Another May Day holiday is over, and all walks of life are starting to get busy.

Rongcheng, an office building.

Li Zhan is the screenwriter and director of "A Chinese Ghost". From his swaggering steps and the smile on his face, it can be seen that he is in a good mood.

"Good morning, Director Li."

"Good morning, is Mr. Wang here?"

"Come in the office."

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Li Zhan knocked on the door and entered. The first sentence he said to him was: "Mr. Wang, have you read the data?"

Wang Zihao, the boss of Parrot Pictures, is also the male lead of "A Chinese Ghost": "Just just opened Maoyan Data Network and was about to see you when you came."

Li Zhan sat down on the chair opposite him and laughed: "The offline box office has exceeded one million, and the online playback volume has reached two million."

When Wang Zihao heard the data reported, a hint of joy flashed in his eyes and said, "It's not bad, I'll make a profit in seven days. Next, I'll see how much money I can make in the remaining twenty-four days."

Li Zhan said again: "It's just that the score is getting lower and lower, and it's falling to 2.2."

Wang Zihao didn't care and said, "The rating thing is not what we pursue. What we want is box office and playback volume."

Chen Gan’s analysis is correct. The reason why he named the company “Parrot” was to replicate the blockbuster movies.

In an era when word of mouth was king, his studio lost money for several movies, so he had a flash of inspiration and decided to go against the current and turn to make bad movies, and the worse the better.

However, it is not that easy to make bad movies and make money, so he developed a unique secret, referred to as "Three Axes for Bad Movies".

The first trick: be good at riding and keeping up with the popularity of blockbusters. Not all movies are fake, but you need to choose the popular movie IP that has been released recently. When filming, it is important to name it. Since you avoid the blow of the legal stick, you must be able to trick the audience into the cinema.

The second trick: If you have to know how to write, the bigger the imagination, the better. In order not to "plagiarize" the defendant, you will first collect information about the films you want to copy on the Internet, such as the title, poster, type, introduction, etc. published during the movie promotion. Then the screenwriter only needs to use his imagination based on the information, boldly guess the plot, and borrow their concepts to create new stories.

The third trick: You must be good at saving, spend a small amount of money to make big money, the actors only hire 18 lines, the scene must be simple, the picture must be obvious, the special effects are only 1 cent, if the crew is not enough, then ask temporary workers to make up.

The movies made in this way are good at "no jokes, no joy", which hits the audience's complaints, making the moviegoers complain while they can't help but continue watching. How bad can they be.

To sum up, "counterfeiting" is their way of attack, and "shame-skinned" is their only rule for making money.

Wang Zihao asked, "You came to the company just for data, right?"

Li Zhan then said: "That's right. I have a friend who comes to invest in a company. After hearing me talk about our company's filming philosophy a few days ago, I was very interested and wanted to invest."

Wang Zihao's eyes lit up and he said, "How many votes?"

Li Zhan stretched out three fingers and said, "Three million."

Wang Zihao licked his lips and said, "Is your friend reliable?"

Li Zhan nodded and said, "You can rest assured that this is an old classmate of mine. His company is called 'Tencent Investment', which is quite famous in the investment industry."

Wang Zihao had heard of this company, so he said directly: "Ask him to sign a contract."

It is true that "A Chinese Ghost" makes money, but after all, it is a bad movie, and there is a chance that it will lose all its money. If you have the capital to take this risk, it would be better.

Then, Li Zhan asked tentatively: "Then, the next movie we are going to make is..."

The goal is already there, Wang Zihao said without hesitation: ""Detective Chinatown"!"

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Django, who was filming in Hengdian, didn't know that another movie he was going to be copied.

"Restore props to the venue, and in ten minutes, another one..."

After Django gave the order, he picked up the script and took a look. The progress was much faster than expected, and it should be completed in June.

At this time, Liu Ya came over and said, "Mr. Jiang, can you talk to you?"

Django put down the script, pushed the stool beside him and said, "Of course."

"Thank you." Liu Ya sat down, then got to the point, and said, "That's right, Yida Film opened a TV series and asked me to play the leading female role, but I read the script and was a little unsure, so I asked you to check it out."

She has finally gotten rid of the label of "vase" and has half her foot stepped into the powerful, so she has become much more cautious when taking on the show.

"That's it..." Django was in trouble when he heard this, because he didn't know whether it was good or not without reading the script. However, reading the script involved commercial secrets. After a brief thought, he said: "Tell me what route or style you will take in the future, and then I'll give you a suggestion to choose the show."

"Okay." Liu Ya was overjoyed and said, "My idea is very simple. It is to take the acting line, so I hesitate whether to take on the role of silly Bai Tian."

She was very smart and pointed out the character of the female lead given to her by Yida Pictures.

As one of the most popular female protagonists in early film and television works, "Silly White Sweet" was once the most popular character among actresses. First, among female audiences, they can rely on "kindness" and "unscheming" character designs to gain favor; second, among male audiences, they can continue to attract fans with their "cute" and "sweet" images.

However, since the characters of "silly and sweet" are often thin and single, in the plot, as long as the heroines perform lively, cheerful, kind and cute, simple and innocent, it seems that they are enough to deal with everything.

