Chapter 322 "The Masterpiece" "Day and Night"
Compared to her calmness when she came, Tong Liya left in a hurry.
After filming the last guest scene in the morning, she left Blue Island directly.
Even when saying goodbye to Meng Bai, she just sent a WeChat message.
It seems that she is avoiding something.
But Meng Bai didn't have much energy to think about what happened to his sister.
The promotion period of "Wolf Warrior 2" ended, and Wu Jing returned to Blue Island.
Oriental Film Metropolis, at the entrance of the science fiction studio.
Wu Jing got out of the car and walked towards the studio with a heroic step. But as soon as he approached, his steps slowed down involuntarily.
At the entrance of the wide studio, there were more than a dozen people standing in two rows, all of whom were the main creative staff of "The Wandering Earth".
Standing in the front were Meng Bai, Guo Fan and Gong Geer.
These people obviously saw Wu Jing standing not far away, hesitating for a long time and didn't dare to come over.
Meng Bai waved at him, and then said loudly: "The one walking towards us now is the champion of the domestic film box office list, the first director and actor of the Chinese-language film with a box office of 5 billion, the first place in the mainland film box office list, the winner of the "Bell" achievement, and the last investor of "The Wandering Earth" - Wu Jing! Applause."
"Good!"
A round of applause rang out.
"Fuck, you really can..."
Wu Jing covered his face and walked closer, raised his thumbs and gestured to everyone, and laughed and scolded: "No need to ask, this kind of fancy work must be done by Meng Bai."
Everyone laughed and confirmed his guess.
Meng Bai walked over slowly: "I was thinking of saying 6 billion, but it's a pity that Brother Jing came back two days earlier."
Wu Jing walked into the director's group of the studio, sat down and sighed: "Don't even think about 6 billion, it's definitely not going to reach it."
"Hasn't it been confirmed that it will be postponed? With an extra month, it should be possible to make a push, right?" Guo Fan said on the side.
Wu Jing shook his head: "We know our own business. The summer season is about to end, and the box office potential has been almost fully tapped. The results are basically set. Even if it is postponed again, there will not be many more tickets."
After saying that, he sighed and said: "In fact, for me, this postponement is really unnecessary. It is better to
withdraw from the schedule normally, so that the viewing potential can be preserved for the next one." As the biggest "king bomb" of this summer season, "Wolf Warrior 2" not only triggered a "patriotic stance" debate covering the entire network, but also continuously set new records for its own performance.
Faced with this opportunity, many people hope that its data can be better.
So whether to postpone the release is obviously not something Wu Jing can decide.
"Okay, don't think too much about these things." Meng Bai said: "Thanks to Brother Jing's efforts, we have also benefited from it."
"That's true, thank you Director Wu!" Guo Fan on the side also said.
As of now, the total box office of "Wolf Warrior 2" is close to 5.4 billion.
Excluding film taxes, development funds, and theater chain shares, the remaining shareable box office is about 2.1 billion.
Because it adopts the "guaranteed release" method, the distributor who bears higher risks will also get a higher proportion of the release fee.
The total revenue left to the producer is about 1.6 billion.
The total cost of "Wolf Warrior 2" is 150 million, and Arc Light invested 20 million, accounting for more than 13.3%.
In other words, the actual revenue that can be obtained in the end is more than 200 million.
200 million!
In one year, ten times the harvest!
To be honest, the only thing that can have a higher rate of return than this is basically "Criminal Law".
That is to say, Arc Light has not yet been listed, otherwise just releasing this news would be worth five daily limit boards.
In fact, as the distributor, Jingbei Culture is indeed like this.
In the month since the movie was released, the stock price has risen by more than half. The management cashed out and easily harvested more than 1 billion in revenue.
But for Arc Light, it is not completely useless.
The value of the brand and the company's goodwill are all linked to the credit of the bank.
In addition, Yuewen Group offered 15 billion to acquire Arc Light, and the price was somewhat overestimated at the time.
But if it were now, Cheng Wu's attitude would probably be a little softer.
The same is true for Guo Fan. "Wolf Warrior 2" was a big hit at the box office, and Wu Jing's personal income was about 700 million.
The investment promised before was directly transferred to the account of the crew.
It can be said that everyone is happy this time.
The only unhappy ones may be the other movies released during the summer vacation.
Under the shadow of the popularity of "Wolf Warrior 2", there was almost no splash, and it fell silently.
Ni Ni also sent a WeChat message to Meng Bai saying that fortunately her movie was released before "Wolf Warrior 2".
This girl still continues her "follow the trend" route. The year before last, "The Return of the Great Sage" became a hit, and she immediately took on "The Legend of Wukong".
Big IP, male lead Peng Yuyan, originally wanted to collect a lot of box office in the summer vacation.
The plan was very good, and it took more than 500 million box office in 8 days.
Then, "Wolf Warrior 2" came.
In the end, the total box office of this movie barely exceeded 600 million, at least it did not lose money.
Meng Bai comforted her, saying that the situation was already very good.
