July has entered the summer season.
Chen Hao's new film, Sun Dahe's new film, Zhang Huawei, Wang Mu and other directors' new films... these are all released in turn.
In just over half a month, more than 4 blockbusters with production costs exceeding 100 million have been released.
In the next 40 days, no less than 10 such big-budget movies will be released.
Even the five famous directors, the seven best actors, and the four best movie queens have to deal with it carefully, let alone other directors and actors.
No movie with a slightly inferior self-esteem would have the courage to be released during this time period.
After more than ten years of sluggishness, China's film market has entered a recovery since 2012, and has become increasingly prosperous in recent years.
In the past, people would be overjoyed to have a movie with a box office of over 100 million. Now, if the box office is less than 300 million, it cannot be considered a blockbuster movie.
Especially after the release of "The Gift of Room No. 7" in October last year, the domestic box office reached 850 million yuan, setting a shocking record.
Its box office is 50 million higher than that of Chen Hao's "Death Trap", which originally ranked first.
Of course, in terms of absolute currency value, the 800 million for "Death Trap" released in 2012 is definitely worth more than the 850 million for "The Gift of Room 7" three years later.
But if you look at the categories of movies, one is a popular action movie with the movie star joining and directed by the great director Wang Mu, and the other is a literary film. The director and actors cannot be said to be passers-by, but they are definitely not top-notch. In fact, the actors are not even second-rate.
But it just happened to have such a shocking box office hit, and it also won numerous awards around the world. This is what makes "The Gift of Room 7" so awesome.
This year, Chen Hao's new film "Operation Condor", which he directed and starred in, grossed 250 million yuan at the box office in the first three days of its first weekend, directly breaking the 205 million yuan in the opening weekend of "The Gift of Room 7" last October. box office.
This made Chen Hao very proud.
To be honest, he is really unwilling to accept that such an international superstar was dethroned from the box office by a literary film.
Now that "Operation Condor", which he has been working on for a year, has been released with great force, it finally has the momentum to take back the first place. Why do you think he is unhappy
It is one thing that he likes and appreciates "The Gift of Room No. 7" very much, but it is another thing to pursue the corresponding achievement and reputation, which does not hinder it.
The movie market is so hot, and the summer TV series market is also very interesting.
"The Incarceration is a very strange and excellent TV show."
This is a very authoritative comment from a TV industry leader.
Why do you say that
The first season of "Yue Yu" will be broadcast from July 1st.
The first few episodes were incomprehensible. From 150 million people watching the first episode, the number plummeted to more than 70 million in the third episode, which was cut in half.
But after the seventh episode, this number continued to rise.
By the twelfth episode, the number of simultaneous viewers had reached 150 million, surpassing the initial result.
By the twenty-third episode, the number of viewers suddenly exceeded 220 million, which is close to the record of 320 million viewers for the finale of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge".
Logically speaking, a TV series with such good results should be directly rated as "excellent". Why is there a "very strange" modifier added in front of "excellent"
You may not believe the reason.
Because this is a TV series that has flowers inside the walls and fragrance outside the walls.
After the seventh episode dropped to 60 million viewers, the viewership of "Prison" has continued to rise.
But if you look at the data carefully, you will find that the growth is all from foreign audiences.
The first ones to bear the brunt are Japan and South Korea. This kind of CULT film is very suitable for their tastes. After all, categories like horror films are still very popular in these two countries.
After watching a few more episodes and getting a feel for it, the number of viewers from Japan and South Korea increased from more than 2 million to more than 8 million, even 20 million in the 23rd episode!
You know, the total population of the two countries is only 200 million!
Almost one-tenth of the people have watched "Yue Yu", you can tell whether this TV series is popular or not!
However, neither Japan nor South Korea has the largest number of viewers.
Europe and the United States are the big players.
The number of viewers in Europe and the United States, including South America, also skyrocketed from more than 1 million to 10 million, 30 million, 50 million... and it skyrocketed to 120 million viewers in just twenty-three episodes!
The number of viewers in other Southeast Asian countries has also reached around 20 million.
Take a look.
The data of 220 million people watching the 23 episodes online at the same time is incredible!
But with such a high figure, 160 million people are from overseas. Only 60 million people in China like to watch "Yue Yu".
60 million people have been watching a TV series, which is already a good result. But if you compare it with the 160 million foreign viewers, it is still several levels behind.
Foreigners not only like to watch, they also call crazily and discuss passionately.
There are thousands of discussions in these foreign language areas every day, and there are more than thousands of main posts, let alone discussions in the follow-up posts.
They quickly overwhelmed other programs and TV series discussion forums on Shanhai.com and became the most popular.
The key point is that the comments are pretty decent. There are a lot of English words in a dozen words. You can show your sincerity just by looking at the number of words.
On foreign social networking sites, I don’t know how many big names are crazily recommending it to people, which makes the Chinese people even more stunned.
