Shanhai.com is headquartered in Huajing, but if you are filming movies, especially costume dramas, of course Hengdian, located in Zhejiang and Yue, is the most suitable place.
After decades of development, a complete industrial chain has been formed here.
Not only are ancient buildings everywhere, but also various entertainers and behind-the-scenes personnel, numbering at least tens of thousands of people.
Hundreds of movies and TV series are shot in Hengdian every year.
If it is a low-cost production, you only need to bring the director, the leading actor and actress, and the camera, and you can find everything else at Hengdian.
"Water Margin", which was broadcast during the Spring Festival this year, was the TV series with the largest investment in history. At that time, half of the scenes were filmed in Hengdian.
But less than half a year later, Shanhai.com's "Young Di Renjie" broke the record of "Water Margin".
If nothing else, the disclosed production cost of 1 million per episode without any salary is the highest among all TV series production costs.
According to some insiders, Shanhai.com offered an "irresistible price" to a film queen like Buyiyi as the heroine.
As for the specific amount, some people guessed it was 5 million, others guessed 8 million, and some even guessed 10 million.
Because it has been revealed that screenwriter Lan Xin received 3 million yuan and director Zhou Pu received 10 million yuan.
Just by looking at this handwriting, you can tell that the heroine Buyi Yi must have a lot of money, and she definitely got a fat contract.
Then, then there is Sister Xiaofeng that everyone loves.
After "Love Letter", I don't know how many youth movies asked Shen Huan to be the leading actor. I remember that the highest offer at that time was 5 million for a movie.
But Shen Huan didn't go at all, didn't even answer the phone, and didn't reply to text messages.
Only later did people see how much money Sister Xiaofeng had earned from music, and then they realized why they were not interested in the 5 million film contract.
One song is worth 2 million, isn’t it faster than filming a movie
When Shen Huan donated more than 50 million from the album proceeds of "The Love of My Life", all the producers and film company owners gave up hope of using money to impress Shen Huan.
Unexpectedly, Shanhai.com actually announced in May that the male protagonist of "Young Detective Dee" is Shen Huan, who is "unparalleled in the world in terms of beauty." Shen Huan is the "unparalleled little Feng sister."
From this we can see how desperate those producers and film company bosses, including the TV drama production company bosses who never dared to ask Shen Huan to act in a TV series, felt.
Insatiable!
How much does Shanhai.com have to pay to hire Shen Huan
20000000
30 million
Or is there something else
Otherwise, if it was just for money, Shen Huan would definitely not be willing to join because of his dislike of publicity.
But no matter what, because of the news of "Young Di Renjie", Shen Huan's joining, and Buyiyi's joining, on the "Reservation Subscription Column" on the homepage of Shanhai.com, the VIP reservation subscription of "Young Di Renjie" The number of users immediately soared to 6.2 million.
After Shen Huan's "Little Prince of Basketball" journey was posted online and the total number of video views exceeded 10 billion times, the number of VIP users who had reserved subscriptions increased to more than 10 million. —Although it is definitely broadcast on satellite TV, the website version can remove advertisements, and there are some plots that are not available in the satellite TV version, so naturally there are VIPs who like to watch the full version.
In China, there are many companies that make video websites.
Even though the current stage is all about burning money and rarely making a profit, companies that are not qualified to be TV stations are putting their efforts into this because they see the possibility of connecting the world through the Internet.
The two largest video websites are Shining Technology’s Youyi.com and Zheng Rongrong’s Shanhai.com.
However, the development models and directions of the two are very different.
Youyi.com relies on a large number of various videos to become a pure video website and has more than 2 billion registered users, which is why it obtained such a large IPO valuation. It was about 100 billion US dollars when it went public.
Later, they discovered Shanhai.com’s method of producing TV series by themselves, so they immediately followed suit. As a result, the current market value has reached US$120 billion.
This is just the beginning. After discovering a method that can significantly increase market value, Shine Technology will of course increase its investment and strive to surpass Shanhai.com in this regard and become the number one in China.
If that step is reached, Youyi.com's market value will definitely exceed 200 billion US dollars!
Speaking of Shanhai.com, although they imitated Youyi.com and made sharing videos from the beginning, Zheng Rongrong started to absorb new ideas from abroad after two years of working.
She immediately asked Shanhai.com to purchase exclusive online broadcast rights for movies and TV series from various countries and Chinese companies in large quantities.
This action originally cost Shanhai.com a large amount of funds and almost caused them to lose all their liquidity.
But within one year, the benefits created for them are very limited.
But just in the second year, the country announced the management measures for the Internet and vigorously cracked down on copyright infringement activities. Therefore, many free resources on the Internet were wiped out, not to mention these videos that had families and businesses. website.
Countless websites suffered heavy losses in this raid, but Shanhai.com, which owned a large number of genuine copyrights, had a great harvest. The number of new VIP users that year was 5 million.
It was also at that time that the eldest princess truly established her footing and became the unique master of the Shanhai Network.
Next, Zheng Rongrong tried her best to let Shanhai.com create its own TV series to increase the number of VIP users.
From three or five TV series at the beginning, to twenty or thirty TV series a year now, and even three to five TV movies, they all reflect the ambition of Shanhai.com.
Because of Shanhai.com's unique approach and the high-quality products it spends a lot of money to produce, even though Shanhai.com is now valued at only 40 billion U.S. dollars, twice as much as Shining Technology, its VIP users are actually twice as many as those of Youyi.com. times.
The annual VIP users of Shanhai.com are 22 million, and the annual fee is 180 yuan. They can watch various copyrighted programs, movies and TV shows, as well as their own dramas at will.
Youyi.com has only 12 million VIP users, and the annual fee is only 120 yuan.
From this point of view, Shanhai.com is far ahead.
This is why Shanhai.com has increased its efforts to produce its own TV series and even movies.
Wouldn’t that be a fool if we don’t develop projects based on our own strengths
When Shanhai.com’s VIP subscribers exceed 50 million, what else can’t they do
And "Young Detective" has not yet started filming, but 10 million VIP users want to subscribe, which shows how promising it is.
Even if there will be some losses when the broadcast is officially launched, the number of VIP users attracted during this period will definitely exceed the losses!
Besides, there is another data here on Shanhai.com.
In the month since it was announced that Shen Huan and Buyiyi had joined "Young Di Renjie", the number of new VIP users on Shanhai.com increased by 1 million, an increase of more than 300,000 compared to normal times.
If these VIP users are brought by them, it shouldn't be a problem to add two to three million more VIP users by the time it is broadcast.
People have inertia. If they subscribe to a service, as long as it is a substitute that does not greatly improve, basically 80% of people will continue the previous service.
This is what a newspaper subscription looks like, for example.
If the rapidity and diversity of mobile news had not replaced newspapers, even in an era when computers were popular, newspapers would have been the first choice for many families to subscribe.
Therefore, one TV series can bring two to three million long-term paying VIP users, which is a very cost-effective deal for Shanhai.com.
Not to mention, "Young Detective Dee" will be broadcast on two satellite TV stations.
With such high popularity and expectations, the first broadcast buyout fee is also an astronomical figure!