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Chapter 137 What Can I Do?

While waiting at the airport, Zhou Xia kept calling and was still dealing with various matters of the company.

Stimulated by his generous bonus, the post-production team of the TV series worked overtime and completed the fine-cut version on May Day.

Now a month has passed, and the visual effects and soundtrack have been completed, leaving only the dubbing synthesis.

The TV series has now entered the release stage.

The students who finished the college entrance examination will be on vacation soon, and the schedule of TV dramas must be fixed early!

A month ago, Zhou Xia got the news that Shonan Satellite TV's self-produced drama "Meteor Shower 2" was completed on May 5.

This is definitely not good news.

If dramas of the same type are broadcast on the same platform, there must be competition, and they are self-produced dramas!

Zhou Xia was worried and had nothing to do, but fortunately, Shanghai Tomato Channel, Sanqin Lightning Channel, Jiangsu-Zhejiang Dabing Platform, and BTV of Imperial Satellite TV also expressed their love for their drama.

The excitement Chen Yuan called Zhou Xia a few days ago is still fresh in his memory.

Originally thought that their drama, with no star, no name screenwriter, and no name director, even if it was an adaptation of a best-selling novel with a popular theme, would sell at most 100 million per episode, and it would be exhausted.

Unexpectedly, the lowest asking price of these companies is 120 million, and the highest is 150 million!

This makes Shonan Satellite TV a little bit waxy.

Now they are the only one, invested in it from the beginning, and have the right of first refusal.

But they didn't want to spend such a high price to buy it, even though Ding Cheng, the editor-in-chief of the editor's office, was very optimistic about the show and insisted on raising the price to buy it.

However, the leaders of the station prefer to broadcast the self-produced dramas in the summer, and they are not willing to pay high prices to buy them.

This delayed the negotiations.

The dub synthesis didn't take long.

The production of the TV series is about to be completed, and the summer vacation is coming soon, so there is no time to delay!

TV stations generally advance one drama and arrange the broadcast time of the next drama.

After all, it is necessary to start all kinds of publicity first, and attract investment for the opening, ending, and interstitial advertisements.

If things go on like this, "Meteor Shower 2" is finished in the later stage and has not yet been finalized. It is impossible to broadcast two dramas with the same theme in one summer slot, so their drama will probably be postponed and broadcast in different gears!
This is unacceptable to Zhou Xia.

After serious consideration, he communicated with Chen Yuan and Yang Tianzhen a week ago, and negotiated with Shonan Satellite TV.

Shonan Satellite TV made a final reply the day before yesterday.

It is possible to collect 120 million episodes, but the summer schedule cannot be arranged, and the schedule will be transferred to the winter vacation.

This condition is very generous for many film and television companies, but Zhou Xia doesn't think so.

Winter holidays are much different than summer holidays.

This is a TV series, not a movie, but there is no such thing as a Lunar New Year file!
Not to mention that the summer vacation is twice as long as the winter vacation, just having to give way to various galas for several days during the winter vacation will greatly affect the ratings!
Zhou Xia was very unhappy with this change of direction of Shonan Satellite TV!
At that time, they thought it was good and forced him to hurry up to work, but now they backtracked, obviously it was the big shop bullying customers!
You are indeed the only family, and everyone has to curry favor, but time waits for no one.

He released the TV series theme song "Little Lucky" mv, and a new version of the novel. Now that the popularity is so high, the delay of several months will have an immeasurable impact.

It is impossible for him to hang himself on this tree!
Zhou Xia believes that a really good drama will have a high ratings.

Besides, a TV series like "Meteor Shower 2" is just a shooting star, why should it be compared with his drama?
His new version of the novel has been appraised by the media as "the youthful past of the post-80s generation" and "the love story of the post-[-]s generation".

This is not a flattery written by Yang Tianzhen and Lu Jinbo.

Although Han Shao reprinted and recommended new books on Weibo, his words were sarcasm when he exchanged commercials.

""You at the Same Table" was recommended by my boss. It is a film and television novel written by film and television writer Zhou Xia. When I read it, it was like listening to a post-80s youth sonata. Zhou Xia provided a one-stop theater service. No wonder he The books are selling well!"

Seeing Han Shao's evaluation of Zhou Xia, Guo Xiaosi suddenly realized!

He decided to immediately find an investor to make his "Little Times" into a movie and directly provide real theater services!

Not to mention that Guo Xiaosi and Han Shao successively embarked on the road of making movies because of Zhou Xia's influence.

At least the approval of the literary circle shows that the influence of Zhou Xia's book is not limited to the category of youth romance novels.

He indeed recorded the real youth stories of the post-80s generation.

Realistic novels are literary history books.

