After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 126: Running Man pilot episode, ratings soar

After The Legend of Sword and Fairy 3, Tangren reached the top and became the dominant figure in the television industry.

But it was counterattacked by the little-known Huace, which is the number one stock in TV dramas.

The listing time will be before Guangxian, which is next year, when Tangren is at its most glorious time.

Huace’s corporate structure is very unique.

It is difficult to find a film and television company similar to Huace.

Before and after its IPO, the company was centered around producers and screenwriters.

Not your average director + actor.

The artist management is average, with Yu Shuxin and Hu Yitian being the most popular.

The production depends entirely on external aid…it pays the highest amount of money.

Li Mingyang actually doesn't want to cooperate with Huace.

On the one hand, Boss Zhao is too shrewd.

On the other hand, he knew too little about Huace, a producer-centered company where directors and actors do not have much power. As for money...Huace gives more to outsiders!
You can earn more by not joining!

But I have no money, and I can’t beat Huayi…

Moreover, the cooperation with Huace has nothing to do with Baidu.

According to Boss Zhao's thinking, he was planning to make a huge profit from Baidu before Baidu could react!
"The TV industry is also in a mess, busy harvesting the Internet." Li Mingyang smiled, picked up the phone on the table and called Wang Changtian.

……

Li Mingyang has turned to the television circle and variety show market. "Spy House" and "Running Man" have the foundation for a big hit.

You can definitely make a lot of money.

But Wang Changtian has always been reluctant to get involved in Running Man and Spy House, and his participation rate is not high.

Even when Huayi came in to disrupt the situation, he didn't ask anything.

Based on his understanding of Li Mingyang, Li Mingyang would not easily let these people get away with it, especially Huayi.

More than a month passed without any disturbance, and today I received a call from Li Mingyang.

Wang Changtian was speechless. Li Mingyang was finally about to take action.

Li Mingyang plans to bundle the two projects, Spy and Running Man, into one project.

Reallocate investment proportions.

If you want to be a running man, you have to bet on whether the spy will succeed.

This is preparation for follow-up investment!
Wang Changtian knew that Li Mingyang had at least 10 million in his hands.

The two projects combined account for about 5%.

5% of 2 million, the total investment is million!
As long as the largest investor, Baidu, follows suit, others will follow suit.

This is a high probability event!
Baidu wants to enter the video market. It has plenty of money and is willing to spend it...

Ten million is just Li Mingyang's bottom line. He can always get a large sum of money...

Except for Sohu, other participating companies really can't catch up.

"This brat always causes trouble for me."

Wang Changtian picked up the teacup and took a sip of tea. He looked at his phone and thought for a while before deciding to call Zhang Chaoyang first to test his reaction...

……

In the next three days, in addition to the original five MCs, new stars will participate every day.

The Weaver Girl crew, Liu Shishi, Zhang Junning, and Yuan Hong.

The crew of Beauty's Rival in Palace, including Yang Mi, Wang Likun and Chen Jianfeng.

The crew of the new Dream of Red Mansions, including Yang Yang, Bai Bing, Jiang Mengjie, Yu Xiaotong and Li Qin.

The game content is the same as the first day.

Acupressure relay race.

Basketball match.

Multiple people playing tug of war.

Guess the song title and splash water.

The finale is hide-and-seek in the Qin Palace.

On the fifth day, the crew moved to the Guangzhou Street and Hong Kong Street scenic areas.

A transition does not mean blocking off an area or setting up the scenery.

It also requires scouting locations, setting up top camera positions, outdoor route planning, and group performance NPC placement...

Then the extras came in, went through the process, found problems during the filming, held meetings to discuss and solve them.

We will go through the process again, re-shoot, and study the lenses until most people feel there is no problem, and then we will proceed with the formal shooting.

Not only does it take a long time, but it also requires the collaboration of a large number of professionals.

Although the team from Mango TV currently has no experience in shooting this kind of large-scale outdoor variety show.

But professionalism is professionalism. With the experience of the Qin Palace, Mango's production team crossed the river by feeling the stones and progressed at an orderly pace.

The people from Mango TV made the transition.

Li Mingyang used this time to start editing the footage shot on the first day.

The footage from one day is dozens of times more than the footage from the movie Bouquet…

After all, it is a huge amount of material shot by more than 60 cameras.

People from Mango TV wanted to help, but Li Mingyang refused.

I took Wu Zhikui and Dapeng to Huace.

I spent three days and three nights in the editing room to edit the first episode of Running Man.

This episode of Running Man is more like "Full of Energy Brothers".

Zhen Zhidan is the finishing touch, showing off her figure with extremely graceful and neat movements.

Especially the scene where Li Chen was thrown over the shoulder. If he hadn't fallen onto the mat below, he would probably have had to be sent to the hospital.

In the basketball competition, Li Mingyang also played, but he was wearing a mask.

Taking a group of girls who are not very good at playing basketball to play basketball with boys... It's a disaster, one vs nine, and the teammates are even worse.

In the end, the score was 21 to 10. Since the girls didn't know the rules, a lot of jokes were made, which was very funny.

In the final game of hide-and-seek, Dange, as the hider, won in the end and hid until the end.

Li Mingyang gave Dan Ge a benefit by pretending to be a photographer and following him all the way. Zhen Zhidan also made full use of his identity to fool everyone.

Baoqiang is indeed very good at variety shows, especially since he was not famous at that time. He was really daring and brave, jumping up and down, climbing up the roof without protection, climbing the beams, and jumping directly from a five-meter-high wall.

The producer from Mango TV was so scared that he screamed and howled. He rushed over to grab Baoqiang, took him to a corner, and tried to persuade him with kind words for more than an hour.

