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

Chapter 314 Solving the Funding Gap
The related entries of "Horror Nursery Rhymes" stayed on the hot search list for one day and were then replaced by new hot news.

However, the growing popularity of the entire "Who's the Detective" program is far from over.

[Wow! Our "Little Detective" was finally discovered! ]

[Can you believe it? I watched Slices on Bilibili and planned to watch the full version, but ended up watching the entire season. ]

[What's that? I've already started watching the first season.]

[He Jiong + Sabining? What a magical lineup! ]

[There are also Zhang Ruoyun, Liu Haoran, Bai Yu, Chen Ruoxuan, Li Yitong...all of them are actors in the popular suspense dramas in recent years. ]

[No, didn’t any of you realize that the chief screenwriter of this show is Meng Bai? ]

[No wonder! I was wondering how the quality of the plot of a variety show is so high. Suspense and reasoning are really the domain dominated by Mr. Meng Bai.]

[I declare that "Who's the Detective" is my treasure variety show this year! ]

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In recent years, with the popularity of "Where Are We Going, Dad?" and "Running Man", outdoor reality shows have gradually become the mainstream of variety shows.

In contrast, "Who's the Detective" was shot entirely in indoor studios, and the guest members all played roles and performed plots, going in the completely opposite direction.

But this is the audience's preference. When everyone does something and you are the only one who is different, the interest and attention will be shifted to you.

The number of views and popularity of "Who's the Detective 2" have been rising, topping the list of variety shows on Mango TV.

According to the statistics of variety shows broadcast on the entire network by third-party platforms, its popularity also exceeded that of "The Rap of China", "Go Fighting 3" and Mango TV's own "Flowers and Youth 3" during the same period.

And on the "online variety show" list so far this year, the comprehensive popularity value of "Who's the Detective 2" has jumped to second place.

The only show ahead of it is "Tucao Conference" which was extremely popular in the first half of the year.

There are even many viewers who felt unsatisfied after watching the currently aired episodes of the second season and went back to watch the entire first season.

As a result, the popularity of "Who's the Detective Season 1" was also brought up.

However, the most discussed segment of the entire program is still the "Horror Nursery Rhymes" segment.

Not to mention the editing, interpretation and secondary creation on the Internet, just looking at the number of views, the other episodes are around four to five million.

Only these two episodes have received more than 10 million views.

But no one thinks there is anything wrong with this.

Because it has been announced on the official Weibo of "Star Detective" that the script for this unit was written by Meng Bai himself.

This immediately seemed reasonable.

But for Meng Bai, this little bit of popularity is not a big deal.

The ones who really reaped the benefits were the members of "Who's the Detective".

Needless to say, He Jiong is the main MC of the show, which is the icing on the cake for him.

Sa Bening has broken many of the audience's stereotypes about him. Many people did not expect that he would be so lively after leaving "Today's Statement".

Liu Haoran and Zhang Ruoyun are roughly the same, and the combination of "Qin Feng" and "Qin Ming" has completely consolidated the character's personality.

As for the female members, Li Yitong's popularity as "Tong Ronger" has not yet passed, and this is the time when her popularity is at its highest.

In comparison, the bonus effect on Wang Ou is greater.

Ever since the role of "Wang Manchun" became a big hit, she hasn't had any new roles that have made her popular in the past two years, and her popularity has declined a lot.

Now, thanks to the variety show "Star Detective", there is a new topic.

The sister even specially called Meng Bai and joked that if she had known that the two episodes of "Horror Nursery Rhymes" were so popular, she would have postponed her other schedule to participate.

In addition to the members, the biggest beneficiary after the show becomes popular is the platform.

If you want to keep the popularity going, the best way is to continue with the next season.

He Chen told Meng Bai that although the second season has not yet been aired, Mango TV has already begun preparations for the third season.

It is expected to start broadcasting in October and be completed before next Spring Festival.

There is just a problem. Arc Light has a lot of projects in the second half of the year, so Meng Bai probably doesn’t have time to write the script himself.

But it doesn’t matter. ArcLight Films’ screenwriter team is also growing slowly, and this program is a good opportunity for them to use it as a practical exercise.

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As July approaches, the popularity of "Who's the Detective" has slowly returned to normal after an explosive growth.

After the last episode was aired, the total number of views for the second season exceeded 10 billion.

This data has surpassed "Tucao Conference" and topped the 2017 online variety show list.

With the end of "Who's the Detective 2", the self-made online variety show "The Rap of China" produced by Qiyi TV has become a new hot spot. Thanks to Wu Fan's "Do you have freestyle?", it successfully broke the circle and brought the niche field of "hip-hop music" to the public.

