Chapter 365 1 Huge Profits

Chapter 365 1 Huge Profits

Chapter 365 A Large Profit
It took only about half a year from the start of filming to the broadcast of "The Lonely and Great God", which can be considered extremely fast.

After the show was broadcast for two consecutive days.

Fan Wumian has charmed countless girls into idiots with his gentle and domineering image. Every time she mentions him to others, she always looks like a fangirl. Many girls even stamp their feet and scream, obviously they are deeply addicted to him.

Not to mention it's completely stable.

But by the third and fourth episodes, it still maintained an extremely high average viewership rate of 10.6%, enough to make countless colleagues in the film and television industry dumbfounded.

In the past two days, in addition to the news that "Detective Chinatown 3" has started filming in Bangkok, the entertainment pages in mainland China and Hong Kong have been flooded with topics related to this new drama.

While others were busy watching the fun, Fan Wumian was quietly making a fortune.

Thanks to its phenomenal reputation in the mainland, the overseas broadcasting rights of "The Lonely and Great God" were sold to 17 TV stations at one time, with the price per episode set at US$15000, and the average signing price being around RMB 280 million.

In other words, every time a TV station broadcasts the song, Fan Wumian can earn 280 million. 17 TV stations have already placed orders, including South Korea's SBS and KBS, Japan's Fuji TV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo, Hong Kong's ATV and First Satellite TV, Singapore's Asia News Service, etc.

Television stations in Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam and other places also made decisive moves. KTSF Channel 26 in San Francisco and Channel 18 in Los Angeles also became buyers.

Most TV stations also bought the rebroadcast rights, and sold audio and video copyrights to Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Southeast Asia and other places. In just two or three days, Fan Wumian earned more than 6600 million yuan.

The money came like the wind, and I received a series of email alerts about large sums of money coming into my account.

Not all of these contracts have just been negotiated. Some TV stations have already been in contact with Bandit King Media and planned to wait and see the results before negotiating the price. The Bandit King Media headquarters in Hong Kong is also in no hurry.

Now that the drama has gained great reputation and has an incredibly high viewership rating in mainland China, these TV stations have all made their moves.

This is enough to show.

It's not that there's no money to be made from filming TV series. The hit dramas that are popular all over Asia are obviously very profitable. It's just that mainland film and television companies have never had the opportunity to capture the overseas market before. They have been forced into serious internal competition, and their profits have been calculated by the "TV station alliance." In the end, they are left with only hard-earned money.

Fan Wumian is different. He is already very popular in Asia and has also made a name for himself in Hollywood. His every move is closely watched by his peers. With such a masterpiece, there is certainly no shortage of buyers.

Earlier, the South Korean TV series "Dae Jang Geum" became a hit in Hong Kong, and the mainland's Hubei Radio and Television also took decisive action and acquired the broadcasting rights and audio-visual copyrights in a package at a high price of 800 million yuan.

According to reports, Hubei Radio and Television earned a gross profit of more than 3500 million yuan by introducing this drama, and by selling it to a TV manufacturer as an "exclusive sponsorship", it earned back the 800 million yuan investment.

Seeing that Hubei Radio and Television had taken a bite of the fat meat, mainland TV stations continued to introduce South Korean dramas such as "Palace" and "Sad Love Song" this year. The price of some popular works reached US$20000 per episode.

to be frank.

Fan Wumian was surprised to meet so many buyers. He even wondered privately whether he had set the price too low, because many TV stations were very quick to sign the contract without even trying out a few episodes.

of course.

This is thanks to the high quality of "The Lonely and Great God".

The mansion worth more than 200 million Hong Kong dollars, the Ferrari Enzo and the two-tone Phantom all became props. Women from all countries like to see these.

For example, island countries.

Although Japanese dramas like to shoot the theme of "the insignificant me meets the insignificant you", in real life, people worship money and even South Korean girls who are obsessed with chaebols have to stand aside.

Although they cannot meet their prince charming in real life, Fan Wumian in this drama can satisfy all their fantasies about the "male god".

Fan Wumian is too lazy to watch more of the dramas he starred in. He always feels awkward and disconnected from real life.

After "The Lonely and Great God" was edited, he only picked a few episodes to review, focusing on the ratings of the internal pilot.

A total of more than one hundred people were selected and got an extremely high score of 9.8 points. The quality is definitely impeccable, and the only question left is how much profit can be made.

I originally thought that the main source of income was from the mainland.

Unexpectedly, we made more money from overseas markets and sold through the channels of our Hong Kong headquarters, where the tax rate was much lower than that in the mainland.

Fan Wumian, who felt like he had won again, couldn't help but feel a little agitated while starring in the new movie.

He even made a special phone call to director Lin Fenyu, urging her to edit "My Love from the Star" as soon as possible and continue to make money while the iron is hot.

In the crew of "Detective Chinatown".

The collision between the genius detective played by Fan Wumian and the nonsensical Zhou Xingxing creates a wonderful reaction.

Every time Stephen Chow does something funny, he is pulled back by his calmness, thus preventing the film's rhythm from having problems, deviating from the main plot, and turning it into a completely nonsensical comedy.

