Chapter 217: Reeds grow green, white dew turns to frost.
In late December, the 2015 National Drama Festival was recorded at the Beijing North Conference Center.
As a rare award ceremony that recognized online dramas, "Forensic Qin Ming" won the "Best Online Drama of the Year" award with the highest number of views and high reputation of the year.
The director Wang Wei came on stage to receive the award. After thanking the leading actors, the crew and their families, he also mentioned the producer and chief screenwriter of the drama, Meng Bai.
"Mr. Meng is busy with a new project, so he couldn't come to the scene today. But whether he is here or not, this honor should belong to him the most!"
Wang Wei held the trophy and gave a speech.
The fans and the audience laughed, and they obviously knew what the "new project" he was talking about was.
"Really!"
In the guest area, Song Zhi pursed his lips and muttered softly, "We were talking about it a few days ago, but he suddenly told me that he was too busy and couldn't come." It's
a pity that I even asked my agent to borrow a very beautiful dress, which I wanted to show him.
But she also knew that Meng Bai was really busy recently, so she could only keep her depression to herself.
She looked at Li Qin, who was sitting at the other end of the crew, the "farthest distance" from her, and her face seemed to be normal.
Well, suddenly I didn't feel so angry anymore.
Song Zhi comforted himself by comparing, but Li Qin on the other side was not that disappointed.
After all, when he was in Shanghai a few days ago, Meng Bai said that he might not be able to come.
Looking at the "Forensic Qin Ming" crew who were giving speeches on the stage, Li Qin took a few photos with her mobile phone and sent them WeChat.
Li Qin: [Congratulations on the award, Teacher Meng! ]
Meng Bai seemed to be busy, and didn't reply until Wang Wei, Zhang Ruoyun and others left the stage.
Meng Bai: [Congratulations, I'll share half of your happiness. ]
Meng Bai: [Give it to you.jpg]
Li Qin looked at the panda head emoticon pack on the screen that handed out half a piece of poop, pursed her lips, and finally showed the first smile from the heart tonight.
After thinking about it, she asked another question.
Li Qin: [It's so late, are you still busy? ]
Meng Bai: [Something happened unexpectedly, and I was pulled to chat. ]
Li Qin was stunned. What was "an emergency"? What was it about being pulled to chat?
But since that was said, although she was full of curiosity, she still couldn't help but not reply.
As for Meng Bai, he was at Leshi.com at the moment.
"...In the first weekend of the broadcast, the number of views just exceeded 100 million. In the second week of the broadcast, it rose to 500 million. So far, the total number of views has approached 1 billion." Liu Jun said with emotion.
"Indeed, it is growing faster than "Forensic Qin Ming." Meng Bai looked at the data on the screen and nodded, "This is the 'Crown Princess' that I mentioned before, which was produced by General Gan."
The two were discussing a web drama that Leshi.com had just launched, called "The Rise of Crown Princess".
Before, Liu Jun only heard the name, and he always thought it was a costume drama.
But it was not until it was launched that it was discovered that this was actually a brain-opening drama that mixed multiple elements such as time travel, ancient costumes, marriage, and turning straight men into gay men.
In fact, Liu Jun did not take this drama seriously at the beginning.
Although Gan Wei, the boss lady of Leshi.com, was the producer, it was actually just a small project.
She read the original novel during her break after giving birth and found it very interesting, so she planned to shoot it for fun.
At first, the heroine was found by Ying Caier, who was also in the "sister group", but because of the inappropriate schedule, she finally found a newcomer named Zhang Tianai.
Not only the heroine, but almost all the directors and other leading actors are newcomers.
The plot is even more borderline and spoofed, and it looks like a flop drama no matter how you look at it.
But what people did not expect was that after the show was broadcast, it unexpectedly became popular.
And it is not a small fire, but a big fire that is almost breaking the circle!
The growth rate of the playback data has surpassed this year's popular "Forensic Qin Ming" and "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", and the reputation is unexpectedly good.
Douban's score of 8.2 even surpassed "The Legend of Miyue".
Not to mention that the audience did not expect this, even Leshi.com did not expect it at all.
The Copyright Operation Center was overjoyed at this sudden wealth. They immediately maxed out the publicity budget and launched all kinds of marketing topics.
Other platforms and film and television media were stunned.
With more than a week left until New Year's Day, everyone has even finished writing their annual summaries, but suddenly Leshi.com has another hit drama.
Of course, the most depressed person right now is Liu Jun.
