On the Qingyue Mountain road in the early morning, two figures were jogging.
More than half a year has passed, and Qin Huadong's injury has healed. As he ran, he said: "You are too anxious."
Next to him was a middle-aged man who was thought to be in his mid-thirties, panting slightly: "I'm in a hurry."
""The Beginning" is a hit on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, and everyone is waiting for Chairman Zhao's new work."
"Huh... But even if it is launched, we won't need so many people. That's why I came to the teacher to ask if there is any news... Huh, teacher, wait a minute..."
The two stopped and sat on a bench on the roadside. While resting, they turned on their mobile phones and listened to the radio at will.
"The Beginning" has been airing for half a month.
Longbaohuoxing.com has attracted 380,000 members!
Mainland China did not star on TV stations, but broadcast it on three major websites.
A total of 1.2 billion views!
Although the video network in mainland China calculates statistics based on the method of one click.
But the figure of 1.2 billion is enough to shock the Longbao entertainment industry!
Even Douyin has gained a lot of fans!
Qin Huadong wiped his sweat and said in a deep voice: "No matter how big the work President Zhao launches, if only one percent of the artists are selected, it will be a big production."
"The most important thing is that President Zhao has inspired the entire Longbao atmosphere!"
"Only if the soil is fertile can there be more good works - you know, there have been several programs recently asking me to write songs!"
He smiled and looked down at North Bay City in the mist. He murmured: "It's sunny after the rain..."
"...Teacher Kong Fang, acting president of the Longbao Entertainment Association, announced the latest news at five o'clock in the morning..."
A voice suddenly came from the phone, and both of them were stunned.
Then he immediately turned up the volume.
"The TV series "The Walking Dead," with an investment of up to tens of millions of dollars per episode, was officially launched yesterday."
"There is no investment cap for the play. There are as many as 25 main actors, as many as 58 secondary actors, and it is estimated that tens of thousands of extras will be used!!"
"Chairman Zhao has applied to the Asia-Pacific Entertainment Association to create a new drama, but the type of the new drama has not been disclosed."
Upon hearing the news, both of them opened their eyes in shock!
Tens of thousands of extras? !
Nearly eighty main and supporting characters!
Is this still a TV show?
The two looked at each other and immediately searched for other media outlets on Baodao.
"The biggest project since the establishment of Longbao Entertainment Group, "The Walking Dead", has been approved. The show may become the most heavily invested drama series in the history of the world!!" - Ruili TV.
"A signal of the rise of the Longbao entertainment industry - the super TV series "The Walking Dead" has been launched, with an estimated investment of tens of millions of dollars per episode." - Xinying TV.
The five major TV stations, without exception, have rolling promotions every half hour!
They immediately cut to other media.
Douyin, blogs, new media...everywhere you look, there are four big characters.
The Walking Dead!
Qin Huadong held the phone and felt his heartbeat speed up and his breathing become heavy.
For the first time in more than ten years, the Longbao entertainment industry has been unified!
"The sky has changed..."
Taking a deep breath, he looked at Long Bao in the morning mist. He had never felt so alive! !
…………
Magic City.
Asia Pacific Entertainment Association Headquarters.
Qin Kong frowned deeply and stared at the script in front of him.
He has seen it twice.
But I can’t make a decision no matter what!
"Does it have to be such a dark background setting??" Finally, he put down the script and asked in a deep voice.
Zhao Ziluo sat on the sofa opposite him and said solemnly: "This drama is my first heavyweight project after taking charge of Longbao Entertainment Circle. I also ask for the chairman's support."
Qin Kong did not speak.
The script is definitely a good one!
This "The Walking Dead" is actually just a name.
It's more like Sweet Home!
It tells the story of zombies suddenly becoming rampant, and people in a community gathering together to fight for their lives.
On the surface, it's about zombies.
In fact, it is an analysis of human nature.
He had never thought about filming "The Walking Dead". In the first season, he planned to film the community. In the second season, he planned to film the story after they left the community. In the third season, he planned to film "Resident Evil" 1.
These are all prepared to be shot in China!
He needs the support of the Asia Pacific Entertainment Association!
But he knew better that this was almost impossible.
After a moment, Qin Kong seemed to have made up his mind, raised his head and said, "I can't promise you."
"Mainland will not cooperate with the propaganda and will not introduce it."
Although he had expected it, Zhao Ziluo couldn't help but ask: "Why?"
"Chairman, the audience is not children, what age are they now!"
Qin Kong had a stupefied expression and said nothing.
"Black Cat Sheriff" and "Tom and Jerry" will all be complained about, and some parents are indeed crazy.
Their children are inattentive, and in the end they find external causes.
It seems that without Internet cafes, their children can go to Qingbei.
It seems that without computers, their children can become the richest people in the world.
But in their era, there were no computers in Internet cafes.
Why didn't they succeed on their own?
"I have to say that this TV series is a pioneering work, but our country does not yet have a classification system." After a long time, he said helplessly.
The Asia Pacific Entertainment Association also has the Chinese Ministry of Culture and Entertainment, and he cannot make the final decision on some things.
"We can apply."
Qin Kong said calmly: "Are you waiting for the application to be approved?"
This relationship is a bill that will cause drastic changes in the industry. It will be at least a few years before the application comes down.
Zhao Ziluo took a deep breath and asked with his last hope: "Can't we do something special?"
