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Chapter 104 Is this a TV series I can watch for free?
Time flies, and it is the beginning of spring on February 2th.

Li Wenyu was reading in the courtyard early in the morning when he heard a knock on the door. He walked over and saw that it was Zhang Ziyi and Li Bingbing.

The two actresses each brought their assistants with New Year's goods and started with a series of amiable New Year greetings.

After the New Year greetings, Li Bingbing blushed and congratulated, "Director Li, congratulations on the huge success of your filming of "I Came From the Stars."

"We haven't aired it in mainland China yet, but Taiwan aired it on the first night of the Lunar New Year. The first-day ratings were 16%, and yesterday it broke 20%. The popularity of the Weibo version outside the Great Firewall is overwhelming everything else."

"Sister Xin has really taken off this time. She gained over 300 million followers on Weibo outside the Great Firewall in just two days. Adding her previous followers, she's now almost 700 million."

"Now countless fans are in awe, praising Sister Xin's acting skills as god-like. She is definitely on the same level as Manyu and Jialing."

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Is a viewership rate of 10 to 20 percent high?

这是2003年，1998的还珠1在弯那边收视率12.10%，还珠2是13.68%。

It is Su Youpeng's version of The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber, whose ratings soared to over 6%, which was already unbeatable in the same time period.

Before the millennium, the development efficiency of the Internet, mobile phones, etc. in Hong Kong and Macau was far ahead of the mainland.

The entertainment options available to young people, including middle-aged people, far exceed those of their peers in mainland China, and they cannot achieve the terrifying miracle of "Return of the Condor Heroes" achieving a peak viewership rate of 62.8% in mainland China.

If the ratings of Taiwanese dramas break 20%, they will be considered as super dramas!
Of course, the mainland has also developed rapidly in the past two years. In 99, "Return of the Condor Heroes" was still a hit, but in 2000, the highest ratings in the mainland had been halved to 32%, which was the same as Shao Bao's.

In 2001, the highest ratings of "The Grand Mansion Gate" was 17.7%, which was the highest in that year.

The highest ratings in mainland China in 03 was 3% for "Return of the Condor Heroes 11.5".

This is the huge change brought about by the explosion of computers and mobile phones!
As for why the Taiwanese version aired faster, the Taiwanese version didn't need to have a Cantonese and South Korean dub like the Hong Kong and South Korean versions did.

The popularity of "You Who Came From the Stars" itself is very high in the Internet world inside and outside the Great Firewall. With the big platform of Weibo, it is the hottest topic center.

No matter how rich South Korea is.

The Taiwanese side also bought it for 100 million per episode.

In order to earn back the advertising fees as quickly as possible, TV dramas are inserted into the advertising group as soon as possible.

In the mainland, the highest bid so far is from Hunan Provincial Television, which offers 60 per episode for the first and second rounds.

As for Li Jiaxin's benefit? She contributed a beautiful, funny and T0-level vase on the screen.

She is truly absorbing and gathering her fan base in a voracious manner.

This is no longer one of those pretty vases.

Since the premiere of "Over There", Ah Xin has been recognized by everyone as a talented actress.

Li Wenyu laughed, "You also made a guest appearance, congratulations."

When he looked at Zhang Ziyi, she also bowed and smiled sweetly, "Director Li, Hero has cut another 2500 million in box office in its eighth week, bringing it to 2.6 million. It's almost 3 million!"

"It's been postponed for over a month, just waiting to break the Titanic record, but they're splitting it into two parts, selling tickets twice for 3.6 million."

"It's nothing compared to the box office sales of our single film. Tonight, we're celebrating our 2.5 million RMB breakthrough. Director Zhang has ordered me to invite you and Sister Bingbing over. I'll even carry you there."

This is the ninth week of screening, two months.

However, the Lunar New Year and New Year's Eve periods are truly the peak periods when many people come together to watch movies with the whole family.

