Become Famous Another Day

"Didn't you agree to let Pinhe's character debut in the third season first? This can also warm up, so that the audience of "Seventeenth Story" will become interested in spin-off dramas and pay attention to the development of spin-off dramas."

Zhang Yuezhen sat opposite Jiang Lan and was a little confused about the latest news that Jiang Lan told her.

Jiang Lan explained with a smile: "The main reason is that when we were discussing the script, we found it difficult to arrange the character of Pinhe. You also know that if a character is added incorrectly, it will have the opposite effect. In fact, YouPinhe Starring, plus the popularity accumulated by the series "Seventeenth Floor", Pinhe appears in the third season at all, and there is definitely no shortage of attention. This is because Pinhe has been in TV series after many years."

Zhang Yuezhen looked at Jiang Lan silently.

For a moment, she didn't know whether she should believe Jiang Lan's remarks.

However, Jiang Lan’s statement also makes some sense.

"Maxine has already won the broadcast rights of overseas streaming media in advance for this spin-off drama." Zhang Yuezhen said, "As far as I know, their bid should be not low, right?"

Jiang Lan laughed and said, "The first season of "Seventeenth Layer" was very good on Maxine, and the price of the second season had reached the first-line purchase price of Maxine. As for the spin-off drama, well, indeed, The purchase price in the second quarter is almost the same. ”

Zhang Yue was really stunned.

She originally wanted to say that Maxine's purchase price for the "Seventeenth Floor" spin-off drama was only so expensive for the sake of starring Chen Pinhe, but she didn't expect Jiang Lan to answer this.

However, what price can the second season of "Seventeenth Layer" reach?

Zhang Yuezhen learned from his own channels that Maxine's purchase price for the "Seventeenth Layer" spin-off drama, which is definitely the top price figure in the history of overseas distribution of Chinese dramas.

Is what Jiang Lan said true or false?

"Seventeenth Layer" is not as popular as "Squid Game", and is not even as popular as "Friends" in Maxine.

Will Maxine give such a high price?

Zhang Yuezhen tends to doubt deep down.

However, Jiang Lan's smile seemed to notice nothing. She said: "We also hope that Pinhe can take the "Seventeenth Floor" series to a higher level. In fact, the pay we paid Pinhe is higher than that of Lu Yanhe and Chen Bige. The river should be able to feel our sincerity towards him.”

"Of course." Zhang Yuezhen nodded, "However, for the spin-off drama of "Seventeenth Story", you are planning to let Pinhe take the ratings alone, and it is entirely based on Pinhe's role. His role is far more than Chen Bige and Lu Yanhe in "Ten" There are many in the seventh floor"? "

"Seventeenth Floor" is actually a group scene.

Jiang Lan: "Yes, to be honest, I was quite surprised. Bige, Yan He and Jiang Jun are all willing to return to the third season and finish the filming of this story from beginning to end. I am very grateful to them. Many actors are I won't return to star in the second season."

Zhang Yue really laughed.

"So did Jingtai sign a two-season contract with Pinhe in one go?"

"We are preparing to shoot back-to-back and two seasons together," said Jiang Lan. "This is convenient for production and can save a lot of production costs."

Zhang Yuezhen: "Will Director Lian Bei continue to direct the spin-off drama of "Seventeenth Level"?"

"We are talking to him. He directed three seasons of "Seventeenth Layer" in one go. If you want to do other projects, we are trying to keep him as much as possible." Jiang Lan said, "After all, he is most familiar with this series, and he is also a good deal. The most suitable director, if we really can't stay, we will definitely invite the most suitable director to take over. We want to use this spin-off drama as a king-level project that continues "The Seventeenth Level". "

Zhang Yuezhen: "I really believe that Jiang Tai will definitely use all his strength to do this project well, otherwise we will not take it."

Jiang Lan: "You gave me two resumes before. We have evaluated them internally. We are very satisfied with these two people at the beginning and our image is very good in all aspects. However, we still hope to try the show first. Make a decision, after all, they don’t have much performance experience for us to refer to.”

