At first, I just wanted to make money

Chapter 153 Tang Renhe "The Immortal Sword" (14)

The popular crews these days are: Hong Kong and Taiwan directors + Hong Kong and Taiwan male protagonists + mainland actresses + Hong Kong behind-the-scenes crews.

Tang people have come here in the past few years, "The Legend of Heaven and Earth: The Lotus Lantern", "The Female General of the Yang Family", "Book and Sword Enmity Record", "Unparalleled Under Heaven"...

And most of them are Taiwanese actors.

Why is this happening?

Because in those years Taiwan TV stations were very competitive, and they were willing to spend money to buy dramas...

I am also willing to buy mainland dramas!
Thanks to CCTV for this!
"The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Water Margin", "The Mansion Gate", and "Yongzheng Dynasty" have aroused a lot of discussion after their broadcast in Wanwan, and the ratings are also very high.

There is no way, apart from idol dramas, the most common ones on Taiwanese TV stations are actually stinky and long local dramas.

Local dramas are also known as "longevity dramas". Their slogans are probably not the longest, only longer: "Goodbye Alang" 136 episodes, "My Mother's Home" 415 episodes, "Night Market Life" 410 episodes, "Love" 386 episodes, "The World" 311 episodes of Parental Heart, 248 episodes of "Flying Dragon in the Sky", 107 episodes of "Story of Time"...

By the way, episode 526 of "Unforgettable"...

The key is that the ratings of these episodes are extremely high!
"Flying Dragon in the Sky" has been aired for 79 consecutive days and ranked first in the province, and beat 15 serial dramas in the same period. A total of 212 episodes were aired in seven months, setting a record for a total of 211 days in Taiwan Province.

"Unforgettable" set a record for the longest-running local drama in the history of Taiwan's 526:378 show, with an episode of one and a half hours, a total of 369 episodes, broadcasted in Taiwan for 10.59 days, of which [-] days won the ratings championship, the highest ratings reached [-]%...

The most ridiculous thing is that the drama "Unforgettable" was not only introduced to the mainland, but also sold to Malaysia and Singapore in Southeast Asia. When it was broadcast on CCTV 8, it also set a myth in the ratings at the same time...

Local dramas are generally broadcast on FTV, so how can other TV stations compete?
Buy mainland dramas!

Of course, priority is given to the purchase of...

Therefore, Tang Ren's series will use a lot of crooked actors...

Tang Ren's early entrepreneurial idea was very clear: contracting the production of Taiwan TV series, Tang Ren will form a production team, form a cast, and then distribute the copyright to the mainland and overseas markets.

It was also during this period that Tang Ren decided on the idea of ​​producing legendary dramas based on ancient costumes. The historical part was mostly jokes; there were many martial arts dramas; the actors covered the mainland, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. Guo Jinan from Hong Kong, Xu Huaiyu from Taiwan, and Sun Li from the Mainland.

Cai Yinong had worked as the coordinator of the Academy Awards before, and also worked as the manager of stars such as Guan Yonghe and Guo Jinan, and worked in the casting department of a production company.

The business logic of overseas distribution determines that Tang Ren mainly produces costume dramas.

In the early years, domestic dramas were only sold overseas in ancient costumes.

Relying on its ability to produce costume dramas, Tang Ren Film and Television signed a three-year contract with a Singaporean filmmaker. This is why "Sword of Heaven" and "Strange Tales from a Liaozhai Studio" have Wang Lujiang...

"Legend of Sword and Fairy" is a work born under this idea.

Cai Yinong was actually a little hesitant when he first came into contact with this project.But after some investigation, she found that the game has a group of serious fans...

That's right, every time a Tangren TV series is broadcast, Cai Yinong will watch the discussions of netizens on forums in Taiwan and the Mainland.She found that online audiences will discuss a drama over and over again, and will also fill in the plot, and have a very deep understanding of the episode.

Well, she attaches great importance to the Internet, especially Tianya...

Therefore, in the early days, Tang Ren's navy really spread all over the world, and also won the title of First Sister for Liu Shishi!
Including asking Shen Xudong to write the script of "Xianjian" this time, in fact, I also saw netizens discussing "Zhu Xian", saying that he is the No. 1 fairy tale novel...

Otherwise, just relying on Feng Baiyuan's recommendation, the two high-level executives will move together...

She also talked about casting with Shen Xudong, but the latter was very slippery, she only said that Zhao Linger preferred Liu Yifei, and did not mention any other roles...

Of course Liu Yifei and Cai Yinong know, but Wang Yuyan!

