In the early morning, Yang Can received a call from Zhu Huaicheng as soon as he woke up from the police.
"Good boy, I've made a lot of money now. We are chasing you from ignorant boys and girls to those old ladies who are idle at home and do nothing to do. What kind of zombie or vampire? My aunt's family in the old city has become Lu Zibo's stuff. I’m a fan of, isn’t it~ I’ve been chasing for his autograph photos every day these days, when will you come back? No exams?"
Yang Can "rubbed" his eyes and then remembered that he had missed the self-examination of the provincial unified examination, thinking that he had been commented in the newspaper before that he was "the richest second generation with the lowest education in history". It was a headache for him to have a title. .
Hearing the electric bell ringing, I went to open the door, but saw Zhu Huaicheng holding the phone with a smirk on his face, and the young and beautiful Xia Meng next to him stretched out his shoulders and learned Cantonese and shouted "Yo~Yang Sheng." Yang Can Surprised inexplicably, took their luggage.
"Why are you here? It shouldn't be busy time now"
"Busy~! I'm this now. Just ask the people below to do it." The fat man showed off with a thumbs up. Thanks to Yang Can's blessing, his advertising career is also not growing like it used to be. It's sun and rain.
Excited Xia Meng rushed up and gave Yang Can a big hug, squeezing Yang Can's face and shaking:
"Look, have you lost weight and your eye bags are swollen? This is a peach blossom, what about my sister-in-law?" After talking about two round eyes, she went to the room to find someone. The sister-in-law was obviously talking about Yang Can's current rumored girlfriend Yan Shangxi.
Zhu Huaicheng was fanning the wind with his hand on the sofa, and couldn't help watching from the side. He snorted: "Pretend~you two continue to pretend~ the other girl Yan Shangxi is so innocent. Seeing that you two have stolen chickens. What is the slander "touching" the dog~"
Xia Meng put her hand on Yang Can, and an innocent expression appeared on her delicate little face: "Look at how deeply your ugly image is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. I am a well-known host nationwide in the image of a friendly girl next door. You can't be illuminated by your side, you can imagine how dark you are inside."
Xia Meng’s long-lost Taiwanese accent made Yang Can a good mood. The two of them took the opportunity to visit Hong Kong to see themselves. Let’s visit this shopping paradise by the way. They smiled and promised to accompany them to Hong Kong in the afternoon. Wander around.
"I have a date with a zombie" has been screened to 20 episodes, and the ratings have reached a record high of 4.8. Taiwan’s Eighth, Sanli, Singapore’s National Channel, and two Korean cable TVs, and even Japan’s Fuji TV. She continued to request the purchase of its exclusive broadcasting rights. Yang Yan meant to sell the exclusive broadcasting rights to cash in cash to make the company's operations alive. However, Yang Can made a deadly order that the exclusive rights can be sold for the first broadcast, but it can be sold anywhere. Replays must be charged corresponding copyright tax according to the number of times.
In the short term, it is indeed not as much as Yang Yan’s proposal to return the funds, but if "I have a date with a zombie" can cause long-term repercussions, it will get overseas reputations such as "Journey to the West", "Three Kingdoms", and "Huanzhugege". It is more cost-effective to collect royalties according to the number of times. Yang Can also learns from the domestic bearded producer Zhang Jizhong's method to "operate".
Sure enough, the first broadcast of the series has not yet finished, and all overseas copyrights have sold more than 350 million US dollars, becoming the most popular costume drama overseas in recent years.
However, a video call from Zhang Weimin in the morning also dragged Yang Can's high mood a little bit.
"Xiao Yang, have you read the People's Daily recently?" Zhang Weimin's tone in the video was a little serious, which made Yang Can feel some inexplicable pressure.
"No." Regarding the serious domestic political media's concern, Yang Can only stops at some policy news.
Zhang Weimin clicked on a piece of news, which was published yesterday by the People’s Daily: "The Cultural Misleading Behind the Zombie Fever." It was a commentary on the "Sex" article by the People’s Daily. The content did not do anything about the quality of "I Have a Date with Zombies". The judgment is only aimed at the social effect of the drama.
