Entertainment tycoon who started out as a director

Chapter 18: Premiere broadcast rights of "The Mansion Gate"
The film "Anju", which had already won Best Supporting Actress, Best Director, and Special Award, went on to win this honor again.

"Bicycle at 17", the film that won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Grand Jury Prize, failed to win.

Gu Ming, who had already been mentally prepared, didn't know what to say for a while.

Maybe art is extremely subjective. In the eyes of the judges, your film can only be a companion.

"The children of Chang'an are so talented, it's unknown whether they will make a comeback!"

Gu Changwei patted Gu Ming's shoulder and comforted him.

"Uncle Gu, your mouth is full of poetry!" Gu Ming teased with a smile.

"Am I good at reading poetry?"

Gu Changwei disagreed, "That's because you haven't dealt with Brother Kai before. He is a better person."

"Pfft..."

I thought that this country's only Cannes Palme d'Or director would directly recite "Suddenly outside the sword, it is said to be close to Jibei, and my clothes are filled with tears when I first hear it" when he is running for the future Olympic Games director.

Gu Ming couldn't hold back his smile.

Compared with reading poetry, all domestic directors are probably no match for me.

The awards are over.

What Gu Ming didn't expect was that he was not a big deal during the awards ceremony. After the awards were over, he was actually the most popular among the reporters.

A bunch of reporters gathered around him.

"Director Gu, how do you feel about "17 Years Old Cycling" not winning the award?"

"What do you want to say to the organizing committee?"

"Does your film not winning an award mean that the Golden Rooster Awards are more stringent than the Berlin International Film Festival's award requirements?"

Each topic is guiding me to answer.

Gu Ming understood.

Good guy!
This is because I have not won any awards and I am relatively young.

I want to bombard the Golden Rooster and create a publicity hot spot for them!

what's going on?

Does this young man look very arrogant?

Gu Ming is not stupid enough to offend so many people in the circle, so his words are naturally less sharp.

"Art does not have strict standards. You think it is good, I think it is not. These are normal."

"The Golden Bear Award was also selected by more than a dozen judges, especially the chairman of the jury. It cannot represent everyone's taste."

"I didn't win a prize today, there will be another time."

"I will dedicate more carefully shot movies to the audience and everyone."

"Thank you everyone, I have to go back and rest."

Gu Ming ended the interview.

After breaking away from the crowd of reporters, Gu Changwei briefly greeted Gu Ming.

"I thought you were going to troll the organizing committee."

"Uncle Gu, do you think I'm the kind of person who can't tell the difference between importance and importance?" What does one do based on one's status? If Gu Ming was really that naive, he wouldn't have spent 17 yuan to find someone during the filming of "10 Years Old Bicycle" Xiying Film Studio bought their factory label and asked my father to give away a lifetime of favors, giving me a chance to submit it to the Berlin Film Festival.

You should just take out the award-winning films from your previous life and start waiting for the awards.

"Haha, don't I think you are a young man?"

"Okay, I'm leaving now. I have to go back to Jiang Wen and work as a cameraman on the crew of "The Devils Are Coming". I hope we can work together again in the future."

"When will the filming be completed?" Gu Ming asked, "I wonder if I can catch up with my next film."

"You asked this question." Gu Changwei smiled and shook his head.

"Don't tell me about Jiang Wen's shooting time and cost. Just ask Jiang Wen, does he know about it?"

"Hahaha……"

Gu Ming couldn't answer this.

After laughing and making a haha, they separated from Gu Changwei.

……

Back to the capital.

Just got off the plane.

Gu Ming answered the phone.

It was Guo Baochang who called.

The post-production of "The Mansion Gate" has also been completed.Starting from the investment in "Mansion Gate" in early April this year, it took nearly eight months for the drama to finally take shape.

After all, Daystar does not have the influence and connections of CCTV in its previous life.

The original investment of 1000 million was simply not enough, so Gu Ming added an additional 300 million to be able to produce this drama with quality and quantity.

It's time to pay off.

Gu Ming immediately called Li Xiaoping to check the quality of the film.

"Yes, Not Bad!"

"The drama of a generation."

It took me two days to read it again.

Looking at the quality of the original drama in the previous life, it is not inferior.

Satisfied, Gu Ming leaned on the backrest and said, "Xiaoping, I'll leave it to you to find a TV station. Hold a movie viewing party as soon as possible."

"By recovering the money, we can invest in the production of the next film and television series."

The Venus family has a small business.

"Burning" cost 200 million, and "Mansion Gate" cost 300 million.

We still have to pay wages to so many people.

Now there are only more than 400 million left in the account.

This money is needed for emergencies and cannot be touched.

If there is no money back for the movies and TV series that this company invests in, Daystar will have no choice but to go on strike.

"Understood!" Li Xiaoping accepted the task and went to contact TV stations to watch the movie.

After all, it is a film with an investment of more than 1000 million yuan.

In this nascent stage of the film and television industry, various TV stations are still relatively short of film sources.

Most of the TV stations I contacted would offer me a chance to watch the film.

At this time, the quality of "Mansion Gate" comes into play.

CCTV was the first to make an offer, after going back to discuss it for a few days.

The other party found Li Xiaoping and Gu Ming.

"We are all in the industry, and everyone knows a lot of things. The cost of your show is 300 million, and we don't bully anyone. 800 million buys the exclusive rights to broadcast this show for ten years. How much can you earn? There are quite a few.”

"We only sell first broadcast rights."

Gu Ming refused without thinking.

What a joke.

This is "The Mansion Gate".

Eighteen million is a lot, and you can earn 800 million.

The rate of return is not low.

But after selling this time, the next time will be ten years later.

Then this price is far from reaching Gu Ming's psychological bottom line.

"Then add more, 900 million!"

Gu Ming refused again.

He insisted on selling only the first-round broadcast rights.

Even if you want to sell the exclusive broadcast rights, you can't spend 3000 to [-] million.

In the end, CCTV kept increasing the amount to 400 million, but failed to win the exclusive broadcast rights.

With full confidence, CCTV, which was filming the sequel of Journey to the West, simply chose to give up.

Because the remaining TV stations were not financially strong enough, they chose to give Gu Ming a one-minute post-credits advertisement, and let Daystar find an advertising company.

Even so, a satellite TV station can't bear it.

In the end, Beijing Satellite TV and Guan Shaanxi Satellite TV, Gu Ming's hometown, won the first-round broadcast rights of "The Mansion Gate" and the right of first refusal for the sequel at a price of 300 yuan per episode, a total of just over [-] million yuan.

The quality of this drama coupled with the inclusion of Chen Baoguo and Siqin Gaowa, even though Gu Ming had requirements for pre-roll advertisements and did not want any advertisements selling medicine or health products, the post-credits advertisement was sold for 400 million, which was given based on the ratings. Money, up to 1000 million can be taken.

Judging from Gu Ming's confidence in "The Mansion Gate", he can almost guarantee that nearly 300 million will be paid.

Earn back production costs!

After the first round of broadcasting by the two satellite TV stations is completed, they can then sell the rights for the second and third rounds of broadcasting.

Even more than ten years later, when copyrights are tightened, selling online broadcast rights for dramas of this quality can bring in a lot of money.

(End of this chapter)