Chapter 366 Thank you, uncle. Goodbye, uncle!
"Dying to Survive" is a big hit. In the summer movie competition, "Story of Yanxi Palace" and "Sand Sea" are two new web dramas that have been released and occupied the hot search list. At the end of last year, a new video of the incident between Li Xiaolu and PG One broke out. The finals of "Produce 101" which has been hot for a summer is coming soon...
Various gossip news in the entertainment industry are emerging in an endless stream, grabbing the audience's limited attention and time. In just a dozen days, the series of events triggered by "Cell Phone 2" have been ignored.
However, within the film and television industry, various undercurrents are surging.
In more than a week since the official statement was issued, more than 30 film and television companies have been deregistered in Horgos. Many shell studios established by artists in their early years have also been disbanded during this period.
It can be said that the top practitioners in the entire industry are now in a state of mind of "We know that the hammer will fall sooner or later, and the superficial efforts we are doing now are useless, but we are very anxious if we do nothing, so we always have to do something in case we can get away with it by luck."
Well - it's very similar to Yang Chaoyue's intensive singing and dancing practice before the performance.
At Meng Bai's request, Arclight has already completed the communication with the departments in Beijing North and Landao. "Returning" hundreds of thousands of policy benefits has completely eliminated the only loophole.
Even if the next storm is coming, they can sit aside and watch the show peacefully.
Recently, Meng Bai has been waiting for the development of the situation while preparing for the first part of the "Zijin Chen Trilogy", "Bad Kids".
Of course, after the script was submitted for review several times and the project name was changed again and again, a title that has nothing to do with the original work was finally determined - "The Hidden Corner".
Arclight, Film and Television Department Studio.
A man with semi-long hair and a literary style sat opposite Meng Bai.
This man is called Xin Shuang, the owner of a small film and television studio, and also a new director.
Many of Arclight's previous trailers for "White Night Chase" and "Psychological Crime" and the recently completed "Hunting Crime Picture Book" were shot by him, and they have been cooperating for a long time.
It's just that this time Meng Bai asked him to come, not to let him continue to shoot any trailers, but to be responsible for directing "The Hidden Corner".
Speaking of which, this buddy's experience is a bit similar to Guo Fan.
After graduating from the University of Political Science and Law, he formed a band because he liked rock. After playing music for a few years, he found that he was more interested in shooting, so he formed a film and television studio with his friends, took some commercials and promotional videos, and directed them himself.
Many people always say that the entry threshold of the film and television industry is low, and facts have proved that it is indeed low.
However, Xin Shuang's ability is still good, otherwise it would be impossible to continue to cooperate with Arc Light. In addition, after a few years, he is also very familiar with the style of "Arc Light Production", so he is also a very suitable candidate.
"Mr. Meng, I went to Blue Island some time ago to find some filming locations, but..."
"It's okay. This is not the first time we have worked together. Don't you know our working styles? Just say whatever comes to mind."
Xin Shuang heard this and smiled relaxedly: "It's like this. I feel that Blue Island may not be suitable as the main filming location."
Meng Bai looked at him: "What do you mean?"
"Blue Island...is not hot enough."
"...Not hot enough?" Meng Bai thought for a while, "Do you mean that the background style needs to be hotter?"
Xin Shuang's eyes lit up: "Yes, I said that Mr. Meng must understand what I mean. The background of the story is in the summer vacation. The hot summer aggravates the impetuous mood and makes all the contradictions become intensified, so the feeling of unbearable heat is needed."
Meng Bai nodded. Indeed, Xin Shuang's understanding is not a problem.
If a drama wants to be popular, it only needs to invite two popular actors. But if you want to shoot it well, the leading actors, scripts, directors, lenses, props and makeup, environmental backgrounds, and even music, all aspects need to be considered.
Although the temperature in Blue Island in summer is high, it is generally refreshing and pleasant. The crew can certainly add details through various means, but the cost-effectiveness is too low. If you want to match the atmosphere of the original work, it is better to change the city directly.
"Where do you think is suitable?"
"Guangdong." Xin Shuang has considered it these days. "Zhongshan, Dongguan or Zhanjiang are cities near the sea, and they all have old urban areas. They are quite suitable as the background of the story."
"Okay, you are the director, you decide." Meng Bai said: "This is not the first time you have cooperated. We are familiar with Arclight. If you have any needs, just ask the film and television department directly."
"Don't worry, President Meng, I will do my best!"
Xin Shuang suppressed his excitement and tried to maintain his artistic style, but secretly clenched his fist.
Meng Bai didn't care about it. Every director has his own style. Wang Wei still wears the same clothes as attending a dinner party on the set every day, and no one says anything, as long as it doesn't affect the filming.
"By the way, when you are doing the preliminary preparations, you can also do the casting work. Especially for the three young actors, it will probably take some time to find them." Meng Bai said: "Huguang has a list of actors that have worked with it before. You can check here to see if there are any suitable ones. If not, look for them outside."
Unlike many previous crime suspense themes, the main characters of "The Hidden Corner" are three children around ten years old, which is also the origin of the name of the original work "Bad Kids".