"It has been nearly a month since the show was broadcast, and there has been a'zombie fever' quietly emerging in the whole country. With incomplete statistics, Ma Xiaoling, who is not only the heroine of the show, has exposed her clothes and costumes and has become the truth about young girls. The objects of imitation, toys related to zombie masks and zombie teeth are even more popular in elementary and middle schools. In the past week alone, there have been no fewer than ten child injuries caused by zombie toys across the country....
Such a huge social impact deserves to be a wake-up call for our domestic TV people. TV people are cultural people first, and then businessmen. Some TV production companies want to seek personal gain, create market effects, and cater to the audience’s curiosity. The tampering with the transmission of traditional Chinese mythology not only confuses domestic zombies with Western vampires, but also changes the mythological figures such as the Legend of the White Snake and Nu Wa Patching the Sky, and even even the historical figures such as Qin Shihuang Xu Fu. Zombies, broadcast on TV...
This behavior of turning the cart before the horse has subverted the image of traditional ethics, but also hit the prototype of the original characters, causing ordinary audiences to confuse what is true and what is false. This is a phenomenon worthy of our vigorous reflection.."
"What kind of shit does this mean?"
After reading this report, Yang Can couldn't help but feel a little angry. Although he is not a professional producer, he also understands that the most taboo of artistic creation is framed by the death clause. The most important thing in culture is what its connotation is, as long as it promotes compliance. The correct values and the performance of the situation are not the main issue at all.
The so-called "experts" of the older generation in the mainland are all rigidly educated, and they have not followed the rhythm of the times at all. They used to scold Qianlong when it was released, and when the secret history of the Queen Mother was released, even the new Romance of Three Kingdoms was released They also scolded that there are such a group of people in China who don't do anything, just stir or don't know how much profit they will lose every year.
Other countries have never had their own official media slander their own cultural export business.
Zhang Weimin also appeared helplessly spreading his hands: "I heard that at least five production companies are preparing zombie-related dramas in the past few days. So yesterday our internal meeting after discussion, we will strictly restrict zombie TV dramas. It's on TV." He emphasized:
"In other words, your drama is the last drama about zombies by a domestic company. From then on, zombie films will be classified as taboo and cannot be approved. I mean you understand."
Yang Can nodded slowly, cursing his mother in his heart. Zhang Weimin told him in advance that he meant that if he had a plan to shoot a sequel, then he should quickly dispel the idea. Shooting a TV series in China is so troublesome, already in order to avoid ghosts. Many wonderful scenes have been deleted from this theme, and now it’s time to shoot a theme, but at the same time it ruins the theme.
But fortunately, I have no plans to make a sequel. This kind of good script is hard to come by. It just suffers from those colleagues who are ready to follow the trend. The trend of the last time "The Good Wife" can let those in the industry. There was a lot of sweetness along with it, so they reacted surprisingly fast this time. I am afraid that no one would have expected that the Cultural Affairs Bureau and the Ministry of Radio, Film and Television would be so cruel.
Zhu Huaicheng and Xia Meng tasted the shrimp dumplings and dry-fried Niuhe just bought from Qiji Tea Restaurant while witnessing the whole process of the video conference.
Zhu Huaicheng couldn't help but wiped the oil in his hand, and handed Yang Can a cigarette to comfort him: "Yang Zi, you want to start, think about how much you made this time, how many people in China are jealous, policy issues Well, I don’t know if I was targeting you alone.” I couldn’t help but sigh while watching that report:
"My God, what kind of ghosts and zombies are you really so hot right now!? The output value of toys and clothing has been estimated at 70 million a year...Why don't we do this, and engage in genuine deadlock around~!" Zhu Huaicheng As soon as he slapped his thighs, the heads of "Mao" and "Chairman" were shaking in both eyes.
Yang Can reluctantly despised him: "The beauty of thinking, is there copyright in our country? You make toys and props, even if they are genuine, you have done those "treacherous" pirates? Don't dream. "Regarding the domestic environment, no matter how you manage it, these ancillary industries are very difficult to do.