Originally, the Copyright Operation Center was established to disgust his self-made drama center, but because it has not produced any results, it has been quiet.
Now it's good, a wave of take-off, and immediately changed its face.
Of course, it's understandable.
After all, in the past two years, the company's own content production has achieved nothing, and the success is all due to a cooperative company.
A good Party A platform is just like Party B.
Now there is finally a hit drama that is not produced by the "Arc Light System", who can resist being happy.
"What should we do?" Liu Jun asked.
"This has nothing to do with us." Meng Bai spread his hands indifferently, "It's just a drama with outstanding results. It's just like that whether it's good or not."
He really doesn't care much.
Today's Arc Light Film and Television has a series of hit dramas, multiple investment projects, hundreds of millions of large productions, and a top production team in the industry.
It is no longer the small company that had to look at the face of Leshi.com.
Even if there are one or two more hit dramas, what can it do? Everyone is not on the same track, so what's there to care about.
Of course, he also understands Liu Jun's current mood.
It's like the former sales champion suddenly found that the colleague he looked down on before has attracted a big customer.
Although the total amount is still not as much as his own, it always feels a little awkward.
"Don't worry, Jun brother." Meng Bai patted his shoulder and said, "Didn't I say that our Arc Light is your retreat, and the position of general manager is still reserved for you."
"Haha, well, with your words, I can sleep well tonight, brother." Liu Jun looked at him deeply, and then laughed.
Meng Bai did say something similar before, but he clearly remembered that the other party's original words at that time should be "Arch Light will definitely stand on your side."
From "standing in line" to "retreat", the change is very subtle.
In any case, seeing Meng Bai's casual attitude, Liu Jun no longer entangled in the drama "Go Princess Go".
"By the way, you don't have our Leshi.com stocks on hand now, right?" Liu Jun remembered another thing.
"No." Meng Bai shook his head, "What's wrong?"
"In two days, the merger and reorganization of Leshi.com and Leshi Pictures will officially begin, and there may be a long period of suspension at that time."
When a listed company has a major event, the stock will be suspended and prohibited from trading, mainly to reduce the fluctuation of the news.
The merger and reorganization of Leshi.com and Leshi.com was announced at the end of last year. Unexpectedly, it took a year of preparation before it was finally launched.
According to the plan, Leshi.com will acquire 100% of LeTV Pictures' shares at a price of 9.8 billion in cash and stocks.
Once the merger is successful, the shares of the current shareholders of Leshi Pictures will be automatically converted into Leshi.com's shares, which will increase the value.
If Qiming Venture Partners can wait until the merger is completed, the 10 million yuan at the beginning will at least add a zero.
Of course, the premise of all this is that this merger and reorganization can be successful.
But Meng Bai is very curious, does Leshi.com really have so much money now, can it be used for mergers and acquisitions?
Obviously, Liu Jun can't tell the answer.
"Speaking of money, the profit share of "Forensic Qin Ming" has not been settled yet. Brother, if you have time, please help to urge it." Meng Bai said.
Because it is both the producer and the producer, the profit of "Forensic Qin Ming" is also divided into two parts.
One is the production cost, and the other is the investment share income.
Adding the two together, the total is about 20 million, and now there is about 12 million short.
"Okay, I'll ask for you tomorrow." Liu Jun agreed.
——Although
it's close to the end of the year, there are no holidays in the film and television entertainment industry.
The office building of Arc Light Film and Television is bustling again today.
Meng Bai had selected the leading actors before, and handed the rest of the supporting roles to Li Muge and others.
These days, the director team has been seriously auditioning the supporting roles.
The boss can relax, but they, the workers, can't.
Fortunately, after half a month, they have basically selected almost all the roles.
Among the remaining roles, the only one with more scenes is the hunter girl "Yingzi" who followed Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan to the tomb in the beginning of the "Niuxinshan Guandong Army Warehouse" plot.
At the door of the audition room, a girl was waiting nervously. Her lips opened slightly, revealing a little rabbit teeth.
Seeing that the number of people in front of her was decreasing, the staff finally called her.
The girl silently said "Come on" in her heart, and walked into the audition room nervously.
In the room, she saw a row of people sitting in front of her. Although she didn't know any of them, she knew that they must be directors or something like that.
Taking a deep breath, the girl bowed in a standard way, grinned habitually, and introduced herself: "Hello, directors and teachers, my name is Bai Lu, and I'm here to audition for the role of 'Yingzi'."
(End of this chapter)
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