CH 54

"Infatuated" actor (8)

Translated by Jev Kaez

Edited by Jev Kaez

After deciding to let Kong Si enter the entertainment circle, Lu Yi quickened the pace of the entertainment media company.

Xingchen Film and Television Media Co. Ltd. was also to commemorate the original owner, Lu Xingchen. After all, the original owner’s real dream was to become an actor, standing on the starry stage, and being remembered by everyone.

Lu Yi was really not good at acting and had no related talent. After thinking about it, he could only commemorate the other party in this way.

When registering the company, he had only 30 million on hand, because domestic joint-stock companies needed at least 7 people to hold shares, he let Kong Si also occupy a shareholder position, and the others were the industry capital bosses he met as a trader.

In the financial market circle, there were many wealthy people, and they were not only staring at stocks, but also making a lot of investment.

By virtue of his friendship and strength, Lu Yi had attracted about 30 million investments for the company. He himself had 30 million capital. The registered capital of Xingchen Film and Television Media was 100 million, and he and Kong Si account for 70%, holding absolute control over decision making.

In other words, if the company goes bankrupt and liquidates, he must pay the remaining 40 million.

Naturally, there were risks, but Lu Yi didn’t talk to Kong Si in detail. He didn’t deliberately conceal the other party. The main reason was that he didn’t want to put too much pressure on Kong Si so that he would not crush himself.

After all, for most people, unless they win the lottery and suddenly become rich, one billion was the money they would never earn in ten lifetimes.

Now that he decided to start a media company, Lu Yi wanted to work hard to get things done well.

After he woke up as the original owner, he changed Lu Xingchen’s original destiny trajectory. Perhaps there were gains and losses. He was lucky. From the beginning, he changed the situation of Lu Xingchen’s encounter with online violence, and even chose to quit the entertainment circle.

But because of this, he couldn’t get close to He Xiao, and the development of Lu Xingchen’s world after his death was completely blurred. What he remembered more clearly was the memories of Lu Xingchen before his death, as well as the deep pain before his death.

After he decided to start an entertainment company, the desperate and gloomy scenes of Lu Xingchen before his death repeatedly appeared in his dreams. Because he was a bystander, he could not fully empathize with him, but the mood more or less affected him.

Due to cyber violence, after Lu Xingchen was abandoned by his company, he had to completely isolate his life from the Internet, just like an ostrich in danger, burying his head in the sand desperately.

Lu Xingchen didn’t even dare to go on all kinds of networks, and it was not known what TV series would be popular in the future.

It was good to be able to predict which movie would catch on in the future, and reinvestment was good, but no, Lu Yi didn’t panic. He did a very detailed market research, compared the development trend of this world and his own world entertainment circle, and made a decision to invest in Ip dramas.

In the world he lived in, Ip dramas had developed to the middle and late stages, and the golden Ips had basically been looted and divided by major media companies.

When the Ip market was cold, a large number of Ips were bought and sold, and very few could be made into TV series.

But in this world, when people hear Ip, they only think of Internet Protocol, which was the Ip in the IP address that was closely related to hackers and the network.

As for Intellectual Property1, although there were many novel adaptations on the market, they were all changed classic literature or the works of well-known martial arts masters.

Regarding the newly emerging web-text Ip, the world’s media market had not fully realized its value.

But now, Lu Yi wanted to be the first person to eat crabs in this market.

The first drama he prepared for Kong Si was a fairy drama selected by the newly established marketing department from a sea of ​​books.

According to its spread and popularity, in Lu Yi, a country that started with millions of IPs, it would take at least 10 million to get it.

But in the new development, the staff only spent 100,000 yuan to talk about the script for him. Even at this price, the author himself felt that it was a big bargain.

Because the phenomenon of web piracy was too serious, although the popularity was very high, he did not get too high subscription income. In addition, the word count was too long, and it was not able to be published smoothly.

Moreover, if the essays written by the author could make a TV series, even if it didn’t stir up too much waves, it would be able to increase his own value.

Ordinary web writers were no better than those big screenwriters, and they were not picky about whether this media was a new company or not. Anyway, as long as they were not scammers, they didn’t need to pay for themselves. This money was like falling out of thin air.

Lu Yi prepared a budget of about 3 million for the marketing department. He originally thought that it would be good to stock up to five or six books, but the capable employees negotiated about thirty deals for him, and some of them were all copyrights.

If Lu Yi intended to develop mobile games in the future, he could save a lot of money.

In order to make the invested funds return as soon as possible, Kong Si’s first drama was filmed and broadcasted. From preparation to start-up, it took about one month, the shooting cycle was three months, and then there was a lot of post-production time.