If you don't believe me, look at Liu Tianxian's "Eternal Love", which is still struggling on the edge of loss.
Although "Wolf Warrior 2" is still in theaters due to the delay, there is no more noise about the dispute after the official exit.
Of course, in the discussion areas of various social platforms below the surface, you can still see debates on topics such as movies, Wu Jing, and patriotism from time to time.
It has become a new symbol of the simplified Chinese Internet.
But no matter what, the overwhelming popularity of "Wolf Warrior 2" has finally passed.
Other film and television projects that have been suppressed during this period have also resumed their own publicity.
This naturally includes Arclight Film and Television.
The fourth film and television project of the "Green Ivy Criminal Investigation Universe", "White Night Chase", was launched at the end of the summer season.
As Arclight's main project this year, the crew has invested twice as much resources in publicity and promotion as other projects in the same series in the past.
In addition, the leading actor is Pan Yueming, who became popular overnight last year with "The Forbidden City", and the plot also inherits "Psychological Crime 2", which just finished broadcasting the finale not long ago.
With the blessing of various effects, when the show was still in the preheating period, nearly 200,000 viewers on Qiyi TV chose "looking forward to chasing the show".
Obviously, Arclight did not disappoint fans and audiences.
Less than 12 hours after the first day of broadcast, the total number of views exceeded 100 million. Three days after it was launched, the number of views directly reached 600 million.
The novel and interesting "identity exchange" setting, the movie-level picture level, the exquisite and rigorous story logic, and the wonderful performance of Pan Yueming and other leading actors.
As soon as Douban opened the score, nearly 20,000 users gave it a super high score of 9.0.
And with the rapid growth of the number of scoring users, the score has not wavered at all.
Obviously, the quality of this drama is recognized by the vast majority of viewers.
On the real-time popularity list of the data platform, "Day and Night Chase" also directly topped the list.
The popularity of the related topics even suppressed the popular "Novel Year" at the same time.
You know, the latter is a costume drama co-starred by "TV Series Queen" Sun Li and Chen Xiao, with a ratings of "breaking 2" on the two major TV stations of Oriental and Jiangsu.
Now it has been surpassed by a web drama in terms of popularity, which really surprised many people in the industry.
However, what is more popular than this drama is the male lead Pan Yueming and his "doppelganger" acting skills.
[At first I was thinking that it would be very time-consuming for one person to play two roles and change identities in the plot. But after watching the first two episodes, I felt relieved. From the audience's perspective, there is no need to bother to distinguish these "four people". You can see them naturally.]
【When I was watching, I had a question: how can the makeup artist ensure that the scars on the face are consistent every time they switch roles?】
【It is like this, Pan Yueming actually has a younger brother named Pan Yuean, and they are both actors, just like Jiang Wen and Jiang Wu. (dog head)】
【The above, is there a possibility that the two brothers are actually playing the same role, and they just need to change their clothes. 】
【Thank you, Mengguren! 】
【I think the real strength of Mr. Pan is that you can click on the progress bar randomly, and you can watch it for two minutes without knowing who it is, and you can completely tell whether he is the older brother or the younger brother, and it is also very consistent with the plot scene. 】
【Mr. Pan has proved very well that there is a fundamental difference between playing a paralyzed face and playing paralyzed face in everything. 】
【……】
In the previous "The Lost Tomb", Pan Yueming was already popular again, but there was still some bonus from the role.
This time, he stood out completely on his own strength.
How popular is his "brothers" role?
Let's put it this way. The lungfish named "Tiger" that he raised in the plot was on the hot search, and the entry name was #老虎今天被吃吗#.
The topic has 120 million views and 100,000+ followers.
This really makes a bunch of traffic stars who spend money on marketing every day to get their names on the hot search list ashamed. It 's
not just Pan Yueming. Several leading actors with many roles in the play, such as Wang Taling, Meng Ziyi, Wang Ou, and Gao Ye, all reaped a lot of dividends.
Especially Meng Ziyi, as the female character with the most roles in the whole play, she can be called the invisible "female lead" and has reaped the biggest dividends.
Although because of her immature acting skills and some of her roles are not very pleasing, and there are quite a lot of people scolding her, her popularity has indeed risen.
Compared with other themes, suspense dramas have a higher proportion of male audiences.
The image of the character "Zhou Shutong" itself is relatively cute and lovely, which is very attractive to male audiences.
What's more, Meng Ziyi, apart from other things, has inherited the family advantages in terms of appearance, just like Meng Bai.
Many viewers searched for information after watching the show and found out that she was the "little maid" who followed Lin Yuna and was not suppressed in the filming of "The Legend of Zhao Zilong". She
is quite good-looking.
Therefore, her number of fans has increased several times before the show was broadcast for less than half.
Although she is not as unknown as Zhang Tianai, she is finally not "no such person" in the circle.
This made Meng Ziyi very happy. In addition to
appearing on the show to promote, this girl's favorite thing to do recently is to hold her mobile phone and search for topics about "Day and Night Chase" on various platforms on the Internet every day.
