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Chapter 296 The Entertainment Industry Boss Who Was Furious to Death (6)

Of course, not only these seven people, the popularity of the main actors of other broadcast dramas have all risen to varying degrees, leading many self-media to believe that Peak Entertainment has made a comeback this time.

As for those who are as perceptive as the Seven Stars Boys Group and realize that the plot is completely different from what they filmed, there are very few of them.

Or rather, it's just them.

It's not that the seven of them are particularly perceptive, it's mainly because their drama has the biggest modifications. The dramas aired this time were all almost the same level of badness at the beginning. The reason why there was a distinction between passing, high-quality and popular dramas later on was mainly because Bai Sheng made modifications to them. The greater the modification, the better the quality.

For those that only met the passing standard, Bai Sheng simply re-edited them, such as deleting some unnecessary clips to make the overall plot more compact and reasonable, and adjusting filters, modifying dubbing, and improving special effects.

There were no changes to the actors' acting skills or the plot.

Even if the director or screenwriter sees it, at most they will just think that the new post-production is more impressive and won’t think too much about it.

For those who have reached the quality level, Bai Sheng’s operations are mostly similar to those for those who have reached the passing level. The difference is that the crews or directors of the films and TV series that have reached the quality level have shot a lot of spare clips, as well as clips that may or may not pass the review. This gives Bai Sheng a lot more room for operation when manipulating the top artificial intelligence for post-editing, and the quality will naturally improve.

As for a hit drama, if the script and the actors' acting skills are not that good, post-production alone cannot create miracles, and we can only modify the acting skills and the plot.

The changes were so severe that the actors could tell there was a problem as soon as they saw it.

But anyway, the discovery of this situation was limited to a small number of people who knew the complete plot of "Young Heroes", and the director and producer had been sent to prison and could not see it at all. The screenwriter did not have much authority to begin with, and when he saw the different plot, he just thought his script had been changed again, so no one discussed it.

Netizens are discussing the plot, the actors, and how this is such a treasure trove of actors that they had never discovered before.

Some old fans of the group cheered.

We are just short of shouting everywhere that our child has a promising future!
At this time, the effect of Bai Sheng's advance request to let his children protect their direct lineage was revealed. At least there were still people in charge of the major departments of the group, and people were not in a panic with no one in charge or working.

Everything is still in order.

It is not easy to train the necessary staff, nor is it easy to poach people from other companies to fill the gap.

Bai Sheng's initial idea was to catch all the termites, including her children, but after thoroughly collecting relevant information, she had to give up this idea. There were too many termites, and catching them all at once would cause the entire group to be paralyzed.

Regardless of whether it is a country or a company, you can scrape the bone to heal the wound, but you can never just pull out all the bones.

That is not scraping the bone to heal the wound, but suicide.

Even someone as ruthless as Zhu Yuanzhang took more than ten or twenty years to get rid of all the people involved in the Hu Weiyong case. Why not do it all at once?

If everything is handled at once, who will do the work for him?
It was based on this consideration that Bai Sheng gave his children a chance. Although the group was short of people at this time, at least the overall framework was still there. The Qi Yao boy group was very popular, and all departments could cope with it.

Soon they were contacted with a lot of work.

It has become the absolute top streamer in the past month.

Made a lot of money for the company.

A month later, while several new dramas were seamlessly connected, Bai Sheng also released two refined versions of movies.

Join the summer season and start reaping the box office.

The result is a summer season filled with wailing.

Why do I say that? At the end of the summer season, the total box office for the entire summer season was only about 13 billion yuan. The two movies released by Bai Sheng accounted for a total of 10.8 billion yuan in box office revenue, and the remaining dozen movies shared the 2.2 billion yuan box office revenue. Except for Bai Sheng, everyone else would be wailing over this result!

If the previous hit TV series could only be considered a shallow comeback, then the two movies this time, with a total box office of 10.8 billion, were like a direct rebound.

And if you have achieved something, you don’t have to worry about no one praising you.

Amidst all the praises, there were a few doubts: if the quality of their backlog of TV dramas and movies was so good, why wouldn't they dare to release them in theaters or why couldn't they sell them?
It didn't attract any attention at all.