"That's not~" Xia Meng, the little girl, listened to her eyes brightened, and suddenly came over and "touched" Yang Can's arm. Her two watery eyes "exposed" a pleading expression: "Yang Can , Since you don’t do it, let me get the copyright of the surroundings. I think my salary as a host is not high. The old Zheng who killed that day refused to let me accept the advertisement. I can’t pay the rent now... "
"Your salary is the same as 5 white-collar workers, right!? Not high? You can't pay the rent... State-owned enterprise employees are probably going to beg." Yang Can thrown off her little hand anger, but still lit the cigarette: "It's not impossible to give you the copyright, but you are inexperienced. I'm afraid you will come to me to cry when you lose money.. I don't want to always support you..."
When Xing heard Xing's eyes widened, Xia Meng stretched out her hand and pinched Yang Can's arm, and yelled unconvincedly: "Go, take care of me~~ That's a good thing, there is a beauty who has been nursed so hard to get rich~! On five days of the week, I often work overtime for free to visit the people interviewed. In addition, I bought a discounted dress in the mall and was besieged to death by the fans of those uncles and aunts~~"
After speaking, he smiled and called Yang Xiuya, "Sister Ya, Sister Ya" was so sweet, she hung up the phone and made an ok gesture to Zhu Huaicheng: "I got the real name copyright of Sister Ya. You are responsible for the source factory."
Yang Can checked the consciousness of these two people, and suddenly realized that he underestimated them. It turned out that Xia Meng, the little girl, had already planned and got Yang Xiuya's real-name Taobao store.
Xia Meng's mind is now thinking of "Yang Xiuya's signature edition, Ma Xiaoling's miniskirt suit series", "Kuantianyou brand zombie teeth, seven generations of zombie contact lenses" and so on.
I couldn’t help sighing, this Taiwanese girl is really a "fan" for a small fortune, and she really thinks about it.. Xiaohuadan may be confused and agree that she will not know that her face will be printed on the miniskirt...
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In the afternoon, ATV opened a special unit to interview the crew members of "I Have a Date with Zombies." The entire ATV building was overwhelmed by fans.
The protagonists had to be put up by security guards to walk in without risk. Yin Tianzhao, an uncle-level figure, originally thought he was not crowded, and walked through the gate with great care, but he was almost caught by a few crazy Rileys when he entered the door. The female fans tore the suits to pieces.
In contrast, Yang Can is more convenient. The low-key appearance mixed in with the crowd and came in unharmed, and no one "harassed" him at all. This made him slightly relieved. The previous two episodes of the show Yan Shangxi clarified the relationship between the two. It seems that he has divorced everyone's attention.
However, Yan Shangxi has now become famous in one fell swoop. The original TV soundtrack CD of "I Have a Date with Zombies" containing her seven songs has sold nearly 100,000 copies in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan.
In the past two weeks, the title song "If there is a date in the future", almost all Chinese songs have been ranked in the top three, even the Taiwanese singles sales chart that has been dominated by Korean albums for half a year. , Yan Shangxi ranked first, completely breaking everyone's expectations.
Nowadays, many businesses have named Yan Shangxi to participate, and many businesses have even opened an invitation with a price of 500,000 yuan.
When Lin Baixin came to pick him up, she had an unconcealable smile on her face. She shook hands with Yang Can very powerfully: "Yang Sheng, what have you been up to these days? I have been trying to find you for a meal. You don’t have time. "During this time, Lin Baixin was contacted frantically by the request of the ATV board of directors, but Yang Candu reluctantly pretended to be too busy to meet him.
"Isn't it here today?" Yang Can smiled, with a polite manner
Lin Baixin actually regrets it now. Of course, the old stubbornness of ATV's previous board of directors regrets even more. Seeing "I Have a Date with Zombies" and the craze sweeping the country now, Lin Baixin couldn't help but imagine that if he had stayed in the first place. My mind is not only to support scripts and some simple resources, but to use capital investment to obtain a part of the copyright of the drama. Now, ATV is not only in Hong Kong, the scenery is infinite, and the future benefits may be far more than that, let alone like Now, like talking to Yang Can, you still have to look at the "color" of the face.
