At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 623 Hurrying for cooperation?
"The Vampire Diaries" is also a best-selling novel, it seems to have been published in 91...

Why hasn't it been edited?

Or because the theme of vampires is not popular anymore!
Before "Twilight", the image of a vampire was very fixed: fangs protruding from the mouth, and there was freshly sucked blood at the corner of the mouth...

All in all, it's terrifying and infiltrating.

The earliest vampire movies were basically horror monster movies—gothic style, strong stage sense, sexual innuendo, pale and thin Count Dracula...

Even the elegant vampire image in "Frightful 400 Years", but the vampire still can't get rid of things with a gloomy temperament...

After entering the new century, the theme of vampires has completely become commercialized. Whether it is the "Blade Warrior" series, "Underworld" or "Vampire Ryan" series, almost all of them are gorgeous action styles.

These works have one thing in common: the cost is relatively low, the box office is not good, and they belong to selling discs...

Also, in terms of subject matter, it is not suitable for global distribution...

However, HBO first filmed "True Blood", which is very pornographic. Well, HBO, Xiao Huangtai, vampires themselves have the meaning of expressing lust - the "blood-sucking" part is usually at the neck. Give a close-up, Or if you shift the angle a little bit, you will become "erotic"...

However, the appearance of "True Blood" is too low, and the heroine has a big face...

The success of "Twilight Saga" has enabled Hollywood to find a new treasure land that combines fantasy, alien, vampire themes and youth idol dramas.

Although it is still the set of biting necks, male vampires falling in love with women, and shadows between sunlight and night, compared with the traditional ones, the concept is actually completely different.

"The Vampire Diaries" is the way!
Find a few handsome men and beautiful women to match, you love me, I love you, messy emotional lines, coupled with the good foundation of the original "Vampire Diaries", it will not be too bad...

Oh, the original time and space, the fourth season started, the screenwriter felt that he was awesome, so he put aside the original work and wrote it himself...

And then it's over...

It has nothing to do with Shen Xudong, he has never even watched "The Vampire Diaries", he just heard about it...

That day I was talking about American dramas with Joseph Drake. The ratings and reputation of the first season of "Urban Robbery" produced by Joseph Drake were not bad, and AMC has booked the second two seasons.

The profit model of American dramas is roughly divided into several parts, among which TV stations earn advertising fees and broadcast joint sales-this is very complicated, and it probably refers to the direct sales of TV and radio programs by various TV stations and radio stations without the TV broadcasting network. In addition, the income from online video-on-demand, overseas copyright income, DVD sales and derivative licenses belong to the production company!
Therefore, general public TV stations rarely purchase episodes produced by other production companies, they have their own production teams...

But the compensation they give is definitely not as good as the cable station!
In the beginning, there were not so many TV networks, and the bargaining power of production companies was weak. Later, cable TV stations rose, and a bunch of streaming media also rose.

Take "This Is Us" as an example. It aired on NBC TV station, and the ratings are very high, but NBC may not make as much money from this TV series as other programs. .

The cost is quite expensive, and you can only earn the advertising part...

Therefore, as the future progresses, it is even more impossible for public TV dramas to be luxuriously produced...

After all, Shen Xudong just made a suggestion, and Joseph Drake immediately brought in Josh Sapan, the CEO of AMC Television. The latter was very excited and said that as long as Shen Xudong is willing to produce, he can purchase any theme!

Even if Shen Xudong clearly stated: "The target audience of "The Vampire Diaries" and "Twilight" are relatively similar, belonging to a typical female group...about 20 years old...maybe different from AMC's positioning..."

Josh Sapan was happy: "It's okay, just expand the audience!"

$1800 million in direct grants to procure the first season of…

Didn't even do a pilot episode!

——They firmly believe that Shen Xudong can succeed!

In Hollywood, there's no such thing as good luck twice in a row.

Shen Xudong has succeeded more than twice. Although he is in the film industry, he has not missed the subject that he is optimistic about. Besides, AMC TV station is just a small TV station, and the resources and exposure it can provide are not as good as those big TV stations.

Therefore, if you bind it in advance, there are only advantages and no disadvantages.

……

When it comes to casting for American dramas, many people say that there is a streamlined audition, that you need a casting director and the like. In fact, it’s not that complicated. You just package it up to the agency and tell your requirements, and they will provide a full range of actors...

Oh, and the agency is the casting director...

The plot of "The Vampire Diaries" can be summarized as a love story between an exotic vampire and a troubled teenage girl!

"Gossip Girl" with a touch of fantasy: beautiful troubled girls, status struggles between boys and girls, friendship and rebellion between boys and girls, parties, dating and sex...

The only requirement for a show like "The Vampire Diaries" is: handsome men and beautiful women.

Acting or something, just pass the line!

Shen Xudong didn't even participate in the casting - a bunch of actors, none of whom he was familiar with...

He is too lazy to exchange art with these unknown actors, and he has no time!

Very busy!
busy socializing...

It's really social and actively integrates into the Hollywood circle!
There is no need to stare at the filming of "Seeing the Devil"-the production cost of 4800 million US dollars has set a new production high after he entered Hollywood!

An R-rated suspense crime film, with such a high cost, even if Shen Xudong has a premonition that it has a high probability of success, he is still a little worried...

I knew that Bell would not be used, his salary is too expensive: 1300 million US dollars!
Plus Jack Nicholson's 800 million paycheck...

The remuneration of the two accounted for half of the production budget!

Shen Xudong is fine, at least he knows that the film has a high probability of success, and producer Jason Blum is much more worried.

He used to make small movies with a cost of less than 1000 million, focusing on 300 million to 500 million US dollars. Suddenly, he was responsible for such a large investment, and he was very nervous...

Even though director Drew Goddard was personally selected by Jason Blum, he still stays on the set every day...

Oh, and Drew Goddard was chosen mainly because he brought a work, "The Cloverfield Files" - a mockumentary-style monster attacking the earth movie...

Costing up to $2500 million, filming has already begun and is set to be released in March next year.

In addition, there are "Happy Death Day 2", "Human Purge 3", "Ghost Story 2", "Escape Room"...

Generally speaking, not much pressure!
The main business is still not mainstream, but Wonderful Studio is too eye-catching.

The five films produced and released this year, whether it is the original "The Fault in Our Stars", "Juno", "A Ghost Story", "Happy Death Day" or the sequel "The Purge 2", have benefited tremendously!
According to the "Hollywood Reporter": The five films set a net profit of no less than US$4 million for Wonderful Studio.

Most importantly, it brought $8000 million in revenue to the distribution company Lions...

A bunch of mainstream studios... Well, in fact, the six major Hollywood studios are interested in Wonderful Studio, and have proposed acquisitions or cooperation...

(End of this chapter)