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Chapter 350: Everything about the company, Da Mi Mi and Tang Tang start with it

The capital of China, the headquarters of the Light and Shadow Era.

There are not many civilian staff in the headquarters, but every staff member is busy, dealing with various advertising business cooperation, artist management work, and daily operation arrangements.

Although Wu Yuan, the immediate boss, is not in the country, no one among the employees dares to relax and take advantage of the situation.

Li Xiaoping, the real boss in the Light and Shadow Era, is a general manager who looks gentle and gentle, but is actually harsh.

She is in the office at the moment, constantly approving some documents.

"The filming of "A Little Thing About First Love" is almost complete. Director Li Yang did a good job and the budget was not exceeded."

"Although "Soul Ferry" was sold to a brother company at a fixed price, we are also paying attention to the situation. Now the total number of views on Light and Shadow Quickcast has exceeded 15 billion, and the highest number of views for a single episode is 1.2 million, which is currently the highest number of views on the Internet. The highest video is even ten times higher than No. 2.”

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

"The company's trilogy of school dramas is also available for exclusive broadcast on Guangying Kuaibo, as well as movies released over the years. Although these dramas also have pirated resources on other platforms, the number of clicks on Guangying Kuaibo is also quite impressive. Earn a lot of advertising money.”

"According to Director Wu's previous request, Guangying Kuaibo has already contacted 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 simultaneously on Guangying Kuaibo."

"Next year, Light and Shadow Express should have a solo drama available for broadcast every quarter."

Li Xiaoping's secretary was giving Li Xiaoping a routine report on the company's current situation.

Before Wu Yuan left, he asked Li Xiaoping to help Light and Shadow Times buy the exclusive online rights to "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 running a company, especially a company that has in-depth cooperation with the entertainment industry.

Wu Yuan is already thinking about finding an administrative general manager for Light and Shadow Era to share Wang Xin's work and let Wang Xin focus on technology.

But before that, Li Xiaoping has to step in first. Those who can do more work.

In fact, many people don't know the origin of the TV series "Love Apartment".

"Love Apartment" is an online community established on the SNS website in 2005. More than 2000 million members post funny or touching stories in their lives in the form of "shared apartments". The administrator makes arrangements based on the opinions and stories of netizens. The character's fate progresses.

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

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

This is why the first two parts of "Love Apartment" were produced by Shanghai Film Group, but it was only in the third part that it was taken away by Syndicate, a Shanghai-based company, and became their IP.

Although Wu Yuan did not want his company to fall into a "plagiarism" scandal and did not move this film and television work in advance, he was still quite happy to buy the exclusive film and television rights of this TV series in advance.

In the original time and space, when the first part of "Love Apartment" was broadcast, there was no exclusive broadcasting rights on the Internet at all, and all major platforms were piracy.

It was not until the third film that the online piracy chaos was curbed, and then Qiyi Video won the exclusive broadcast rights, and the subsequent films were also taken over.

Qiyi Video also relied on the three or four series of "Love Apartment". When the concept of "online exclusive broadcast rights" first appeared, it relied on the large number of fans of this drama to gain a firm foothold in the field of online video platforms.

You know, Qiji Video is a latecomer in the online video industry. At the beginning, it was backed by Baidu, the least powerful of the three giants.

In the end, it will be successful. The exclusive broadcast of "Love Apartment 3" and "Love Apartment 4" back then took a lot of effort.

Of course Wu Yuan wants to win this kind of popular IP that can affect the rise of a platform.

Although the first one has just started, it is a low-cost, studio-style sitcom that no one cares about. Wu Yuan also asked Li Xiaoping to sign a solo broadcast contract with "Love Apartment", and also signed four intention contracts in one go. , if there is a sequel in the future, if the bids are the same, priority must be given to the exclusive broadcast on Guangying Kuaibo.

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

On the other hand, Shanghai Film and Television also feels very strange about the era of light and shadow, or the requirement of fast broadcasting of light and shadow.

"Love Apartment" is just an inconspicuous sitcom, but it was noticed by Guangying Kuaibo as soon as the project was launched. They didn't even have any plans for a sequel, but Guangying Kuaibo was about to sign an agreement for four sequels?

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

When such a good thing comes to your door, is there any reason to refuse?
Li Xiaoping signed her name on the drafted contract and stamped it with the company's official seal.

She casually handed the contract to the secretary for filing. She rubbed the bridge of her nose and asked, "How are the preparations for the crew going over there with Director Zhang?" "The budget has been prepared." The secretary nodded: "The final budget cost is 1.35 million, but I'm not sure whether it will exceed the budget 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 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 moment, "I remember she is Yifei's good friend, right?"

"Yes."

Li Xiaoping reached out and tapped on the table. After thinking for a while, Li Xiaoping asked again: "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 agents.

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 "8 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 starred 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 the 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 05 film school class are the junior sisters of Wu Yuan and Liu Yifei from the same school.

What else is there to say about this? Let’s 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 [-]% 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 80s that he admired. If Tangtang and Mi Mi join the light and shadow era, 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 will be brave and powerful and not afraid of difficulties!

(End of this chapter)