Chapter 764: Xianjian

The "Roommates" series, placed in the brilliant Linghe, is like a weak, sparse little tree growing in a lush forest.

The first one almost didn't make money, just breaking even.

The second one earned a little, but compared to the manpower, energy, and time costs invested, it was a loss.

However, Lu Yanhe didn't care at all that this drama didn't make a profit.

He always believed that the drama "Roommates" was the first project of Linghe that had nothing to do with him and was figured out by Linghe's own people.

This is an identifier.

So, not making money? It's okay, as long as it doesn't lose money and can be filmed, then keep filming.

The company's people have work to do, money to earn, and can "train troops," why not do it?

No one expected that the third season of "Roommates" would suddenly explode with such a surprise.

Even if it still can't compare with other dramas of Linghe.

However, this result means it can finally enter the "profit mode."

Lu Yanhe said to Chen Yin: "Persist, from quantitative change to qualitative change, maybe when filming to the sixth or seventh season, this will become a vertical hit."

Lu Yanhe was not joking, nor was he encouraging Chen Yin.

He was serious.

The long-tail effect of sitcoms is not something to be joked about.

After all, the viewership rating of the first episode of the third season of "Roommates" just came out, and the next day, these people from Yuehu TV keenly came to buy the rerun rights of the first and second seasons again.

Every TV drama is broadcast on a TV station for a round, and the TV station has to pay a copyright fee—of course, some dramas sign a term broadcast contract with the TV station.

But Linghe sells by time.

This is the experience brought by the drama "Friends".

The viewership ratings of reruns are very high—this means the value is very high.

Of course, generally speaking, the copyright fee for reruns is much lower than the first round of broadcast.

Like the first and second seasons of "Roommates", Yuehu TV bought the broadcast rights for three rounds of reruns of these two seasons in one breath, costing a total of only 560,000 RMB.

However, Chen Yin also told the people at Yuehu TV that if the viewership ratings are good, come back to buy, and he will raise the price.

The people in the purchase department of Yuehu TV were not unhappy at all.

"If all production companies were like your Linghe, raising prices only when viewership ratings are high, the risks we have to bear would be much lower."

Chen Yin smiled and thought, don't speak too early.

In early September, Lu Yanhe went to Los Angeles, one to meet with the producers and directors of "Cloud Sea" to communicate specific matters about appearing in this movie, and the second to meet with Director Luni Reese.

Luni Reese finally finished filming "Doomsday" this summer.

Next, it's the movie "Source Code".

This movie has been taken down by parameter and will provide a production budget of 45 million USD.

And Lu Yanhe retained the copyright of the story of "Source Code" itself. The script he provided can only be filmed as a movie. This means that if Luni Reese's production company or parameter wants to film sequels or derivative film and television dramas, they must get authorization from Lu Yanhe again.

For this movie, Lu Yanhe is also one of the producers.

However, the only place he "intervened" in this movie was to leave the female character who helped the male lead on the train to Wen Minglan.

Chen Ziyan opened her mouth to ask for a role from him for the first time, and Lu Yanhe naturally wouldn't refuse. In a commercial sci-fi film like "Source Code", those few main female characters can be acted by anyone, and each character can be adjusted according to the actor herself. Their character settings do not affect any development of the movie plot.

As for other characters, Lu Yanhe didn't care.

Let Luni Reese and parameter decide everything.

Luni Reese asked Lu Yanhe if he had any thoughts on the male lead.

Lu Yanhe said: "Not for now, do you hope I have thoughts?"

Luni Reese said: "They all say you have a set of ways to look at actors, and the script was written by you, so I want to hear your opinion."

"But I am not familiar with Hollywood, the male actors I know are just those few most famous ones." Lu Yanhe shrugged his shoulders, "Not very easy to recommend, this still has to be found by yourself."

Luni Reese said: "A budget of 45 million, not high, not low, actors are also not easy to invite, invite real big names, the budget is not enough, can't carry the box office, also not okay."

Lu Yanhe said: "Is the selling point of such sci-fi movies on the actors?"

"Oh, in Hollywood, without stars, the production company will not agree." Luni Reese said, "Unless doing independent films, not needing so much budget."

