Chapter 147
She wants to go to a bigger stage, and she has to go there in style.
Brayshaw's tone was very intimate, but Ling Suisui just smiled.
She replied: "Really? You buy an American TV series, and each episode may cost one million dollars, but the game only sells for $180,000 per episode."
In fact, Ling Suisui's initial psychological price was three hundred thousand, but the eldest brother of the Ai family negotiated for a long time without making a deal.
Considering that delaying it any further would only give pirated platforms a chance to make money, Ling Suisui had no choice but to give up no matter how unwilling he was. Ai Tianming finally accepted the price, and all investors received corresponding dividends.
Bradshaw said sincerely: "Dear Lindsay, this is the highest price we have ever paid for a single episode of a Chinese TV series. If I hadn't tried hard to convince the company, Netflix would never have given you this price. This is unprecedented."
"I think you and your work deserve more, but unfortunately there are too many old stubborn people in our company. You are a shining pearl, but unfortunately not everyone can see your brilliance. You need a bigger stage."
——Come on, that’s not what she said when she was trying to bargain.
For Chinese TV series, $180,000 per episode is indeed a "high price", but how does it compare with American TV series? Even compared with Korean dramas and Japanese dramas?
Anyway, the contract has been signed, so Bray Shaw can praise her however he wants. She can say the most beautiful words in the world, as long as Ling Suisui doesn't mention changing the price.
Ling Suisui put on a business smile and praised Bray Xiao a few words.
The two sides continued to praise each other's business and talked about many topics. Half an hour later, both of them were almost finished with their coffee.
Brayshaw glanced at the digital watch on his wrist, and Ling Suisui also exchanged glances with Tong Xiaoman next to him. After ending with a hug, the two sides said goodbye at the door of the salon and went in different directions.
After the two got in the car, Tong Xiaoman joked, "If you had taken the initiative just now, Bradshaw would definitely invite you to participate in the film and television projects invested by Netflix."
In fact, the olive branch that Bradshaw extended was obvious enough, but unfortunately Ling Suisui did not take it up.
In matters like this, the person who speaks first will inevitably have to be more humble. Since they were all unwilling to give in, there was naturally no follow-up.
Ling Suisui smiled and said, "I can guess what character it is. It must be an Asian, and an Asian who fits the European and American stereotype."
"If she wants me to play the leading role, she won't feel embarrassed."
Ling Suisui is not reluctant to play any role unless it is the leading role. She is picky about the script and the role.
If she can't wait to run to Europe and the United States to be a foil and be looked down upon, then what is the point of her previous struggle in the domestic entertainment industry?
Of course she knew there were bigger stages in the world, but if she wanted to go there, she had to go there with glory.
She wants overseas audiences to need her and love her work, rather than just jumping into it without thinking twice just because it has the word "international".
The European and American circles have always looked down upon Asian actors. Before Ling Sui achieves good enough results to make them change their attitude, there is no need for her to put her best foot forward.
Humility and dedication will not be rewarded with kindness from others, they will just think that you are easy to pick on.
This will be early June. Once all the formalities are completed and subtitles and dubbing are finalized, "Game On" will be officially broadcast on Netflix, definitely in July and later, and can participate in the competition for the second half of the year's viewing volume list.
Ling Suisui estimated that after half a year, Brayshaw's attitude towards her would change greatly.
In addition to the quality of the game, her confidence was also partly given by Bradshaw - as far as she knew, she was competing with her colleagues for promotion opportunities and was at a disadvantage, so she really needed a good performance.
Although Bradshaw found many faults when negotiating the price, if she had not been optimistic about the quality of the game, she would not have agreed to the offer of $180,000 per episode at the critical moment.
Breshao checked her information and she also asked about the other party's situation, so that they could know each other well.
Ling Suisui did not quite agree with the "high price", but she admitted that Brayshaw did take the risk of fighting for his life.
It seems that "The Game Is Online" carries the hope of many people to "reach the sky with one movie".
She closed her eyes and rested in the car. Tong Xiaoman asked the driver to take her back to the hotel and reminded her of her schedule for the next day and the day after tomorrow.
Wow, they are all advertising shoots. She has too much business recently, right?
We shot a lot last month, so why are we still shooting commercials this month?