Because it was a new company and a new script, although the director was a professional talent dug, the actors were basically new actors. Or, there were acting skills, but they were not popular in the circle.

As a new company entering the entertainment market, although Xingchen Entertainment’s registered capital seemed to be very strong, the registered capital was sometimes very high. In addition, Lu Yi’s contacts in the entertainment industry were not broad.

The first drama produced by Xingchen Media was initially only broadcast on a local TV station where the traffic was not high, and it was still on late night.

That was it, people were still looking for relationships and spending money, and people reluctantly agree to broadcast.

As a result, the TV series accidentally caused the TV station’s traffic to soar at night. Less than ten days after the broadcast, the TV station issued an announcement announcing that the TV series had been transferred from the late-night gear to the prime time.

With the rising ratings of this Xianxia drama that suddenly appeared, other TV stations also approached Xingchen Entertainment to talk about broadcasting rights.

Kong Si was the first artist signed by Xingchen Entertainment founded by Lu Yi, and he was also the best-paid artist. His stage name was what he said before. He changed his surname, Yu Si, which was reminiscent of Yuxiang pork shreds and squid silk, simple and easy to remember.

As the actor of the annual hit drama, actor Yu Si had also begun to be active in the headlines of major screens and websites.

In order to allow Lu Yi’s company to develop rapidly in the industry, Kong Si loved to bring Xingchen Media. He himself was the kind of person with a very cheerful personality. He had made a lot of contacts in the circle, and he had developed into Lu Yi’s help.

In addition to filming the script of his choice, Kong Si also participated in variety shows because of his straightforward character and charming smile.

Coupled with a professional star-making team working hard behind the scenes, Kong Si’s fans had increased at a terrifying rate, making Yu Si the hottest newcomer in the annual entertainment hot index that year.

The market in the entertainment industry was so big, the rise of a newcomer meant the decline of the flow of another.

That was all for different types. People with the same positioning and the same type were constantly competing for resources. The rising star of “Yu Si” was a decline in popularity and attention for people of his kind.

As Lu Yi said before, Kong Si’s positioning collided with He Xiao, and it also collided by 70% to 80%.

At the same age, the same looks of non-flowers, the same outgoing personality, the same overwhelming propaganda, and the rapid popularity.

And it was also the first drama, and the acting was remarkable. With the popularity of the artist Yu Si, the marketing account with good deeds began to pick up Yu Si’s background, and then quickly established a personality for Yu Si.

X was a high-achieving student, with a high degree of education, a rich second-generation, a good family background, not bad for money…

Many people in the entertainment circle are set by rich second-generation people, in order to tell fans that people didn’t need money, they were innocent, and they would never do the unspoken rules.

But some were really rich, and some were just for character design.

For example, He Xiao, his family background could only be said to be ordinary, but the company arranged for him to set up such a person, and hype various press releases.

As for He Xiao himself, he clarified on some occasions that were not very important, saying that he was from an ordinary family and was not really rich.

But there was a very strange phenomenon in the entertainment industry, that is, people didn’t believe what you say, only believe in those marketing accounts.

The watch He Xiao wears was worth XX million, he drove a luxury car, and he lived in the presidential suite of a five-star hotel, so he was the second generation of the rich.

In the eyes of fans, He Xiao was a straight-forward and rich second-generation, simple and unpretentious, good acting, good personality, and a straight steel man with acting skills and good looks.

The first drama in his debut was a big hit. In the past two years, He Xiao had taken two or three more dramas, but the results were not good. Originally, he took a fairly good production this year, the “Xianxia” drama, which was still broadcast on the top domestic TV stations and was a prime time.

Originally, he was expecting a big explosion, but there was black horse. It was also a fairy drama, and the other party’s script was much better than the script he participated in. As a fairy drama, in addition to the script, post-production was also very important.

The drama that He Xiao participated in announced an investment of 100 million yuan, but the initial announcement was tens of millions. The artists’ remuneration accounted for two-thirds of the remaining two-thirds, and the real investment in the play was very limited.

It was okay if there was no comparison. Even if the show was not explosive, it would not be much worse.

But the drama that Kong Si participated in broke out, and he made a lot of noise in this drama relatively speaking. Moreover, he was also the leading actor in the Xianxia drama, his predecessor was compared with the younger generation Yu Si.

As a commended junior, when he beat the seniors with various acting skills in the draft, He Xiao’s heart was very happy, but Feng Shui turned around. It was his turn to be suppressed by the younger generations, and his heart began to be extremely uncomfortable.

After seeing the other party’s resume and appearance, He Xiao suddenly remembered an important thing. He tried to get Kong Si’s personal contact information from other artists, and then got the other party’s line.

He Xiao: Kong Si, you are Kong Si, do you remember me? You rescued me in that small alley in XX middle school.