Chapter 93 Disputes Begin
After a work becomes popular, the first to reap the benefits must be the actors.
Most of the main actors in "Psychological Crime" are newcomers, and the only one who entered the industry earlier, Wang Longzheng, is not very popular. However, with the popularity of the web drama, the number of fans and popularity of the main actors have also increased significantly. The one
who benefited the most is naturally Chen Ruoxuan, who plays the male lead. The plot of the male lead is biased towards the main actor, and "Fang Mu"'s "genius personality + tragic experience" is particularly attractive to female audiences, so he has attracted a lot of fans.
When he was filming "Soul Ferry" before, he was just a supporting role in the "Red Dress Senior Sister" unit, so there was almost no bonus to his popularity. But now that "Psychological Crime" has not yet finished airing, his number of fans has skyrocketed to tens of thousands in just one month.
Don't look at the number of traffic ratios compared to those dramas that increase hundreds of thousands of fans at any time. You must know that he didn't have an agency at the time, and naturally no one managed "zombie fans" for him, so almost every increase in attention is real.
Then there is Wang Longzheng. The cool and handsome character he plays as "Criminal Police Captain Tai Wei" is also a very attractive setting.
When he was talking to Meng Bai on the phone, he was very happy to say that he was recognized when he went out once. Although people called him "Captain Tai", it was the first time he heard someone say "I know you" outside the screen.
This made the old man very excited. He had to take Meng Bai out for a drink to express his gratitude. After drinking too much, he patted his chest and told Meng Bai that as long as there was a role that needed him in the future, he could ask for it at any time and pay him according to his salary.
If Arclight Films did not have an agency business for the time being, Meng Bai really wanted to take advantage of his momentum to sign him two "cow and horse contracts" or something.
Logically speaking, as the heroine, Li Yitong should also have a huge increase in popularity. But unfortunately, as a "tool man heroine" in a male-dominated drama, her role was crucial but there was nothing memorable about it.
In addition, in the later part of the plot, as the identity of the heroine's death was revealed, the biggest explosive point of this character disappeared, and the hero's memories decreased, resulting in fewer and fewer scenes for the heroine, so that Li Yitong, as an actor, did not get too many bonuses.
But even so, Boss Li, a complete newcomer, was already quite happy. During this period, he called Meng Bai every two days, asking him if he was still in Jingbei, and wanted to invite him out for dinner to "express his gratitude."
Not to mention, Meng Bai was actually in Jingbei these days, but he didn't have the energy to accept the invitation now.
"Psychological Crime" will be coming to the finale in half a month, and he has to solve the problem of the ending choice that has been shelved before.
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Leshi.com Building, high-level conference room.
Liu Jun had a clear smile on his face. He happily handed a document to Meng Bai and said with a smile: "Haha, brother Meng, thanks to your explosive performance data of "Psychological Crime", you have helped our entertainment department maintain its reputation."
Meng Bai glanced at the document in his hand, which recorded a series of data such as the number of views, number of members, effective viewing time, and advertising benefit share of "Psychological Crime" so far.
One month after the broadcast, the total broadcast data of "Psychological Crime" has exceeded 500 million, breaking the website record left by "Pendulum" and challenging the "600 million" web drama record of "Fleeting Years". There
are still four and a half episodes to the end. Judging from the current growth rate, it is not a difficult problem to surpass it by the end of the broadcast period.
The number of new paid members is also leading. When "Pendulum" was broadcast at the beginning of the year, the total number of paid members of the entire Leshi.com was only 1.5 million. Now that nearly a year has passed, this number has more than doubled and has grown to 4 million.
Among them, the two works of Arclight Film and Television played a very important role.
Meng Bai dared to say this not without basis. After "Soul Ferry", in addition to the cooperation with Arclight Film and Television, Leshi.com also launched many other online drama plans, but all of them were of mediocre quality and performance, and none of them were outstanding.
In fact, this is also normal. A video website only needs high-end "fine productions" and also some ordinary dramas that "go in volume". After all, a website as big as Leshi.com cannot always rely on Arclight Film and Television for its livelihood.
Not to mention the issues of discourse power and fault tolerance, it can be seen from the output that Meng Bai worked hard for less than a year and only produced two and a half works.
It's just that even though it's said so, there has been no hit work, which is a very stressful thing for both Liu Jun and his film and television entertainment department.
"Why, is there competition between different departments within us?" Meng Bai asked curiously.
"Of course, how can there be no competition in the workplace of a company?" Liu Jun sighed and said, "Don't always think of our big companies as a monolithic entity. Sometimes our internal struggles are no less intense than those against the outside world."
After more than a year of cooperation, Liu Jun and Meng Bai are now "old friends", so they are not afraid to tell him about some "secrets" within Leshi.
Strictly speaking, Liu Jun does not belong to Leshi.com headquarters, but to Leshi Pictures.
Since its establishment, Leshi Pictures has always been mainly focused on movies, and has not been involved in other film and television aspects.
It was not until Meng Bai brought "Soul Ferry" to Gan Wei, persuaded her to agree to invest in the project, and then achieved great results, successfully bringing about a wave of online dramas, that Leshi.com began to pay attention to the production of native content on the website.
In order to seize this opportunity, Boss Jia divided a part of the personnel and resources from Leshi Pictures, established the Film and Television Entertainment Department, and began to be responsible for the work of "website ecological content construction".
From the perspective of the entire Leshi Group, there is nothing wrong with this operation. Anyway, they are all family members and their own business. Whoever does it does it.
But if it comes to each person, the difference is huge.
Although the newly established film and television department still belongs to Leshi Pictures, it is mainly connected to the website, and has basically nothing to do with movies. This is equivalent to digging a piece from the film department.
Not only that, because the new department has to develop web drama projects, it will inevitably occupy the total resources and budget of Leshi Pictures. Although it will not affect the establishment of film projects, it increases the difficulty of application, which is equivalent to a direct conflict.
With competition, the relationship between each other is naturally not very harmonious. It just so happens that Liu Jun has not made any big splashes in the series of web dramas since "Soul Ferry", and has been subjected to a lot of yin and yang and cold words some time ago.
Fortunately, he still has Meng Bai and Arc Light Films as a bottom-line guarantee. Sure enough, as soon as "Psychological Crime" was released, various explosive results helped him to hit a wave of annual KPIs, and he finally felt proud.
With confidence, Liu Jun spoke more confidently. During the previous meeting, he criticized several executives from the film side, which was considered to be a vent for his anger.
Of course, the resentment between the two sides deepened.
"Won't this cause conflicts?" Meng Bai asked. Although he is also a boss now, the scale of Arclight is not involved in these things, so he is quite curious about it.
"Oh, conflicts are nothing, you haven't seen anyone stabbing his own people in the back." Liu Jun sneered and said, "And then again, we have conflicts below us, maybe that's just what the boss wants."
At this point, Liu Jun waved his hand and said, "Forget it, let's not talk about this, let's change to a happier topic."
As he spoke, he took out another document from the side, looked at Meng Bai and asked, "Have you heard of Anle Pictures?"
Meng Bai frowned and recalled, "I have heard of it, it's Jiang Zhiqiang's company, right?"
"Yes." Liu Jun nodded and said excitedly, "Anle recently contacted me and said that they think the story of "Psychological Crime" is very good and want to adapt it into a movie."
(End of this chapter)
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