At this stage, China Film Group will also strongly support the continued postponement of the screening of Heroes, so as to break the record of Titanic and transfer the highest box office record of Chinese films to Chinese-language films.

In the eighth week after Hero reduced its screening schedule, The Good Man and My Amnesiac Boyfriend were also released in mainland China.

At the end of the week, the two films each contributed 7 to 8 million RMB in box office revenue.

Once the screening rate increases later, it can really reach 300 to 400 million.

This is the best proof that actresses like Zhang Bozhi and Dong Li are also carrying the box office together with big stars like Gu Tianle and Ren Xianqi.

Now the mainland can reach 4000 million in a single week, and a great era has begun ahead of time.

After all, the original Trails in Fire and Fire had a box office of 2.5 million, and with another box office and more theaters, the impact on the entire series would be huge.

The eight-week run easily broke the previous record, and its staying power remains strong.

2.5 million yuan is also used to hold a celebration banquet?

Hero has taken the top spot in the Chinese-language film box office, previously held by The Piano Tuner, which grossed 2.3 million yuan in mainland China.

According to the history that can be checked with detailed statistics, the Titanic comes first, the hero comes second, and the tuner comes third.

Shark Beach fourth!

Life and death decision number five.

Now, three Chinese-language films have made it into the mainland box office chart.

Li Wenyu laughed. "It seems your marathon roadshow was too easy. You're still going to do this? Aren't you going to wait until you break 3 million?"

He felt that Zhang Ziyi was so tired that she lost a few pounds.

This is based on two months of running and resting one day. If she really follows the model of Pancake Man and Never Expected, which will happen more than ten years later, Zhang Ziyi will probably lose more than ten pounds.

Zhang Ziyi took a breath and sighed, "This kind of tiredness can all be suppressed by the fighting spirit. Now the whole team is waiting to break the record."

She is only the second female lead, but she is also one of the main actors.

Li Bingbing enviously said, "Director Li, if our sound engineer had worked so hard back then, would we have had a chance to reach 300 million?"

The total box office of The Piano Tuner in mainland China is much higher than that of The Shallows.

But its global box office is only on the same level as The Shallows.

The box office sales power of a large group of stars is almost the same as that of Fat Ice's single antibody!
Li Wenyu was speechless. This is closely related to the number of large screens in theaters.

Mainland cinema chains have long been promoting the withdrawal of foreign capital, whether from Europe, America or other countries, except in pilot cities.

Anyone can invest in building, renovating and operating cinemas, but the shareholding ratio cannot exceed 50%, and the maximum is 49%.

However, foreign investors can hold more than 50% of cinema shares in pilot cities such as Beijing and Shanghai, and the maximum foreign shareholding ratio can be expanded to 75%.

This is also the biggest policy support and inclination for Li Wenyu to push for another vote and attract capital to build more new cinemas.

Without this background, the number of cinemas this year would not have suddenly increased so much under the general trend.

Originally, starting in 04, Wanda, the future cinema giant, started to hold 100% of the shares in the cinema chain together with Warner Bros. International Cinemas Group of the United States.

Later, Warner Bros. withdrew and it evolved into a private cinema chain wholly owned by Wanda.

He waved his hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry. "Okay, don't dwell too much on the past. Look to tomorrow. There will be more and more blockbuster movies in the future."

"I just hope you don't act in too many bad movies."

SARS affected his filming progress.

It will not affect the overall trend of the summer season.

There were no new cases in Beijing for many days in early June, and the lockdown was lifted and the command center was disbanded.

After chatting for a few more words, Li Wenyu agreed to attend the celebration banquet and then closed the door.

He read for another half an hour before Pang Bing came out of the main room, rubbing his waist and yawning. "Participating in the Spring Festival Gala is so tiring. The main reason is that the rehearsal preparation time is too long."

"I still received a lot of preferential treatment. Today is the fourth day of the New Year, and I finally recovered completely." As he spoke, he became more energetic. Pang Bing asked curiously, "Brother Yu, why don't you release "Marriage Story" during the Spring Festival?"

