Chapter 314 Solving the Funding Gap
The related entries of "Horror Nursery Rhymes" were on the hot search for a day, and then replaced by new hot news.
However, the popularity of the entire program "Celebrity Detective" is far from over.
[Wow! Our "Little Ming Detective" has finally been discovered! ]
[Can you believe it! I watched the slice on Bilibili and planned to watch the full version, but I ended up watching the whole season. ]
[What's the matter with you above? I have already started watching the first season. ]
[He Jiong + Sa Bening? What a fairy lineup! ]
[There are also Zhang Ruoyun, Liu Haoran, Bai Yu, Chen Ruoxuan, Li Yitong...all of them are actors in suspense dramas that have been popular in recent years. ]
[No, none of you have discovered that the chief screenwriter of this program is Meng Bai? ]
[That's no wonder! I was wondering how the plot quality of a variety show is so high. Suspense and reasoning are really the domain dominated by Meng Bai. ]
[I declare that "Celebrity Detective" is my treasure variety show this year! 】
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In recent years, with the popularity of "Where Are We Going, Dad?" and "Running Man," outdoor reality shows have gradually become the mainstream of variety shows.
In contrast, "The Great Detective" was shot indoors, and the guest members were all role-playing and plot interpretation, which was completely the opposite direction.
But the audience's preferences are like this. When everyone does this, but you are different, then the interest and attention will be transferred to you.
The playback volume and popularity of "The Great Detective 2" have been rising all the way, and it has topped the list of variety shows on Mango TV.
In the statistics of the variety shows broadcast on the entire network by third-party platforms, its popularity has also exceeded "The Rap of China", "Go Fighting 3" and "Flowers and Youth 3" produced by Mango TV itself in the same period.
And on the "Internet Variety Show" list so far this year, the comprehensive popularity value of "The Great Detective 2" has jumped to the second place.
The only one ahead of it is "Tucao Conference", which was very popular in the first half of the year.
Even because many viewers felt that they were not satisfied after watching the current episodes of the second season, they went back to watch the first season.
As a result, the popularity of "The Great Detective Season 1" was also pulled up.
However, the most discussed part of the entire program is still the "Horror Nursery Rhymes" unit.
Not to mention the editing, interpretation and secondary creation on the Internet, just looking at the number of views, the other episodes are around four or five million.
Only these two episodes have more than 10 million views.
But no one thinks there is anything wrong with this.
Because it has been announced on the official Weibo of "The Great Detective" that this unit was written by Meng Bai himself.
This immediately seems very reasonable.
But for Meng Bai, this little bit of popularity is not bad.
The real beneficiaries are the members of "The Great Detective".
He Jiong, needless to say, is the main MC of the show, which is icing on the cake for him.
Sa Bening has broken many viewers' stereotypes of him. Many people didn't expect that he would be so lively after leaving "Today's Statement".
Liu Haoran and Zhang Ruoyun are roughly the same. "Qin Feng" and "Qin Ming" have joined forces to completely consolidate the character settings.
As for the female members, Li Yitong's "Tong Rong'er" has not yet passed the popularity, and this is the time when her popularity is high.
In comparison, it has a greater bonus effect on Wang Ou.
Since "Wang Manchun" became popular, she has not been able to play any new roles in the past two years, and her popularity has declined a lot.
Now relying on the variety show "Star Detective", it is considered a new topic.
This sister even called Meng Bai specifically and joked that if she had known that the two episodes of "Horror Nursery Rhymes" were so popular, she would have pushed other schedules to participate.
In addition to the members, the biggest beneficiary of the show after it became popular is the platform.
And if you want to continue the popularity, the best way is to continue to do the next season.
He Chen told Meng Bai that although the second season has not been broadcast yet, Mango TV has already started preparing for the third season.
It is expected to start broadcasting in October and finish broadcasting before the Spring Festival next year.
There is just one problem. Arc Light has more projects in the second half of the year, and Meng Bai should not have time to write the script himself.
But it doesn't matter. The current screenwriter team of Arc Light Film and Television has also grown slowly, and this program is just right for them to use as a practical exercise.
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As July approaches, the popularity of “Who’s the Detective” has gradually stabilized after an explosive growth.
After the last episode was aired, the total number of views of the second season exceeded 1 billion.
This number has surpassed “Tucao Conference” and topped the list of online variety shows in 2017.
With the end of “Who’s the Detective 2”, the self-produced online variety show “The Rap of China” produced by Qiyi TV has become a new hot spot.