In contrast, other film and television production companies and large entertainment groups are facing a formidable enemy, especially the film investor and producer, Donggua Entertainment Group, which ranked third in the box office of this summer's film and earned 1.2 billion yuan. Everyone from top to bottom is almost pissed off.

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Winter Melon Entertainment Group, Aurora Building.

In the general conference room of the film and television production department, directors, producers and other relevant personnel of the summer movies, including senior leaders of the film and television production department, all gathered together to analyze the Summit Entertainment Group.

"According to our previous statistics, if it weren't for the two movies from Summit Entertainment, the box office of our summer movies would have at least doubled, and there's a good chance that we could even reach 5 billion. It can be said that the two movies from Summit Entertainment are like two black holes that sucked away all our box office. We were able to barely maintain a box office of more than 1 billion thanks to the quality of the movies.

Other movies of poor quality are even worse.

The wolf is coming. No, the current Peak Entertainment Group is no longer a wolf, it is clearly a glutton. If they come a few more times, they will compete with us for the National Day, Spring Festival, New Year's Day and other periods.

Then we won't be able to survive...

80% of the national box office revenue went directly to them.”

Zhang Haidong, the general manager of the production department, first made some alarmist remarks before talking about the main point of this meeting:
“So the main purpose of this meeting is to draw lessons and summarize why our movies of such high quality are still not as good as the two movies released by Summit Entertainment Group this time, and what exactly is there to learn from their two movies.

The second is to assess the threat posed by Peak Entertainment.

The chairman and other board members will review our meeting and submit a meeting report, so everyone should show their best skills and stop talking nonsense. "

After he finished speaking, Zhang Haidong probably guessed that few people would be eager to speak, so he directly called on the director and asked him to compare the differences between them based on his own experience.

“There is nothing wrong with the quality of the films I made. The scripts are pretty good, the actors’ acting is also very good, and the special effects are not as good as the top ones, but they are definitely presentable.

I watched both movies from Summit Entertainment.

The plot may be a little bit weirder than ours. Our plot is still a little clichéd and there are not many surprises. There may be some gaps in this aspect, but our screenwriters are already among the best in the country, so there is nothing we can do if we can't compare.

After all, there are always some geniuses in every industry every year!

As for the actors and their acting skills, the actors we selected, at least in terms of popularity, must be better than those in Peak Entertainment. In terms of acting skills, there is actually no big problem. As for the special effects..."

Director Hong was interrupted before he finished speaking by the head of the special effects department: "I know without you telling me that our special effects are not as good as others, but with the current special effects costs, the special effects we make are already at the cutting-edge level in the industry and are definitely worth the price.

I showed the special effects clips from the two films produced by Summit Entertainment to other top international special effects companies, and they all agreed that it would cost at least 500,000 yuan per second to produce such perfect special effects.

Obviously, we can't afford this.

Summit Entertainment is unlikely to be able to afford it, after all, the special effects of their two films lasted more than an hour, and the total price was as high as 1.8 billion yuan. So we all agreed that Summit Entertainment may have mastered the special effects production method that can reduce the price and improve the effect. If this is true, then we will never be able to surpass Summit Entertainment Group in the field of special effects in the future.

I have finished my speech, thank you. "

"Well, although I don't know much about post-production special effects, the special effects of this movie are indeed not as good as those of the two movies produced by Summit Entertainment Group."

Director Hong quickly echoed.

Then the head of the publicity and public relations department was named: "In terms of publicity this time, we really lost to Peak Entertainment Group. I don't know which great person they invited to take charge. All the posts that slandered them were lost, and the water army was useless. In the process, several water army studios were even destroyed.

It is suspected to be related to the report filed by Peak Entertainment Group.

In addition, their promotion seems to be very targeted. It is understood that the promotion contracts they signed with major platforms specifically state that they will find target customers themselves to place advertisements and pay based on clicks.

The final conversion rate is very high.

An executive of a browser platform with whom we have a close cooperative relationship revealed to me a statistic that for every ten people who click on the promotional video of Peak Entertainment Group, one will jump to the ticket purchasing platform and buy a ticket. The conversion rate is almost ten to one, which is an outrageous number.

