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

Chapter 368: The Arc of the Bird Who Stands Out?
"Chaoyue!"

"Sister Meng!"

In the corner of the backstage corridor, Meng Ziyi and Yang Chaoyue held each other's hands, their faces full of excitement.

Because "Produce 101" is a closed-door recording, the two have not seen each other since Yang Chaoyue joined the program team. It has been about four months.

"Why are you here?"

"Cheer for you!" Meng Ziyi raised the fan with a slogan printed on it. "Look, I got it from your fan promotion booth. The girl gave it to me because she saw me vote for you."

“So you didn’t vote before?”

"How could that be? I vote every day... unless I was busy one day and forgot."

"How could I forget..."

Yang Chaoyue pouted, but then started smiling again.

The two girls haven't seen each other for a long time, and they have a lot to talk about. But the time is not right now, so they have to hold back on what they want to say. Anyway, there is no "mobile phone ban" after the show, so they can contact each other anytime they want.

After talking to Meng Ziyi, Yang Chaoyue turned to look at Meng Bai on the side, suppressed his emotions and walked up to him, shouting energetically: "Boss!"

Meng Bai glanced at Yang Chaoyue in front of him. She was still wearing the pink uniform she wore on the show. Her slender calves were covered with white socks and sneakers, and she looked very pink and tender.

"Congratulations." Meng Bai said with a smile, "Congratulations on your successful debut."

Upon hearing this, Yang Chaoyue gave a sly smile and then raised her hand in front of Meng Bai.

"what?"

"A gift!" Yang Chaoyue said, "Boss, you're here to congratulate me, so you can't come empty-handed, right?"

After saying that, she winked at Meng Ziyi who was standing beside her, and the latter gave her a thumbs up. Obviously, this was something the two of them had just discussed secretly.

Meng Bai snorted and laughed: "Oh, that's good. I haven't seen any improvement in other areas, but you've become much bolder."

"Hey, it was you, the boss, who put my poster on the company's door as a door god first, so you should at least give me some image royalties." Yang Chaoyue said, puffing out his chest proudly, "My image is quite valuable now."

"Hey, you seem to be well-informed in there. It doesn't look like you've been locked up for two months."

It has to be said that Produce 101 has really been a game-changer for Yang Chaoyue. Although the entire program, including the previous training, has only lasted for three months, her temperament has become much brighter than before.

The timidity and nervousness she had as a receptionist at Arclight faded, replaced by a youthful energy full of girlishness.

Looking at the white and tender little hand raised in front of him, Meng Bai said with a smile: "Okay, stop raising it. I'll discuss it with the company later and give you a personal endorsement or something."

"what?"

Yang Chaoyue's eyes widened. She was just joking at Meng Ziyi's instigation, and she would have been dismissed with anything Meng Bai gave her.

I never expected that I would receive a real gift!
"I was just joking, boss." Yang Chaoyue waved her hand and said, "Really, your presence here to cheer us on is already a huge gift to me."

"What you said, I really have to send you off."

Meng Bai didn't care about it. Yang Chaoyue was originally an artist of the company, so it was reasonable to help her connect with business resources.

What's more, "Produce 101" has just ended, and the group that was finally formed, called "Rocket Girls", will definitely be very popular and receive a lot of attention, at least in the next six months, and a lot of brands will definitely be rushing to cooperate with them.

Moreover, according to the contract, the share of the personal resources provided by the original company to the operator is also very low, which can be said to be the maximum profit ratio.

After running the company for several years, Meng Bai is now basically a qualified boss. Giving away gifts must be profitable, so how could he be so generous just because of a few words from a little girl?

But for Yang Chaoyue, she hadn't thought of this yet. She just thought it was a "congratulatory gift" from her boss, and she was immediately more grateful to him.

"Okay, you just formed a group here, so you should have a lot of things to do, so just go and get busy first."

Meng Bai looked at Yang Chaoyue and said earnestly, "Come on, Xiao Yang! Everyone at Arc Light hopes that you can become a big star."

Yang Chaoyue's nose felt sore, she bit her lip, and with tears in her eyes she bowed deeply to Meng Bai, then said seriously: "Don't worry, boss, I will definitely work hard!"

After she finished speaking, she heard her teammates and staff members calling her name not far away. She knew the interview time was up, so she said hello to the two of them again and then trotted away.

