The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 229 Everything is ready

""Da Shang Palace" sold for a sky-high price, 3000 million for a play, unprecedented."

"It's more profitable than making a movie. The first round of "Da Shang Palace" will recover the cost, and the follow-up will be profit."

"With 3000 million dramas, Chinese dramas have entered a new era."

"It's crazy, 3000 million, four-star broadcast, aren't they afraid of losing money?"

"The quality of "Da Shang Palace" is excellent. If the ratings exceed two points, the TV station will not lose money."

"The production fee of 2000 million yuan, I suspect that "Da Shang Palace" has been laundered. How can it be so expensive for a non-war costume drama?"

"Fenghua dramas are too expensive, and a single TV station can no longer afford them."

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Dashang Palace sold at such a high price, which naturally attracted a lot of discussion. Some people analyzed whether the four TV stations would lose money, some accused Fenghua of destroying the market, and some suspected that the production cost of this drama did not need to be 2000 million, and it was money laundering.

At the same time, Li Shengyao waited for the material he needed, "We will hold a press conference tomorrow and sue the eight media at the same time."

According to the statistics of his subordinates, in the past five days, a total of eight media directly questioned "Da Shang Palace" for money laundering, otherwise they would not have asked for a production fee of 2000 million.

A few days ago, Li Shengyao was thinking about how to hype, and he quickly thought of a way.

So he asked people to count those small media who spread rumors, or suspected of spreading rumors, and he planned to use the imprecise wording of these small media to create hype.

At ten o'clock in the morning of the next day, on the second floor of Landmark Hotel, Fenghua Film and Television Company held a press conference.

Not only Hao Lei, Zu Feng, and Tan Songhong, but also Jin Chen, the two chefs invited by the production crew, and the old Chinese doctor who was invited by Lee Shengyao to review the script, as well as the set designer, makeup artist, and assistant director, The set finances are here.

Opposite them are dozens of entertainment reporters

The accountant took out detailed ledgers, pointed them out one by one, and carefully told the reporters about the purchase purpose, market price, and their purchase price, and some even showed invoices.

And everyone else is a witness.

The two chefs expressed a little excitedly, "I never thought that they would really buy such good and fresh ingredients. We all cook for the crew according to the five-star standard. Then everyone will be able to watch the show." I saw that the dishes inside are all very beautiful, and those are not props, but freshly cooked dishes."

"Some dishes are expensive, and even one dish costs thousands of dollars, but we spend a lot of time cooking this dish repeatedly."

"I have never seen or heard of the investment of the crew of "Da Shang Palace" before."

"Outsiders can't help the crew's pursuit of detail and quality."

Then the old Chinese doctor said that he had carefully read the script and helped the crew to purchase all kinds of qualified imitation Ming medical equipment on the market. Really, medicinal materials can be taken, silver needles can cure diseases, these things cost a lot, they are not props, but genuine medical supplies.”

"Some are hard to find in the market, but they still got it. I remember I took them and ran through many markets in Shanghai before I found the right one."

Then others stood up one by one. From their words, we can know that although "Da Shang Palace" invested a lot, every penny was spent wisely, and it was not money laundering as some small media said.

Whether it is ordinary props, or costumes, or the remuneration of actors, the salaries of field workers, they are all reasonable. While pursuing high quality, there is no extravagance and waste, and there is no money laundering.

Hao Lei was impatient, facing the camera and said angrily: "You guys don't even know that we have been filming for seven months, and the production took about a year in total. Trying to obliterate our hard work, I refuse to accept."

"I have been telling the director that filming this show is really exhausting, and I am going to be tired and stupid."

"But we have been insisting. Many times I feel that it is almost the same, but the director still asks for more. He told me not to deceive the audience, not to fool myself."

"We've put in 100 percent of our energy, everyone has worked hard, I'm 100 percent sure, we're not laundering money, we're making a very high-quality show."

The assistant director finally stood up and made a summary.

He said that Fenghua Film and Television Company filmed "The Great Shang Palace", every sum of money can withstand interrogation, every detail is well thought out, they really spend a lot, but it is all to present the best effect to the audience, the company has expressed to Yan They will sue the eight irresponsible media outlets.

With this righteous atmosphere, the producer of "Da Shang Palace" is also innocent.

When the crew of "Da Shang Palace" held a press conference angrily, Li Shengyao sat in the office and quietly listened to the assistant's report on the situation of the conference.

Hao Lei and the others didn't know about Lee Shengyao's plan. They felt aggrieved and angry, and the on-site results were quite good. Many people felt that the behavior of the eight small media outlets was too much. It is undoubtedly a very shameful behavior for the TV drama production company.

As for the pursuit of details in "Dashang Palace", whether it is a young rookie or some old reporters, they all feel that this time Fenghua Film and Television Company really paid a lot.

It's unreasonable for such a TV series not to be popular.

Except for a few rational reporters who thought this matter might not be that simple, the vast majority of reporters were on the side of Fenghua Film and Television Company.

The atmosphere on site can be said to be very good.

After listening to the assistant's report, Li Shengyao nodded in satisfaction.

He thought of some methods before, but they all felt unreliable. Later, he thought of this hype idea, and he thought it was more reasonable.

Now that everything is ready, I'm just waiting for the Internet trolls to magnify this matter and let more people know that the crew of "Da Shang Palace" has very high requirements, details are everywhere, and the service is top-notch. This is a high-quality drama.

The other is to put Fenghua Film and Television Company in a relatively low profile, and portray that small media company as a jealous and despicable character.

Netizens at this time are still relatively naive, and Li Shengyao thinks it should be effective.

In fact, the time is still too short, and the four major TV stations hope to broadcast it as soon as possible, and their idea is to premiere it in early March.

If it is played later, Lee Sung Yew can also hold a food quiz.

The employees of Fenghua took the food camera of Dashang Palace and asked passers-by to guess what food it was.

This may make it more popular, and the audience will know more intuitively what the show is promoting.

Now it premieres in early March, a bit rushed, but it should be enough.

Lee Sung Yew's reputation is there, and there were many reports during the filming, but now it's more of a further promotion.

Everything is ready, just waiting for the premiere.

(End of this chapter)