Chapter 376: Fake ratings for group chats!
Young men and women are always like this, no matter what they talk about, they will end up talking about bed.
After the fierce battle, the "fallen elf" turned back into the "elf princess", resting her head on Meng Bai's thighs, leaning against the side with a face full of comfort and joy.
Li Yitong really likes the feeling of cuddling each other after the end like this, even if they just lie down and do nothing, they are full of happiness.
In a trance, she heard Meng Bai say something.
"What did you say just now?"
"I'm asking if you have a new drama next?" Meng Bai repeated.
Mentioning her work, Li Yitong recovered a little: "A few days ago, the company said that they have contacted a Tencent novel to adapt into a costume drama, but it has not been confirmed yet."
"Tencent's drama? What's it called?"
"It's called "Celebrating Yu Nian", it seems to be a drama with a male lead."
"Ah, this project..." Meng Bai suddenly realized.
When he was in Shanghai some time ago, he heard that Tencent Video, in order to compete with the booming Qiyi TV in terms of content, had acquired New Classics Media under the coordination of its parent company, in order to better serve the huge IP copyright library.
The first project after the two officially merged was "Celebrating Yu Nian", one of the classics of male-oriented online literature.
Although male-oriented online literature has always been far superior to female-oriented in overall scale and development, it has never made much splash when it comes to film and television adaptation.
Of course, this is related to the fact that the mainstream audience group in the film and television market is mainly female. Many popular plots in male-oriented novels are not popular among female audiences.
However, with the development of online dramas, male-oriented works represented by "arc light suspense dramas" have gradually increased, attracting a large number of male audiences.
According to the user gender portraits counted by the three major video platforms, the ratio between female and male audiences is about 6:4. Combined with the current number of online drama viewers exceeding 600 million, it can be said that there is a fairly large audience group.
In fact, many years ago, video websites have tried to adapt a lot of male-oriented novels, such as "Good Men in the Tang Dynasty", "Xingming Master", "Back to the Ming Dynasty to Become a Prince", "The Best Houseboy", etc.
Unfortunately, due to the limitations of the times, most of the online dramas at that time were small-team, low-cost, and the quality of the finished films was average - such as the famous "Fighting Qi Turning into a Horse".
Most of the male-oriented novels are sold with "big scenes and strong special effects". Now these advantages have been cut off, so naturally no one wants to watch them.
But now it is different. With the financial support of major capitals and the efforts of first-class teams like Arclight, online dramas have gotten rid of the label of "shoddy". Various large-scale, high-quality online dramas have appeared one after another, and gradually become the new representative of film and television forms.
Especially compared with those bloody TV dramas that fight devils, catch mistresses, have affairs, and make dumplings every day, online dramas are even faintly at the upper end of the contempt chain in the reputation of young audiences.
There is a market, an audience, funding, and a team. Therefore, after the audience gradually got tired of the love stories in female-oriented novels in the past few years, male-oriented novels have gradually become a new outlet for adaptation.
"Celebrating More Than Years" is an attempt by Tencent Video. Costume themes are not as expensive as fantasy. At the same time, the original author's other work "Ever Night" has just been broadcast as a web drama, and both the evaluation and data performance are pretty good, proving its feasibility.
Although it is a male-dominated drama, there must be a female lead. The invitation Li Yitong received was for the role of the female lead "Lin Wan'er".
"This project is not bad. Xinli has just been acquired, and the first drama will definitely be dedicated." Meng Bai said: "I will talk to Tencent later and ask the crew to send you the script."
Li Yitong said weakly: "I haven't auditioned yet..."
"Well, the image of the female lead in this kind of male-oriented novel is basically the same. It doesn't matter who plays it. There is no need for an audition." Meng Bai said indifferently.
After thinking for a while, he continued: "Let me ask about the casting first. If the lineup is too bad, there will be no need."
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Li Yitong responded, "By the way, what did you want to ask me just now?"
"Oh, I almost forgot." Meng Bai said: "I wanted to ask if you have any plans before the end of the year. Arc Light has a new drama, and the heroine wants you to try it."
"Arch Light's new drama?"
Li Yitong immediately became excited when he heard it: "Sure, I have time!"
"Why don't you ask what drama it is?"
"It doesn't matter, I'm fine with whatever you say." Li Yitong said without hesitation.
Meng Bai laughed, lowered his head and kissed her on the cheek, but still explained: "The new drama is the second part of the 'Zijin Chen Trilogy' in cooperation with Qiyi TV, called "Undocumented Crime". The scale of this drama is not large, but the role design of the heroine is very good, there are many highlights, and there is also a lot of room for acting."
