Quickly wear it and insist on being an old man forever

When Bai Sheng first started sending private letters, they were only sent to those middle and senior management and partners who had a shady background. At most, they discussed it privately with each other and did not dare to spread it widely. Therefore, the overall situation was under control and the relevant information was only circulated internally.

Only those who should know know.

Those who shouldn't know basically don't know.

But now it's obviously different.

With such a big commotion, it was hard for those who were originally unaware to remain unaware, and all kinds of rumors, true or false, quickly spread on the Internet. Some people broke the news, some found relevant information from the notice board of the local court's official website, and some people who were just glad that they were not in trouble even got involved.

In addition, some media tried to conduct interviews.

So it didn't take long before the general situation was successfully exposed by everyone. It not only caused a huge discussion on the Internet, but also made many people working in the entertainment industry feel a little uneasy. After all, they are not very clean either.

It would be disastrous if other groups imitated it.

[No wonder Peak Entertainment Group has become increasingly lame over the years. It seems there are so many bad apples inside. Wow, the scale is comparable to that of the Hongwu Emperor, who committed the four major crimes. They are really hitting both the tigers and the flies together! ]

[However, why were several directors who were not from their group also arrested? Was it a coincidence or was it related to their group's action this time? Does anyone know? ]

[He was caught for corruption, related. 】

【Can’t you say a few more words?】

[It means literally, some embezzled 4-5 million yuan of production funds, and some embezzled hundreds of millions of production funds. Of course, there were also internal collusion of Peak Entertainment Group, otherwise they would not be so arrogant.]

【Good boy, this is also possible. 】

[I thought directors could just do some unspoken rules and stuff, and making money still depends on the box office. I didn't expect that. No wonder there are so many bad dramas throughout the year. Not only do the stars want to get huge salaries, but directors and producers are also greedy. How much of the money can actually be spent on production?]

[I know this. Generally speaking, directors and producers are more likely to be greedy when they work together. It’s not so easy for a pure director or pure producer to do something. If the director is also a producer, then it’s even easier to make money…]

[The bigger the investment, the more greedy it is. ]

[This is true. Those extremely poor crews would haggle over the little money for lunch boxes, unlike those wealthy crews who, as long as they can find ways to build good relationships, can easily charge 50 yuan for a lunch box that costs 10 yuan, and 250 or 300 yuan for a lunch box that costs 50 yuan.]

[Not necessarily. There are many tricks in various large investments nowadays. The number advertised may be one, but the actual number may be another. Some large investments that never see the light of day are very problematic! ]

[I used to suspect that Summit Entertainment Group, with so many big-budget TV series in backlog, was laundering money or something. Now it seems that at least half of the suspicion has been cleared. It is obvious that there are too many internal scoundrels.

There are so many of them that they are everywhere and difficult to remove. 】

[The old chairman is still decisive. ]

[No wonder many large groups have special anti-corruption departments. It turns out that there are people who really engage in corruption! ]

[Haha, the above is too naive. To put it bluntly, my mom gave some money to let my dad go out to buy vegetables, and he still embezzled a few dollars. It would have been fine if he embezzled less, but with seven or eight dishes a day, he only embezzled three or five dollars in total, which he regarded as his labor fee.

As a result, last time, he dared to bid 10 yuan per pound for ordinary eggs, and my mother caught him on the spot. 】

[My goodness, this is not cheaper than an egg that costs fifty taels each. Your dad really thinks your mom never buys groceries.]

【Isn’t ten yuan a pound quite cheap?】

[There are really people who don't know the prices of goods. Excluding those special eggs, the most common large brown-red eggs in the supermarket usually cost more than four or five yuan per pound. If the price rises to six or seven yuan per pound, it means that the price of pork must have gone crazy. This is the normal price.

Pheasant eggs, grass eggs, edible eggs, black-bone eggs, etc., the prices will definitely be different. 】

[No wonder many fussy families don’t allow their nannies to buy groceries. It turns out that shopping is a lucrative business no matter which dynasty it is! ]

……

As the matter became a hot topic and the popularity reached its peak, theoretically, it should have slowly declined, but Bai Sheng decisively asked people to start promoting a new drama.

The cooperation with several major film and television platforms was finalized a few days ago. For this reason, Bai Sheng invited them to attend a film viewing less than half a month ago, and made a lot of appropriate compromises. He was willing to accept a relatively low minimum guarantee plus profit-sharing model to buy and sell film and television dramas.

