Chapter 350 Company Affairs, Da Mi Mi and Tang Tang Start

The headquarters of Light and Shadow Times in Beijing, China.

In a headquarters with not many civilian staff, every staff member is busy dealing with various advertising and business cooperation, artist management work, and daily operation arrangements.

Although Wu Yuan, the boss, is not in China, none of the employees dare to slack off.

Li Xiaoping, the real boss of Light and Shadow Times, is a general manager who looks gentle but is actually strict.

At this moment, she is in the office, constantly reviewing some documents.

"Filming of "A Little Thing Called First Love" is almost done. Director Li Yang did a good job and the budget was within budget."

"Although "Soul Ferry" was sold to a sister company at a fixed price, we are also keeping an eye on the situation. Now the total number of hits on Guangying Kuaibo has exceeded 1.5 billion, and the highest number of hits for a single episode is 120 million, which is currently the most hit video on the Internet, even ten times higher than the second place."

"I heard from Mr. Wang of Guangying Kuaibo that the cost of advertising per episode for their next quarter's investment promotion has risen to 1.3 cents for a 15-second ad."

"The company's campus drama trilogy is also on Guangying. Exclusive broadcast on Kuaibo, and movies released over the years, although these dramas also have pirated resources on other platforms, the number of clicks on Guangying Kuaibo is also considerable, and it can earn a lot of advertising fees. "

"According to Director Wu's request before he left, Guangying Kuaibo has been in contact with Shangying to strive for the exclusive online broadcast rights of "Love Apartment". "

"In addition, the company's "The Heirs" and "Let's Get Married" will also be launched on Guangying Kuaibo at the same time. "

"Next year, Guangying Kuaibo should have an exclusive drama to broadcast every quarter."

Li Xiaoping's secretary is routinely reporting to Li Xiaoping on the company's recent situation.

Before Wu Yuan left, he instructed Li Xiaoping to help Guangying Times buy the exclusive online broadcast rights of "Love Apartment".

Li Xiaoping is more professional than Wang Xin in this matter. Wang Xin only knows how to do technology and is not very good at operating a company, especially a company that has deep cooperation with the entertainment industry.

Wu Yuan is already thinking about finding an executive general manager for Guangying Times to share Wang Xin's work and let Wang Xin focus on technology.

But before that, Li Xiaoping had to take over first, because those who are capable should do more work.

Many people don’t know the origin of the TV series "Love Apartment".

"Love Apartment" is an online community established by SNS website in 2005. More than 20 million members post funny or touching stories in their lives in the form of "sharing". The administrator arranges the fate of the characters according to the opinions and stories of netizens.

In 2008, the SNS website "Love Apartment" cooperated with Shanghai Film Company to adapt the online stories and jokes accumulated over the years into scripts, which were finally put on the screen.

The screenwriter Wang Yuan actually integrated the jokes in the community and compiled them into a TV series, and also "borrowed" many plots from American sitcoms.

This is why the first two parts of "Love Apartment" were produced by Shanghai Film Group, and the third part was taken away by Syndicate, a Shanghai enterprise, and became their IP.

Although Wu Yuan did not want his company to be involved in the "plagiarism" storm and did not move this film and television work in advance, he was still quite willing to buy the exclusive broadcasting rights of this TV series in advance.

In the original time and space, when the first episode of "Love Apartment" was broadcast, there was no exclusive broadcasting rights on the Internet, and all major platforms were playing pirated copies.

It was not until the third episode that the chaos of online piracy was curbed, and then Qiyi Video won the exclusive broadcasting rights, and the subsequent episodes were also monopolized.

Qiyi Video also relied on the third and fourth episodes of "Love Apartment". When the concept of "exclusive online broadcasting rights" first appeared, it relied on the large number of fans of this drama to gain a foothold in the field of online video platforms.

You know, Qiyi Video is a latecomer in the online video industry, and at the beginning it was backed by Baidu, the worst of the three giants.

In the end, it was able to make it out, and the exclusive broadcasts of "Love Apartment 3" and "Love Apartment 4" that year took a lot of effort.

This kind of popular IP that can affect the rise of a platform, of course Wu Yuan wants to get it.

Although the first episode has just started, and it is a low-cost, small-scale sitcom that no one cares about, Wu Yuan also asked Li Xiaoping to sign an exclusive broadcast contract with "Love Apartment" and a letter of intent for four episodes at once. If there is a sequel in the future, if the bid is the same, it must be given priority to be broadcast exclusively on Guangying Kuaibo.

Although she felt a little strange about Wu Yuan's request, Li Xiaoping, who had already formed a blind worship of Wu Yuan's vision, had no doubts at all and immediately arranged for someone to follow up.

On the Shanghai Film side, the request of Guangying Times, or Guangying Kuaibo, was also very strange.

"Love Apartment" is just an inconspicuous sitcom, but it was noticed by Guangying Kuaibo as soon as the project was established. They themselves have no plans for a sequel, but Guangying Kuaibo is going to sign a letter of intent for four sequels?

