Chapter 545 is different.
As is everyone's custom, after filming wraps up on Friday, we all gather together in the evening to watch the latest episode before going our separate ways.
But that's clearly not possible today.
The filming didn't end until nine o'clock.
However, we finally finished filming on Friday, so we don't have to come back to work overtime tomorrow.
They said their goodbyes and prepared to go home.
At this moment, Hu Siwei suddenly shouted excitedly.
Everyone looked at him.
Hu Siwei said, "Tonight, the peak real-time viewership rating has exceeded 3%!"
Everyone at the scene cheered.
Lu Yanhe also waved his arm, looking very excited.
Hu Siwei said with a smile, "Everyone, let's keep working hard and push ourselves. We've already won the prize money for breaking 3, so how far away is the prize money for breaking 4?"
The cheers from the crowd grew even louder.
In the TV series "Friends", only Bai Jingnian and Lu Yanhe received profit sharing, while the other actors and staff received bonuses.
You receive a corresponding prize amount based on your achievements.
Of course, the bonus system varies for different people.
Regardless, Friends was the first TV show to include drivers and production assistants in its bonus system. As long as they were official crew members, not just temporary workers, they were eligible for a bonus.
Therefore, the better Friends performed, the more money everyone earned.
This point was negotiated between Lu Yanhe and all the main creators and Yuehu TV.
This also means that Yuehu TV's personnel expenses for this drama were definitely higher than those for other film and television projects. However, as Lu Yanhe emphasized at the time, the creation of a drama is not enough for just a few core creative personnel to put their hearts into it. Its final quality is always the result of the collective effort.
In fact, the moment the show's peak ratings broke 3, Yuehu TV had no grounds or reason to question the design of the bonus system.
For several years, including CCTV, no drama has reached a peak rating of over 3.
"That's the charm of sitcoms. They'll only become more and more popular, as long as you don't do anything stupid," Hu Siwei said with a smile. His last sentence made many people in the audience smile knowingly. "Everyone, let's work hard. We have a long road ahead of us. Let's make it not only a symbol of our careers, but also provide the strongest material foundation for our lives, our real lives. Yes, I'm just being so down-to-earth."
At that moment, the cheers and screams from the audience reached the heavens.
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"Maxine has surpassed 8 million viewers, and 5.17 million people have watched more than one episode in its entirety."
Every week, Zhong Benshuo would come to tell Lu Yanhe about the latest performance of "Friends" on Maxine, without fail.
His perseverance almost made Lu Yanhe lower his guard against him and his thoughts of "not wanting to cooperate directly anymore" on several occasions.
Of course, in the end, they will all be awakened by the memory of that time in the small room in South Korea.
"Thank you for promoting Friends," Lu Yanhe said with a smile.
Maxine's two talk shows both featured online interviews with the cast and crew of "Friends" to promote the Chinese-language drama series.
These are also two important points where Friends saw irregular growth in viewership on Maxine.
“This show has a very good chance of reaching the 20 million viewers club,” Zhong Benshuo said. “Moreover, it has also helped all three seasons of Friends enter the top ten in terms of weekly viewership in Asia. Yan He, you must have some scripts that haven’t been released yet. Come on, let’s work together.”
“Mr. Zhong, my collaboration with Maxine has become so close.” Lu Yanhe laughed. “Look, Friends, The Seventeenth Floor, and what else? Oh right, there’s also River of Silence. I also wrote the script for the second season of River of Silence. That’s enough. Maxine’s audience is getting tired of me.”
“My God, you’re one of the most popular faces on the Maxine platform right now. How could anyone get tired of seeing you?” Zhong Benshuo paused for a moment. “I know, you want me to express my determination for this collaboration to you in person.”
“No, I’m busy enough right now. Seriously, Mr. Zhong, the projects I’m working on next, ‘My Own Swordsman,’ ‘Chinese Paladin,’ and a few movies, are almost all related to traditional Chinese culture, which is the kind of genre you don’t like,” Lu Yanhe said. “I also need to calm down. I’m about to board the plane. We’ll talk later.”
Zhong Benshuo could only sigh and agree.
"I must say, if anyone had Zhong Benshuo's perseverance, it would be strange if they didn't succeed." Lu Yanhe was convinced.
Chen Ziyan smiled as she flipped through the magazine in her hand.
This is the latest issue of "Vogue," a magazine provided in the airport VIP lounge.