Lu Yanhe said: "Then just send audition invitations to actors in the suitable range, maybe you look at it and find the actor you like."

Luni Reese asked: "If holding an audition, will you come to participate?"

"I don't necessarily have time, too busy." Lu Yanhe said, "I am about to enter the crew to film 'Godless', Green Valley's movie."

"Oh, I know it." Luni Reese said, "This movie has almost seen all the actors in Hollywood."

Lu Yanhe was a bit surprised, "Is that so?"

"Hmm." Luni Reese said, "The actors competing for this film are definitely more than you imagine, and there are many characters in the film itself, needing many actors, no one came to ask you?"

Lu Yanhe shook his head.

"Really not."

Luni Reese said: "Is it because fewer people know your contact information? Otherwise, how could no one contact you? Are you the first actor signed for the movie 'Godless'?"

"This seems to be the case." Lu Yanhe nodded, "However, the people I know in Hollywood are indeed not many."

Luni Reese asked curiously: "Those actors didn't come to ask you for the script?"

Lu Yanhe said: "Received emails and calls from some people, but just exchanged contact information, didn't contact much later, just every time a movie is released or a drama is broadcast, they will send me a congratulatory message."

Luni Reese: "This is not normal, logically speaking, shouldn't many people come to ask you for roles?"

Lu Yanhe: "Yes, but really not many, I don't know why, but this is quite good, if they come to ask me for roles, I don't know what to do either."

"When is the movie 'Doomsday' expected to be released?" Lu Yanhe asked.

Luni Reese said: "Temporarily scheduled for release on October 12 next year, parameter should announce the release date news soon."

Unlike domestic movies, in Hollywood, their movies—especially blockbusters like "Doomsday"—often set the release date a year or even two years in advance.

Then the entire project revolves around this time point to advance all work.

Doing this is also to grab the schedule in advance, telling other movie companies, I have occupied this schedule, don't come to grab it.

Lu Yanhe's "The Mist 2" is like this, scheduled early for release on January 10 next year, about the same time as the first one was released.

For the movie "Doomsday", Lu Yanhe is still very concerned.

Because this movie is the first project he and Chen Pinhe have seriously fought.

In the end, Chen Pinhe was out, and Jiang Jun became one of the double male leads.

Lu Yanhe is very cool.

He hopes this movie will be a great success, especially Jiang Jun's great success, making Chen Pinhe regret to death.

After meeting with a few people, Lu Yanhe hurried back to the country.

There are about ten days left before entering the crew of "Godless", and he doesn't want to spend all his time in the United States.

Of course, the main reason is that he still has a "Xianjian" gala to attend.

Turning a celebration banquet of a drama directly into a gala, in recent years, this is the only one.

How capable is Yuehu TV of making things happen?

First of all, all tickets for the gala site are only open to the audience. Every audience member who grabs a ticket must first complete a test of one hundred questions, and if the score is passing, they can grab the ticket.

This is not about fighting for internet speed.

And Yuehu TV promised to donate the income of every ticket to Project Hope, not as commercial income.

In fact, this bit of income is really nothing compared to the commercial advertising sponsorship fee of the entire gala. But this practice can win a very good reputation. Everyone feels that this gala also has public welfare nature, and it instantly becomes more high-end.

Every main creator participating in the gala also has a red carpet session.

The red carpet session is a separate session.

The host sits on both sides of the red carpet with all the media groups, asking questions to the main creators.

Yuehu TV started to do "creativity" in this place.

After every main creator walks on the red carpet, they have to pick three keywords from the "keyword question bank" provided by every "questioner," and then the corresponding "questioner" asks this question, and the main creator answers.

Once this is done, the question is chosen by the main creator themselves. However, what the question behind the keyword is, is unknown, so it is full of freshness.

Just the live broadcast of the red carpet session has nearly 8 million viewers watching at the same time.

These questions are also interesting questions.

For example, Lu Yanhe chose the keyword "Three People Walking," and the result was that the question corresponding to this keyword was "Please answer, among you, Li Zhibai, and Yan Liang, who is Yan Lingyu's ideal type."

These questions cannot be avoided and must be answered.

