The god of the world

Chapter 158
Just for the New Year's Eve and the Spring Festival, the two time-limited currency swaps brought Lin Shen 12 billion in revenue.

Even a rich man worth tens of billions may not necessarily have such abundant cash flow as Lin Shen.

Most of the so-called rich are nothing but false worth propped up by stock prices.

Today's tens of billions, tomorrow's billionaires are not, and there are many people.

At any time, whether there is sufficient cash or not is the benchmark for measuring a super rich.

Zhong Xia has been very busy recently, dealing with many venture capitalists who are interested in Forest Films, and politely rejecting their investment.

With Lin Shen as his backer, Zhong Xia has plenty of funds in his hands.

Today's Forest Pictures, in addition to the great master Jiang Ye, has signed three directors in one go, each of whom is quite outstanding.

In terms of actors, the acting skills of the two newly signed male artists have also been praised by Jiang Ye.

If there are suitable film and television projects in the future, Jiang Ye will definitely choose them first.

Lin Shen had used up the five outstanding employee quotas that the system had rewarded before, but Lin Shen had used them up in one go, enriching the talent pool of Forest Pictures.

Three outstanding directors, two men and one woman, are all around 35 years old. All of them have the strength of first-line directors in the circle, and they are good at shooting subjects with different focuses.

Lu Zheng is good at police and bandit military-themed film and television dramas.

Zhu Rui is good at fairy tales and puppet-themed film and television dramas.

Xue Lu is good at love and youth-themed film and television dramas.

Suddenly there were three more powerful directors, and Zhong Xia became more confident.

If Jiang Ye is added, Forest Pictures can start four projects in the same period.

The two male actors are also tall and handsome, and their looks are enough to kill the traffic of internal entertainment.

More importantly, both Lu Yao and Ren Hao have good acting skills.

Among the young artists in the circle, it is definitely at the ceiling level.

What they lack is nothing more than an explosive drama.

It just so happened that what Lin Shen needed the most was hit scripts.

Lu Yao's handsome is gentle and refined, the kind of campus male god.

Ren Hao's handsome is the unruly, ruffian kind.

The two styles have their own audiences, and I don't worry that the play of the two will be affected.

With newcomers, there is no need to praise outsiders in the future.

Although he is handsome, his acting skills are also praised by Jiang Ye.

But at the end of the day, they are still newcomers.

Going from 0 to 1 is the most difficult.

Fortunately, there are not many other things in Forest Pictures, but there are many blockbuster movies and TV series.

After a few dramas, it will be difficult for the two of them not to grow into first-line niche students.

Lu Yao was very easy to arrange, just arrange the scenes according to his temperament and it was over.

Zhong Xia dug out the script of "Little Beauty" from the few scripts Lin Shen gave him, and planned to let Lu Yao play the male lead, just find a female artist to match.

After reading the scripts that Lin Shen gave her, Zhong Xia was a little skeptical about life.

Most film and television companies receive scripts every year, and it is difficult to find even one blockbuster drama.

But Lin Shen and the others all have the potential to explode.

The original hero of "Little Beauty", during the broadcast of this drama, Weibo fans increased from 71 to 660 million.

Lu Yao's acting skills are naturally more than a hundred times better than the original hero's, and he will only attract more fans.

As for Ren Hao, Zhong Xia came up with the script of "Dear".

This drama has more explosive potential than "Little Beauty".

The original male protagonist also had a surge of 400 million fans from 1300 million fans when it was broadcast, and was promoted to the top niche in one fell swoop.

These two dramas can be regarded as low-cost online dramas.

The cost for Lin Shen to purchase these two dramas from the system was only 3000 million.

In terms of production costs, the former mainly focuses on campus and hospital shooting, plus post-production publicity, 2000 million is enough.

The cost of the latter was 5000 million. To be on the safe side, Lin Shen asked Zhong Xia to find a way to find the original heroine Yang Zi.

Speaking of it, Yang Zi was miserable enough.

Those hit movies and TV dramas filmed in the past few years are almost blocked because of the co-actors.

Now they are catching up with the salary cap order, and the salary has also dropped a lot.

Fortunately, in the puppet show market, she is also considered a gold-lettered signboard, and is still recognized by a lot of capital.

As for Ren Hao's lack of fame, this is not a problem.

As long as the money is in place, are you afraid that you won't be able to invite people?
After the introduction of the salary limit order, the salary of male and female protagonists should not exceed 10% of the total production cost, which caused the salary of many actors to plummet by more than double.

Even a 10% salary is an astronomical figure for ordinary people.

However, many celebrities will use the method of bringing money into the market to increase their income.