The sixth day of filming.

After work in the evening, Fan Wumian invited everyone to a restaurant for dinner, and Uncle Da rode in the same car with him.

During this time, Uncle Da was sitting next to him and suddenly said:
"I don't know if I took the wrong medicine, but Sing Jai has changed in the past few years. He used to have the final say in the crew, pointing fingers and scolding anyone, and he had a very bad temper."

"Wow, he's like a completely different person this time. He actually lets you and the director arrange things for him and no longer seeks to control the overall situation. That's really rare."

"Could it be that because you are powerful and rich, even Xingzai is living under your roof, and he is afraid of getting into conflict with you and getting banned?"

In this regard.

Fan Wumian did have some guesses.

Out of trust in Uncle Da, I felt that an old man like him would not act like a megaphone and speak nonsense everywhere, so I quietly reminded him:
"Sing Zai also invested more than 10 million Hong Kong dollars this time. I mentioned to him that I would try to sell Detective Chinatown to overseas distributors at a high price."

"It involves a huge amount of revenue, and he is short of money to build a mountaintop mansion. He probably doesn't dare to take risks with his own 'Zhou comedy' style in the international market, fearing that overseas audiences will not buy into his ideas."

"It's probably because of this that he has been restrained recently in the crew. I was worried that he would be a little willful when he got angry, but now I find that he is quite relaxed."

In the past few days, Zhou Xingxing has been making minor changes to the script and lines at his own pace, but has not overly interfered with Director Tang's decisions.

Compared with the rumors in the circle, it is indeed very restrained.

After listening to this, Uncle Da suddenly realized:

"That's no wonder. I heard that he bought a few shops at a high price. He is short of money, so it's no wonder he doesn't dare to do anything rash."

"Kung Fu's box office performance overseas is average, far inferior to your sci-fi thriller, Mr. Fan. When it comes to business acumen, I am far inferior to Sing Tsai, and even less to you."

"He is really like the lawless Monkey King. Many bosses of Hong Kong film companies have tried every possible means to subdue him but failed. Or do you have a way? It's like using money to make a cage to confine him. If you continue to shoot like before, you will lose a lot of money. Of course, you dare not mess around."

In fact, the movie "Kung Fu" also caters to the needs of the European and American markets.

At that time, the cooperation between Sing Tsai and Sony Pictures Entertainment was not pleasant, which resulted in the originally planned "Kung Fu 2" being delayed.

Fan Wumian had long been planning to acquire the copyright for "Kung Fu", but unfortunately Sony Pictures was wealthy and not so easily fooled, otherwise if it had been filmed 10 or 15 years later, the box office would have been at least 25 billion yuan, making it a definite super IP.

But it is not enough to just get the copyright, Stephen Chow must agree to filming, so he only thought about it and did not really take action until the deal was settled.

Uncle Da has a lot of experience and is old, so it’s nothing for him to say these things.

Everyone in the Hong Kong entertainment circle knows that this "golden partnership" had long since broken up and has not collaborated in recent years.

The outside world often substitutes the plots in film and television works into real life.

The actual situation is that some actors are like brothers in the movie, but they curse and fight each other outside the movie.

The same goes for "Those Years".

Although Zuo Ziyan hasn't filmed any works for half a year, people still talk about her. The relationship between her and Fan Wumian is often dug up for gossip.

Others thought that the relationship between the two of them was full of regrets of not being able to get each other. One netizen even said self-deprecatingly, "Even Fan Wumian couldn't get Zuo Ziyan, so it's no wonder that I failed in my confession." This quote has been widely circulated as a classic saying.

The other viewers were still feeling regretful.

In fact, if there were no protective measures, their baby would probably have been born soon.

As a junior, Fan Wumian was not in a position to comment. He just turned a deaf ear to what Uncle Da said and said with a smile:

"It's all for the sake of making a classic work. White-collar workers will also be scolded by their bosses. Just treat him like a child and spoil him a little."

After listening.

Uncle Da couldn't help laughing and said:
"He's already grown up. You were just born when we started filming. I can't treat him like a child."

"Everyone has a different temper. Mr. Fan, you have a very good personality. No wonder your business is so big and everyone is lining up to work with you."

"If you have the opportunity to film in the future, remember to call me anytime. There is definitely a future for me following you. To be honest, I was ignorant at the beginning. If I had known that I could make money, I should have bought more houses. Now I don't have to film everywhere and worry about making a living."

Uncle Da, who had left forever in the previous life, was now sitting next to him alive.

Putting aside the slightly strange feeling in his heart, Fan Wumian was still very happy and replied:
"Hong Kong entertainment is not doing well, the mainland market is on the rise, I will arrange some roles for you when there is a chance, good days for actors are coming soon. As a person, the most important thing is to be healthy and happy, don't worry too much about other things."

Uncle Da said unhappily:
"I can tell right away that people who say this are definitely not short of money."

Fan Wumian shrugged and said:
"No, my family was so poor before, but I am a self-made rich kid, so I still have a say."

(End of this chapter)