Chapter 431 Company Affairs and CCTV Dialogue

In addition to the blockbuster "The Legend of Zhen Huan", this year's TV drama department also has many other projects.

For example, "Before the Dawn", which was inspired by the popularity of "The Hidden Corner", is also an excellent spy war drama. Although it did not have as much influence as "The Hidden Corner" after it was broadcast, it was also very popular for a while.

There is also a relatively excellent anti-Japanese war drama "The Unforgettable Number". The original version of this drama was starred by Huang Haibo, but now that it has fallen into the hands of Golden Harvest, it is naturally impossible to give it to him.

Huang Haibo is undoubtedly an excellent actor, but it is a pity that he was framed and banned.

Some people think that flies don't bite seamless eggs, and since he has been banned, he must have done it.

But if he really did it, his girlfriend would not marry him without hesitation after it happened.

Moreover, among the many artists who have been banned by the authorities in the mainland, Huang Haibo is the only one whom most audiences hope can be unbanned and make a comeback.

However, I don’t know if there is any resistance, but he has never made a comeback.

The TV series "The Eternal Number" can be regarded as a relatively outstanding anti-Japanese war drama after "Drawing Sword", especially in the current era when fantastic dramas are rampant, it is even more outstanding.

The male lead of this drama was given to Zhang Yi. Originally, Liu Jiang, the director of "Before the Dawn", wanted to pull Zhang Yi over.

Zhang Yi is now extremely popular because of the drama "The Disguiser".

Liu Jiang also wants to take advantage of the popularity, and the audience will definitely be looking forward to the spy drama in which he stars again. As long as Zhang Yi is involved, "Before Dawn" will be 80% successful.

However, Zhang Yi didn't want to confine himself to the circle of spy war dramas, so after looking at the company's projects, he chose "The Unforgettable Number".

That’s right, Zhang Yi is now qualified to choose projects.

In the end, Liu Jiang had no choice but to watch Zhang Yi throw himself into the arms of other directors with some regret. Finally, he invited Hu Jun to play the leading actor in "Before Dawn".

In addition to these two projects worth mentioning, there are several other dramas that Liu Zhou has not paid much attention to.

After explaining the matters concerning "The Legend of Zhen Huan", Zhang Zhao reported to Liu Zhou about the matters concerning "The Voice of China".

After Golden Harvest Group went public, Liu Zhou specially arranged for the establishment of Golden Harvest Production, a company responsible for the production of variety shows.

Zhang Zhao then poached Tian Minglai, vice president of Shanghai Broadcasting Group (SMG) and in charge of the variety show business of Oriental Satellite TV, to serve as general manager of Golden Harvest Production.

After Tian Ming joined the company, he brought in several of his old subordinates from Dragon TV, and also poached a group of people from Zhejiang TV and Hunan TV to set up the platform for Golden Harvest production.

After getting the company in order, Tian Ming flew to the Netherlands with his team and successfully bought out the Chinese regional copyright of "The Voice of Holland".

Although Golden Harvest Productions is a new company, its employees all have extensive experience in variety show production. In addition, the production of "The Voice of China" is not particularly difficult, so their preparations were also very fast.

However, they have no problem with the program production, but the most important thing about "The Voice of China" are the four mentors, and this requires help from the group headquarters.

Now everything is ready, except for the instructor.

"Boss Liu, Liu Huan and Yu Chenqing have both accepted our invitation, but things are not going well for the princess. She just gave birth to a child and is in semi-retirement. She won't accept any announcements.

Then things were not going well in Hong Kong. Andy Lau was too busy to participate, and Zhang Xueyou said he did not participate in variety shows and also refused. "

According to Liu Zhou's idea, he would invite a superstar singer to be a mentor from the mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan respectively.

The most influential singer in the mainland is undoubtedly Liu Huan, who was also the mentor of the original "The Voice of China".

Moreover, he is not only a big name in mainland China, but his status is also recognized in the Hong Kong and Taiwanese music circles.

Therefore, Liu Huan also plays the role of a cornerstone among the four mentors. He will not make jokes, but his professionalism is evident when he opens his mouth.

Fortunately, Liu Huan accepted the invitation, otherwise even Liu Zhou wouldn’t know who could replace him.

If Liu Huan represents professionalism, then Yu Chenqing is for the show effect.

Speaking of status, he is undoubtedly not a superstar in Taiwan, but he has an advantage that many people cannot match, that is, he has a sense of variety shows, can let go, and his professional ability is also strong.