For such younger actors, it can be said that it is both easy and difficult to find in the circle.
It is easy to find because every year there are a large number of parents who have a "star dream" and send their children to the entertainment industry through various means.
It is difficult to find because young actors often have no experience and rely almost entirely on spiritual talent.
The most spiritual young actors Meng Bai has seen in recent years are Zhang Zifeng, who worked with him in "Detective Chinatown", and Zhao Jinmai.
It's just that they are both girls now and are no longer suitable for the roles in the play.
When filming Soul Ferry: Huangquan, Wang Shengdi, who played "Xiao Sanqi", was quite suitable in age. We can consider letting her try it out when casting later.
But speaking of her, Meng Bai suddenly remembered that he hadn't asked about the data of this movie for a while. It was mainly because I had been paying attention to a lot of things recently, and "Psychological Crime: City Lights" was about to be released, so I forgot a little.
After sending Xin Shuang away and asking him to hurry up and start preparations, Meng Bai returned to the film and television department to find the person in charge and asked about the current situation of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan".
"The split box office should be over 40 million now."
"It exceeded it last week." The person in charge looked at the data in his hand, "The current effective number of moviegoers is more than 17 million, the number of single-film purchases is nearly 30,000, and the cumulative total split box office is nearly 44 million."
"Pretty fast!" Meng Bai said with some surprise.
The split of 44 million, if converted into theater results, is almost equivalent to a box office of about 200 million.
Don't think that the box office of 200 million is nothing just because the top movies every year easily make tens of billions or hundreds of billions.
In fact, for most theater movies, this is an unattainable number.
Just this year, as of the latest summer season, there are only 22 movies released in China with a box office of more than 200 million.
Half of them are imported films, including Marvel masterpieces such as "Black Panther" and "Avengers 3".
So if we calculate from the perspective of revenue sharing, Soul Ferry: Huangquan can already be ranked around the eleventh or twelfth place of this year's domestic films.
Moreover, this movie still has four months of revenue sharing period, and the performance can continue to rise.
"So, you guys prepare here. If the revenue sharing box office can exceed 50 million, then we will have a celebration banquet." Meng Bai instructed.
"Don't worry, Mr. Meng, this celebration banquet will definitely not be missed."
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Mid-July, Xiaoshan, Hangzhou.
"The weather is not very good today. Will it rain tonight?"
After getting off the car, Meng Ziyi took off his sunglasses, looked up at the sky, and said worriedly.
"It shouldn't, the weather forecast said it would only be cloudy." Meng Bai walked over and said leisurely: "This is not bad, at least it won't be hot."
"The rhyme is good, uncle, are you going to change your career to become a rapper?"
"Hey, little girl, why are you cursing when you are fine?"
From the explosion of "The Rap of China" last year to the collapse of various contestants, in just one year, rapper has changed from a profession to a slightly derogatory adjective.
Meng Ziyi snorted lightly, but then began to look around.
It has to be said that "Produce 101" is worthy of being the hottest program this summer. The streets near the Xiaoshan Guali Cultural and Sports Center are almost all occupied by posters, signs, and roll-up banners of the program contestants.
Especially on the big screens on both sides of the venue, there are fans raising funds to put out support videos for their idols.
Meng Bai and his friends didn't need to queue up to enter, so they came late, and most of the audience with tickets had already entered.
But even so, the whole street was still crowded with people in twos and threes from beginning to end.
Some of these were fans who didn't get tickets, and they wanted to come to the scene to see if they could get one at a high price. But more of them are cheering groups spontaneously formed by fans of each contestant.
They wandered around and gave gifts to passersby when they met them, and asked them to help vote for their idols.
Some simply didn't even ask, and directly stuffed the gifts over, mainly casting a wide net.
The two of them walked a short distance, and they had two or three more gift bags in their hands. This was because they came late, so many stores had already distributed them.
Meng Bai looked at the contents of the gift bags, and they were basically the same. Photos of idols, cheering banners, small gifts such as fans, and small snacks such as Pocky chocolate bars.
Not to mention, the cost of this gift bag is really not low, and it was all purchased by core fans.
What is "fan economy"? This is the most representative "fan economy".
"Uncle, look!"
Meng Ziyi raised his hand and pointed to a large flower wall next to the venue, on which red and white roses spelled out the flower words "Yang Chaoyue debuted at a high position".
There was also a group of fans next to them who were diligently promoting to passers-by and making the final effort for their "village flower".
Although he knew that this girl was very popular when he watched the show before, it was not until he saw the actions of so many fans offline that Meng Bai finally had a sense of Yang Chaoyue's popularity.
Looking at the familiar yet somewhat unfamiliar face on the poster beside him, Meng Bai stroked his chin.
Is the person on it really Xiao Yang?
Why does it always feel a bit strange?
"Uncle, take a picture for me, I'll send it back to Chaoyue."
Meng Ziyi shoved his phone to Meng Bai, and then ran to the flower wall.
"..."
Looking at Meng Ziyi who had already posed and started to urge him, Meng Bai sighed helplessly, raised his hand and took a few pictures casually.