On the previous day, the fifth episode of the broadcast defeated tvb's strong drama "Sniper Ambition" this year. He actually screamed excitedly in the apartment. He should have thought that Yang Can is definitely not a simple character, and public opinion is ravishing him. At that stage of the bombing, this young man never "showed" a frustrated expression one day. "I have a date with a zombie" was almost dominated by Yang Can from the end to the end, and ATV was more of an executor.
From the beginning of the talks with Cai Yanming, and then the investment into the seemingly cheap ATV share agreement, the selection of actors, in the middle, and finally turned the tide... Yang Can’s layout and methods are simply amazing, how do you look at him? Like a young man in his twenties.
But I still stupidly made a mistake in judgment. When Yang Can first came to ATV, how could he not support him vigorously!
Thinking of this, Lin Baixin sighed deeply, and then tentatively asked with a smile: "Yang Sheng, are you interested in shooting a sequel? If you can, you can continue to cooperate with us at ATV."
Yang Can was taken aback for a while, and then he woke up. The copyright of the script of "I Have a Date with Zombies" is still on ATV's side. Lin Baixin is planning to take advantage of the heat to shoot the sequel by himself. The subject of "You can continue to cooperate with us ATV" has been proved. , Next, ATV wants to get back the dominance.
"No plan for the time being." Yang Can shook his head, and he guessed that ATV would come, but their dreams might be shattered. Not to mention that the zombie series has been banned from being shown in the mainland. More importantly, Yin Tianzhao has contacted according to his own wishes. After all, the people who participated in the filming of ATV this time, after the end of the series promotion, he will take the people including Chen Shisanzai and leave ATV to set up a new independent and television production company. Become one of the subsidiaries of Top Media.
He smiled and said: "If ATV wants to shoot a sequel, you can shoot it alone with your company's strength."
Hearing Yang Can's rather indifferent answer, Lin Baixin was slightly surprised and felt a pity that he even gave up the sequel cooperation, did he have no such plan at all, or did he have other plans
The show began to be recorded, and there was a lot of voices in the studio. Everyone was very excited for the arrival of the crew. The host’s pitch could not be increased by an octave.
The protagonists took turns to answer questions. Everyone’s main interest was on the screen couple Lu Zibo and Yang Xiuya. In the eyes of the public, Lu Zibo’s fame was so different from that of the national elves that he couldn’t get together. This new version of the situation But God Bless is so deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and gradually brought the two of them closer to each other. In the lens, the two are so good-matched, even many movie fans called for the two to be together.
"Excuse me, how is the relationship between you two in private?"
Faced with the host’s question, Yang Xiuya smiled generously and glanced at Lu Zibo to explain: "We are the best friends, but we are not the kind of men and women. Our handsome Zibo does not treat me as a woman. "After speaking, he touched Lu Zibo's hand affectionately to show that he had a good relationship, causing a soft scream next to him.
Lu Zibo "showed" his sign to the camera with a smile of handsome Sunshine, but behind his back he let the towel wipe the place Yang Xiuya had touched, and made a "don't be disgusting" look at the clear and moving national spirit.
"As I know, Xiuya already has a sweetheart, but it's a pity that it's not me." Lu Zibo said half-jokingly. This is on the show. In order to promote it, he has to talk about some hot topics.
While everyone at the live broadcast was stunned, the host cast a questioning look at Yang Xiuya. According to the previous agreement, as long as the actor did not want to answer questions on the show, he could not ask them. The national elves in the circle have always been hot-tempered, but dare not Annoy her.
Unexpectedly, Yang Xiuya only hesitated for a while, but made all the fuckers nodded in surprise: "Well, there is such a person." There was an uproar at the scene. This is shocking news. Which man does a big star like Yang Xiuya like? ? Don't even dare to confess