"Hero gave up the screening rate, those ordinary popcorns are selling so well."

Li Wenyu was speechless. "During Chinese New Year, you're asking everyone to watch a story about a divorce lawsuit and a child custody battle? Aren't you afraid of being blasted by netizens?"

Even though Marriage Story won Winona Ryder the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Drama.

Lao Li was also nominated for Best Director, and Zhang Guorong was nominated for Best Actor.

This is still not a reason to poison the people during the New Year!
It's almost time. In one week, on February 2th, the nominations for the 11 Hollywood Oscars will be released. He actually didn't pay any money.

But for safety and insurance reasons, Zhang Guorong spent a lot of money and went to do public relations with Columbia and Winona.

Li Wenyu's Oscar nomination for Best Director is also relatively stable.

With this, Li Wenyu's status in the field of award-winning films is directly comparable to Li An.

He lit a cigarette and said with a smile, "All box office revenue from China, South Korea, and Thailand belongs to Time Media. Let's go for it this summer and grab some money."

"Kung Fu is coming to theaters during the summer. If you, the leading actress, can outperform the hero at the box office and make Kung Fu the top of the Chinese box office charts, then companies outside will want to hire you to make movies in the future."

"If you don't lower your pay and offer a friendly price, not many people will be able to afford you."

Countless people didn't know that SARS was coming. While "Hero" continued to rave at the box office, the mainland Chinese box office was also increasing.

Those that have already increased their investment, whether they are foreign cinema owners outside pilot cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, etc., who can only hold 49% of the shares, or foreign cinema chains in Beijing and Shanghai, who can hold up to 75% of the shares.

There are still many branches being built!
According to what he inquired, top theater chains such as Warner Bros. are all increasing their investment in advance.

Last summer, The Piano Tuner's highest single-week box office was 2700 million or 2800 million, and its highest single-week box office during the Lunar New Year holiday was 4000 million.

During the summer vacation, we may be able to make 4500 million in a single week.

Cinema chains aren't particularly fancy buildings. How long can a prefecture-level city or county town last, from laying the foundation to building a one- or two-story, multi-screen cinema?
The construction period was affected by the anti-virus treatment for a few months, which is not a big problem.

Fat Bing came over and jumped into his arms, "So when will you start Extreme Career?"

It has been almost four months since Jeon Ji-hyun first arrived.

Li Wenyu sighed, "Let's wait and see."

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A few days passed in a flash.

February 2th, Valentine’s Day.

When night falls, the Beijing Film Academy campus is filled with students waiting in the cafeteria, supermarket and other places, waiting to watch TV.

After many rounds of competition, the first and second round broadcasting rights of "You Who Came From the Stars" in mainland China were bought by Hunan Provincial TV Station at a high price of 80 yuan per episode. Several trailers had been broadcast before.

Today is the first broadcast in mainland China!
This idol drama that created all kinds of miracles was defined as the ceiling of mainland idol dramas and the king of dramas that set a benchmark for the industry.

The people in the circle who like to watch are the ones who are most eager to watch, and countless people are counting the days.

In a cafeteria, Huang Shengyi and a group of classmates from Class 01 were surrounding Wang Luodan and Zhou Yiwei and making a lot of noise.

Liu Yifei from Class 02, Architect Jiang, Zhu Yawen, and others also spontaneously formed their own circles.

The art exam has ended and the school season has begun.

Too many people were shocked that Yang Mi, the third female lead, could earn 30 yuan in advertising endorsement fees.

Huang Xiaoming's status has also been rapidly upgraded.

As soon as this drama was released, some people were saying that Huang Xiaoming could become the number one young actor in mainland China. The second male lead is Deng. The second male lead played by Deng is the heroine's bootlicker since childhood.