It turns out that the bad movie "You at the Same Table" with weak light and shadow ppt is no longer the same as Zhou Xia's book and TV series now.

"Meteor Shower 2" naturally cannot compete with it in terms of style.

As for the number of fans and the looks of the actors, Zhou Xia and the others were not weaker than each other in this drama.

Zhou Xia, Sisi, Yaya, Kan Qingzi, Dou Xiao, Chong Danny, Liu Haoran, Song Zuer, compared with Meteor's h4 and Chu Yuxun, how can they be inferior?
As for the plot and story, it goes without saying, and the audience should be wider.

After careful analysis and comparison, Zhou Xia has more confidence in their drama.

He called Yang Tianzhen and Chen Yuan to communicate again, and they unanimously decided not to serve and change the broadcast channel!
Both the pancake table and the tomato table are good choices. Choose the one with the highest sincerity.

It is a prerequisite to ensure that the prime time of the summer vacation will be broadcast on stars, and the others can be appropriately reduced.

Last night, just after Zhou Xia finished the green banquet, he received a call from Chen Yuan.

Dabingtai of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Satellite TV won the right to broadcast the first round of their TV series at a price of 140 million yuan per episode.

The payment for TV dramas is similar to that of actors. 30.00% of the contract is paid first, and the balance will be paid during and after the broadcast.

The down payment of 1850 million was received, and Zhou Xia's studio was allocated 555 million.

In this way, all the costs invested by Zhou Xia have been recovered, plus the remaining final payment, the most important online copyright, it is estimated that their final revenue of this drama will be around 2200 million.

After all, it is a modern youth idol drama, which is easy to place ads.

The TV station will sell a good price for the opening, ending, and mid-film commercials alone.

This is also one of the reasons why this show can sell for 140 million per episode even if it has no first-line stars and is basically newcomers.

of course.

Other reasons are also very important, such as the quality of the finished film, the adaptation of best-selling novels, the popularity and appearance of actors.

And after Zhou Xia's "Little Lucky" was released, his popularity soared and he became famous all over the country, which was the reason why the show sold at a high price.

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On the afternoon of June 6, Zhou Xia returned to Shanghai.

On the way home from Pudong International Airport, through the car window, you can see various advertisements for the World Expo.

"City, Better Life. Better City, Better Life."

Zhou Xia is somewhat proud of this.

The 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 World Expo are two grand international events.

The florist who made the great country rise has been respected by more and more Blue Star people.

As a result, the two cities of the imperial capital and the magic capital have become more famous internationally.

The World Expo opened on May 5, and most of the parks are located in Pudong New District. Zhou Xia's father, Zhou Yuan, was even busier.

Next year's No.14 World Swimming Championships will be held in Shanghai. His mother is one of the officials, and she is too busy to see anyone now.

Grandpa and grandma went back to their hometown, and Zhou Xia returned to the empty new home, feeling bored alone.

Fortunately, he is always busy.

The phone calls to deal with the company's affairs, explaining that Yang Tianzhen will recover the funds to purchase the copyrights of some well-known online works.

For example, "Three Lives Three Worlds", "The Legend of Chu Qiao", "Langya Bang" and other excellent novels that have already been published.

The copyrights of these works have basically been sold, and now Zhou Xia can only buy them at a higher price.

Fortunately, the current copyright price is not high, the highest is not a million, and it doesn't cost much.

If you wait until 2011 and 2013, the price will increase every year.

Didn't rest long at home.

Seven o'clock that night.

Zhou Xia went to the Jinjiang International Hotel to meet Li Lianjie, Xue Xiaolu, Zhang Huina, Gui Lunmei and other main creators.

How could I forget, the No. 13th Shanghai Film Festival, the chairman of the jury of the main competition unit is Wu Baige!
Sitting in a taxi, Zhou Xia passed the Shanghai Grand Theater and saw the lineup of judges on the big promotional poster, and suddenly remembered something.

in his memory.

As the opening film, "Ocean Paradise" received rave reviews and was once very popular, but in the end it failed!

Italian bad film "It's Love at First Kiss" won three awards, which is somewhat unexpected.

have to say.

The chairman of the jury, Wu Baige, the jury, Zhao Yanzi, and Wang Xiaoshuai, the general almost, are worthy of being famous artists with an international vision and selflessness. Foreign friends, unstingy, extremely enthusiastic people!

"What can I do, I don't want to fail! After all, the current "Ocean Paradise" is better than the original version, and the films participating this time are similar to "Bi Luo Snow Mountain"."

"piu——!"

Zhou Xia looked at Wu Baige on the promotional poster of the film festival, and imitated Brother Ma with his hands in a handsome shooting pose.

There is no other meaning, it is purely a tribute to the master.

It's just that it still needs to work well in the future!

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