Zhang Yue was really dissatisfied and said, "Their acting skills have been praised by Pinhe. Can you even believe Pinhe's vision?"

"How can we not believe the movie hero's vision? However, acting is not just about good acting skills, but you still have to play with a good face to know the real effect." Jiang Lan shook her head helplessly, "You have never done our job, you must be sure that you have to do our job. I can't feel that many actors, when we watch photos or even videos, think this actor is very suitable, but when we see a real person, we are disappointed in the face of being disappointed."

Zhang Yuezhen hesitated for a moment and said, "Then let them take a test."

Jiang Lan laughed.

"Also, Yuezhen, I have to say hello to you in advance." Jiang Lan said, "The two main female characters cannot be taken by the actors you recommend."

Zhang Yue was really stunned.

"Do you have any other ideas?"

"This drama is created by our Beijing-Taiwan as the drama king, and we must have something we need to balance." Jiang Lan said, "You should understand this, right?"

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Chen Ziyan got out of the car, and there were several people squatting at the door, carrying cameras in her hands, and there were people who were broadcasting live here with machines directly.

She glanced at them, walked into the studio without taking off her sunglasses.

There is never a shortage of media squatting here on the shooting scene of "Friends".

Even if you just take photos of some actors going to work and getting off work, you can get a lot of traffic.

Chen Ziyan came to the set of "Friends".

Everyone is setting up.

The actors stood aside and chatted.

Chen Ziyan took off her sunglasses and greeted Hu Siwei first.

I happened to meet Hu Siwei.

"All the filming goes well?"

"So smooth, everyone has cooperated many times, and they have a tacit cooperation." Hu Siwei said with a smile, "Why did Mr. Chen come here today?"

"Tell me something about Yan He." Chen Ziyan smiled, "By the way, the Golden Globe Awards are about to be announced. "Friends" season 1 may receive several nominations. This is what Maxine told me about it. .”

"Really?" Hu Siwei showed surprise.

"Yes, the broadcast of "Friends" on Maxine is very stable, and the results are better than the season one." Chen Ziyan said, "Just Yan He said at the beginning, the drama has a strong potential, according to Maxine's backstage data It shows that the repetition rate is much higher than that of ordinary hit dramas.”

Hu Siwei nodded.

"I'm gradually understanding why Yan He said that this drama has strong momentum." Hu Siwei smiled, "Sometimes, when I have nothing to do when I eat alone, I will open "Friends" to watch one episode, one episode and twenty Minutes, just the time to have a meal.”

Chen Ziyan nodded with a smile.

"This is the characteristics and advantages of the sitcom type," she said. "If Friends can really win the Golden Globes, it will be a big deal for our second season of Friends to be broadcast globally. Maxine is now waiting for the nomination list for the Golden Globes to be announced, and they attach great importance to this series."

Maxine attaches importance to the fact that he has bought the adaptation rights from Beijing and Taiwan and wants to make a version of the English version of "The Six People".

But it hasn't been photographed yet.

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After Lu Yanhe noticed that Chen Ziyan had come, he came over immediately.

"Sister Zi Yan."

Chen Ziyan nodded to him and said, "Jiang Lan said that the members of the protagonist group of the "Seventeenth-Level" spin-off drama can leave us a place, but because "Seventeenth-Level" is preparing to do commercial derivative development, she hopes We can give them the right to use your portrait for the characters you play."

"What are they trying to do? Do they make figures?"

"Everything is the case," said Chen Ziyan. "The development of figures, toys, animations or comics may even include games."

Lu Yanhe nodded and said, "They are quite business-minded and discovered what is the greatest value of a subject like "Seventeenth Layer". " Chen Ziyan smiled.

"What do you think? Portrait right."

"It can be granted, but we need to agree before every use." Lu Yanhe said, "In addition, all the places involving my portrait use rights must be divided into the income that should be given to me. These must be clearly written in the contract. .”

