Chapter 285 Holy Fire Meow Meow Leader
Chapter 285 Holy Fire Meow Meow Leader
on the phone.
I just had a brief communication with Jack Long to finalize the general direction. We haven't started discussing the details of the cooperation on the "Myth" TV series yet.
After listening to Fan Wumian's introduction, Zuo Ziyan asked curiously:
"Neither Jack Long nor Yingwang Media seem to be short of money, so why would they go to the trouble of seeking cooperation with you?"
"I remember that in the past, when movies were made, there was often only one company investing in and distributing a movie. Now, when watching a movie, there are often several titles showing several investors."
"Is this a combination of small companies trying to share the risk and launch a big project? It's so boring in the UK. I often buy some new movie discs and ask the servants to send them to Cambridge, and watch dramas at night to kill time."
Fan Wumian was eating a pork chop with a fork.
Whether it is grilled steak, lamb chops or pork chops, after being drizzled with black pepper sauce, they all seem to taste the same and there is not much difference.
He explained:
"Times have changed. Take the film industry for example. Hollywood is now the only dominant player. If other film and television companies want to grab market share, they can only compete on scripts, directors, actors, marketing planning, scheduling, and resource relationships."
"Cooperation in investing in new projects to reduce risk is only part of the reason. Another reason is that it can also integrate resources and facilitate marketing and promotion."
"The reason why they asked me to invest together is obviously because of my popularity and hope to achieve good results in the mainland market. I haven't seen the script of the TV version of "The Myth" yet, and I am a little worried that it will have a weird plot."
Zuo Ziyan looked up at him and asked:
"You like to eat alone, and you've been scolded by your peers in Hong Kong. A movie company boss accused you of only caring about fattening yourself and not helping the development of Hong Kong's film and television industry."
Fan Wumian continued:
"I am confident in my project. I have no shortage of scripts, actors, and marketing plans."
"The market is there, and anyone has the opportunity to grab it. Many of my peers don't have the ability, so is it my fault that they can't make money?"
"They are just jealous of me. Even if I win over a few companies, the rest will still slander me. I will never be able to satisfy everyone, so it's better to just ignore them."
The current situation is that Fan Wumian not only has a huge influence, but his works are also particularly popular.
In the absence of a shortage of funds, there is really no reason to bring others on board and share the profits with other investors.
Jack Long and his friends are different.
Most of the audiences of the movie "The Myth" are middle-aged people who grew up watching Jackie Chan's action movies, and young people are not very interested in it.
The TV adaptation of "The Myth" is aimed mainly at young people from the mainland.
That's why Jack Long took the initiative to call and invite him to join, hoping to use Fan Wumian's resources to make the TV version of "The Myth" popular.
We cooperate with each other, and there is no question of who is helping whom.
As for the voices from outside saying that Fan Wumian is of no help to the recovery of Hong Kong's film and television industry, it is undoubtedly people in the industry who are morally blackmailing him.
If you count carefully, Zuo Ziyan, Zhuang Muxi and Feng Ying'er are all considered Hong Kong actors.
The director of “The Lonely and Great God”, Lin Fenyu, is also from Hong Kong, as is the deputy director of “Those Years”.
Apparently, it was because the benefits did not fall to certain people, the crew hired too many mainland employees, and signed some new actors from the mainland, which led to the rumor of "elbows turning outward".
Fan Wumian, of course, was dismissive of this.
After all, he is self-reliant and was not nurtured by the Hong Kong entertainment resources. He has no relatives or friends with these colleagues. Why should he share the money with others for free?
When Hong Kong entertainment was leading Asia a few years ago, no one gave it any benefits.
Now they want to force the burden of reviving Hong Kong entertainment onto Fan Wumian's shoulders. He must have been kicked in the head by a donkey before he would sacrifice himself for the benefit of others and take the initiative to become a cash cow to fatten up the bosses of other film and television companies.
Jack Long has already achieved success and fame, and has a very high emotional intelligence. He understands the ways of the world much better than Stephen Chow.
While letting Fan Wumian make a cameo appearance, he was planning to give the leading female role to Zhuang Muxi, which was equivalent to using the film remuneration to pay off the debt, so that he could own 20% of the shares in the drama version of "The Myth" project, and everyone could make money together through cooperation.
This is a very fair cooperation and everyone is happy.
Many film and television company bosses hope that Fan Wumian will take over their plays as the leading role at a low price, or bring them into the new projects of Bandit King Media.
After being rejected, he still yelled things like "I can't accept your invitation", "You don't give me face", "You like to eat alone" and so on.
Instead of spending his time helping others make movies, he might as well invest in and star in some productions himself. The profits he would make afterwards would obviously be much higher than working for others.
In the final analysis, some minor conflicts with peers are mainly caused by money.
Several generations of her ancestors had been doing business, and Zuo Ziyan could see that Fan Wumian stood out from the crowd. There were many people who liked him and those who were hostile to him.
Fortunately, Fan Wumian had prepared a retreat early on.
Even if you are turned against by your peers, the worst that can happen is that you can change your career and become a businessman. As long as you don't do anything stupid, your life won't be too bad.