He is also the second prince of Shanghai Department Store Real Estate Group, tall, rich and handsome!
This boyfriend power is definitely far from that of an alien who possesses all kinds of superpowers.

But among normal people, the second male lead is also a top rich young man.

Beside Liu Yifei, Architect Jiang's face was filled with excitement and anticipation. "It's almost starting! Why hasn't it started yet? Sissi, Senior Brother Li is really nominated for an Oscar for Best Director."

"Brother Li has caught up with Li An in terms of appearance!"

"Zhang Guorong was nominated for Best Actor, the first time in the history of Chinese acting awards."

"What kind of amazing master is this? Why weren't we born two years earlier? That Lu Chuan actually came out to try to scam Li Senior Brother. If he showed up on campus, there would probably be a lot of people who would want to beat him up."

Architect Jiang tends to be a bit of a chatterbox.

But boys like Zhu Yawen and Luo Jin were nodding frantically.

When this group of people looked at the people at level 01, they were full of envy and jealousy, wishing they could replace them all.

The reputation of the Beijing Film Academy's "Water Army" has spread throughout the Chinese entertainment industry. Water army publicity and promotion personnel such as Huang Xiaolei, Zhao Ke, etc. can all get into the Hong Kong film circle.

It’s a pity that the water army team no longer accepts people from other classes to be water army coaches.

As he was talking, Architect Jiang saw a figure walking into the cafeteria and suddenly slapped his forehead, "Oh my god, what the hell, isn't that Level 99 Loudmouth? How dare she show up?"

Lao Ling was the first batch of water army instructors that Li Wenyu chose to invite for dinner when he started his career, but he quit the next day and has long become a laughing stock.

Lao Ling is okay. He has a good relationship with many other students of the same grade.

Li Wenyu also made it clear that even if the water army no longer recruits people, the friendship between classmates still needs to be maintained, and it is normal to want to bring Lao Ling with him on a project.

But Dazui posted on Weibo to attack Li Wenyu.

She is now also a super celebrity in Beijing Film Academy. I heard that she has joined director Chen’s new project The Promise. If she is not the female lead, she will at least play an important supporting role.

The entire cafeteria fell into silence as Big Mouth appeared, and countless people were paying attention to her.

Several newly donated plasma wide-screen televisions have appeared, and the advertising sounds are becoming clearer and clearer.

Big Mouth... although he was thick-skinned, he couldn't bear the pressure of everyone's attention and ran away.

Fortunately, the theme song of You Who Came From the Stars had already started playing on the hour, so no one paid attention to Dazui anymore.

It's just the opening trailer, which shows all kinds of fashionable street scenes of modern cities and the cool looks of the main creative team, which has already caused screams.

After the opening theme song, the subtitles show the 30th year of the Wanli reign of the Ming Dynasty? ?
The screaming students from Beijing Film Academy were all stunned.

Isn't this an idol drama that raises the bar for Chinese aesthetics and sets the standard for idol dramas? How come it's already the 1602th year of the Wanli Emperor's reign in the Ming Dynasty? !

The publicity and promotion of the drama "You Who Came From the Stars" has always relied on a group of beautiful women and handsome men, interesting behind-the-scenes stories during the filming, and other interactions with the entire network. They never mentioned that the male lead is an alien who can live for 400 years.

The color TV screen lights up, with special effects of the cosmic starry sky and a UFO flying towards the earth.

The exterior view of the Earth and the Moon.

The shouts of "Fuck, fuck" exploded.

This is on par with Jurassic Park 1 on the big screen, and you can still see some roughness and flaws.

On a plasma widescreen color TV? It's no different from the special effects of Jurassic Park 3 or Spider-Man 1.

The UFO entered the earth and flew over the Ming Dynasty county town of Shanghu in 1602.

The dozens of seconds of footage are almost explosive!!
This dramatic special effect instantly made countless viewers understand why the TV series "You Who Came From the Stars" was so expensive! Damn, this is a TV series that can be watched for free?

(End of this chapter)