"I strongly recommend you to watch a Chinese TV series - "Prison"! It is much better than the American TV series. If you don't like it, you come to my house to scold me and spit on me!"
"I have to say that this "Prison" gave me a strong taste of excellent American TV series. It easily made me forget that I was watching a foreign TV series dubbed in English!"
"Nice! Its rating has reached 8.7! It has knocked down the TV series we produced this year in the United States, but you can never say that this is a score increase!"
"I thought it would be better if it was played by an American star... But now it's very good. It has successfully cured my facial blindness towards Asians."
"A Chinese video website can actually produce such a sincere and thoughtful TV series. European and American TV series producers, you must not be blindly arrogant anymore, the wolf is coming!!"
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As the reviews get better and better, and as the number of viewers in Europe, America, Japan and South Korea increases, the performance in advertising revenue will be obvious.
After 17 episodes were aired, when the number of viewers in Europe and the United States exceeded 100 million for the first time, seven advertising companies from Europe, the United States, Japan, and South Korea came to buy the advertising space for the remaining 13 episodes for a total of 30 million US dollars.
With this income alone, Shanhai.com has been able to break even with the buyout and rewards of "Yue Yu".
Coupled with the rapid increase in VIP users in Europe and the United States, the number of VIP users increased by 4 million in just ten days, reaching 47 million. This income is also very objective.
You know, the standard set by the eldest princess for foreign users is not 180 RMB, but 50 US dollars. Calculating to 350 RMB, it is almost double.
The salary standard for foreigners is already higher than that of China. The princess can really do things like taking care of her own people, robbing the rich and giving to the poor.
Such an income of 20 million US dollars will increase Shanhai.com's profits by more than 100 million.
Not to mention that there are still 7 episodes of "Yue Yu" that have not been aired.
According to the trailer, in addition to the main drama, there are up to 20 hours of various extras and deleted content, which will be released on the VIP page, which ordinary people cannot watch.
Once the last high-profile broadcast is broadcast, it is safe to say that the number of VIP users will exceed 50 million.
The income of VIP users is one piece, which expands the channels in Europe and the United States, allowing them to understand and like Shanhai.com better. Such a user resource cannot be explained clearly by three to five billion US dollars.
If Shanhaiwang were to be listed now, it would probably have to increase its valuation by another US$10 billion!
Faced with the madness of fans of foreign TV series, many Chinese viewers find it incredible.
Originally, some people were cynicizing, saying that Chu Liuxiang's enthusiasm had finally dissipated. Once his accumulation of so many years disappeared, his level would naturally drop.
For example, this is the case in "Yue Yu".
It's too raw and depressing, and the main dark color makes people feel uncomfortable and not that fond of it.
The results of it
Now foreign audiences are slapping these people in the face with facts!
It’s not that the TV series is bad at all, it’s just that you people don’t know how to appreciate it!
The number of overseas fans who are watching is firmly moving towards 200 million, which really cannot be summed up by luck!
Chinese people don’t like the TV series produced in China very much, but foreigners like them very much.
Such popularity can be described as a "very strange and excellent TV series", but it is also very appropriate!
Chapter 68.9 Successful Crowd Effect
Shanhai.com has won the exclusive global premiere rights to "Yue Yu".
Including offline and online.
So before they finish broadcasting, no website or TV station in the world can broadcast it.
However, this does not hinder everyone's enthusiasm for "Yue Yu".
At least 20 or 30 countries have come to Shanhai.com, hoping to get broadcast rights.
The prices they gave were not low, adding up to tens of millions of dollars.
But Shanhai.com realized that the right to rebroadcast this TV series was not in its hands at all.
So Cui Zhong went to Lin'an again and discussed with Shen Huan that Shanhai.com bought out all the broadcast rights for the first season.
Shanhai.com gave Shen Huan a huge sum of 400 million yuan in one go. 300 million was the buyout payment, and 100 million was the reward for reaching 200 million viewers.
Although there are still a few episodes that have not been aired, the momentum of "Yue Yu" cannot be stopped at all, so we might as well take advantage of this moment and give it to Shen Huan together.
The global popularity of "Yue Yu" has not only allowed Shanhai.com to further open up global channels, but also made their attitude more positive.
Cui Zhong came to talk about the broadcast rights of the first season of "Yue Jing" is only one of them. What is more important is to get Shen Huan to sign Zheng Rongrong's previous proposal.
That is the bundling requirement of 10 works in 10 years.
However, because of the success of "Yue Yu", Cui Zhong told Shen Huan that as long as Shen Huan writes the script himself, the second season of "Yue Yu" can be counted as one of the 10 works.
"Yue Yu" has a considerable morale-boosting effect on Shanhai Net.
In addition to the 220 million viewers, because they have opened up the European and American markets, European and American audiences have also begun to enter Shanhai.com to watch videos and join VIP.
