During my years at China Entertainment

Chapter 56 Sister Li is finally popular
  Time entered August. After the original film of "Painted Skin" passed the review, Wei Jin sent people to Hollywood to produce special effects, accompanied by a group of special effects talents.

For this special effects production, Wei Jin found Digital Domain, an established special effects company in North America.

The company has been established in 1993 and is second only to Industrial Light and Magic in North America. One of its founders is James Cameron, the famous director who shot "Titanic".

However, after the production of "Titanic", Cameron became very interested in documentaries. He simply disappeared from commercial films and concentrated on making documentaries and left the digital field. Cameron's friend and another founder Stan Weston left the company one after another. , and also established his own special effects company.

The departure of the two founders, coupled with the decline in the company's business volume, has led to losses in the digital field over the years. The current head, Scott Ross, is already looking for opportunities to sell the company, while William of North American Investment Company is After contacting him, the two parties already had a preliminary intention to cooperate. This post-production special effects can be regarded as a professional test before cooperation.

Wei Jin has already planned to set up a special effects company in China. This cooperation with the digital field is a good opportunity to train the team.

This post-production will last about three or four months. This group of special effects talents will observe and learn the whole process. They have also paid a lot of commission for this. I just hope they can bring something useful back.

Regarding the equipment for special effects production, Wei Jin can only hope that he can get back a batch of second-hand equipment through the relationship with Summit Entertainment. You must know that North America has very strict control over high-end manufacturing equipment.

At this time, Wei Jin was comfortably nestled on the sofa with his arms around Zeng Li, watching TV. Today is the premiere day of "The World's No. 1". After the show premiered in Wanwan, it received a good response and was trial-run on several local stations in the mainland. The trial results were good. It’s also very eye-catching.

In the end, with the mediation of several major investors, Shanghai, Huizhou, Suzhou, and Shancheng jointly won the first broadcast rights, and it will be broadcast on all four channels on August 8.

Domestic TV stations currently pursue the "4+X" policy, which was introduced in 2004. That is, a TV series can be broadcast simultaneously on up to four satellite TV stations and several terrestrial channels.

The producer offered a price of RMB 80 for a single episode, and four TV stations joined forces to win it. It was not too outrageous. The total investment in the project was RMB 3000 million, and the broadcast rights were sold for RMB 3200 million in one round. All subsequent episodes can be counted as profits. , Wei Jin's premium investment also made a small profit.

In addition, Hairun also informed Wei Jin that "Bright Sword" has been awarded the exclusive broadcast rights by CCTV and will be broadcast in September. The first round of broadcast rights of the show was sold for 9 per episode, with a total price of 65 million, and the total investment was only 1950 million. Wei Jin knew the long-tail effect of this drama. It would be re-broadcast countless times. This investment was a waste of money.

"Sister Li, I can't tell you look pretty good when you're a woman disguised as a man. Did you bring your costume back?"

Wei Jin looked at Shangguan Haitang who had just appeared, and had some indescribable thoughts. He held Zeng Li's hand and began to be dishonest:

"You put on your costume later, I want to see the power of Shangguan Heroine."

"You were like this on the set of "Painted Skin", why do you still have this habit?"

Zeng Li's face was a little red and his breathing was rapid. It was obviously Wei Jin's skill.

That night, Wei Jin met Shangguan Haitang, a highly skilled martial artist, as he wished, and enjoyed the joy that Gui Hai Yi Dao had never experienced before.

The first broadcast results of "The Best in the World" were quite impressive. Hui Province Satellite TV premiered 2.3, Suzhou Satellite TV 2.1, the lowest one was Shancheng Satellite TV, which was 1.8, and the highest one was 2.8 on Magic City Satellite TV.

You know, with the development of the Internet, it is now difficult for TV stations to exaggerate the ratings as they were in previous years. Programs that can break 1 will basically not be axed, and those that break 2 are barely considered high-quality products.

And "The Best in the World" achieved a record of breaking 2 on the first day of its premiere, and the media even boldly predicted that the highest ratings may break 4.

As the plot unfolded, the ratings of "The Best in the World" indeed increased steadily and became unstoppable. It became a screen-dominating presence in the summer of 2005, with high influence and discussion - the drama version has already appeared at the entrance of primary schools. Posted.