Advertisements, magazines, advertisements, advertisements, magazines... Ling Suisui has been traveling to various studios for the past two months and is really exhausted.
"You have been screened." Tong Xiaoman told her, "The contracts are basically more than half a year, there are no short-term contracts. Prada and LV have promoted you to Asia Pacific spokesperson, and YSL is also currently negotiating for this title."
"But we are currently discussing signing only a cosmetics contract with them. We are also in contact with other brands for skincare."
Ling Suisui nodded as she listened. She listened to her agent on business matters, so she knew best how to make the choice.
"Sister Tong, you arrange it. Just remember to leave some time for me to promote the play and study the script for Freedom House."
"Don't worry, I have definitely considered this."
After the game was over, even though all of Ling Sui's statistics were top-notch, there were still people who insisted that she was just a flash in the pan, and that her fans would leave in a few days, and they refused to admit that she was a huge hit.
Every time she tops a list, the entertainment team has to add a "wild list", which is not easy. Don’t let it get to the point where all the domestic entertainment charts are wild.
It's no use for these people to be stubborn. Ling Sui's explosive high-quality business will slap the face of every black fan who pretends to be blind.
She has no shortage of luxury brands, and also has many national brands. Whether it’s the snacks you eat, the beverages you drink, the clothes, underwear, sneakers you wear, the paper towels, sanitary napkins, shower gel, shampoo you use, the navigation map on your phone you open when you go out, the electrical appliances you use when you get home... you can find her partners everywhere.
Tong Xiaoman can boldly say that whenever a brand wants to find a young female star to cooperate with, they will think of Ling Suisui first, regardless of the budget. Only when you don’t have enough money to look for her will you consider other people.
After all, it is difficult for them to find a second artist like Ling Suisui who has both traffic and national popularity, and whose fans have strong purchasing power.
Ling Sui's sudden popularity refreshed the perception of the domestic entertainment industry, and Sui's terrifying purchasing power also gave the domestic entertainment industry a little shock.
Isn’t it said that good fans are career fans, and raw fans are the main force of spending money? Why are there so many wealthy women among the 18-year-olds, and so many fans willing to spend money!
A rich woman's love doesn't need a reason, and her fans said that they would buy it anyway, so what's wrong with being willing to spend money on her?
Ling Suisui doesn't accept short-selling requests, and the products she endorses will not increase in price immediately after the official announcement. The prices of exclusive chains will not be higher than ordinary goods. There are also various peripheral small card gifts, so of course you can buy them if you want.
Many celebrity teams were jealous. They wanted to smear her, but gave up after careful consideration.
This trick works very well for other traffic stars. It can change their mentality and increase the disgust of passers-by, but it doesn't work for Ling Suisui.
There is no other way. As long as the character of Sun Jiayi is there, unless there is black material that directly turns her into a legal celebrity, or that shows her serious moral corruption, no matter how they smear her, it will be difficult to really hurt her popularity among the public. They can only torture her fans and let her stay in the position of the new top star for a while longer.
Character filters are so powerful.
What's even more embarrassing is... the content that can be used to attack Ling Suisui, including the fact that she was a few minutes late for an elective course, had already been used against her before the official announcement of "Zhao Jiang".
Unlike some celebrities who have a lot of negative information about themselves, Ling Suisui has no part that holds him back. No matter how helpless the team that was unhappy with her was, they could only watch her career soar and witness her becoming the top star with the best popularity in the domestic entertainment industry in recent years.
Because of this, after the game was broadcast, the number of brands looking for Ling Suisui to cooperate with increased instead of decreased.
After all, Freedom House 3 is coming out in July. After the game became a hit, the number of reservations for the drama has soared to 10 million. Maybe after it's over, the price for working with Ling Suisui will be even higher.
Don't forget, she still has a movie in stock!
Tong Xiaoman was simply too busy to handle it all, so she specially recruited new people for the studio, poaching artist business people from the same industry.
The new employee is Tian Lan, and she previously worked at Huacai Film and Television. Liu Shou felt that she was very capable at work and originally wanted to pull her into his camp. However, the artists under his management either transformed or had poor momentum in recent years.
When workers go to work to earn money, they must consider salary, employment prospects and work atmosphere. It just so happens that Ling Sui's studio crushes Huacai on these three points, so it is very normal for Tian Lan to change jobs.
Liu Shou was helpless, but he couldn't add any chips to retain him.
