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"Huaiqian quickly took over "Interview with Mr. Cheng at Night."" Chen Siqi put a piece of lobster meat on Lu Yanhe's plate. "Originally, we thought he would hesitate because this play is more literary. , a lot of dialogue, and the plot conflict is not very big. It is an experimental play in Jump Theater, so the cost is controlled at a lower level. The salary offered to him is basically not much higher than that of "Whirlpool", and I thought he would refuse. "

Lu Yanhe knew the story "Interview with Mr. Cheng at Night". This is a short story written by traditional literature writer Ma Chao for "Jump Up". It tells the story of a young writer who contacted a young writer in order to draw material for his next novel. A once-popular Peking Opera star happened to see his former apprentice come to visit him. The two had a fierce dispute over the adaptation of a play, which led to the story of their old grudges from the past and their eventual separation. .

In this drama, Huaiqian is cast to play the role of a famous disciple.

This kind of play is all about the fight between two people. The actor's performance is extremely important and also shows his skill.

And its subject matter is destined to be difficult to become popular, and it is warmly liked by the audience. After all, it is too literary -

But Chen Siqi and his team’s design of the Jump Theater also left room for this type of drama.

They internally believe that although the threshold is a bit high, but the content is actually very good, they can produce at least two to three stories every year.

"Perhaps the audience will like whichever one becomes popular." Chen Siqi said, "No one can say for sure. When we made "China in Classics", who would have thought that such a cultural program could also have such success? A large and loyal audience.”

Lu Yanhe nodded.

"That's good," he said.

Chen Siqi: "Now we have to look at the results of "The Intern" next week. If the ratings can still be stable above 0.6%, Yuehu TV and Northern Lights Video will have enough confidence to go to the investment negotiations held next week. We are asking for a price increase. In this way, we can increase the production budget for each subsequent drama, and we don’t have to split one dollar into two dollars like now.”

""The Intern" stars Yan Liang, right?" Lu Yanhe asked.

"Yes." Chen Siqi nodded, "The actress who played the role of Yan Liang's female boss is called Yu Ling. She was recommended by Liu Zi. She was a colleague she had worked with. She acted in a play and later returned to her family to raise her children. I have I watched the drama "The Intern" in advance. Her acting skills are very good, but she doesn't have an agency yet. I have recommended her to Sister Ziyan and I also asked Jump Up Theater to sign three additional dramas with her. , signed in a package, with a total salary of 100,000.”

In order to save money for Jump Up Theater, Chen Siqi and the others also thought of many ways. In a situation like Yu Ling's, if there is no well-known actor at all, but her acting skills are good, Chen Siqi will directly sign several drama contracts at one time for one package price, saving money on the actor's salary.

Chen Siqi didn't think it was thanks to the treatment. The selling point of the drama "Intern" is Yan Liang. It is conceivable that as the heroine of the drama, Yu Ling will receive a lot of attention once the drama airs. The potential income this brings to her is far beyond what a salary of tens of thousands of dollars can match.

In the market, business talks.

Lu Yanhe understood what Chen Siqi meant.

Chen Siqi told him now to let him know in advance.

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Lu Yanhe went to Yuehu, met with the leaders of Yuehutai, and determined cooperation on several important follow-up projects.

One is the second season of "The Birth of an Actor", the other is the drama "Legend of Sword and Fairy", and the third one is Jump Up Theater.

Judging from the two dramas that have been aired so far, "Girl's Adventures" and "Whirlpool", this theater did not explode in ratings like "Friends" and "Wulin Gaiden", but it also surpassed Yuehu Taiwan’s performance during the same period.

The key is that the investment cost of Yuehu Stage's Jump Theater is much lower than the investment cost of the corresponding period in the past.

The copyrights for Jump Up Theater plays belong to Linghe. However, because the drama in this theater only has an exclusive window of 24 hours for Yuehutai, after 24 hours, it will be online on Northern Lights Video. Therefore, in fact, the purchase price of Yuehutai is higher than The Northern Lights video is much lower.

Every time Jump Up Theater launches a new movie, it will drive the audience to click and watch the previous scenes—

This cannot be achieved by traditional TV stations.

It is also impossible to say that these plays are played in rotation twenty-four hours a day.

Yuehutai was very satisfied.

The twenty-four-hour window period is enough to get the first wave of audience ratings, which is enough to help this theater drive the TV station's ratings.

Xu Senjin, the director of Yuehu Station, received Lu Yanhe very warmly. Not only did he personally treat him to a dinner, but he also signed an agreement with him, mainly to hire Lu Yanhe as the creative partner of Yuehu Station and to provide services for Yuehu Station. Yuehu TV provided an agreement for program creativity, without any substantive work requirements, for a period of three years, with an annual salary of one million—

Lu Yanhe originally didn't want to sign.

There is no free pie in the world.

Lu Yanhe also understood why Xu Senjin wanted to sign such an agreement with him. To put it bluntly, he wanted to bind Lu Yanhe to Yuehu Terrace for a long time and establish a friendly and cooperative relationship.

One million a year is already a huge sum of money for ordinary people, but for a creator like Lu Yanhe who has made amazing achievements in movies, TV series and variety shows, it is actually too little. few.

If Lu Yanhe is willing, there are many platforms outside that are willing to add a zero at the end to cooperate with him.

But Lu Yanhe doesn’t like receiving blank checks—

Money is easy to repay, but favor is difficult to repay.