Gai, Hot Dog, Pharaoh, Afegeni, Joy J, PG One... a group of hip-hop singers who were originally only famous in the underground circle quickly became new traffic stars.

Just like the folk songs that were popular in the past few years, hip-hop has become a new "fashion item" for many followers.

I have to say that Qiyi TV has developed very well in recent years, with several hit works almost every year.

Among the three major video platforms, Youku originally ranked first.

But now, Qiyi TV has gradually been able to keep pace with it.

Perhaps sensing that its position was unstable, Youku has also made new moves, announcing that it will join hands with Ali Literature and Ali Pictures to increase investment in the film and television industry with a total of 10 billion resources.

One stone can cause a thousand ripples. Within just a few days, all kinds of news came in the entire film, television and entertainment market capital circle.

First, Qiyi TV announced that the number of member users has exceeded 5000 million, and the convertible bond financing of US$15 billion in the first half of the year has also been completed, and it will officially launch its plan to go public on the US stock market.

This is somewhat related to Meng Bai. After all, Qiming Venture Partners participated in the last round of financing, and he is now considered a small shareholder of Qiyi TV.

Although the shares amount to only a few tenths of a cent, if they can be successfully listed, it will increase his net worth by at least 10 or 20 million.

Then, Leshi.com, which had not been heard of for half a year, broke out into big news again.

Boss Jia announced that he would go overseas to seek investment to continue his "car-making dream." Then, he left for the United States, leaving behind hundreds of thousands of investors who were deeply trapped.

However, most people still hold on to some luck.

Firstly, Boss Jia said that he would only be away for a few days and would “return to China next week”; secondly, Leshi.com was just taken over by Sunac at the beginning of the year, so it would be able to last for a while.

Investors still have hope for Sunac.

"It's hopeless. Sunac will definitely fail here this time."

In the office of General Manager Hu Guang, Liu Jun shook his head and said, "Just wait and see. Let alone next week, if Boss Jia can return to China next year, it will be considered that he has suddenly found his conscience."

As a former senior executive of Leshi.com, he knows his former boss very well after years of contact.

Meng Bai also deeply agreed with Liu Jun's words.

Battle reports can be deceiving, but battle lines cannot. Although Sunac injected capital to save it, Leshi.com's development and financial report data over the past six months have not improved at all, but have become worse.

Seeing that the building was about to collapse, since Boss Jia had already run away, how could he possibly come back?

Some time ago, there were rumors in the circle that Sunac’s boss Sun Hongbin was almost crying when he looked at the financial data of Leshi.com and felt so cheated.

The key point is that Sunac has taken over more than one project. Just in the past few days, Wanda just released an announcement that more than a dozen cultural and tourism projects under its umbrella, including Wanda Plaza and Oriental Movie Metropolis, have all been sold to Sunac.

All I can say is that Boss Sun is also an old bag holder.

However, Meng Bai had a good impression of him.

The main reason is that as soon as Sunac took over Oriental Movie Metropolis, it immediately announced financial subsidies for the crews that started filming there this year.

Although the money allocated to each crew is only a few million, it is still a form of support.

Especially for "The Wandering Earth", which still has a large funding gap, every penny is crucial.

"Has Tencent Pictures agreed to invest?" Liu Jun asked casually.

Meng Bai nodded: "They discussed it and decided to invest 1000 million."

"That's great. This way the movie's budget shortfall will only be around 20 million."

"Yes."

Actually, the remaining gap is not as urgent as before.

After all, there is no rush for funds for post-production, and if we slow down a bit, ArcLight can handle it on its own.

However, considering that ArcLight’s current total investment is already 7000 million, if we increase the investment further, the risk-return ratio will be somewhat uneconomical.

On the other hand, Wu Jing, after "guest starring" for so long, is also quite interested in the project "The Wandering Earth".

I just happened to know that the crew didn't have enough funds at the moment, and I also mentioned that I wanted to participate in the investment.

Guo Fan was naturally overjoyed and agreed without hesitation.

Therefore, this last part can be regarded as the share reserved for Wu Jing.

Of course, whether it can be invested in the end depends on the performance of the upcoming "Wolf Warrior 2".

In early July, Wu Jing suspended his "guest appearance" and started the roadshow promotion for "Wolf Warrior 2".

This run lasted half a month.

"Wolf Warrior 2" was officially announced to be released in the middle of the summer vacation.

(End of this chapter)