"Is it done? Let me see!"
Meng Ziyi ran over and took his phone, and then his mouth sank: "I'm not saying, uncle, your photography skills are really, uh..."
It can't be said to be bad, but it just feels mediocre.
"I'm a screenwriter, not a photographer. It's good enough that I took the photo for you." Meng Bai stretched out his hand, "500 yuan for a photo, I'll give you 20% off, so it
's 5,000 yuan." "How dare you ask for 500
yuan for a photo like this?" "As for photos, the key is not how the photo is taken, but who is photographed." Meng Bai said, "Do you think your photo is not worth 500 yuan?"
"If you say so, it seems to be right, but... um? Wait... eh?"
Meng Ziyi felt that there seemed to be something wrong with this sentence, but he couldn't say it, but it always felt weird.
The two were arguing, and suddenly a young girl came over and looked at Meng Ziyi and said, "Hello, sister, do you need a photo taken? I can help you."
Meng Ziyi was stunned and looked at the other party: "Uh, you are..."
"Sister, you are here to participate in the show too, right? We are Yang Chaoyue's fan club. I can take photos for you, and give you a gift later. I would like to trouble you to vote for Yang Chaoyue, okay?" The fan girl said seriously.
Meng Ziyi was immediately happy when she heard this: "Haha, I'm also a fan of Chaoyue, we are together!"
After she said that, the fan girl immediately seemed to have found an organization, holding hands and chatting happily.
After taking pictures for a long time, Meng Ziyi finally found a satisfactory photo, and then she finished taking pictures.
"Aren't you going in?"
"I didn't get a ticket in the group, so I can only wait outside."
"Ah, isn't that a pity." Meng Ziyi sighed.
"It's a bit of a pity." The fan girl nodded, but still smiled and said: "But it doesn't matter, I can also help Chaoyue to get votes outside, so it's not in vain."
When she spoke, her face still showed a firm look.
Not to mention Meng Ziyi, even Meng Bai, who had been watching coldly from the side, was somewhat emotional.
Although everyone likes to mock these fans as "naive", "impulsive" and "easy to cheat", the stars of the entire entertainment industry are established on the basis of these ordinary fans.
"Sister, give me a contact information and address, and I will send you two copies of Chaoyue's TO signed posters." Meng Ziyi said generously.
The fan girl's eyes suddenly flashed: "Miss, do you know Chaoyue?"
"Well, not really, but I know her."
"Thank you, thank you, Miss!"
The fan girl was so happy that she quickly told her name, contact information and address.
Well - it should be said that these fans are indeed easy to deceive.
After leaving the message, the fan girl expressed her gratitude sincerely, and then gestured to Meng Bai next to her: "Thank you, sister, for supporting Chaoyue. Oh, and your boyfriend is fine too, he came with you."
"Ah?" Meng Ziyi was stunned for a moment, and quickly waved his hands, "No, no! He is not my boyfriend!"
"Um..."
Seeing that the girl didn't believe it, Meng Ziyi hurriedly said: "Really, he... is my uncle!"
"Uncle... Uncle?"
The girl was stunned for a moment, then glanced at Meng Bai next to her, and muttered softly: "Your uncle is so young."
After that, she raised her smiling face again, took a gift package from the table behind her, walked to Meng Bai, handed it to him and said: "Thank you, uncle! There are very few people of your age who can come to the scene. This is a small gift package for you, and I hope you can continue to support our Chaoyue in the future!"
"At my age..."
Meng Bai looked at the fan girl in front of him with a sincere smile on her face, and then looked at Meng Ziyi who was looking up at the sky not far away, with an expression of "don't look at me, it has nothing to do with me", reached out to take the gift package, and forced a smile.
"Don't worry, I will definitely 'support' you Chaoyue."
"Well, thank you uncle! It should be about time inside, come in quickly, goodbye uncle!"
...
Meng Bai and Meng Ziyi naturally didn't have to queue up. After a while, a staff member came out and took them in through the guest channel.
"...Mr. Meng, this is the standby area for the contestants, but it is strictly forbidden to enter. Then, the entrance and exit are on this side..."
The staff member who led the way obviously knew Meng Bai's identity and introduced him diligently along the way.
He walked around the inner field until he stopped in an area on the right side of the main stage.
"Mr. Meng, this is our guest area. They are all representatives of the companies of the contestants who entered the finals, as well as some special guests. Your seats are over there. You can contact me at any time if you have any questions."
"Okay, thank you for your trouble. Go and get busy first."
Meng Bai and the other person walked towards their seats. Sure enough, there were already quite a few people here. There were men and women, basically middle-aged people, which was very inconsistent with the atmosphere on the scene.
Not to mention, there were really a few familiar faces, such as Mango Entertainment, Huayi, Ji Chuang Yinli, and Taiyang Chuanhe.
"No, if you had told me that you were coming earlier, I would have troubled Tencent Video." Meng Bai sighed.
"I don't know if you will come to the scene." Wang Haiping laughed and said hello to Meng Ziyi next to him.
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