There is no way. Summit Entertainment Group has suffered heavy losses in recent years due to the purchase of cinema chains. It has also launched several bad dramas before, and its reputation is currently in jeopardy.

In addition, he had offended many people because of his large family and powerful business.

Nowadays, most people are taking advantage of others’ misfortunes.

There is no one to help when the time is right.

Even if those who are responsible for purchasing the film think that it is okay after watching part of the plot, it does not stop them from taking advantage of the situation and thinking of buying it at a lower price.

In this regard, Bai Sheng had no choice but to compromise and split the profits.

It's better to get a share of the profits than to have someone else buy it at a low price. At least most of her dramas are of acceptable quality, and some can even be considered masterpieces. According to the user analysis done by advanced artificial intelligence, she will not lose money in any way.

This time, we are promoting the drama that we have signed and made profits from.

One is S+, the rest are AB grade.

After all, it is a comeback, and she can't just use those passing or barely minor masterpieces to make up the numbers, so Bai Sheng still came up with a high-quality hit drama.

I'm counting on this drama to make a comeback.

To provide guarantee for the subsequent sales of other dramas.

After a hit drama is released, we can negotiate the prices of the remaining dramas. If we negotiate a higher price, we can at least negotiate a higher share of the profits and bring back more funds for the group.

Although there were some gossips on the Internet, Bai Sheng's goal was achieved. The newly launched dramas did not do any advance warm-up, but just relying on this hot search, they all gained great attention. The overall effect was no worse than the effect of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on publicity.

As the main promotion, "Young Heroes" had over 50 million clicks for the first episode in just twelve hours after it was broadcast, and the average clicks for the first six episodes were 43 million. The overall retention rate can be said to be quite high.

Moreover, this is dehydrated data. An account will only be counted once no matter how many clicks it receives within 24 hours.

It can be said that it became an instant hit.

As long as the subsequent plot is not bad, the ratings will at least be ranked in the top ten of the year. If luck is better, there is a great hope of even maintaining the top five or even getting into the top three.

……

Peak Community, which is the dormitory of Peak Group.

Building 5024, th floor, Room .

After knowing that the drama filmed by the seven members of their group three years ago was finally aired today, the Qi Yao boy band, which had basically become an obscure group, was still quite excited. They sat on the sofa in the living room with their two male life assistants and the agent, turned on the TV and watched it.

Although I don't dare to hold too high hopes, everyone has dreams, even if it is unlikely that I will become famous thanks to this drama.

It can increase their exposure and make it easier for them to find work.

They have been picking their feet at home for more than half a year. If the company did not have dormitories, they would have been homeless long ago.

An hour passed quickly. The agent and two life assistants watched the show with great interest. After watching it, they praised it sincerely.

"I didn't expect your acting skills to be so good!" "Great! It will definitely be a hit. How could such a good drama be left unsung for two or three years? It's really ignorant."

But the Qi Yao boy group remained silent.

They looked at each other in surprise. Was this taken by them?

However, they did not discuss this matter in front of their agent and life assistant. They looked at each other for a while and remained silent, and continued to watch. After watching the first six episodes and sending their agent and life assistant away, they sat around the sofa again.

"Why do I always feel that the drama being broadcast now is not the same drama as the one I filmed? Could it be that my memory is wrong and I can't remember things that happened two or three years ago?"

The sixth brother, Song Qiang, was the first to raise his doubts.

He had read the script, not only his part, but also the complete script. However, the content that had just been played seemed to have basically nothing to do with the script he had read, except for the names of the characters.

The rest has nothing to do with the script.

It's like a complete change of script!

But he obviously didn't reshoot these scenes...

"Yes, I remember that. The photos that were shown were completely different from what we filmed. Also, when I was filming this drama, I was still a little fat, and I looked even fatter on camera. It was only last year that I finally lost weight, but the me in the drama was obviously the thinner me. Was it photoshopped?
No, video editing is expensive, I remember. "

The third brother Zhuang Quanyu was also quite puzzled. When they filmed this drama, the total investment was only 10 million. They probably didn't have the money to spend huge sums of money to specially shape the body of the fourth male lead frame by frame. It was quite confusing.

"Did we travel through time?"