The conversation between Zhong Xia and Yang Zi's studio went smoothly, and the script was handed over to Yang Zi.

The cost of the play itself is not too big.

The main scenes are just a few places.

The investment of 5000 million, including publicity, is more than enough.

But if according to the salary limit order, Yang Zi can only be given a salary of 500 million yuan at most, then it must not be justified.

It is impossible for people to accept this drama.

No matter how good the script is, few actors are willing to lower their pay for a good script.

500 million remuneration + 15% dividends from film and television copyright income, this is the condition offered by Forest Films.

And Yang Zi himself read the script and liked the character design of the heroine Tong Nian quite a lot. The salary is a bit low, but fortunately there is a dividend from the copyright.

Zhong Xia promised to guarantee that Yang Zi's income would not be less than 2000 million.

If it is not enough, Forest Pictures will make up for it.

Having said all this, Yang Zi readily agreed to come down, and when the schedule is coordinated, he will report to the crew.

Among the three directors, Xue Lu is in charge of filming "Little Beauty", while Zhu Rui is in charge of filming "Dear".

According to the salary limit order, the director, screenwriter, and leading actor should each share no more than 10% of the total cost.

As for the director's remuneration, Zhong Xia directly pays 10%.

The screenwriter's salary was saved and used for filming.

As for the two newcomers, with the resources provided by their own company, the remuneration will be fine.

It's only 20, which is not as good as the salary of a first-line niche.

But when it became popular after the broadcast, the two people's salary is tens of millions, which is the basic operation.

Top stream, it's not just salary that makes money.

Various business titles, that is the highlight.

……

The completion of two online dramas with high-quality plots makes Lemon Films a new force that cannot be underestimated in the industry.

Just chasing the murderer in the white night has attracted more than 1000 million new members for Lemon Film and Television.

The suspense drama itself has super stickiness, and it is easy to attract users to continue to follow the drama.

Super high-quality, full acting online, movie-level editing, constantly on the hot search...

The pursuit of the murderer in the white night is very popular, and it is also expected by everyone.

But some netizens couldn't help complaining that although members of Lemon Movies and TV are very cheap, they can't hold the entire app's movie and TV library, just these two dramas.

Those who are impatient have already swiped the second time, or even the third time.

No matter how good the show is, it will get tired of watching it repeatedly.

And for a web drama, it takes at least two and a half months from start to finish.

The general shooting time is more than three months, plus the post-editing soundtrack promotion, the whole process takes four months.

How to spend these four months is the number one problem facing Song Kun.

Since it is difficult to provide new excellent dramas in the short term in terms of film and television dramas, we should start with variety shows.

Lin Shen treated the two companies equally.

Lemon Film and Television also has [-] million funds in its account.

With this money, Song Kun also began to recruit troops, and the size of the company jumped to thousands of people like blowing up a balloon.

Among them, Song Kun did not monopolize the recruitment of technical talents, but invited Yao Xin to check it out.

Those who can go up, those who are mediocre go down, there is nothing to say.

They are in business, not charity.

During this period, Song Kun acquired a love drama production company and absorbed the other party's team talents.

Let them start producing two romance dramas at the same time, and they must be very careful in selecting candidates.

As we all know, it is not uncommon for guests in love dramas to collapse their houses.

But it is undeniable that the theme of love drama is easy to make a big difference with a small one.

In terms of production cost, it is not as exaggerated as mainstream music.

Of course, in order to ensure the flow of the program, some celebrities are usually invited to act as observers.

Otherwise, it is difficult to cause too much splash by just pointing at some 'amateurs'.

In fact, these love dramas are all scripted.

Who do the amateurs want to pair up with, how many episodes they start to feel in love, and even the love triangle that appears later is also arranged in advance by the program team, not free love.

The two program planning proposals that Lin Shen handed over to Song Kun are "Half-acquainted Lovers" and "Heartbeat Signal" with good reputations in Lian Zong.

The former went naked to attract business in the first season, but he gained the love of thousands of netizens, and his 30+ love view was frequently on the hot searches.

The latter is not as exaggerated as the former, but it can continue to be produced until the fifth season, which shows the fan base accumulated by the show.

Song Kun did not intend to invite those celebrities to act as observers due to budgetary considerations.

Inviting celebrities is nothing more than ensuring that the program will not die young so that it can attract some advertisers.

But again, coordinating star schedules is a hassle.

Instead of going through so many twists and turns, it is better to directly ban the part of the observation room, and directly surround these amateurs to create a 'real' love.

Many viewers are too lazy to watch the celebrity guests in the observation room, and usually skip it directly.