Less than a week after the broadcast, the ratings of Hui Province Satellite TV have reached 3.5, Suzhou Satellite TV has also soared to 3.2, Shancheng Satellite TV, which has always had poor ratings, has even exceeded 3, and Magic City Satellite TV is even more incredible. It directly became the first in its time period, with ratings exceeding 4.

The film purchasing director of Modutai also called Wei Jin to express his gratitude, because Modutai did not intend to participate in the beginning, and it was Chen Zhiming who dragged Director Chen to attend the film screening through personal relationships. In the end, Participated in the first round of broadcast.

Who would have thought that what he thought was a matter of giving face would actually bring such a hit TV series to the station? Director Chen seemed to have seen the praise given to him by the leaders at the TV station meeting at the end of the year.   A hit TV series has a huge bonus for actors. After all, this is still an era where the work speaks for itself.

Of course, the person who benefited the most from "No. 1 in the World" is Zeng Li. Shangguan Haitang's character design is already very good: resourceful and resourceful, with a feather fan and turban, literary talent, and confounding all living beings.

He seems to be a beautiful young man in troubled times, but in fact he is a beauty who has conquered the country. He is a combination of the beauty of heaven and earth. He is unparalleled in elegance and has a good knowledge of astrology.

Dressed in men's clothing, with red lips and white teeth, a dashing figure, and no weak eyebrows, she is simply stunning. What's more, her emotional line in the play is also particularly touching.

This drama is absolutely brilliant for Zeng Li and has attracted her countless fans.

And you must know that 2005 is the first year that China started to adopt gender-neutral style. A large number of girls cut their hair short, wore gender-neutral clothes, and advocated women's independence and freedom. The appearance of Shangguan Haitang perfectly fit the audience's idea of ​​independent women.

Of course, several other actors have also improved to varying degrees. Huo Jianhua's Gui Hai Yi Dao, Gao Yuanyuan's Liu Sheng Piaoxu, and Chen Furong's Su Xin all left a deep impression on the audience. Li Suggested Teacher's Dongchang Changgong was even more praised. He is the strongest eunuch in martial arts dramas.

In a word, "The Best in the World" is popular, and Zeng Li is even more popular. How popular is it?
  After the TV series was aired, Wei Jin had to move out of his home. Without him, Zeng Li had been exposed to live here. Several times when Wei Jin went home, he was almost discovered by the paparazzi.

I thought everything would be fine after moving out temporarily, but I never thought that the relationship between Zeng Li and Wei Jin would be revealed.

The actor who was originally scheduled to play Shangguan Haitang revealed that he had been censored after seeing the popularity of "The Best in the World". The media was all excited for a while. What good entertainment material, it was another day of double income.

So many media outlets did a lot of digging and finally found out that Zeng Li joined the group after Wei and Jin Fengliu invested in it. So, isn't it obvious who was the leader in cutting off Hu?
  For a time, the news that "Wei Jin spent tens of millions of dollars in premium investment just to promote women to the top" was flying everywhere. After June, Wei Jin once again made the entertainment headlines.

This is not over yet. The media also discovered that the crew of "The Best in the World" also has a female star Gao Yuanyuan who had an affair with Wei Jin. Now the media is even more excited. "Love triangle", "Chaos in the beginning and abandonment in the end", "Empathy" The scenes of "not falling in love" and "two women competing for one husband" are simply too exciting.

The subsequent media interview with Gao Yuanyuan pushed this incident to a climax.

"If I really have a relationship with him, why am I a supporting character?"

Gao Yuanyuan's original intention was to explain this matter, but she didn't expect the media to let go of the traffic. After the report came out,
  "Fashionable directors always get confused but eventually give up. They only hear the new people laughing, but never see the old people cry."

"I don't like kissing girls, I only like sassy heroines."

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After seeing the news, Wei Jin didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He could only lament that the unscrupulous media had no moral integrity, but he felt a little guilty for Gao Yuanyuan in his heart.
  But soon, another piece of news quickly shocked the industry and diverted public attention.

"There are suspected conflicts within Huayi"

"Well-known agents may part ways with Huayi Brothers"

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