Lu Yanhe: "..."

Once this question was asked, the whole audience was screaming.

"Such a cunning question, I originally thought the scope of this question was among me, Yan Liang, and Li Zhibai, thinking that no matter what the question was, I dared to answer, but I didn't expect such a big pit waiting for me to jump in."

Lu Yanhe said with a smile: "To be honest, this question, how big a face do I have to be embarrassed to say I am Yan Lingyu's ideal type? I want face, even if I think I am in my heart, I don't admit it, but I can say categorically that I am Chen Siqi's ideal type."

The whole audience burst into laughter, someone shouted: "This answer doesn't count!"

Lu Yanhe laughed and continued: "Exclude my choice, only two choices are left. Based on my understanding of Yan Lingyu, she has collaborated with Li Zhibai for two dramas, both acting as lovers, but the two are still just colleagues, no ambiguity. To say Li Zhibai is her ideal type, I can't say it, too unreliable."

Screams from the audience rose and fell one after another.

"So, if choosing one among the three of us, I can only say that Li Zhibai and I are not enough to be options, but whether Yan Liang can be regarded as an ideal type by Yan Lingyu, I am not sure either. How about I write a love drama for them in the future to see if there is cp feeling, and then I will answer this question."

The host said with a smile: "Yan He is really too cunning, everyone analyzed it in place, but in the end, said nothing."

"Master." Another host immediately laughed and turned to the next question.

Lu Yanhe was smiling from beginning to end anyway.

For even the most tricky questions, he actually doesn't care now.

There is a kind of calmness of soldiers coming to block, water coming to cover.

Li Zhibai is even more muddy.

A question he drew was "If there is an opportunity for you to play another role in 'Chinese Paladin', which role is your first choice?"

Li Zhibai said directly: "Zhao Linger."

The answer was beyond everyone's expectations.

The host asked why.

Li Zhibai said: "I also want to see what it feels like to act in a love drama with a perfect male actor like me."

The media, who had long been accustomed to Li Zhibai's unreliable, full-of-nonsense style, couldn't help but hiss at this moment.

Li Zhibai was still carefree, saying: "Don't hiss, I know you want to too."

The hissing was even louder.

Li Zhibai laughed very brightly.

A question Yan Liang drew was "The ending of Tang Yu Xiaobao and Anu you played is one of the biggest tear-jerkers in the drama. After seeing the script at that time, did you have any thoughts of finding Lu Yanhe to resurrect your character?"

Yan Liang said: "I thought about it, but he wrote his own character to death, so I was embarrassed to open this mouth. In fact, Anu and I didn't die, did we? We became another existence, still living in the world of 'Chinese Paladin'."

A question Luo Yuzhong drew was "Why did the director choose to direct a Xianxia story with a bit of idol drama temperament? Will you film dramas with similar themes in the future?".

Luo Yuzhong said: "Never filmed it, no one asked me to film it before. Yan He was the first to come to me to direct a Xianxia drama. I really wanted to try it. Of course, the most important thing is that after reading the script, I was shocked. I am a person in my fifties and sixties, and I was actually moved by such a drama of a group of young people, as you said, with a bit of idol drama temperament. I think this is very rare. Its form may be an idol drama, the story may be unrealistic, but the people and feelings in its story are sincere, otherwise it would not be able to move me. So, encountering such a script that exceeded my expectations, how could I not take it?"

He said with a smile.

"I like working with this group of children very much. Most of the actors I collaborated with before were mature actors. This is the first time I have collaborated with so many young actors." Luo Yuzhong said, "I really want to film more dramas of young people in the future and collaborate more with young people."

The host said: "Everyone says that only you can gather such a lineup in a TV drama."

"That is Lu Yanhe's credit, it has little to do with me." Luo Yuzhong said, "But I like this kid very much. People in the entertainment industry are all running with projects, and it is actually difficult to maintain a long-lasting friendship, but look at this kid, he does one project after another, firmly keeping his friends by his side. It is said that when he ran a magazine, it was also to keep his classmates by his side. This is really something my generation wouldn't even dare to think about."

The host smiled: "Isn't there a hot search called 'Lu Yanhe who values friendship'." (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 765 =====