The King of Directors 2000

Chapter 586 A collection of bad movies

After "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons", the Spring Festival craze has passed. Entering March 2013, the mainland film market still shows strong ability to attract money.

In late March, "Ip Man: The Final Battle," "Yanjing Meets Seattle," "Resident Evil 5," and "Jack the Giant Hunter" were released one after another, including domestic films and Hollywood blockbusters.

Among them, the low-budget movie "Yenjing Meets Seattle" has performed very well, with a trend of exceeding [-] million.

Who can not love this kind of movie market?
More hot money and more resources are pouring in.

Even directors from the island country Peninsula were invited over to get a piece of the pie.

There are even more film and television companies looking forward to cooperating with Lee Sheng-yew. Not only do they receive a large number of emails every day, but also people come to visit them, some from the mainland, some from Hong Kong Island, and some from island countries.

Li Shengyao glanced at it occasionally, and most of the emails were handled by his assistant.

As for the people who came to visit, a few people met once, but the vast majority of people were turned away.

Because of this incident, some people posted short essays on Weibo, which attracted some people to criticize Li Shengyao. He did not pay attention and continued to deal with his own affairs.

This morning, the warm sunshine swayed down.

The long spring breeze spreads the fragrance of flowers and causes the birds to sing.

Liangmahe Building, Fenghua Film and Television Company, employees are working hard.

In the conference room, Li Shengyao met two old friends and two new friends.

The old friends are Zhou Yan and Zhong Da Da, and the new friends are Jia Yang and Huang Jingshan.

He has known Zhou Yan and Zhong Dahui for more than ten years, and it was the first time for Jia Yang and Huang Jingshan to meet.

Jia Yang is about 30 years old, tall and thin, wearing a pair of glasses, a suit and leather shoes, and has the temperament of a gentle scum. Seeing him, Li Shengyao immediately thought of Fang Tangjing, who is a senior executive of Zhejiang TV , it is said that he now manages Zhejiang Satellite TV’s variety show.

Huang Jingshan is in his thirties, bald, not fat, but has a big head and a lot of fat on his face. He is a very eloquent person and speaks very fast. When he first met Lee Sheng Yew, he talked endlessly, He said a lot of idioms in succession, he is a senior executive of Suzhou TV.

Zhou Yan is from Xiangnan Satellite TV, and Zhong Dada is from Hucheng Satellite TV.

Fenghua cooperated with these four satellite TV stations ten years ago, filming dramas and producing variety shows together.

A few years later, Fenghua completed the production of those Chinese-style "Korean dramas" and began to shoot some sweet idol dramas adapted from online novels, still focusing on the young market and the Southeast Asian market.

Now Fenghua idol drama has completely occupied the Southeast Asian market, and is also famous in Zhongdong Nanmei and other places.

Li Shengyao specially arranged for people to brush data on YouTube, creating an illusion for European and American audiences that Fenghua dramas are popular all over the world, and from time to time they can also attract some European and American leeks.

However, in the Mainland, people's lives are getting better and better, and their spiritual civilization requirements are higher.

Those idol dramas and sweet dramas are not as powerful as they were ten years ago.

Fenghua and the four major TV stations have less cooperation in film and television dramas.

However, they still cooperate closely in variety shows. Lee Sheng-Yao has already acquired a series of popular variety shows. Later, he remembered some variety show and asked people from the company's variety show department to produce it immediately and secure the copyright first.

Now [-]% of the popular variety shows in the Mainland are produced by Fenghua, and then sell the copyrights to major TV stations.

This time four people came to the door at the same time. Li Shengyao guessed that it had something to do with the variety show.

He asked his assistant to serve tea, then smiled and talked about some trivial matters.

After all, Jia Yang was young and his patience was not that good. When the other three people were accompanying Li Shengyao to the hall, he cleared his throat and then said: "Director Li, we are here this time because we have something important to talk to you about. discuss."

Li Shengyao glanced at the other three people and saw that none of them spoke, so he nodded, "You tell me."

"Director Li, the film market is developing so fast now, and our variety shows have an excellent reputation and are very popular. We thought why not adapt these variety shows into movies?
Just use popular regular guests from variety shows and you can produce a movie without much cost.

According to the current movie market, I think it shouldn’t be a problem for each movie to make hundreds of millions at the box office. "

Jia Yang was high-spirited and full of energy. When he spoke, his whole body seemed to be floating.

Li Shengyao smiled when he heard this, "How do you want to cooperate?"

People from four major TV stations came to the door together. It was really related to variety shows, and they still wanted to shoot variety shows.

Li Shengyao was a little surprised, but then he understood what these people were thinking.

In fact, there have been variety movies in the Mainland for a long time.

In 09, Hunan Satellite TV produced a movie called "Happy Boys". The actors were happy boys and super girls, and the story was a talent show.

It has a Douban rating of five and a box office of [-] million.

In [-], the film market had not yet exploded. The failure of this variety show did not extinguish other people's ideas of making money.

Now that the mainland film market is booming, it makes sense that the smart people from the four major TV stations want to make money from this.

In fact, they are not necessarily making money in the film market. To be precise, they don't care whether the film loses money.

Variety shows are very popular and the topic is high. After the variety show movie project was established, the leaders and relatives of the TV station hired a producer, supervisor, deputy director, lighting engineer, art director, set worker, etc., and then sold some for 1 yuan. Straw hats, coffee worth 9000 yuan, these can all make money.

It’s not their money anyway, they earn it after spending it.

Of course, it would be better if the box office is good and the reputation is good, which means that you can continue to make sequels and continue to make money.

In Lee Sheng-yew's previous life, "Where Are We Going, Dad?", "Run, Brother", "Extreme Challenge", "The Voice of China", and "Happy Comedian" all appeared in variety shows.