In this matter, the one million yuan that seemed to be given without any requirement and was almost free of charge would affect the normal business negotiations of many of his future projects.

However, Xu Senjin dispelled his concerns with a paragraph.

"Yan He, we all know that such an agreement is not even the icing on the cake for you. However, from "Friends" to Jump Up Theater, including the final episode of "The Birth of an Actor" which is about to be broadcast, In less than a year, you have injected fresh blood into our Yuehu TV station, and you have also brought about huge growth in our declining ratings and advertising revenue." He said sincerely, "So, This is not about our future cooperation, but about the past We all agree that the achievements you have brought to our Yuehu Terrace in the past six months should be expressed." Lu Yanhe thought for a while and said, "Xutai, since these three million are used to pay me. Creativity, how about this, in the name of Yue Hutai and I, use the three million to establish a screenwriting bonus project to support young directors and screenwriters in this industry who may not have found jobs yet, how about everyone? One hundred thousand yuan can support a total of thirty people.”

Xu Senjin was stunned.

Lu Yanhe said seriously: "Xutai, I am very grateful for your consideration for me, but please understand me that I will not sign this agreement. I am a person who cares about the benefits that I gain from hard work." , I won’t fight for any less, but like this I can't sleep at night after receiving such a salary. Therefore, it is used to support young directors and screenwriters who are still struggling in this industry. Maybe some of the future masters will be able to stay in this industry because of this funding. Come his chance.”

Xu Senjin suddenly smiled.

"Okay, since you said so, I won't persuade you. Anyway, this is what our station expresses to you. It's up to you how you want to use it."

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In the third week of May, "The Intern" finally received its first series starring a popular actor after the previous two dramas opened up the reputation of Jump Theater.

Yan Liang has three dramas under his belt, "Friends", "Gold Rush" and "Top of the Mountain". In terms of reality in the TV drama industry, he is at the absolute top.

With his popularity and ability to carry dramas, everyone has high expectations for the ratings of "The Intern".

At this time, the last episode of "The Birth of an Actor" is finally aired.

This actor-competition variety show, which has been on the air for three months and has aroused huge discussion and viewing enthusiasm across the country, achieved a good rating of 1.26% in the final episode.

The achievements of variety shows are mostly reflected in the online video broadcast platform. Achieving a ratings score of 1.26% is already the highest among all variety shows on local TV stations in the past two years.

In this episode, Peng Zhixing devoted half a minute to introducing Jump Up Theater and focused on "The Intern" that will be broadcast on Sunday.

As a result, this episode turned out to be the episode with the most complaints from the audience since "The Birth of an Actor" started airing.

Mainly because there are too many advertisements in this issue.

There are three trailers for other film and television dramas alone.

A thirty-second trailer for "The Intern", a one-minute trailer for "Love Letter", and a trailer for another upcoming TV series on Yuehu TV.

However, complaints are complaints, and the effect is still very obvious.

The three plays were on the hot search that night—

These are all natural hot searches, not purchased.

Moreover, especially for "Love Letter", this is the first trailer for this movie released in China. Fans who have been waiting for a long time can finally get a glimpse of the true appearance.

However, in this version of the trailer, there is still no scene of Zhang Ruozhi.

Just like the "cold treatment" of her at the Jose Film Festival, Wan Qingqing and the others at that time greeted the domestic media and weakened Zhang Ruozhi's relevant reports - the media itself had a good relationship with Linghe Company and Lu Yanhe. When I heard that Zhang Ruozhi was about to take the college entrance examination, and knowing their intentions, he was very cooperative. In this version of the trailer, there is not a single scene of Zhang Ruozhi.

It was already late May, and the college entrance examination was just around the corner. At this time, neither Lu Yanhe nor Chen Ziyan wanted anything to go wrong that would affect Zhang Ruozhi's college entrance examination.

As for the news released by the crew itself before, the male and female protagonists of this movie are Lu Yanhe and Chen Bige. Not many people know that there is a hidden female protagonist in "Love Letter".

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"The Intern" premieres on Sunday.

Yan Liang also fully demonstrated his current appeal as an actor in this drama.

One minute after the broadcast, the real-time ratings reached 1.1%. After five minutes, they fell back slightly and slowly dropped to 0.8%. After that, the ratings stabilized and began to slowly rise again.

"The Intern" tells a workplace story.

The style is lighthearted and comedic.

Even the part where Yan Liang had trouble dealing with his female boss at the beginning and had frequent conflicts and frictions was filmed very comedicly.

Lu Yanhe and Chen Siqi basically kept laughing for the first half hour and never stopped.

"The watchability of "The Intern" is currently the best among jump-up theaters." Chen Siqi commented, "It's so funny."

Lu Yanhe also nodded and said: "Yan Liang is suitable for this play. I was a little worried at first. I thought that his previous acting roles were more serious and full of bitterness and hatred. I didn't expect that his style would be inexplicably suitable for this young man who has a bit of a boring personality. intern."

"In the past, for this type of subject, if it was a young male intern, it would be biased towards being young, handsome, and attractive to female bosses with young hormones, but in this drama, this is not the direction." Chen Siqi said, "The funniest thing is that I have to endure everything in front of my boss and laugh with him. The hysterical and crazy states in private are so realistic. This will definitely resonate with the workers."

Lu Yanhe searched the Internet for real-time updates.

"You're right."

"Um?"

"Many people say that they feel empathy after watching "The Intern"." Lu Yanhe said, ""The Intern" is highly discussed on my homepage. Many media people I follow seem to be watching it."

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