But in normal publicity, the ratio is even less than one in ten thousand.

I don't think that our promotional videos are inferior to theirs, and I don't think that the advertising expenses we invested are less than theirs. So there is only one possibility, that is, Peak Entertainment Group has mastered some special promotional video placement skills, and can prioritize and screen out people who are interested in their promotional videos and are likely to buy tickets after watching them.

I am not unfamiliar with the technical department.

But guess it should be able to do this.

Otherwise, I can’t explain the specific data. I believe that anyone who knows a little bit about the industry here will understand how outrageous the advertising conversion ratio is as high as ten to one. ”

If they were to make predictions in advance, it might be difficult for them to predict accurately, but when it comes to summarizing afterwards, who doesn’t have some experience?
They basically guessed that Bai Sheng used top-level artificial intelligence to screen better customers, that is, people who were more likely to buy movie tickets and place advertisements.

But they didn’t guess top-level A.I.

I can only guess what new technology might have been mastered.

"Wait, according to what you said, the reason why we failed in this summer season was mainly due to technology.

The script and actors are just minor details?"

Zhang Haidong did summarize some information, but he still found it a little hard to believe. Someone working in the film, television and entertainment industry actually lost to technology. Is this really possible?

"In summary, this is correct!"

The head of the special effects production department agreed with this.

Then, they discussed internally and summarized many of the issues that puzzled them.

For example, these two films were clearly completed and approved two years ago. Why did they have to go through the process again some time ago? If the content has been significantly revised, why didn't they find actors to reshoot it?
For example, why were all the main actors called back and asked to sign additional confidentiality clauses before the movie was released?

For example, if the quality of the movie is really that good.

Why was it delayed for two years?

After discussing this part, they also focused on the threat level of Peak Entertainment Group. Regarding this aspect, most of them felt that they should not worry too much. How could such a good work be produced casually? It is likely that they just wanted to make a good comeback and took out all the hidden treasures.

You need to be on guard, but there's no need to panic.

However, even so, Peak Entertainment Group began to be targeted and isolated. After all, throughout the summer season, apart from their two films, only a film from Donggua Entertainment and an animated film from Haihua Animation Production Company barely broke even.

The rest are all blood losses.

The problem is quite clear. It's mainly because the quality is not good enough. If the quality is good enough, for example, the movies of Donggua Entertainment and Haihua Animation Production Company, wouldn't they have made a lot of money without losing money just because of their high quality?
But they are obviously unwilling to admit it and would rather put the blame on Summit Entertainment Group. They think that if these two films of Summit Entertainment Group had not monopolized most of the box office, no matter how poor the quality of their films is, they would still be able to get a little share of the box office and maybe even make their money back.

If you are lucky, you might even make a lot of money!

But all this was ruined by Peak Entertainment.

However, Bai Sheng didn't care. After recovering some of the funds, he immediately started a new project. He didn't do too many projects. He only established a science fiction film series project and three different TV series series projects.

Science fiction movies are focusing on the global box office. Bai Sheng plans to repay his bank loan with a trilogy of science fiction movies.

Adapted from the history of a certain civilization, it is very reliable.

The TV series are divided into the Millennium Martial Arts Series, the Eternal Mythology Series, and various types of comedy universe series.

The Millennium Martial Arts Series is mainly adapted based on the history of a certain martial arts world over the past thousand years. There is a new generation of martial arts heroes every twenty years or so, so this series spans twenty years and can be made into fifty films.

The Eternal Mythology series reshapes and organizes the country's mythology. Each mythological character can have an independent biography, and some mythological stories are interspersed among them.

It’s no problem to shoot twenty or thirty films.

The final series of comedy universes of various types is even simpler, focusing purely on comedy, with no limit on the specific number.

These projects are not small investments. Bai Sheng plans to build them to classic standards. It can be said that most of the money earned from the two summer movies was invested in them.

Anyway, the bank has already negotiated the repayment from 50 billion to 40 billion, and there is no need to rush. It was not so easy to negotiate, but after the news spread that Peak Entertainment made more than 10 billion at the box office with two movies, the bank loosened its stance.

Because of this, Bai Sheng did not save the money he earned during the summer vacation to pay off his debts, but continued to invest.