Among them, "Where Are We Going, Dad" made money. There were three movies in total. The first one had a box office of 1000 million, the second one had a box office of [-] million, and the third one only had a box office of [-] million when the audience woke up.

The box office of "Run, Brother" was okay, with [-] million.The most popular one is "The Voice of China: You Turn Around", with a Douban score of [-] and a box office of only [-] million.

None of these variety shows have a score of six. It can be said that they are 100% bad movies. They are the type of movie with the highest bad rate.

"Director Li, given the current film market, we all feel that there is room for development of variety movies. Today's young people are rich, and many teenagers have mobile phones. If you buy a movie ticket for 30 yuan, it's still a big deal. It's not a trivial matter.

You see EXO is so popular. Most of their fans are high school students and college students with strong purchasing power, which helped them become the number one group in Asia.

Our variety show audience is about the same age as EXO fans, so we can definitely make money.

We want to produce it together with Fenghua. Fenghua will publish the rights, we will provide the funds, and the film rights and box office will be discussed and distributed. "

Zhong Da Da followed and expressed his thoughts.

Zhou Yan and Huang Jingshan then said that they could make a variety show movie, share the copyright with Fenghua, and share the box office share.

Hearing this, Li Shengyao nodded on the table.

He thought of the "Little Times" series of movies shot by Da Mi Mi.

There is really no stopping such a bad movie. Rather than not making it, it is better to make it and let the mainland audience accept the baptism of bad movies.

In this era where movies are growing wildly, letting the audience suffer a little is considered a kind of growth.

Just like Liu Dehua, when he took over the filming of "Future Police", he cursed the audience and explained that he wanted to return the favor. Later, he took over the filming of "Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains". This time he even scolded the audience, but Liu said he wanted to return the favor again. .

Later, the audience became more cautious when watching movies starring Lao Liu.

There is also Koda Raku, who has a good reputation for donating to build schools. With the childhood filter, the audience thought that he had a good sense in choosing movies, but it turned out that there were piles of bad movies being wholesaled.

Audiences will need to be much more cautious when watching Principal Gu's movies.

The existence of bad movies can make the audience more rational.

However, Fenghua is self-made, or the movies he invests in have always had good reputations and high box office, so there is no need to ruin his reputation for a few variety movies.

Lee Sheng-yao thought for a while and said: "I understand your thoughts, and I also agree that variety movies are good, but..."

He paused and then said: "But Fenghua Film and Television Company invests in feature films. I don't want to get involved in variety movies."

Jia Yang also thought that Li Shengyao was aloof and looked down on variety movies, "Director Li, you can leave it to us to produce. Fenghua only needs to come up with the copyright, and we will be responsible for everything else."

Li Shengyao smiled, shook his head, and continued: "There is no need to go to such trouble. Let Fenghua sell you the film copyrights of variety shows. You have full rights to the production and copyright of these variety films."

When Jia Yang and Zhou Yan heard this, they all looked at each other excitedly.

They were originally worried that Lee Sheng Yew would not share the copyright, but they did not expect that Lee Sheng Yew would be so generous and willing to sell the copyright to them, allowing them to exclusively enjoy the film rights.

Zhong Dahui has known Lee Sheng Yao for the longest time and knows Lee Sheng Yao's business vision. This is a person who has never suffered a loss.

So this time Lee Sheng-yew has so readily given up the copyright to variety shows, does it mean that these movies are not profitable?

He hesitated for a moment, but noticed that the other three people were very excited, and immediately realized that no matter how the box office was, they could make money.

If that's the case, why bother exposing it?
He smiled, completely brushing away the hesitation in his heart.

"Then let's talk about the copyright fees for variety shows, and then quickly finalize this matter. Since it's still early, everyone can make the movie before the summer vacation, and then release it during the summer to make money."

Li Shengyao then negotiated with four people, Jia Yang and Zhou Yan. After a day of negotiation, they finally finalized the film rights.

"The Voice of China" and "Run, Brother" are very popular, and the movie adaptation copyrights are both [-] million, and a total of [-] million was sold to Zhejiang Satellite TV.

The film adaptation copyright of "Where Are We Going, Dad" was sold to Hunan Satellite TV for [-] million.

The film adaptation copyright of "Extreme Challenge" was sold to Shanghai Satellite TV for RMB [-] million.

The film adaptation copyright of "Happy Comedian" was sold to Suzhou TV for RMB [-] million.

After the negotiation was completed, a lawyer was invited to formulate and sign the contract, and then Lee Sheng Yao invited the four partners to celebrate at the Liangma River Hotel.

Jia Yang drank a lot of wine, stood up proudly, and gestured with his hands, "Director Li, I think your concept is still too old. There is no shame in variety movies. We will definitely make them seriously and make movies with high box office and high reputation." , maybe even win a grand prize.”

Li Shengyao smiled and nodded, "What Director Jia said makes sense."

Of course he won't argue with someone who drinks too much. Besides, these variety show movie copyrights can buy hundreds of millions, so why ask for so much?

Whether it turns out to be a bad movie or not has nothing to do with him.

Li Shengyao looked out the window.

A crescent moon hangs in the sky, accompanied by three or two stars, and clouds are blooming.

Light beams rise from the ground, connecting the sky and the earth.

Neon lights, LED lights, and all kinds of car lights light up one after another, like a stream of consciousness painting full of light spots, reflecting the prosperity of this era.

Yanjing is safe and developed, and other places in the mainland are not willing to give in, but Tyrande is much worse.

"Three Billboards" will be produced in Tyrande, which is the center of human organ trafficking in Asia. Pornography, gambling and drugs are all turned a blind eye. Safety is a big issue.

This is something he should consider now.

(End of this chapter)