The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 123

On October 2001, 10, the weather in Yanjing was much colder. Li Shengyao was driving alone on the broad street.

Guo Xiaodong, Zhang Zhijian, and Yan Bingyan have already left for Shanghai ahead of schedule.

Zu Feng has already returned from Hong Kong Island, and then joined the filming of "Stairway to Heaven". The heroine of this drama is Li Xiaolan.

This elder sister is a princess in the Beijing circle, so she should not worry about resources, but she didn't expect to be involved in idol dramas.

It seems that Li Shengyao has attracted the attention of the Beijing circle.

As for Zhao Yang and Yan Danchen, they are still shooting commercials and commercial performances, sometimes in Hong Kong Island, sometimes in Po Village, and sometimes in Island Country.

Just like Bae Yong Joon in Lee Seung Yew's previous life, "Winter Sonata" was a big hit, and commercial performances all over the world endorsed it.

The two of them made a lot of money for Li Shengyao, and when they finished this wave, Li Shengyao would propose to revise the share agreement with them, and then give them the same treatment as first-line stars, [-]% of the money, the company two, and them eight.

Of course, this wave may be a bit long, maybe two years, maybe three years.

Not long after, Li Shengyao came to Fenghua Film and Television Company. He was about to read the expanded script by his screenwriter. At this time, the assistant came in and said that there was a special guest asking for a visit.

Not long after, Li Shengyao saw this guest, he was indeed very special, with a face full of beards, but with big eyes, he looked very handsome.

"Hello, Director Li, I'm your loyal movie fan. I like watching "Funny Family", "Love Hotel", "Winter Sonata", especially Yan Danchen. Is she there? Can you sign for me?"

This person is called Rahman, and he is an international student from an oil-rich country who came to China. He has studied at Yanjing University of Foreign Studies for three years. He speaks Mandarin fluently and can watch TV dramas without subtitles.

He especially likes watching "Love Hotel" and "Winter Sonata".

Oil-rich countries naturally have their own TV dramas, but ordinary people don't like to watch them. Locals like to watch old dramas. At this time, the most popular ones in their area are Pharaoh dramas.

The pharaoh drama is actually long and smelly, similar to Wanwan's local drama.

But there is no way. At this time, local dramas and Korean dramas have not yet risen, and the common people in that area can only watch TV dramas of this level.

But in a few years, this area will be occupied by Korean dramas and local chicken dramas, and Pharaoh dramas will completely withdraw.

When Li Shengyao traveled through time, Chinese dramas also had many fans there.

"Mr. He's Love Never Forgets" Youtube's Arabic channel has an average of 200 million views per episode.

This is an achievement that many Korean dramas did not have before.

Many mainland netizens don’t like the earthy and thunderous dramas, such as "Long Riyi, You Are Dead", the Arabic channel has an average of 10,000+ broadcasts, and many fans praise it.

It can be said that the world likes to watch dog blood the most, and that is the place to watch Lei dramas.

Knowing Rahman's identity, Li Shengyao immediately served tea and fruit plate.

Rahman talked about Yan Danchen again, saying that this is the most beautiful girl he has ever seen, and he wanted to take a photo with Yan Danchen.

"She's not in Yanjing, she's gone to Po Village. If she comes back, I can tell you."

Rahman hurriedly thanked Li Shengyao, and then stated his purpose this time. It turned out that he has a little bit of royal blood. His old man worked in an international TV station in an oil-rich country, and he was still a small leader.

That TV station generally buys TV series, most of them buy Pharaoh TV series, and sometimes they buy American TV series and French TV series.

Rahman liked "Winter Sonata" and "Love Hotel" very much. He felt that these two dramas would be popular, so he contacted his old man and told him about it. His old man asked Rahman to come over and ask. If the price is right, buy it.

At the end, Rahman couldn't help turning the topic to Yan Danchen again.

"Director Li, when will Yan Danchen come back?"

"In three or four days, I'm not sure."

"Wow, she really is my goddess, so popular."

Li Shengyao smiled, but did not answer.

Rahman muttered to himself for a long time before he came back to his senses, "Director Li, if we want to buy "Love Hotel" and "Winter Sonata", how much is an episode?"

Li Shengyao raised a finger.

Rahman clapped his hands and smiled, "Ten thousand dollars? No problem."

Come on, I mean $[-].

Li Shengyao frowned slightly.

"Director Li, what's the matter?"

"It's okay, I'm just a little emotional, I didn't expect you to like Chinese dramas."

Rahman laughed, "I don't like other Chinese dramas, but your company's is good-looking."

He paused and continued: "Director Li, wait for two days, my father will come over and sign a contract with you."

"no problem."

Two days later, Lee Shing Yew met with Rahman's father and had a cordial and friendly talk, after which the two parties signed a purchase contract.

The two dramas "Love Hotel" and "Winter Sonata" were sold to the big oil country for US$[-] an episode.

After Lee Sing Yew sold the drama, he was in a good mood, and invited Rahman's father and his party to have a big meal at Liangma River Hotel.

Two hours later, Li Shengyao returned to the company, and immediately arranged for his assistant to keep an eye on the broadcasting of "Winter Sonata" on TV station of the big oil country, and tell him any news.

If it is sold to Xinmatai, it is sold to island countries and peninsulas, all of which are areas with similar cultures.

It will be different if it is sold to a big oil country. It is definitely a milestone in the progress of Chinese dramas.

Li Shengyao didn't know how "Winter Sonata" was sold in the Zhongdong area in his previous life. It was probably very cheap, [-] dollars an episode, but now he is [-] dollars an episode.

Stand up and make your money.

At this time, the employees in the company were also very excited, and everyone kept their voices down and talked in low voices.

The assistant was even more elated, almost floating when walking.

Li Shengyao took out the thermos, took a sip of water, and then forced himself to calm down.

The strategy of going out is correct.

He wants to find someone at Yenching Foreign Studies University to help him translate the TV series into Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, and English. These languages ​​must be available.

The target is Southeast Asia, Zhongdong, Zhongya, and Nanmei area.

Don't expect it in other places. Korean dramas were later sold to Netflix, and relying on Netflix to start to improve in Europe and the United States.

However, Netflix is ​​the video platform of the beautiful country, and it will definitely not help promote Chinese dramas.

The first step is to promote it, and an episode of $[-] is fine, so that they can form a viewing habit, and then increase the price according to local conditions.

Li Shengyao then took out a piece of paper, wrote down what he was going to do, read it carefully three times, and made sure there was no problem before calling his assistant in.

"Our company needs to recruit a subtitle team, and we need to find someone at the University of Foreign Studies as soon as possible. It doesn't have to be a full-time job, but a part-time job is also possible. You should focus on following up on this matter. In the future, the company's dramas will have subtitles in these four languages."

The assistant took the paper and asked some questions before leaving.

At this time, the weather outside is colder, and the cold wind is blowing.

But Li Shengyao was in a great mood, he could feel his heart beating.

He was not so happy to sell "Winter Sonata" and "Love Hotel" before, but now he can be sure that his path is not wrong.

(End of this chapter)