Then, as long as there is praise for her, she will give people a like. By
the way, she calls her "little uncle" almost every day, under the pretext of thanking him, but in fact she just wants to show off how many fans she has gained today.
If it weren't for her sweet mouth and short time, Meng Bai really wanted to block her.
But no matter how much he thought, he couldn't forget the business.
Before Meng Ziyi graduated, he asked Meng Bai if he could sign a contract with him.
But she was dissuaded at the time.
Until recently, Meng Bai took the initiative to call her and asked her to come over to talk about the contract.
Meng Ziyi then understood that the reason why her uncle rejected her before was that he wanted to wait until "White Night Chase" was broadcast to bring her a wave of popularity.
In this way, when signing the contract, better conditions can be obtained.
"Sure enough, I knew that you are the best to me, uncle. Love you!"
Seeing the treatment in the contract that far exceeded that of newcomers, Meng Ziyi couldn't help but stand up, and then happily hugged Meng Bai from the side.
The overflowing girlish breath came to his face, and Meng Bai subconsciously took a deep breath, only to feel a fragrance lingering around him.
This fragrance is very unique, not like perfume, but more like it is emitted from the soul.
"Okay, okay, just hug for a while."
Meng Bai shook his head: "It's summer, you don't feel hot."
"No, I feel your skin is cool, it's quite comfortable."
"That's because the air conditioner is on." Meng Bai said: "Take a look at the contract, sign it after you read it."
Meng Ziyi took a pen and swiped a few times: "Signed."
"Have you signed after reading it?" Meng Bai asked.
"It doesn't matter, I believe in you, uncle." Meng Ziyi said nonchalantly.
"No, you are still relying on me."
Meng Bai snorted and laughed, but didn't say anything else.
Meng Ziyi's agency contract is still placed with Taiyang Chuanhe.
After all, Taiyang Chuanhe now has quite a few "arc light" artists. The only problem is that the proportion of actresses is too large.
On the male actor side, the middle-aged ones are Wang Longzheng and Wang Yang who is still in the negotiation stage, and the young ones are still only Zhang Ruoyun and Bai Yu.
There is no way around it. The "arc light" artists are a school of their own in Taiyang Chuanhe, and they mainly rely on Meng Bai to "randomly grab" them based on their chemistry during project collaborations.
As a standard and normal man, he is naturally more interested in girls.
It seems that I still have to pay more attention to male actors in the future.
In fact, there are two good choices recently, one is Qu Chuxiao, who plays the male lead in "The Wandering Earth", and the other is Lin Yi, who plays the male lead "Changsheng" in "Soul Ferry: Huangquan".
Qu Chuxiao is Meng Bai's junior at the Central Academy of Drama. His style is quite unique, and he has a "hard-style" style that is relatively rare among male actors today.
As for Lin Yi, he is a newcomer. He had previously auditioned for "Hello, Old Times" at Xiaotangren Culture, but was not selected.
His image is pretty good, but unfortunately, he had already signed with Tangren when he was a freshman.
Meng Bai didn't care. There are so many actors, just pay attention to them slowly.
...
The leading actors of "White Night Chase" became very popular, not to mention the drama itself.
The playback data in the background of Qiyi TV can show that on the day of the update, the website traffic doubles compared to the daily average.
Not only that, the most important indicator of whether a drama is really popular or not is the amount of advertising.
Since the second week of the broadcast of "White Night Chase", the number of mid-insert advertisements has reached 15, including the most popular Internet financial and consulting applications.
Even Huang Zheng called Meng Bai and asked if he could do a marketing linkage with Pinduoduo.
This kind of request for money will definitely not be rejected by both the producer and the platform.
So Qiyi TV and Pinduoduo joined forces to come up with a marketing plan of "Never go to Pinduoduo to search for "White Night Chase".
Audiences attracted by curiosity only need to search the keyword "Chasing the Murderer at Daytime" on Pinduoduo, and a call request from Pan Yueming based on H5 technology will automatically pop up on WeChat.
Users can click to connect and receive the pre-recorded video.
This is a simple little activity, but because of the popularity of the series, the traffic benefits are quite good.
It can be said that "Chasing the Murderer at Daytime" during this period has more or less the shadow of "Wolf Warrior 2".
As long as it is a related topic, the number of views is not low.
Although it is just the middle of the year, many people already think that "Chasing the Murderer at Daytime" is the "No. 1 Online Drama of the Year" this year.
Not only that, many viewers directly call this drama the "masterpiece" of all online drama projects in the entire "Green Ivy Detective Universe" series!
But greater benefits are yet to come.
On Qiyi TV, Dai Ying, who is in charge of the online drama section, contacted Meng Bai and said that the American streaming giant Netflix is interested in purchasing "Chasing the Murderer at Daytime".
If the deal can be reached, then the drama will be available on Netflix's platform and broadcast to 190 countries around the world.
(End of this chapter)
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