"so good!"

Watching his friends leave, Meng Ziyi sighed: "This kind of scene of working hard with everyone's blessings and hopes is always touching."

"You've read too many comics." Meng Bai glanced at her. "I just told her that. Apart from gossiping, who would care about the development of a former colleague?"

"Ah?" Meng Ziyi was stunned. "Then you just said to Chaoyue..."

"I just gave her some motivation to move forward." Meng Bai said, "Didn't you notice that Xiao Yang looked confused after her results were announced and she was confirmed to debut? Although I don't know what she was thinking, it's always a good idea to get her motivated."

So that's how it is, Meng Ziyi thought to himself, although my uncle usually looks like a straight man, he is actually quite thoughtful. No wonder so many girls like him.

Hey, wait a minute!
Meng Ziyi's heart suddenly felt cold. Would Chaoyue become like this in the future? Well, judging from her appearance today, her favorability towards her uncle has almost reached the limit.

It’s so hard to accept that a little friend becomes an elder!
"Snapped!"

A crisp sound awakened Meng Ziyi who was deep in thought.

"What are you thinking about? Let's go." Meng Bai snapped his fingers. "What needs to be finished is finished, and what needs to be seen has been seen. Go back and rest early. You have to go back to the crew to continue filming tomorrow."

As he spoke, he turned and walked out of the field.

"coming!"

Really, I was just scaring myself just now, Meng Ziyi thought to himself.

Just because Chaoyue likes her uncle doesn't mean that he has the same idea. Anyway, judging from his attitude, he doesn't seem to have any interest in Chaoyue, and he has always been very casual.

Thinking of this, Meng Ziyi suddenly felt relaxed and quickly caught up.

Unfortunately, Meng Bai didn't know what she was thinking, otherwise he would have to explain it to her. Many times, a man's attitude towards a girl will change as the other person's identity and role change.

The pretty receptionist and the popular teenage idol, even if they are the same person, are completely different.
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After the end of "Produce 101", a popular girl group named "Rocket Girls" emerged in the entertainment industry. And from a certain perspective, this is the first idol girl group in the history of domestic entertainment.

However, for the entire entertainment industry, the impact is not that great. After all, countless new people are born in this circle every day, and even more people leave the industry sadly.

What's more, there is no Korean or Japanese style music stage in the domestic entertainment industry. In this way, "Rocket Girls" is actually just eleven newcomers in the entertainment industry, and their future development is destined to be full of domestic entertainment characteristics.

For example, their first single after their debut was not the group’s own song, but “Calories”, a promotional song for the movie “The Richest Man in Xihong City”. “…Burn my calories!”

Listening to Yang Chaoyue's irritable and baby voice in the promotional MV, Meng Bai sighed.

Singing is something that really requires talent.

After turning off the video, Meng Bai walked into the company and went straight to the meeting room.

When I opened the door, the room was already full of people. However, this time, the people here were not the usual film and television department, but the publicity department and the operation department.

"Can anyone tell me why our previous tax payment appeared in the news?" Meng Bai frowned and asked everyone in the conference room.

After "Produce 101" ended, he originally wanted to go to Shanghai to check out the filming progress of "Secret and Great" and stay there for two days.

Unexpectedly, Hua Yan forwarded him some online news, and he accidentally discovered that the company's tax backpay had been publicized.

"You guys don't use your brains at all, do you?" Meng Bai said, "Let's not talk about the sensitive moment right now. The key is, does this sound honorable?"

The premise of paying back taxes is that there were loopholes before. Publishing this kind of news is equivalent to admitting that Arclight had tax problems before, but it is just remedying it now.

"cough."

Liu Jun, who was sitting on the side, coughed lightly and said, "In fact, this matter cannot be entirely blamed on the publicity department. I learned about it before you came back. This news was first released from the official WeChat account of the Beijing North Taxation Department."

"Official?" Meng Bai asked.

"Yes." Liu Jun nodded. "They thought this was a good example of corporate regulation, so they thought that publishing it would be a positive report. The propaganda department also thought that there should be no official problem, so they agreed."

The head of the publicity department nearby also explained the specific situation.

Hearing that the news was sent by the official department, Meng Bai calmed down.

Since everyone thinks this is a positive report, Arc Light doesn't need to be so cautious.