Chen Ziyan nodded.

"By the way, did they only ask me for the portrait rights, or did the other actors also want it?"

"It should be that all the members of the protagonist group have to be asked for." Chen Ziyan said, "As far as I know, what they value most is game development. If the game character modeling cannot use your portraits, for fans, It loses a lot of appeal, and figures are the same - however, figures have always been small in China, and are a niche market, mainly games."

"Okay." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Chen Ziyan asked: "I am going to send Minglan to the crew of the "Seventeenth Floor" spin-off drama. Do you have any ideas?"

"Minglan?" Lu Yanhe was a little surprised, "Will you let Minglan play the heroine?"

"Yes." Chen Ziyan said, "If Minglan goes to play, with Minglan's current status, she must have played the heroine, otherwise it will be difficult for others to compete with the heroine. I heard that Chen Pinhe also gave two more money to the heroine. An actress' resume is given to Jiang Lan, and she wants Chen Pinhe to act in this drama. In addition, the "Seventeenth Layer" spin-off drama is definitely aimed at the global market, and Minglan wants to show her face in "Source Code" , and the spin-offs of "Friends" and "Seventeenth Layer" will help her to swipe her face internationally in the next few years."

No mistakes, one song, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one reading!

"Okay, if Minglan is suitable, let her go." Lu Yanhe nodded.

Chen Ziyan explained so much, probably because she was afraid that he would think too much.

Because of the position of the protagonist group of the "Seventeenth Floor" spin-off drama, Jiang Lan was mainly for the sake of Lu Yanhe's face, and for the derivative development of "Seventeenth Floor", and Lu Yanhe's cooperation is also needed.

It was equivalent to the resources replaced by Lu Yanhe, and Chen Ziyan was going to use them for Wen Minglan.

However, no matter how popular Wen Minglan is or how much money she earns, it has nothing to do with Lu Yanhe.

She is Chen Ziyan's artist, not Lu Yanhe's artist.

Unlike artists like Huang Feng, Jiang Jun, Cai Na, Zhang Ruozhi who signed in because of Lu Yanhe, Lu Yanhe personally won’t get any dividends from Wen Minglan’s brokerage business, and the former’s brokerage Business income, Lu Yanhe not only receives dividends from Shihuo's shareholding, but also directly receives dividends from their brokerage business income. Through this arrangement, Chen Ziyan ensures that Lu Yanhe's interests will not be focused on Shihuo and Linghe. The difference is damaged.

After all, the businesses of the two companies are clearly divided, one is a broker and the other is a production and copyright operation.

If Chen Ziyan doesn't do this, it means that all the artists who signed in to Shihuo because of Lu Yanhe's relationship will only be able to enjoy the benefits brought by Shihuo's shares in the end, and that will actually be a loss-

After all, Linghe can also sign the agent contract of these actors by himself to monopolize the agency income.

Since Wen Minglan debuted, she has obtained a lot of resources from Lu Yanhe.

"Friends" that made her popular is, the first Hollywood movie "Source Code" is, and the current "Seventeenth Layer" spin-off series is still.

Without these resources, Chen Ziyan could of course make Wen Minglan famous, but it is hard to say whether she can have the current momentum.

In a sense, all Chinese actors who can truly go international have struck the trend of the times.

Because China does not have a mature global star manufacturing industry chain, all Chinese actors need to have popularity and influence in the world rely on luck and their own charm and talent. Almost everyone's path cannot be copied.

As for so many famous stars in the United States, many of them can be replicated in their path to becoming famous. Because they are the product of industrialization themselves.

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Chen Ziyan did not expect that in just a few years in Hollywood, Lu Yanhe had accidentally established a way to lead other Chinese actors to the international stage.

Although the road is still very narrow, it can only accommodate a few people.

But who knows whether this road will become wider and wider in the future?

