how to get to their destination in text."

Wang Xing nodded: "Well, I'll ask someone to add it when I get back. Mr. Shen, the Meituan APP has just launched, and there must not be many users. Can you give me some promotional resources?"

"Okay, you can talk to He Xiaopeng yourself, and let him push it for you in the application center."

Wang Xing left happily. The feeling of having a backer behind him is like cheating in a game. It's so cool!

(End of this chapter)