Although Li Yitong is a latecomer, at Meng Bai's request, in addition to filming in the past few years, she has been looking for acting teachers to guide her. Although her current acting skills are not very good, they are at least qualified.
However, most of the dramas she has starred in in recent years are ancient costumes or youth themes. This kind of drama has no problem with popularity, but it is not helpful for the professionalism of actors, so she is gradually reaching a bottleneck.
It just so happens that "Undocumented Crime" is about to start filming. Although the protagonist of this drama is still Yan Liang, he is more of a clue character. The real core is actually the heroine Zhu Huiru.
Because of an accident, she accidentally killed a gangster during the resistance. Later, in order to escape the crime, she disguised herself with the help of a mysterious person to escape the police search.
This role is very complex in setting, and there are many parts in the plot that can show acting skills.
After all, she is an actor. It is easy to shoot those simple ancient costume dramas, but occasionally she still needs some difficult roles to challenge herself.
The role of "Zhu Huiru" is very good, with some difficulty but not too difficult, which is very suitable for Li Yitong's current level.
Li Yitong naturally would not object to Meng Bai's arrangement and agreed to it.
She was not worried that she would not play well-based on her understanding of Meng Bai, since this guy allowed her to play, she must be able to meet the requirements, at most it would be a little difficult.
"Okay, I'll give you the script in two days. Or, you can read the original novel first and get an idea in advance." Meng Bai said.
As for whether this drama conflicts with "Celebrating Yu Nian" in terms of schedule, there is no need to worry about it.
"The Undocumented Crime" is expected to start filming at the end of October and will be completed before the New Year. "Celebrating Yu Nian" is still preparing the crew and casting, and it will definitely not be so soon before the official start of filming, so the time can be staggered.
After talking about business, the night was dark. The two washed and packed up, and by the way, they had a review with the sound of the shower.
Meng Bai didn't let Li Yitong go until she felt exhausted and begged for mercy. After washing and hugging, they fell asleep in each other
's arms. After a night's rest, the next morning, Li Yitong, who was refreshed, got up early and started her daily exercise.
Meng Bai ran on the treadmill for a while, took a shower, and then collapsed on the sofa, admiring the girl's figure while browsing Weibo hot searches.
Although he is in the entertainment industry, as a behind-the-scenes practitioner, he reads Weibo a lot, but basically never posts.
His follow list is also very empty. Apart from the official Weibo of Arclight Films, there are also a few official and news media accounts. He has not even followed Li Qin and Li Yitong.
After all, their accounts are basically managed by the staff of the management team, so it doesn’t matter whether they read them or not.
In fact, when Weibo was first born in the early years, many celebrities really posted on their own accounts. At that time, everyone had no burden, and it was really interesting to share their lives here.
However, as the size of Weibo has become larger and larger in recent years, celebrities have more things to take into account, so it has gradually evolved into business needs such as new drama promotion and endorsement advertising. Apart from their own fans, few passers-by care about it.
The entertainment industry has been relatively calm during this period. Apart from the exposure of Li Xiaolu and PG One’s Douyin joint video, there has been nothing to attract attention.
There was a piece of financial news that caught Meng Bai's attention. Sunac, which had made a big investment to "rescue" Leshi.com last year, continued to operate despite holding back tears after Boss Jia ran away, but it finally couldn't hold on any longer.
Sunac's boss Sun Hongbin first posted on WeChat Moments that he was cheated of money by the "scumbag" Boss Jia, and then admitted that investing in Leshi.com was "the most failed investment since he started his career."
With huge debts and a year's income not even enough to cover the interest, Sunac had to start "passing the buck."
First, Leshi.com was sold to a company under Sunac, separating itself from it, and then it was reported that it was interested in selling Leshi.com.
Of course, it's easy to figure out that Sunac is the only one who is so smart, and it's hard to find a second one.
Meng Bai was moved when he saw the news. Although Leshi.com is now only lingering on, it still has a framework and a huge copyright library. Although it has declined a lot compared to the Big Three, it still has a place in the video website market.
At least, Leshi.com still has "The Legend of Zhen Huan."
But he was just thinking about it. He couldn't afford the billions of debts and the annual operating costs of more than 10 billion.
Oh, what a pity!
After browsing for a while, he was about to close Weibo when he saw a familiar entry.
#Director Guo Jingyu's long article blasts the ratings black industry chain#
Meng Bai was stunned for a moment, then sat up straighter and clicked on the hot search entry.
When he clicked in, the first thing he saw was Guo Jingyu's Weibo account, which contained a sentence and a long text picture.
The content of the text was very cold -
[Get up and fight to the death with the black forces that manipulate the ratings! ]
(End of this chapter)
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