He was just passing by the mall and when he happened to see Ling Sui's huge store, he suddenly remembered the conversation a few years ago.
At that time, Ling Sui was still unknown in the entertainment industry. He said that he could make her a top female star within five years, but was rejected.
Calculating the time...it has been exactly five years now.
Her success has nothing to do with him, and the little star he wanted to promote is still lukewarm, and the resources he invested have not yet produced results.
Liu Shou smiled bitterly. This is really...
It’s the time and it’s the fate.
**
At the end of June, the crew of "Peach Blossom" held the last script reading before filming began.
Ling Sui arrived very early. Except for force majeure, she was never late for such activities. It was impossible for her to arrive on time just because she was famous now.
However, a few supporting characters arrived late and were very nervous when they saw her.
"It's okay, you guys take a seat, I just got here not long ago."
While others were still hesitating about choosing seats, female No. 3 Xu Han had already sat down to the left of Ling Suisui.
"Senior Sister." She called her softly.
Ling Suisui smiled at her and gave her an affirmative look. Xu Han, who had been nervous since she entered the door, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Just now she met other supporting characters in the elevator. They all knew each other well and were having a great time chatting with each other. She was quite awkward being alone next to them.
It wasn't like they were deliberately excluding her, but she really didn't know what to say!
The director and screenwriter had not arrived yet, and Li Mingxu was chatting enthusiastically with several supporting actors. Xu Han took out the script from her bag and showed Ling Sui the notes she had made earlier.
Ling Sui took a few glances and could tell Xu Han's seriousness from the number of words. In the parts where she had scenes, her annotations were almost longer than the original text.
Xu Han is a junior student at the Film Academy. It was her teacher who found Tang Bing, and Tang Bing found Ling Suisui and added her to the crew of "Peach Blossom Burning".
Ling Suisui was quite happy about it. Anyway, if she didn't add people, Aoqi would. The ones sitting opposite her were an example.
The supporting cast of Taohua was initially shortlisted in April, and Aoqi also talked to the actors about his intentions, but after the game became a big hit, Taohua's investment scale immediately changed from A+ to S+, and all the people on the original list were crossed out.
Some people are not famous enough, some people don't have strong enough connections. With Ling Sui's current status, not to mention the 2000s flowers who will rush to play supporting roles, even the 1995s and 1990s flowers who are not doing well will have to compete for this good resource.
Ochi originally had a package plan to fill the role - to be honest, the reason why ancient idol dramas are often at the bottom of the contempt chain is because the industry thinks that anyone can play this kind of thing.
The script is difficult enough that good actors don't have much room to perform, and bad actors can't be that bad either. As long as the leading actor is good-looking, it will only take a few minutes to attract fans.
However, because of Ling Sui's presence in "Peach Blossom", and her various lobbying and persuasion, she made crazy promises and said that Bradshaw was particularly optimistic about her, and that "Peach Blossom" would have a chance to be sold overseas and become famous all over the world, etc...
Of course, the following content is pure deception by Ling Suisui taking advantage of the information gap. The ancient idol drama will be sold to the East Asian cultural circle at most, and it will most likely be coldly received in Europe and the United States. However, it is true that Bradshaw paid a "high price" to buy "Game is Online".
Ling Sui thought that $180,000 per episode was very cheap, but he didn't know that Ochi was almost drooling with envy. The most expensive price its self-produced dramas sold to Netflix in previous years was less than half of the price of the games!
In short, Ling Suisui managed to convince Aoqi and asked them to take a step back. At least the selection criteria has changed from "looking at the relationships behind the scenes" to "both having acting skills and having connections."
As for whether it is popular or not, or whether it has a lot of traffic, it doesn't matter. The investment promotion for this drama is Ling Suisui, the passers-by are Ling Suisui, and the actor who can anchor the show is Ling Suisui. The male lead and other actors just need to wait to benefit from it.
Xu Han fits the bill of "both acting skills and connections". She expressed her determination to Ling Suisui: "Senior sister, don't worry, I will definitely act well and will never embarrass you."
These familiar words reminded Ling Sui of what she had said to Tang Bing when she was filming "The Last Rank".
Time flies so fast. Before she knew it, she has grown from a child who needed to be taken care of by her seniors to an adult who can take care of newcomers.
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