The popularity of the platform itself is not enough, and there are no stars in the lineup, so the investment promotion can be ignored.

Fortunately, the salaries of the amateurs are very cheap, and a few hundred thousand is enough for them to sign and cooperate obediently.

The variety show production company that Song Kun acquired had previously produced two romantic dramas with a little splash.

In the past, the three major platforms would relax investment restrictions if they believed that a certain program had the potential to be a blockbuster, and would not require the program to achieve 30%-70% of the investment results.

But now, it is not acceptable for a program to attract investment less than 1. If the investment cannot cover the cost, the program will not be released at all.

Upstream platforms have reduced their production budgets, and downstream production companies are naturally having a harder time, and they are all tightening their belts.

Song Kun made a move at this time and bought an extraordinary variety show production company at a relatively low price.

It just so happens that this company itself has an amateur database, which is the information of some amateur guests who meet the requirements of the program collected in the past for the convenience of filming.

Aside from the hassle of coordinating schedules for celebrities, the most difficult part of an amateur romance show is screening qualified amateur guests.

Some of the guests are real amateurs, but some of them are Internet celebrities, and they were chosen to increase the popularity of the topic.

The common problem of this kind of romance show is that the resumes of the guests are all glamorous, and they are always such-and-such sea turtles, CEOs of a certain company, and the audience can't help but complain.

You are so awesome, why are you participating in a romance show?

This thing can be set up by people, but it should be closer to reality.

Often the more ruthless people set up, the more miserable it will be when the house collapses.

Looking at those CPs who are in love with Zong Zong, there are many people who tear each other after the broadcast.

But there is one point, Song Kun specifically emphasized that those who know how to be three can't be on the show, those who have corrupt personal morals can't be on the show, and those who have girlfriends are not considered.

If the house collapsed during the broadcast, that would be the most terrible thing, and the post-editing was exhausting.

Compared with heartbeat signals, half-acquainted lovers are easier to operate.

Those who are above the age of 30 are already relatively mature types. Naturally, they won't be like young people who collapse their houses at every turn and have a lot of blood and shit.

Furthermore, even if the house collapses, it has nothing to do with the show.

As long as it is broadcast, the popularity and ratings will not be affected.

As for the end of the broadcast, who cares?

……

Speaking of signing the company, Zhao Xiaoke didn't see Lin Shen in a daze.

Summoned by Zhong Xia, Zhao Xiaoke hurried over to listen to the instructions of the company's strong woman.

"Mr. Zhong."

Zhao Xiaoke was in a good mood during this period, and after the broadcast of Yuci Xiaowu's work, she gained some followers on Weibo.

But in the final analysis, she is just a female number two.

On the contrary, Huang Mengying, relying on her acting skills and the marketing behind Jiaxing, made her a small hit.

The one who really sits firmly on Diaoyutai is Lemon Film and Television, which has harvested a lot of users by relying on free broadcasts.

Even if many people uninstalled after watching it, it will play a big role in attracting new members for the following white night chasing the murderer.

"sit."

Zhong Xia smiled, and took out a script from the drawer, "Director Jiang will have a new play in the next year, this is a role for you, very challenging."

"what?"

Zhao Xiaoke was pleasantly surprised and hurriedly took the script, and saw the words 'Secret Corner' clearly printed on the first page.

The role she got was called Wang Yao.

In the play, Wang Yao's loss of her beloved daughter requires her to show her heartbreak for separation, suspicion and suspicion of potential "enemies", and unscrupulous methods to find the real culprit.

This role requires extremely high acting skills.

Just reading the script, Zhao Xiaoke felt a little stressed.

As an actor, he was naturally delighted to meet such an outstanding character.

The finished film of the whole drama is only 12 episodes, but the production cost is as high as 6000 million.

The production budget of 500 million yuan for a single episode is definitely not low for a suspenseful drama.

Who is Jiang Ye?

His debut was the pinnacle, and his debut work was "White Night Chase" with a score of 9.5.

Now the second work has attracted the attention of many people.

Even if it is an online drama, if it has such a good reputation, it will still be scrambled by actors.

"By the way, after the filming of this drama is finished, your heroine drama will start. Friendly reminder, it is a costume theme."

When Zhong Xia got up from his seat, Zhao Xiaoke suddenly gave her a huge surprise.

"So, in this drama, learn from those old actors, and when you take the lead, I don't want our company to have to use outsiders because of your lack of acting skills."

When he left Zhong Xia's office, Zhao Xiaoke was pleasantly surprised, with a bit of disbelief.

The heroine is still a costume drama, she is about to take off!

(End of this chapter)