After all, he is a young man. Xiaoqi Liu Yuxi has a very big imagination. Not only is his imagination big, but he can also use his imagination to supplement his imagination:
“Think about it, if the seven of us all feel that the drama being shown now is not the one we originally filmed, and that we have never filmed many of the contents in the drama, then there are only two possibilities. Either something is wrong with this world, and we have collectively traveled through time and space to a different world, a very similar parallel world.

Maybe this is how we film this world.

Or maybe we are all suffering from collective hysteria, or there is something wrong with our brains, or our memory is confused or something.

Which one do you think is more likely?"

"Let's just say we traveled through time. Compared to the idea that we are mentally ill, I still hope that we traveled through time."

The fourth brother Dong Yuhu is quite honest.

That's right. Compared to their collective brain problems, not making much money and having to spend money on medical treatment, time travel is of course better. At least for now, the quality of this drama is good, and they might become popular.

In the future, I don’t have to stay at home and pick my feet anymore. Oh, no, not at home, but in the company dormitory.

"No, Yuxi, don't make trouble. Don't let him lead you astray. We are having a serious discussion. Should we tell our agent and ask him to help us? To be honest, I always feel creepy when I see myself in TV dramas doing things that I obviously haven't done. I still want to find out."

Song Qiang continued to speak seriously.

"I have the same feeling, and I remember that when I was filming, the director scolded me terribly, saying that my acting was very poor. No, it should be said that I had no acting skills at all. When I watched the replay, I also felt that my acting was very awkward, but the time I appeared in the TV series just now was not very long.

But it wasn't awkward at all, it was very smooth.

This probably isn't something that can be fixed in post-editing.

If post-production editing was this good, there wouldn’t be so many top idols being criticized for their poor acting skills.”

Old Five Yan Yang also echoed in agreement.

"I don't think there's any need to ask. This must have been done at the behest of the group's top management. It may involve some of the latest technology, and it's also beneficial to us at the moment.

If we try to get to the bottom of this, I'm afraid there will be no benefit.

If the superiors are willing to tell us, they will definitely tell us. If they are not willing to do so, asking will only give a negative impression to the top management of the group, so don't ask.

Let the agent ask if there is any work!"

Qi Yaohong, as the eldest brother of the boy band, is indeed the most mature and calm. It is definitely impossible for him to travel through a parallel world or have a mental illness. So it is highly likely that there has been some major breakthrough in the technical department of the group.

This is how the seven actors ended up with a new drama that they all found very strange and had no impression of.

In this case, what is the point of asking further questions?
Meaningless.

It would be better for them to seize the opportunity and make more money. They were not very old when they formed the group, but now they are all not young anymore. If they don't seize this opportunity that may make them popular for a while, they can do more work and earn more money.

Two years later, when I look back, my beauty has faded and my love has faded.

There is even less chance to make money.

"Brother Yaohong, you mean that the technical department of Peak Group has come up with... But this is too outrageous, is the current technology so advanced?"

“Don’t look at me, I don’t understand technology, but according to the descriptions in some science fiction novels, it seems that as long as the technology is sufficient, it will be no problem to do these things. Even without actors or directors, you can create a film directly with technology.

Isn't that what AI drawing is nowadays?

I think it looks better than some painters’ paintings.”

"So those plots in the TV series that we remember not filming were directly created with the help of our images. Why does it feel a bit like black technology?"

"So, in the future, when we act in TV dramas, do we only need to show our faces or bodies?

Acting and facial expressions don’t matter at all.”

“Is it possible that the group’s technical department can create characters with more perfect and better-looking faces than ours?

By then, we will all be at risk of losing our jobs!"

"I don't think so. Virtual idols were very popular in the past few years, but they didn't last long. They weren't even as popular as some of the top stars. This shows that we should still be able to make a living from this for a while."

While they were chatting, the agent called and asked them to get ready to participate in the show later.

Seven people sat at home picking their feet for half a year.

The new drama aired in less than twenty-four hours.

Invitations to many shows began to come in.

People in the same circle are not stupid. They can basically tell whether a show has the potential to be popular after three or five episodes. Not to mention how popular it will be if the plot doesn't suck later on, even if the plot sucks later on, as long as they can air the show before the plot sucks suddenly.

Then the ratings won’t be too bad.

The thing about popularity is that everyone just takes advantage of each other.

The actors and crew are trying to take advantage of the popularity of the variety show, and the variety show is also trying to take advantage of the popularity of the actors and crew.

Let's help each other and achieve each other! (End of this chapter)