The crew has invested tens of millions and can't afford such a hassle from him.

During this period, Big Black Bull was not yet Big Black Bull, especially when facing a top superstar like Zhen Zhidan, he was humble and acted like a coward, which was very interesting.

Deng Chao is not a funny guy. He does things in a methodical manner, but his sudden and startled reactions are both scary and funny.

He often squatted on the ground and said facing the camera that he was not suitable for this kind of physical entertainment program, and that he wanted to go home and miss Sun Li.

Wallace Huo has no sense of variety shows. He is slow to react. He is elegant, cold, and has no expression.

But his partner is Lin Xinru, who is a chatterbox, quick-witted, a tomboy, and very playful.

Without a script, the two of them disliked each other, Lin Xinru was bossy and Huo Jianhua pouted like a henpecked husband, and the effect was surprisingly funny.

It’s even more fun when you think about the two of them finally becoming husband and wife.

Liu Yan has stage presence as a host, but her motor skills are a bit poor. She is either shouting or on the way to shouting.

But during the song guessing and water splashing segment, when being sprayed with water, she closed her eyes tightly, with her eyelashes trembling slightly, giving a seductive expression.

And the white T-shirt is wet and tempting, with pink faintly visible.

It’s really beautiful.

Hu Ge, his presence is not very noticeable in the game segment, but he is quite funny and has a low sense of humour, so fans should like him very much.

"Brother Li, you can cut such a good program out of such a mess, it's amazing!" Dapeng said excitedly.

"It's so funny. I didn't expect that these people together could create such a comedic effect." Wu Zhikui rubbed his eyes and stared at Liu Yan's chest.

Li Mingyang smiled tiredly, copied the exported file into the mobile hard drive, went out, and came to Boss Zhao's office.

"Sister Zhao, I have finished the first episode of Running Man. You can test the effect." Li Mingyang placed the mobile hard drive next to Boss Zhao.

Boss Zhao glanced at the mobile hard drive and then at the tired Li Mingyang.

"I didn't see you looking so tired the last time you cut the bouquet. ..."

"I slept last time. Don't you want to know how good the running man is this time? I didn't sleep."

This is also the effect of the experience card. If it were in the past, he really couldn't withstand three days and three nights of editing. Even if he could endure it, his mind would not be clear and he would not be able to edit to the current effect.

"You...there is a lounge upstairs, go and have a rest, I will contact Mr. Gong right away." Boss Zhao hesitated and pointed upstairs.

Li Mingyang nodded and left the office.

Boss Zhao is holding the mobile hard drive, which is the result of Li Mingyang's hard work over the past few days.

After looking through it over and over again for more than two hours, he put down the mobile hard drive and called Gong Yu.

……

On August 8, the recording of Running Man in Guangzhou Street and Hong Kong Street ended, and the crew moved to the Qingming Festival Along the River.

When he finished work in the evening, Li Mingyang received a call from Gong Yu.

"Director Li, the data from Mango TV is out. The local station averaged 23 points, with a peak of 32. In the past five years, it has been ranked first in the city during the same period. This result is really unbelievable, haha!"

"In that case, how long will you consider my proposal? Tell me whether it is acceptable or not."

"How about this, when you finish work, come to the China World Trade Center to find me."

"Ah."

Li Mingyang hung up the phone, said hello to several producers of the crew, and left first.

Drive to China World Trade Center.

When Li Mingyang followed the lobby manager to the hotel's largest conference room, his heart sank.

Robin Li is here.

This was the first time he had seen the Internet overlord since his rebirth.

Among the two horses and one force of bat, Jack Ma is the most high-profile.

Lao Ma is the most low-key.

Robin Li has ideas, abilities, actively participates in charity work, has plans, and is always passionate.

Of course passion is just passion.

It cannot change the fact that Baidu is falling behind.

It's really because of the engine's innovation limitations and the small market that it can't compare to online shopping and games at all.

Except for the head of Baidu.

All the bosses of companies involved in Spy and Running Man were here, including Wang Zhongjun from Huayi, Boss Zhao from Huace, the vice president of Tianyu...only Cai Yinong and Wang Changtian were not there.

In addition, there are some people in this room whose temperaments are incompatible with the bosses, lawyers? Finance?

"Director Li, sit down."

Gong Yu pulled open the seat next to him and said with a smile.

Li Mingyang walked over and sat down slowly. In those few seconds from walking to sitting down, he seemed to be back to the scene when Lao Ma called him to a meeting.

It was on that day that Lao Ma asked him to do his job well.

He felt it was boring at the time and quit.

Lao Ma tried to retain him and asked the finance department to put a volume of audit reports in front of him.

These are all projects he has handled.

There are many falsely reported items circled in red.

At that time, he broke the pen and said directly, "If you can get me in jail, I will take your surname." Then he threw the pen and left.

Li Mingyang vaguely felt that he seemed to be kicked out.

But he didn't understand why...why he was kicked out.

Running Man was taken over by Gong Yu and screened internally at Baidu, where it was well received, with young people finding it very interesting and fun.

However, Gong Yu was not very reassured, and Mango was even more worried, so they made a copy and let the local TV station broadcast it on a trial basis.

The pilot went incredibly well.

why?
Gong Yu first announced that the local TV station trial broadcast of Running Man had achieved amazing results, and then hypocritically praised all the participants or companies.

Finally, Gong Yu smiled and said, "Director Li, we may not be able to accept your proposal. Running Man is a high-quality project, but to be honest, we are not optimistic about your so-called TV series. Why don't we just forget it..."

(End of this chapter)