Wu Fan successfully broke the circle with a sentence "Do you have freestyle?" and brought the niche field of "hip-hop music" to the public.
Gai, Hot Dog, Pharaoh, Afgeni, Joy J, PG One... A group of hip-hop singers who were originally only famous in the underground circle quickly became new traffic.
Just like the folk songs that were popular in the past few years, hip-hop has become a new "fashion item" for many followers.
It has to be said that Qiyi TV has developed well in recent years, and there are several hit works almost every year.
Among the three major video platforms, Youku was originally ranked first.
But now, Qiyi TV has slowly been able to keep pace with it.
Perhaps feeling that its position is unstable, Youku has also made new moves. It announced that it will join hands with Ali Literature and Ali Pictures to total 1 billion resources to strengthen investment in the film and television industry.
One stone stirs up a thousand waves. In just a few days, all kinds of news came in the entire film and television entertainment market capital circle.
First, Qiyi TV announced that the number of member users exceeded 50 million, and the convertible bond financing of 1.5 billion US dollars in the first half of the year has also been completed, and it will officially launch the plan to go public on the US stock market.
This has something to do with Meng Bai. After all, Qiming Venture Partners participated in the last round of financing, and he is now a small shareholder of Qiyi TV .
Although the shares are only a few tenths, if it can be successfully listed, it can definitely increase his net worth by 10 or 20 million.
Then, Leshi.com, which had no news for half a year, broke out again.
Boss Jia announced that he would go overseas to look for investment and continue his "car-making dream". Then, he patted his butt and went to the United States, leaving hundreds of thousands of investors in a deep pit.
However, most people still have some fluke mentality at this time.
First, Boss Jia said that he would only go for a few days and "return to China next week"; second, Leshi.com was just taken over by Sunac at the beginning of the year, so it can definitely last for a while.
Investors are still hopeful about Sunac.
"There's no hope. Sunac will definitely fail this time."
In the office of General Manager Hu Guang, Liu Jun shook his head and said, "Just wait and see. Let alone next week, Boss Jia will be able to return to China next year. It's all because he suddenly found his conscience."
As a former senior executive of Leshi.com, he has known his former boss for many years and knows him well.
Meng Bai also agreed with Liu Jun's words.
Battle reports can deceive people, but battle lines cannot. Although Sunac has injected capital to save it, the development and financial report data of Leshi.com in the past six months have not improved at all, but have become worse.
Seeing that the building is about to collapse, since Boss Jia has already run away, how can he come back?
Some time ago, there were rumors in the circle that Sunac's boss Sun Hongbin looked at Leshi.com's financial data and was almost crying because he was cheated.
The key is that Sunac has taken over more than one project. In the past few days, Wanda has just announced that more than ten cultural and tourism projects under its umbrella, including Wanda Plaza and Oriental Movie Metropolis, have all been sold to Sunac.
It can only be said that this Boss Sun is also an old receiver.
But Meng Bai had a good impression of him.
The main reason was that Sunac had just taken over Oriental Movie Metropolis and immediately announced that it would provide financial subsidies to the crews that started filming here this year.
Although the money allocated to each crew was only a few million, it was still a support.
Especially for "The Wandering Earth", which still has a considerable funding gap, every penny is crucial.
"Has Tencent Pictures agreed to invest?" Liu Jun asked casually.
Meng Bai nodded: "They discussed it and decided to invest 10 million."
"That's good, so the gap for the movie is only more than 20 million."
"Yes."
In fact, the remaining gap is not as urgent as before.
After all, the funds for post-production are not urgent. If they slow down a little, Arclight can also make up for it.
However, considering that Arclight's total investment is already 70 million, if it is increased, the risk-return ratio is a bit uneconomical. In
addition, Wu Jing is also very interested in the project of "The Wandering Earth" after "guest appearance" for so long.
Knowing that the crew was short of funds, he also mentioned that he wanted to participate in the investment.
Guo Fan was naturally overjoyed and agreed without hesitation.
So this last part can be regarded as the share reserved for Wu Jing.
Of course, whether he can invest in the end depends on the performance of the upcoming "Wolf Warrior 2".
In early July, Wu Jing stopped his "guest appearance" and started the roadshow promotion of "Wolf Warrior 2".
This run lasted for half a month.
In the middle of the summer vacation, "Wolf Warrior 2" was officially announced to be released.
(End of this chapter)
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