So Zuo Ziyan said calmly:
"You just need to be a little careful and make as much money as you can while you can. It's good to diversify your investments. Being a star is not stable enough. You never know when you will become outdated. Sometimes, it is a wise choice to quit while you are ahead."
Shaking his fork, Fan Wumian replied:
"It's fine for now. The entertainment industry is different from other industries. No matter what my peers think, as long as I have enough fans supporting me, there won't be too much trouble. Besides, when I launch the video website, countless companies will be able to make extra profits from me, and I should have many allies."
"A video website. This is equivalent to opening a TV station, right? Hong Kong should be fine. Will the mainland allow you to open such a company?"
"Of course, no problem. I will buy the copyright from the TV station when the time comes, which will bring them extra income."
After a long chat, Fan Wumian returned to the hotel suite. Fan Wumian was busy writing a manuscript, while Zuo Ziyan was busy collecting information for her paper.
It felt like being back at Trinity School, where they often spent time together when she was helping with tutoring.
He recovered a little blood during the day and gave it all to Miss Zuo that night.
The next morning.
Fan Wumian continued filming, during which time he received a call from a staff member of the Penguin Group, asking him to try out the beta version of "Penguin Weibo".
The development of Weibo is not difficult. You can just modify some forum and blog codes and use it. The only differences are "limiting the number of words in a post", "increasing hot search rankings", "increasing user interactivity", and "adding celebrity real-name authentication".
Take some time to test it online. You need to re-register your account.
This is also Fan Wumian’s suggestion.
Originally, the staff of Penguin Group planned to log in to Weibo with QQ accounts, and even allow the recommendation of QQ friends, so that they could follow each other to increase interactivity and open up the market as soon as possible.
But Fan Wumian pointed out the problem directly.
If you do this, isn't that equivalent to creating a second QQ space? It's better not to waste your money on it.
He suggested turning Penguin Weibo into a new social platform independent of QQ, allowing users to share private posts.
After all, he is a major shareholder holding a 10% stake. The development department responded enthusiastically and took all his suggestions into consideration.
The "Penguin Weibo" product developed this time neither recommends QQ friends to users nor displays them to people they may know, unless the user actively chooses to bind the QQ account and display the Weibo information.
Apart from being able to share and repost with QQ Space, it is almost completely independent of QQ's social system. Its privacy is impeccable, but the difficulty of promotion increases suddenly.
Fan Wumian received the endorsement fee from Penguin Group, but he couldn't just take the money and do nothing, so he promised in advance to help with promotion and to recruit people from the entertainment industry to join Penguin Weibo.
With his influence, as long as he demonstrates the promotional advantages of the Weibo platform, I believe that even if he does nothing, he can attract a group of celebrities to follow suit and register accounts, bypassing traditional media and interacting directly with fans.
In terms of products and functions, it has borrowed some features from Silicon Valley's Facebook social products, but has also innovated its own characteristics by combining the characteristics and needs of mainland users.
With Fan Wumian's help in making suggestions, the development department avoided many detours.
During the beta test period.
He also spoke to a representative of the development team and asked them to help him with real-name authentication. A red "V" soon appeared on his profile picture.
The real-name authentication showed “Fan Wumian”, but he changed his account name to “Holy Fire Meow Meow Leader”.
The introduction also reads: "The holy flame is shining, the holy flame is radiant, all my fans, meow meow meow!"
Don't ask what the deep meaning is.
He thinks it is more interesting and can easily attract the love of female fans.
Coming back to yesterday’s photo of him riding a brown bear, Fan Wumian posted his first Weibo post, and after thinking for a long time, he wrote:
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"The mountains are green but never old, they turn white with snow.
Facing the Ocean, Spring and Blossom.
Watch the sea and sky merge into one, and listen to the wind and rain.
There is nothing to cling to. A hundred years from now, there will be no you, and no me either."
At first glance, the non-mainstream flavor hits you.
This is exactly what Fan Wumian wanted.
His fans are generally young and prefer this type of sentences. Most of them are obsessed with melancholy and talented handsome guys.
As for the clean and sunny little puppy, that is a future fashion trend and there is no market for it now.
Some lyrics from songs like "Nanshan Nan" and "A Sky Full of Stars Can't Reach You" have long become popular signatures on the Internet.
As a result, collections such as "A Complete Collection of Fan Wumian's Lyrics and Signatures" and "The Best Fan Wumian Signatures of 2005" have also emerged.
He conquered male fans with "Emperor of the Wilderness", and also conquered countless female fans with his personalized signature, personalized online name and handsome photos of internet celebrities.
During the development of Penguin Weibo, he also heard the company's programmers jokingly mention that there were at least hundreds of thousands of netizens in the mainland who used his photos as their avatars, most of whom were female.
The reason why the sales of Jay Chou's album "Nocturne" declined and was not as good as "Seven Miles of Fragrance" released last year was largely due to the fact that his fans turned into passers-by and his market share was snatched away by Fan Wumian.
no way.
Jay Chou is good at singing and writing songs, but he loses because of the word "handsome".
When it comes to hype and marketing skills, they are even worse.
His career obviously encountered a setback and he began to live in Fan Wumian's shadow.
(End of this chapter)