In other words, if they sign this contract with Guangying Kuaibo, even if the ratings of the first episode are not good, they can still make a sequel, anyway, there is already a company willing to buy it.

Such a good thing comes to the door, is there any reason to refuse?

Li Xiaoping signed her name on the drafted contract and stamped it with the company seal.

She casually handed the contract to the secretary for filing. She rubbed her nose and asked, "How is the preparation work going on with Director Zhang?"

"The budget has been prepared." The secretary nodded: "The final budget cost is 135 million, but I'm not sure whether it will be overspended in the end."

"Director Zhang is already looking for actors privately."

"The first confirmed actors are not the leading actors, but the King of Hell in the movie."

"Who?" Li Xiaoping asked curiously.

"Su Chang." The secretary covered his mouth and smiled: "The King of Hell in the script is an old monster who looks like a girl, but actually lives for thousands of years."

"Director Zhang watched Su Chang's role as the Tianshan Child Mother and felt that she was quite suitable for this type of role, so he directly cast her in the role."

"That's it." Li Xiaoping thought for a while, "I remember she is Yifei's good friend, right?"

"Yes."

Reaching out and tapping on the table, Li Xiaoping thought for a while and then asked: "I still remember that her brokerage business seems to have always been a family workshop, and her family helped to handle it?"

"In the past two years, there was a scandal involving signing a contract, taking the money, and then letting the crew go. The crew took it to court?"

"Let's do this. Since she is Yifei's friend, let the company's agency department contact Su Chang and ask her if she is willing to sign into the company. The company will give her an S-level contract to train her."

"This kind of family-run brokerage behavior cannot be put on the table. If she wants to continue in this circle, she still needs the support of a formal company."

"Most of the so-called family workshops are just killing the goose and extracting the marrow of artists. Many child stars became famous when they were young, but disappeared from the public when they grew up. This is all because their agency business is controlled by their parents and relatives."

"Layers' vision and development plans for artists are ultimately incomparable to those of professionals."

"It just so happens that the company just hired Ji Rujing this year. Let her take care of Su Chang."

Ji Rujing was the first mainland singer signed by Warner Records in 1995.

She released several Cantonese albums on Hong Kong Island, and later also released a Mandarin album, but the sales were average, the development was not satisfactory, and she did not become popular.

After 2006, she transitioned behind the scenes and became an agent, working in an artist management company under Cheng Tian.

At the beginning of this year, Li Xiaoping fell in love with one of her artists, Tang Yan, and wanted to poach her, so she hired Ji Rujing as well. Anyway, the company was short of qualified managers.

There was really no push from Wu Yuan in this. Even Wu Yuan didn’t know that Silly Bai Tiantangtang in 85 Flowers had been poached from his own company.

Tangtang was born in Chinese dramas, and her long legs are very eye-catching. In addition, she was selected by Zhang Yimou when she was in school, and she appeared on the stage in the "Eight Minutes of Darkness" in the Athens Olympics. This experience is the best among the newcomers in colleges and universities. It's normal for someone who stands out to be favored by Li Xiaoping.

Not only her, Li Xiaoping also fell in love with Yang Mi. She made her debut as a powerful child star. She also acted in "The Legend of the Condor Heroes" with Liu Yifei. Now she is filming Li Shaohong's version of "Dream of Red Mansions". When casting, this drama was her top choice. There was such a fuss that it was difficult not to attract the attention of insiders.

In addition, when she was filming "Dream of Red Mansions", Tangren "borrowed" her from the crew to play the heroine of "Sword and Sword III", which made Li Xiaoping pay attention to this young actor.

After checking, hey, the students in the 2005 film school class are the junior sisters of Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei from the same school.

What else is there to say? Just try to dig it out.

It just so happened that Yang Mi didn't want to work for Rong Xinda under Li Shaohong. She felt that this company was dominated by Li Shaohong's direct descendants and there was no chance for her to get ahead.

The two parties have been in close communication recently, and 80% of them have recruited people and managers to the company.

Wu Yuan, who was far away in the United States, did not know these actions of Li Xiaoping.

As the general manager of the company, Li Xiaoping couldn't possibly report every little thing. After all, in her eyes, they just signed two young actors.

However, if Wu Yuan knew about this in the future, he would probably sigh deeply.

It can only be said that these 85-year-olds succeeded because they had something in them.

Even if he doesn't interfere in any way, he will still be attracted by Li Xiaoping.

Although Tangtang is silly and sweet, and Mi Mi loves drama, as money-making tools, these two top 85 flowers, one of whom can hit ten, can sign into the company, Wu Yuan will not turn them away. outside.

But it is probably difficult to get the chance to star in his movie.

Wu Yuan had previously instructed Li Xiaoping to sign a group of actresses born in the 1980s that he liked more. If Tangtang and Mi Miwei join the era of light and shadow, the competition will not be as big as usual.

For them, coming to the age of light and shadow is not necessarily a good thing.

Oh, and now we have to add Su Chang, who has escaped from the family-style workshop, to compete.

I hope you can be brave and powerful and not afraid of difficulties!