Therefore, after arousing aesthetic fatigue, the audience gradually became tired and even disgusted with this kind of "silly and sweet" character without three-dimensional image support.

Django understood her meaning, smiled faintly, and said, "It depends on how you understand it. In my opinion, silly and sweet characters also require acting skills. You can compare those successful cases and failure cases. It is not an easy thing to interpret a very simple character so that the audience can have empathy, cuteness is not cute, cute, and naive. It is not an easy thing."

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content behind! Liu Ya nodded and said, "Mr. Jiang means, can I answer?"

Django smiled slightly and said, "I often tell Chen Yang, Lin Yu, Yan Si and others that there are no small roles, only small actors. As long as you interpret each role well, you will be a good actor."

Liu Yaxin realized something and thanked her sincerely: "Dr. Jiang, thank you."

"Small thing." Speaking of the new drama, Django happened to remember something and said, "By the way, from New Year's Day to June next year, I will have a new drama to start filming. Can I give me the schedule?"

He has now relaxed the conditions and did not force the actors to not be able to play the show when filming his scenes, but he arranged to shoot whenever you film, and would not adjust the time for you. If he was absent due to filming, he would directly replace the show and compensate for all the losses in the show.

He understood that in order to monetize traffic, actors would take on several dramas at the same time filmed together, but this is the concession he could make, and his quality routes must also be guaranteed.

Liu Ya was very grateful to him. She ignored her past grudges and asked her to act, so that she could finally move towards a powerful person. When she heard another new drama, she immediately said: "The schedule will be left for you, I will be there any time you call."

Django planned to give her a reassurance. After all, he is a new first-line actress. He always finds to play the second and third female leads, but he is also dissatisfied. He said immediately: "This is a long drama with more than fifty episodes. You don't have many roles, but each scene is amazing, and it is the heroine."

Liu Ya wanted to cry a little. Although his drama, the protagonist, supporting role, and even the small roles were popular, who didn't want to play the leading role? He hurriedly thanked: "Dr. Jiang, thank you."

Django looked at the venue and the layout was almost done, and said, "Go and prepare."

Liu Ya responded "yes", feeling so happy that she was like a child, jumping and taking makeup on.

However, Django's shooting did not start properly because the assistant brought someone over.

Last time, the party in the "League of Legends" event thought it was expensive and did not ask him to write songs, but some people did not think it was expensive, just the "Brother Who Overcomes Troubles" program team.

The person who came was Fan Ning, the director of the city. After meeting and saying hello, he directly explained his purpose: "Dr. Jiang, this time I came to you to write a song, and the opening song sung by thirty-three male artists in the first competition."

Django was very strange. This variety show was naturally made by him. At that time, Zhou Lingwei replaced "Sisters Who Make Waves". Why didn't Zhou Lingwei come to find her?

There are two reasons: First, Zhou Lingwei did not supervise the production of "Brother Who Overcomes Troubles", and second, Zhou Lingwei did not want Blueberry TV to benefit from her relationship with Django.

Therefore, it is their business for which male artists the program team wants to find on the show and what songs they want to use to compete for.

Fanning knew that Django was expensive, but while it was expensive, it also brought a lot of popularity and topics. Anyway, the budget was sufficient, so why not?

It is said that Django is expensive, how expensive is it?

For example, Fang Wenshan wrote lyrics for Jay Chou, and one word costs 8,000 yuan. The whole song of "Blue and White Porcelain" has 336 characters. If this is the case, he can get 2.69 million.

Django is not only the lyrics, but also the music and arrangements. With the popularity of Wenshan, it is at least tens of millions of dollars.

Of course, that is the case of buying out copyright. If you just want to buy commercial copyright and are willing to share the credit, it will not be that expensive.

After a few seconds of silence, Django smiled and said, "Dr. Fan, what time should I do?"

When Fan Ning heard this, he thought there was a chance and replied: "Before June, because the first episode was recorded on June 10th and will be broadcast on the 21st."

It is impossible to start practicing the songs on the same day when recording them.

Django asked about time, it was simply a routine, even if he wanted it now, he could take it out.

I saw him pretending to be considerate, and after a while, he spoke: "Buy out the copyright, or just use the commercial copyright?"

Fanning replied: "Commercial copyright."

Django nodded and then said the price.

Fanning calculated it in advance and agreed immediately when he saw that the quotation was within a reasonable range.

Django sent him away and came back to bring drinks to everyone, because he had money to put in his pocket and was in a good mood.

In the evening, Zhou Lingwei's inquiry came late.

"Director Fan went to find you today?"

"Yes, I came in the morning."

"Then, did you agree?"

"I agreed, why don't I agree if I make money?"

"He came to me first. I was worried that you had too many things and were too tired, so I refused. Unexpectedly, he ran to find you."

"It's okay, it's just a song, and the requirements are not high."

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Zhou Lingwei's concern made Django smile, but this is something that can be done easily, where does the fatigue come from?

Both of them have work to do tomorrow. After chatting on WeChat for a while, they hung up and rested.

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To be continued...