However, at this time, both Tang Ren and Daewoo's Yao Zhuangxian's first choice is He Meitian!
Famous sweet girl, spokesperson for innocence and innocence...

Yi Lin in "Swordsman", Zhong Ling in "Dragon Ba Bu"...

However, He Meitian is at the peak of her career. Every year, she plays two or three dramas, cooperating with popular stars such as Zhang Weijian and Lin Zhiying, and they are all female leads...

Not enough schedule...

As for Li Xiaoyao, he never considered Brother Hu at all at first.

Nowadays, costume dramas pay attention to round faces, and they look good with shaved heads!
Zhou Yumin, Xie Tingfeng, and Lin Zhiying are the first choices, by the way, including Sun Xiezhi, the captain of 5566 who has worked together...

"West Street Boy" is produced by Tang Ren, the cast includes Sun Xiezhi, Huo Jianhua, Liu Pinyan and Wang Xinling...

Liu Pinyan was first invited to play Lin Yueru...

Anyway, it's quite messy, everything is difficult at the beginning!
But these have little to do with Shen Xudong. The script of "Sword of Immortal Sword" has been finalized, the script fee has been paid, and the subsequent casting and so on. Although he has been invited, he feels that there is no need to participate...

The cast of "Sword" is quite good, what's the point of you getting involved?
Besides, it hasn't even started yet, what's the idea?

You don't have to wait for them to be at a loss, and come here to ask for advice. Talking at that time is called sending charcoal in the snow!

……

Shen Xudong is busy with "Outstanding Citizen"...

I was invited to meet the producer, the producer, and yes, the film selectors of the Venice Film Festival...

Why Venice Film Festival?

The main thing is that they can’t keep up with Berlin, and the probability of winning the prize in Cannes is too low. Let’s go to Venice, as they happen to have a little friendship with the old horse.

The old horse is Mark Muller. In 86, the old horse started to work as a film selector for the Asian region of the Venice Film Festival, and he had a deep friendship with the fifth generation;

Since 91, Lao Ma has served as the chairman of the Locarno Film Festival for ten years. During this period, "I Am Your Father" directed by Wang Shuo and "Mr. Zhao" directed by Lu Le both sold well at the Locarno Film Festival. Next year At the beginning, Lao Ma took over as the chairman of the Venice Film Festival for four years...

Oh, these are all brought by Chen Daoming!
Blame Shen Xudong himself, he quickly told Chen Daoming that he wanted to be a producer in the future, Chen Daoming felt that a producer should understand the whole process of a project from scratch...

Just pull him up...

To be honest, it's quite awkward. It's okay for other people to talk about it, just talk about the script, and it's different to meet the sponsor...

People's attitude is capitalized to look down upon!
Although the other party talked about Mr. Chen and Mr. Shen, they didn't like it in their hearts-the sponsorship of 50 yuan was pushed back and forth...

"Outstanding Citizen" has a scene promoting beverages, and the producer wants to find a beverage company to sponsor it, which can be considered as an advertisement placement!

……

In the car, Shen Xudong took a sip of the mineral water handed over by Chen Daoming's assistant, and then felt a little emotional: "I used to think that it was quite simple to form a film crew, find a script, get some investment, and then shoot, no It's so complicated!"

"...is this complicated?"

"It's about running the distribution, and it's about contacting the film selector..."

Chen Daoming said: "We have to consider the issue of paying back the cost... After all, this movie only needs 800 million yuan to be made!"

The cost of 800 million, relying on the market to recover the cost alone, at least 2000 million at the box office...

So far this year, the highest-grossing movie is "Heroes of Heaven and Earth" with 4100 million, then "Mouse Loves Cat" with 2200 million, "Zhou Yu's Train" with 1900 million...

The cost of these three films is more than 8000 million, and the cost of "Heaven and Earth Heroes" is even as high as [-] million!
There are also big stars joining...

For comparison, the cast of "Outstanding Citizen" is certainly good. Chen Daoming, Fu Biao, Yingda, the writer's first love asked Liu Bei to act...

They are all good actors, but... none of them have the ability to sell movies!

"It's just like making a movie. A good movie needs money, people, investors, distributors, and running around the country to promote it..."

"…too troublesome…"

"It's like this in the initial stage, but it's different when you become famous. Those investors are rushing to beg you...your phone is ringing!"

"…Oh."

Shen Xudong took out his mobile phone, a little surprised that it was Qi Xiaolei, the assistant producer whom he met in "Dragon Babu"...

(End of this chapter)