Entertainment: I just want to be the boss behind the scenes

Chapter 217 Jian Jia is green and white dew is frost

In late December, the 2015 National Drama Festival was recorded at the Beijing North Conference Center.

As a rare award ceremony that recognizes online dramas, "Forensic Qin Ming" won the "Best Online Drama of the Year" award with the highest number of views and extremely high reputation of the year.

The person who went on stage to receive the award was director Wang Wei. After thanking the leading actors, crew and family, he also mentioned the producer and chief screenwriter of the show, Meng Bai.

"Teacher Meng is busy with a new project, so he couldn't come to the scene today. But whether he is here or not, this honor should belong to him the most!"

Wang Wei held the trophy in his hand and gave a speech.

The fans and audience in the audience laughed, and it was obvious that they all knew what the "new project" he was talking about was.

"Really!"

In the guest area, Song Zhi pursed his lips and muttered quietly, "We were clearly talking about it a few days ago, but he suddenly told me that he was too busy to come."

I even asked my agent to borrow a beautiful dress for him. I wanted to show it to him.

But she also knew in her heart that Meng Bai was indeed very busy recently, so she could only keep her depression to herself.

He glanced at Li Qin, who was sitting at the other end of the crew, the "farthest distance" from him, and her expression seemed to be the same.

Well, suddenly I don't feel so angry anymore.

Song Zhi comforted himself through comparison, but in fact Li Qin on the other side was not that disappointed.

After all, when he went to Shanghai a few days ago, Meng Bai said that he might not be able to come.

Looking at the crew of "Forensic Qin Ming" who were giving speeches on the stage, Li Qin took a few photos with her mobile phone and sent them via WeChat.

Li Qin: [Congratulations on winning the award, Teacher Meng! ]

Meng Bai seemed to be busy and didn't reply until Wang Wei, Zhang Ruoyun and others had left the stage.

Meng Bai: [Let’s celebrate together. I’ll share half of your happiness. ]

Meng Bai: [For you.jpg]

Li Qin looked at the panda head emoticon on the screen that was holding out half a piece of poop, pursed her lips, and finally showed her first heartfelt smile of the night.

After thinking for a while, she asked again.

Li Qin: [It’s so late, are you still busy? ]

Meng Bai: [Something unexpected happened, and I was pulled over to chat.]

Li Qin was stunned. What was this "emergency"? What was this about being dragged into a chat?

But since that was said, although she was full of curiosity, she still held back and didn't reply.

As for Meng Bai, he is currently at Leshi.com.

"...In the first weekend of broadcast, the number of views just exceeded 5 million. In the second week of broadcast, it increased to million. Up to now, the total number of views has reached nearly billion." Liu Jun said with emotion.

"Indeed, it is growing faster than 'Forensic Qin Ming'." Meng Bai looked at the data on the screen and nodded, "This is the 'Crown Princess' that Mr. Gan was in charge of producing before."

What the two people were discussing was an online drama that had just been launched on Leshi.com, called "The Rise of Phoenixes".

Having only heard the name before, Liu Jun always thought it was a costume drama.

But it was not until after it was launched that people realized that this was actually a brain-opening drama that mixed together many elements including time travel, ancient costumes, forced marriage, and turning straight men into gays.

In fact, at the beginning, Liu Jun didn't take this drama seriously.

Although Gan Wei, the boss lady of Leshi.com, personally served as the producer, it was actually just a small project.

She read the original novel during her break after giving birth and found it quite interesting, so she decided to film it for fun.

At first, the female lead was chosen from Ying Caier, who was also in the "sister group", but because of schedule conflicts, a newcomer named Zhang Tianai was finally found.

Not only the female lead, but also the director and other leading actors, are almost all newcomers.

The plot is full of jokes and spoofs, and it looks like a flop no matter how you look at it.

But what was unexpected was that after the show was aired, it unexpectedly became popular.

And it’s not just a small fire, it’s a huge fire that’s almost breaking the circle!

The growth rate of playback data has surpassed this year's popular "Forensic Qin Ming" and "Grave Robbers' Chronicles", and the word of mouth is unexpectedly good.

The Douban score of 8.2 even exceeds that of "The Legend of Miyue".

Not only did the audience not expect this, even Leshi.com did not expect this at all.

The Copyright Operation Center was overjoyed at this unexpected windfall. They immediately maxed out their publicity budget and launched various marketing topics.

Other platforms and film and television media were all confused.

There is only more than a week left until New Year's Day, and everyone has finished writing their annual summaries, but suddenly, a hit drama pops up on your Leshi.com.