Among the four mentors in the original time and space of "The Voice of China", his program effect is undoubtedly the best.

So even though his status in the music industry is slightly lower, Liu Zhou still decided to invite him to be one of the mentors.

Then in Hong Kong, Liu Zhou originally wanted to invite one of the Four Heavenly Kings, but unexpectedly, the two most successful singers, Andy Lau and Zhang Xueyou, both refused.

Among the three big names from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, the remaining one must be a female singer.

I don't want to invite the original Nayoung and A-mei Liu Zhou, so if I want to find someone who is better than these two, I can only think about the princess.

Now the princess has refused because she has to take care of her children. The remaining new generation members, Sun Yanzi and Cai Yilin, are famous enough, but their status and qualifications are still weaker. Due to their personalities, it is difficult for them to compete with several old seniors for people.

To be honest, although Queen Na has many flaws, her sense of variety shows... or her ability to stir up trouble is still good.

She and Ning Jing are famous for their ability to have fun. Even Mango TV couldn't help but use them as selling points for "Sisters Who Make Waves 3". It's really not as easy for ordinary big-name female singers to stand out as she does.

He has a straightforward and carefree personality, dares to speak out and grab things, and can easily create variety show effects.

In the original version of "The Voice of China", she was the only one who could have a good interaction with Yu Chenqing, unlike Yang Sanshierlang who could only keep talking about the 32 concerts over and over again.

"Since Liu Dehua and Zhang Xueyou have both refused, then you can go contact Li Tianwang and Principal Tan. Even if they refuse, there is still Eason."

Chen Yixun is an artist under Emperor Entertainment Group, so he will give him face no matter what.

Although Eason is the least famous among the candidates in Hong Kong, he is now very popular in both Mainland China and Hong Kong. In order to build momentum for him, Emperor Entertainment Group has begun marketing him as the next generation singing god.

“As for the female mentor, you can contact Han Hong. She is famous enough, has a straightforward personality, is carefree, dares to speak out and dares to grab, and can easily create variety show effects.

But don’t just rely on her. You can also consider Wei Wei, Tian Zhen, Li Wen, Karen Mok and others as candidates. They are also considered diva-level. "

Anyway, it's only the first season now, and Liu Zhou is not sure that the four mentors finally selected can produce a good chemistry. Even if one or two mentors perform worse, it doesn't matter. At worst, they can be replaced in the second season.

"Okay Mr. Liu."

"How's the situation at the cinema?"

"At present, Mr. Gao has already purchased land in four first-tier cities to build luxury movie studios, and construction should start at the same time after the Chinese New Year.

Now Mr. Gao should be flying around with his team, looking for land to build cinemas in other cities."

“When will all the land in other cities be acquired as planned?”

"It may take a year, and no later than March next year."

Hearing Zhang Zhao's reply, Liu Zhou couldn't help but nod his head. Although domestic housing prices and land prices will rise a lot in the next year, they won't rise too much, and apart from the four first-tier cities, the growth rates of other second- and third-tier cities will not be that large.

In this way, the cost of buying land will not increase too much.

Finally, Liu Zhou learned about the situation of the film and television industry park. Many coastal cities are very enthusiastic about this major project of Golden Harvest Group.

After nearly half a year of site selection and the preferential conditions that local authorities could offer, there were only two places left: Hangzhou and Zhanjiang in Guangdong Province.

The two places have their own advantages and disadvantages. As one of the core cities in the Yangtze River Delta, Hangzhou not only has a developed economy but also a relatively concentrated amount of talent.

The most important thing is that Hangzhou is currently actively building a cultural city and is very welcoming to Golden Harvest Group’s investment in the film and television industry, offering many preferential policies.

As for Zhanjiang, greater discounts are offered there.

The land price in Zhanjiang is much lower than that in Hangzhou. They also gave considerable discounts on the land price, as well as other supporting preferential policies such as taxation. Their sincerity can be said to be very sufficient.

This is not the most important thing. Zhanjiang even provides certain cash subsidies to the crews that come to film.

They may not be able to provide tax refund benefits, but they still have the authority to decide on cash subsidies.

In this way, it will be more attractive to the crew and will also be beneficial to the development of Jiahe Film and Television Industrial Park.

However, Zhanjiang is still too remote, being located at the southernmost tip of Guangdong Province, and there was no foundation for the film and television industry.

So currently Zhang Zhao is leading his team to conduct final communication with relevant departments in the two places, and it will probably be finalized before the beginning of next spring.