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Lu Yanhe himself really doesn't mind Wen Minglan using these resources to go to the next level.

Because he knows Chen Ziyan very well.

The biggest difference between Chen Ziyan and Zhou Ping'an is that Chen Ziyan is not the kind of way to borrow the boss to supplement the others, nor will she be confused about the way to use the boss to make up for the boss and the poor Li Zhibai.

If Wen Minglan can really go to the next level and become a more influential and popular actor, it will be a great help to him and Chen Ziyan.

This is beyond doubt, and it can also strengthen their strength.

Just like Jiang Jun finally successfully won the movie "Doom Day".

If Jiang Jun had not successfully become popular around the world with "Squid Game", no matter how capable Lu Yanhe and Chen Ziyan are, they would not have been able to force him to star in a movie of "Doom Day".

"Speaking of this, I haven't seen Tu Song for a long time. Where has he been?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Chen Ziyan brought three artists at Xingyu, one is Lu Yanhe, the other is Wen Minglan, and the other is the only singer, Tu Song.

Chen Ziyan said: "He is studying and studying music. He has been working much less in the past two years. I just let him sing a few OSTs of film and television dramas steadily every year, and release a single to keep his exposure, but he didn't work hard. He pushed him. His voice conditions are limited, and I hope he can still give him more martial arts and learn more, so as to be a singer-songwriter in the future, which will be more powerful for his career."

"Singer creator?"

"Yeah." Chen Ziyan nodded, "The singer-songwriters' requirements for voice conditions are not that extreme. In fact, whether you, Li Zhibai or Yan Liang, you all have the conditions to be a singer and have certain basic skills, but in my eyes, you have all the conditions to be a singer. , the quality of becoming a top singer is still a little worse, but if you are taking the path of singer-songwriter, you can make up for the shortcomings of your voice."

Lu Yanhe nodded and understood what Chen Ziyan said.

"You have written so many songs, but you can actually go this way," said Chen Ziyan.

"I... I'd better be an actor honestly, sing. I occasionally write a song or two and sing it on stage. This is OK. It makes me really become a singer like an actor. I still feel that I don't have this. ability."

"Whatever you do, you still think you are an ordinary person and have no talent." Chen Ziyan doesn't believe in Lu Yanhe's self-moodiness at all, "It's OK, but this time, you three of you went to the Spring Festival Gala and finally decided to sing "Love" Is it?”

"Yeah," said Lu Yanhe. "We had a rehearsed version of this song last year, and this year we just need to be familiar with it."

"I heard that the director team may want you to sing another song, and they seem to have arranged one for you." Chen Ziyan said, "But it hasn't been decided yet, and it is also possible that they finally decided to sing this song for others. ”

Lu Yanhe: "It depends on their arrangement, it's fine."

Chen Ziyan nodded.

"The Golden Globe Awards are about to be announced. Have you ever thought about which awards do you want Friends to nominate?"

"Who knows, maybe someone else is just trying to give us some less important departments." Lu Yanhe said, "Anyway, I believe that the two departments of Best Work and Best Director will not be mentioned, Best Actor. ...It's so bad that my character doesn't need to show any acting skills. The hope is actually Yan Liang and Zhan Yun, but the characters in "Friends" are not known for their acting skills, who knows."

The original "Friends" is so popular, and those starring actors don't seem to have won a few heavy performance awards.

"It's enough to be nominated," said Lu Yanhe. "Notification is recognized for dramas like us that are not English-language dramas or non-American companies."

"I can only think so." Chen Ziyan nodded, "However, I still feel that you have a great hope of nominating the Best Script Award, or even a hope of winning the award."

"I don't think so, don't breastfeed me."

"Look, every time I think you can do anything, your first reaction is that you can't do it." Chen Ziyan shrugged, "You are the number one who is overly modest."

Lu Yanhe: "...I really feel that there is little hope. We are not in other people's gaming circle. Unless "Friends" really breaks some record, they may give us a prize." (End of this chapter)