“Garbo is so generous. She’s already given Jiang Yuqian the cover of three top-tier magazines recently, and here comes another one, this time it’s a year-end issue.” Chen Ziyan pointed to Jiang Yuqian on the cover. “Even if the second part of ‘Behind the Golden Coat’ only performs so well at the box office, just on par with the first part and not even breaking 100 million, it won’t affect anything at all.”
Lu Yanhe: "This movie itself didn't have a high budget, and it's a patriotic film. It's already quite good that it has grossed over 80 million yuan. Moreover, the word-of-mouth is still very good, and it's not worse than the first one. That's already very good, isn't it? With the market so sluggish recently, we can't blame the movie for not breaking 100 million yuan at the box office."
"It used to be a Lunar New Year film season, but now it's so unpopular," Chen Ziyan sighed.
"The box office was siphoned off by the Spring Festival films," Lu Yanhe laughed.
"It's a pity you don't have any movies released during the Spring Festival this year."
"Then let's try to go next year."
"Buzzing—"
Chen Ziyan glanced down at her phone, which was buzzing several times, and opened it.
"The nominations for the Blue Ribbon Awards are out. Oh? Yan Liang is nominated for Best Actor this time?" Chen Ziyan looked surprised.
Lu Yanhe was also taken aback.
"What's going on? Wasn't Yan Liang nominated for Best Supporting Actor?"
The previous Golden Tripod Award nomination was for Best Supporting Actor.
In "The Gold Rush," he is the second lead, which allows him to apply for supporting roles. Moreover, given the competitive landscape this year, he has a good chance of winning one of the three major awards for Best Supporting Actor.
Therefore, Yan Liang's award strategy this year is to apply for the Best Supporting Actor category.
"Is there a mistake?"
Lu Yanhe took a screenshot and sent it to the three-person group, tagging Yan Liang and asking: Congratulations! But why was it nominated for Best Actor?
As previously analyzed, given Yan Liang's age, experience, and performance in "The Gold Rush," his chances of winning the Best Actor award are slim.
Given a Best Actor award with a very low chance of winning and a Best Supporting Actor award with a very high chance of winning, I would definitely choose the latter.
Nominations are just icing on the cake; winning an award is the ultimate goal.
Yan Liang: I don't know what happened. We agreed to nominate someone for Best Supporting Actor, but I don't know how it turned into Best Actor. I'm asking about the situation now.
Li Zhibai: Don't you need to sign the award application form in person?
Yan Liang: Some awards require it, some don't. The Blue Ribbon award doesn't require the applicant's signature; only the applicant's signature is needed.
Li Zhibai: You suddenly went from being a favorite to win the award to a runner-up.
Lu Yanhe: Could it be that we've been deliberately set up?
They were discussing it here, and netizens had a variety of opinions about the nomination list for the Blue Ribbon Awards.
The works and individuals nominated for the Blue Ribbon Awards this year are quite different from those nominated for the Golden Tripod Awards.
The three major awards don't differ much in terms of nominations, and the winners usually avoid each other.
As for the Blue Ribbon nomination list this time, well, almost all of them are dramas with particularly good audience reviews.
The Golden Tripod Award is positioned for audience recognition, while the Blue Ribbon Award is positioned for artistry, but now it seems like the roles have been reversed.
Of course, the audience is delighted to see this.
Because the nomination list consists of dramas that have been truly praised and loved by everyone on social media over the past year.
A while later, Yan Liang updated the group with the latest news from his side: It was the Blue Ribbon team that suggested that my role should be nominated for Best Actor, so the decision was made in the end.
Li Zhibai: Blue ribbon... What's going on here?
Lu Yanhe: Look at the nomination list. This year's Blue Ribbon is not very Blue Ribbon at all.
However, no one expected that two hours later, Jiang Mingzheng, who had won the Honghe Award for Best Actor, suddenly posted a Weibo message:
—How come "Rivers Rise," which won three Golden Tripod Awards, didn't get a single nomination at the Blue Ribbon Awards? I don't understand.
As a prominent figure in the industry and a renowned TV actor, he openly questioned the Blue Ribbon Awards.
This was like a bomb that exploded the social network.
In this day and age, I'm not afraid of others stirring up trouble; I'm afraid of having nothing to eat.
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Maybe there are more, maybe not, no need to wait.
(End of this chapter)
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