After dealing with the matters at Jiahe, Liu Zhou went to Sina Group and Zhoushan Literature.

Sina Group has entered a period of stable development, and all its businesses are running in an orderly manner.

However, the mobile era is about to arrive, and Liu Zhou also reminded Sina President Wang Yan that wireless value-added services may shrink sharply and he should be prepared.

It’s time to transform, transform; it’s time to lay off employees, lay off employees. Don’t rush around. Sometimes a business will be eliminated by the times quietly, catching you off guard.

At the same time, Liu Zhou also told Wang Yan some ideas about Toutiao and asked him to arrange people to develop this application.

In fact, even in the mobile era, Sina has no shortage of applications.

It is easy to develop mobile apps for Weibo, Youku Video, Kugou, etc.

However, just as Sina Group cannot be compared with BAT relying on these applications, the same is true on the mobile side.

Moreover, if Sina continues to cling to these businesses, the gap between Ali and Penguin Group will become increasingly larger.

Liu Zhou still had some ambitions for Sina Group. In the Web 2.0 era, the landscape had basically taken shape, and Sina had almost no chance of catching up with the BAT trio.

The coming mobile era will be Sina Group’s only chance to catch up with Ali and Penguin.

Later in the mobile era, a company emerged that could be compared with these two companies, and that was the Tik Tok Group.

Even when Ali was on the decline, the Douyin Group was still booming. Relying on its huge traffic, it began to enter the food delivery and taxi-hailing industries.

Liu Zhou hopes that Sina Group can follow the path of Tik Tok Group.

In this way, Sina can also gain a huge traffic pool, which can instantly revitalize Sina's other applications and form a healthier and larger ecological closed loop.

The current founder of a certain audio group, Zhang Yimin, is still working for someone else and may be planning to quit his job and start his own business.

But even if he has already started Toutiao, it doesn’t matter. Liu Zhou can’t think that a startup company like him can compare with the wealthy Sina Group.

Besides, Sina has unique advantages in news and videos, so it is much more convenient to develop applications like Toutiao.

As for Zhoushan literature, Liu Zhou doesn't need to worry too much.

Now the core of Zhoushan Literature has become Singularity Chinese Network, and literary online literature websites like Under the Banyan Tree have become less and less popular.

Currently, Zhoushan Literature's main business is to rely on popular online articles to carry out full copyright operations such as publishing, comics, animation, and games.

However, this year, under the guidance of Liu Zhou, Bilibili was also established.

Using Zhoushan Video seemed too old-fashioned and incompatible with the two-dimensional world, so in the end Liu Zhou simply didn't bother to think about it and just called it Bilibili.

There are already quite a few people in China who like the two-dimensional world, but there is no gathering place. The establishment of Bilibili has undoubtedly helped them find an organization.

So even though Bilibili has been online for less than a year, its user base has grown rapidly and is still very active.

In response to this, Zhoushan Literature President Qu He immediately raised the level of importance of Bilibili to the highest level.

It took Liu Zhou two days to deal with the affairs of these three companies.

That evening, Liu Zhou also went to CCTV to participate in the "Dialogue" program.

The brightly lit studio of CCTV was already filled with fans and industry insiders who had come to record the show. In the center of the stage, two white sofas were placed facing each other.

Amid the audience's applause, host Chen Weihong smiled and said:
“The recent Hollywood movie Avatar was released nationwide, causing a huge sensation and tickets are hard to come by.

This movie not only sparked heated discussions among the audience, but also caused quite a stir in the film industry.

Today we have invited a guest to interpret the "Avatar" phenomenon with us, as well as the future of Chinese films. Please welcome Director Liu Zhou with applause!"

Amid the warm applause of the audience, Liu Zhou walked into the studio and said with a smile:
"Hello everyone! Hello, Weihong!"

"Hello, Director Liu! Please sit down!" Chen Weihong shook hands with Liu Zhou and asked him to sit down.

Liu Zhou didn't hesitate and sat down directly.

After Chen Weihong sat down, he looked at Liu Zhou and said:

"Cameron came to Beijing on the 24th to promote Avatar. When a reporter interviewed him, he said that you are the Chinese director he admires most, and he really wants to meet you.

I heard that you have met privately, is it true?"

Liu Zhou laughed and said:

"I always thought that 'Dialogue' was a serious talk show, but I didn't expect it to be so gossipy!"

(End of this chapter)