Of course, the person who is most depressed right now is Liu Jun.

Originally, the Copyright Operation Center was established to disgust his original drama center, but because it had not produced any results, it was quiet. Now, it has taken off and immediately changed its face.

Of course, I can understand that.

After all, over the past two years, the company has achieved nothing in its own content production, and all its success is due to a cooperative company.

It's a good Party A platform, but it's messed up like Party B.

Now we finally have a hit drama that is not produced by the "Arc Light Series". Who can help but be happy?

"What should we do?" Liu Jun asked.

"This has nothing to do with us." Meng Bai spread his hands indifferently, "It's just a drama with outstanding performance. It doesn't matter whether it's good or not."

He really didn't care.

Today, ArcLight Pictures has a series of hit dramas, multiple investment projects, large-scale productions worth hundreds of millions of dollars, and a leading production team in the industry.

It is no longer the small company that had to depend on Leshi.com for its response.

So what if there are one or two more hit dramas? We are no longer on the same track, so what is there to worry about?

Of course, he also understood Liu Jun's current mood.

It’s like the former sales champion suddenly finds out that the colleague he looked down upon before has attracted a big client.

Although the total amount is still not as much as mine, it always feels a bit awkward.

"Don't worry, Brother Jun." Meng Bai patted his shoulder and said, "Didn't I tell you that Arc Light is your way out? The position of general manager is still reserved for you."

"Haha, well, with what you said, I can sleep well tonight, brother." Liu Jun looked at him deeply, then laughed.

Meng Bai had indeed said something similar before, but he clearly remembered that the other party's original words at that time should be "Arc Light is definitely on your side."

From "taking sides" to "retreat", the changes are very subtle.

In any case, seeing Meng Bai's casual attitude, Liu Jun no longer bothered about the drama "The Rise of Phoenixes".

"By the way, you don't have any of our Leshi.com's stocks on hand now, right?" Liu Jun thought of another thing.

"No." Meng Bai shook his head. "What's wrong?"

"In two days, the merger and reorganization of Leshi.com and Leshi Pictures will officially begin, and there may be a long period of suspension of trading at that time."

When a listed company encounters a major event, its stocks will be suspended and trading will be prohibited, mainly to reduce fluctuations in the news.

The merger and reorganization of Leshi.com and Leshi.com was announced at the end of last year. Unexpectedly, it took a year of preparation to finally start.

According to the plan, Leshi.com will acquire 98% of LeTV Pictures' shares for a total of 100 billion yuan in cash and stock.

Once the merger is successful, the shares of the current shareholders of Leshi Pictures will be automatically converted into shares of Leshi.com, which will bring a large wave of appreciation.

If Qiming Venture Partners could have waited until the merger was completed to get the 1000 million, at least it would have been worth a zero.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this is that this merger and reorganization can be successful.

But Meng Bai was very curious, does Leshi.com really have so much money now that it can be used for mergers and acquisitions?
Obviously, Liu Jun couldn't give a clear answer.

"Speaking of money, the revenue share of "Forensic Qin Ming" has not been settled yet. Brother, if you have time, please help to urge it." Meng Bai said.

Because it is both the producer and the producer, the revenue of "Forensic Qin Ming" is also divided into two parts.

One is the production cost, and the other is the investment share income.

The total of the two is about 1200 million, and now there is still a shortfall of about million.

"Okay, I'll ask for you tomorrow." Liu Jun agreed.
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Although it is near the end of the year, there are no holidays for the film, television and entertainment industries.

The office building of Arclight Films was bustling with people again today.

Meng Bai had already selected the leading actors, and then handed over the rest of the supporting roles to Li Muge and others.

These days, the director team has been seriously auditioning candidates for various supporting roles.

The boss can relax, but the workers can't.

Fortunately, after half a month, I had basically finished choosing.

Among the remaining characters, the one with the most scenes is the hunter girl "Yingzi" who followed Hu Bayi and Wang Kaixuan to the tomb in the beginning of the plot "Niuxinshan Kwantung Army Warehouse".

At the door of the audition room, a girl was waiting nervously, her lips slightly parted, revealing a little bit of her rabbit teeth.

Seeing the number of people in front of her decreasing, the staff finally called her.

The girl silently said "come on" in her heart and walked into the audition room nervously.

In the room, I saw a row of people sitting in front of me. Although I didn't recognize any of them, I knew they must be directors or something like that.

Taking a deep breath, the girl bowed in a standard way, grinned habitually, and introduced herself: "Hello, directors and teachers. My name is Bai Lu, and I'm here to audition for the role of 'Yingzi'."

(End of this chapter)