Qin Kongruo said meaningfully: "I can only promise you to promote the Asia-Pacific region for you, except for mainland China."
"If you want to promote it in mainland China, you have to sit in my position."
silence.
After a long time, Zhao Ziluo sighed and left the office.
Go downstairs and get in the car.
Li Huiru was sitting in the back row. Seeing his expression, she said regretfully: "The boss didn't pass?"
Zhao Ziluo said in a deep voice: "The association will help us promote Asia-Pacific, except for mainland China."
Li Huiru sighed.
There is an untapped market of more than one billion people!
Who doesn’t want to take over?
Everyone had their own thoughts, and soon Zhao Ziluo felt relieved.
Qin Kong should have noticed that he wanted to compete for the position of chairman.
Isn't it obvious?
In Longbao, there are constant actions. As soon as Jason was driven away, a super project was immediately established.
Is it not for political achievements or what?
Even if Zhao Ziluo is transferred back to the mainland next time, he will be the vice chairman at most.
But the most important thing is that Qin Kong did not say any official words such as "You are still young, you must be down-to-earth".
What does this mean?
This means that Qin Kong supports him in competing for the rotation selection in a few years!
"Let's spread the publicity first." After a moment, he said firmly.
"Don't worry about mainland China, strive to detonate all markets in the Asia-Pacific!"
"I will arrange the promotion of Xilu in a while. This drama... we want to promote it globally!"
"The Beginning" did not choose to be promoted globally because of its many police station plots.
These plots are closely related to local customs and laws.
Foreigners who don’t know Baodao’s police system probably don’t know why the police do what they do!
But The Walking Dead is different!
This is a global carnival!
It’s the renaissance of zombie dramas, and it’s the beginning of these walking zombies ascending to the altar!
And these will all be turned into his political achievements. When he returns to the mainland, some excessive things will be crushed by his own hands!
…………
Once you feel relieved, you will naturally start working hard.
"The Walking Dead" is just proceeding in an orderly manner, starting a rolling promotion every three days, but it does not pull up the walls of landmarks in various places.
Because it takes too long to prepare!
There are thousands of extras, and Long Bao simply can’t get them together!
This is a big difficulty.
And "The Walking Dead" wants to export culture, so it naturally needs local landmarks as the background.
101 in the context of zombies, one must stop working.
How long to stop?
How to compensate?
These will need to be discussed slowly with the local government. Even if the five major TV stations came forward to endorse it, the Li family and the Ye family would not be able to negotiate it in a matter of weeks.
Also...since Zhao Ziluo plans to use "The Walking Dead" as a benchmark for Long Bao to take off, he will naturally not cut corners.
He plans to recreate many ghost scenes in zombie movies!
For example, in "World War Z" filmed by Tom Cruise, tens of thousands of zombies built a human wall and captured the plane in the sky.
For example, the scene where countless zombies form a huge corpse ball and attack the defense line... Although he forgot which TV this was from.
These are the final climax of Zhao Ziluo's version of "The Walking Dead" - there are always numb zombies, and the audience will be tired of it.
Another example.
In order to connect with the subsequent Resident Evil plot, he planned to make the Licker appear as the final boss of the first season of "The Walking Dead".
How to make lickers?
Using models or other methods is another long experiment.
From project establishment to auction, there is at least three to four months of preparation.
Time passed like this day by day, and at the end of September, Harelv brought good news.
The first season of "House of Cards" has been filmed!
After Zhao Ziluo received the finished film, he immediately flew straight to the Magic City.
Just as he guessed.
The film was decided to be broadcast without any hindrance! But it cannot be played on the star!
This is already the best result!
With the completion of the filming of "House of Cards", it means that Huoxing.com will officially enter the mainland!
On October 15th, "House of Cards" will be broadcast worldwide simultaneously!
It has just been aired and has been well received by all parties!
On Penguin.com, it once reached a high score of 9.0!
The scenes where several movie stars compete against each other are a delight for big audiences, especially the analysis of Ameirika's politics and presidential campaign, which makes people enjoy it even more!
Even the main station praised "House of Cards" by name several times!
However.
Before Huoxing.com could be happy, blows came one after another.
All kinds of negative news are flying around on the Internet, and Harelf has reneged on the venue and personnel he had negotiated before.
Huoxing.com was hit head-on by domestic streaming media!
The Jibing Group, which has mastered the entrance to social networking, united with multiple live broadcast platforms to launch an attack, so that Huoxing.com, which should have received a large dividend, found that the number of viewers was unsatisfactory when settling the settlement of "House of Cards".
Harelf and Peter personally flew over from America to take charge of the expansion of the mainland market.
Progress can be slow.
They are extremely icy compared to each other, like ants and giant statues.
Three consecutive months of negative news reports, from scandals during filming to the founder's insult to China... Although the latter was false, it forced Harelf to apologize again and again. The skyrocketing number of viewers also fell again and again.
"I'm so tired." Harelf couldn't help complaining on the phone: "Ji Bing is too powerful. There are 17 million new VIPs in "House of Cards" outside of China."
"But China only has three million!"
Without a masterpiece, there is no way to get the meat of Penguin Video!
"How are you doing there?"
Zhao Ziluo's voice was a little tired: "One month later."
"I'll pick up the schedule for "House of Cards"!"