Globalization is very important for any Internet company.
Once you have this concept, the market value will rise to at least tens of billions of dollars.
If the first and second seasons of "Yue Yu" completely expand the European and American markets, then the listing of Shanhai.com will definitely be smooth sailing.
After thinking about it for almost 20 days, Shen Huan thought about it and felt that this agreement could still achieve a win-win situation.
So taking advantage of Cui Zhong's visit this time, he readily agreed to sign the contract.
Cui Zhong was overjoyed. He didn't expect Shen Huan to be so easy to talk to.
Such straightforwardness and straightforwardness brought him back to the feeling of a year ago when the two of them worked together seamlessly.
He also had the share transfer agreement written by the eldest princess long ago. When Shen Huan signed the contract, the share transfer agreement was also signed at the same time.
From this moment on, Shen Huan became another small shareholder of Shanhai.com.
However, although it only holds 1% of the shares, it is worth at least US$1 billion, which is a huge fortune.
"Ding dong!"
At this moment, Hao Ye, whom I had not seen for a long time, sounded the notification tone again.
"For the first time, the host has received more than 1 billion US dollars in revenue at one time, which represents an unprecedented progress."
"In order to reward the host, the kind and generous system specially gives a gift - Jade Master (intermediate level)."
"I hope that the host will continue to work hard and gain more money and greater reputation, and there will be additional gains!"
Shen Huan was surprised and happy when he heard this.
The Jade Master's skill plays the most critical role in obtaining the jade needed for Shen Huan's Spirit Gathering Formation.
As a former jade master (junior), Shen Huan bought 500 million yuan of jade. As a result, the stones were cut one after another during this period. Even if Shen Huan chose raw jade with a probability of more than 80%, it would almost collapse. one fifth.
It’s not that they don’t have jadeite in them, but almost 80% of them have jadeite, but there is no fixed number and size of the jadeite.
At least in this fifth, the jadeite is either scattered, not too small, or just a thin piece.
In this way, it cannot be used as an energy supply for the Spirit Gathering Array.
Then there are still one-fifth that have various problems, such as cracking, color damage, etc., which also seriously affect the purity of the jade, resulting in the inefficiency of the operation of the spirit gathering array.
Therefore, the cutting rate of Jade Master (junior) is quite high, about 40%.
Of course, if it was only used for trading, the value of the remaining 60% would have already exceeded 1.5 billion yuan, which is equivalent to a three-fold increase.
If anyone had such a magical ability, he would definitely be happy and would not care about how many things he cut or how many things he cut off - he could already make a lot of money just by planting a piece of top-grade glass with Imperial Green.
But Shen Huan did not do it to make money, but to continuously supply the Spirit Gathering Array.
Therefore, he needs more accurate judgment to buy better jade to use for the operation of the spirit gathering array.
Otherwise, when Shen Huan goes to Huajing, he will have to come back to replace the jadeite once a month during the Spirit Gathering Array at the Han family villa in Lin'an.
If there are more top-quality jadeite, the replacement time will be extended to almost two or three months, which will be much more time.
With the Jade Master (intermediate level), the success rate will definitely be much higher in the subsequent stone gambling process.
Thoughts passed by in a flash.
Cui Zhong, who signed the contract here, is also in a good mood.
He then wanted to pursue the victory and said: "Mr. Chu, look at the second part of "Huan Zhu Ge Ge" that I told you before. What do you think about it? I discussed it with the president, as long as the quality of the work can be guaranteed , your ideas are also okay!”
Previously, Shanhai.com wanted to get the second part of "Huan Zhu Princess" to consolidate its position as the number one video website.
But what Shen Huan said is that at most, he only plays the main outline and controls the overall situation. The specific details of each episode are written by the screenwriters.
Cui Zhong was still a little worried at that time, fearing that someone else would ruin this super classic if he wrote it.
But it's different now.
The popularity of "Yue Yu" has given Shanhai.com more confidence.
They firmly believed that as long as Shen Huan took action, there would be no problem even if they were not responsible for filling in the specific content.
Regarding this matter, Shen Huan also has plans, "Don't worry, Yiyi went to the United States to shoot a movie, and it won't be completed until October. The specific script aspects will still be as before. I also discussed with Xin Changkong, this second movie It’s up to him to do it. Coupled with his control and shooting abilities, you should feel more at ease, right?”
"Hey, of course that's the best!"
Cui Zhong clapped his hands and said, "Why don't we let him start working on two TV series one after another? We can't wait for the second season of "Prison"! Time is money!!"
"Do you think he is a robot?" Shen Huan flatly refused, "The second season of "Prison" will have to wait until next year."
"That's it!"
Cui Zhong looked very regretful, but he smiled in his heart.
Not bad, not bad, I finally forced Teacher Chu to roughly set the production time of "Yue Yu".
If it is produced and broadcast next year, there will be no delay!
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