However, there are still two problems. One is that it is difficult to grasp the attitude of netizens. The other is that, at this point in time, such a report is somewhat like a "first bird".

We are still busy erasing the records, but you secretly paid the tax first, which is forcing the higher-ups to punish us.

After thinking for a while, Meng Bai said, "Since the official has released it, it means that we are not negative. So, in the next period of time, we will mobilize publicity forces to spread this matter, which can also be regarded as shaping the image of our Arc Light as a legal business."

"In addition, the propaganda department should pay more attention to the trend of the Internet recently, and try to make netizens tend to 'it's good to take the initiative to bring it up' or 'it's better to make up for it than to hide it'. When necessary, some public opinion management methods and water army can be used to guide it."

"Since I have become the first to stand out, I can't do it in vain. Troubles and opportunities go hand in hand. Ask the relevant departments to see if I can get some honor or policy. It's better to be criticized by our friendly competitors than to be targeted by an iron fist."

Everyone in the conference room responded and prepared to execute.

After solving this problem, Meng Bai heard good news. In the two days he was away, the box office share of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" successfully exceeded 50 million, ranking first on the list of online movies on all platforms, and it was the first by a large margin.

In fact, this movie was already the box office champion when the box office revenue exceeded 40 million. But now the record has been raised from 40 million to 50 million.

Qiyi TV was overjoyed and released an official poster and an app pop-up window to celebrate the birth of the record.

It's no wonder they are happy. Qiyi TV is now a listed company, and every achievement is closely related to the stock price. Especially this kind of good news about making money, a random increase of three or four points can also change more than a billion.

And the impact of this new record doesn't stop there.

Online movies have always been ranked very low in the contempt chain of film and television works, much worse than online dramas, and their revenue is not that high.

Therefore, many low-budget films, even if they know that they will only be a "day trip" in theaters, will still spend a lot of money to find distributors to help with the distribution.

Anyway, as long as it can be shown in theaters, it is a legitimate movie. When the copyright is sold later, it can definitely fetch more money.

Of course, there are also some investors who are outsiders and do not understand the film and television process. They think that their regular movies should be shown on the big screen. Then they are fooled by the distributors and pay a large amount of distribution fees.

The distributor just contacted a few small theaters and arranged some screenings during unpopular time periods, and that was considered a job well done.
What? The box office performance was not good?

That's because your film production was so bad. There were no big stars and no publicity. It's normal that the box office was not good.

For a long time, many small distribution companies have been promoting it like this - only if it is released in theaters will it have a chance, and no one will watch online movies.

However, the 50 million box office share of "Soul Ferry: Huangquan" has completely shattered these rhetoric.

Many small crews and investors suddenly discovered that broadcasting online on video platforms is also a good option.

Even if we don’t have the IP and quality of Arc Light, we don’t need to achieve such high results.

Anyway, online broadcasting does not require distribution fees or theater revenue sharing, so the cost is much lower. If you can get a few million views, you can make back your investment. If you are lucky enough to catch the appetite of certain audiences, you may even make more money.

These days, the number of works contacting several video platforms for online broadcasting has increased significantly. The platforms will naturally not refuse, as long as the quality can meet the basic standards, they will agree to all of them.

Anyway, they are all B-level projects, and the unit price is low, some are only one dollar. And it is a profit-sharing system, so there is no loss.

Moreover, with so many projects, it is hard to guarantee that you will come across one or two excellent ones. Even if there are none, it is also good to use them as copyright inventory, which can always attract some user traffic.

The only ones who have a hard time are the small publishing companies.

The market was not very good this year, so there were fewer projects available. Now that a number of them have been snatched away by video platforms, it has become even more difficult.

But these things have nothing to do with Arclight.

Since the box office hit 50 million, Meng Bai kept his promise and together with Qiyi TV, he prepared a celebration banquet for the crew of Soul Ferry: Huangquan.

"Celebration banquet!"

Zhu Xudan looked at her agent and asked, "Is Senior Brother going too?"

"You should go." The agent said, "Anyway, I heard from the crew that President Meng will be there."

"That's good!"

Zhu Xudan suddenly became happy, stood up and urged: "Come on, let's go and choose some clothes this afternoon. Do you want to rent a dress?"

The agent looked at her helplessly. He had never seen this girl so active when he had asked her to participate in celebration activities before.

It turns out that President Meng has the greatest motivation!

(End of this chapter)