Chapter 251: Accompanying Feixian to give birth and establishing six projects

Since his debut in the second semester of his sophomore year at the Beijing Film Academy, Yang Hao has not had a single peaceful day.

Every day, he either exchanges feelings with a few close friends or wanders between various crews. Now, as he accompanies Liu Yifei as she prepares to give birth, it is one of the rare comfortable days he has.

My main job every day is to accompany Liu Yifei for walks, watch TV series with Liu Yifei, and sleep with Liu Yifei.

Pregnant Liu Yifei was in low spirits and became very sleepy.

Especially at this time in the afternoon, it is imperative to take a one to two hour lunch break.

Whenever this happens, Yang Hao would sit down at his desk and write. Although the company has a group of popular people, it is not a special period now, and it is too boring, so Yang Hao wrote it himself.

If nothing unexpected happens, in a few months, Guan Xiaotong's studio will be registered under her own company. In two years, Yang Chaoyue will also leave "Produce 101" and fly solo.

The scripts Yang Hao wrote for them this time were two youth dramas, "The Best of Us" and "So Cute We Are".

These two campus youth dramas are both web dramas.

After a year of development in 2014, the number of online dramas has hit new highs. The number of views of billion or billion has attracted the attention of entertainment practitioners.

Now no one in the circle dares to underestimate the influence of online dramas, and they have followed suit to launch projects to shoot online dramas.

"The Best of Us" is starred by Tan Yunsong. When it was launched on iQiyi, its Weibo index soared to 12 on the night of its premiere. Its Baidu index reached 20 after only three days of launch. Its playback volume on iQiyi has exceeded 20 billion, and its Douban score is as high as 8.5 points.

"So Cute We Are" is starred by Tian Xiwei and was also launched on iQiyi. It once topped the popularity list of shared-revenue dramas for 19 months and has a Douban score of 8.2 points.

Tan Yunsong and Tian Xiwei are both sweet girls, and are female artists of the same category as Guan Xiaotong and Yang Chaoyue.

Although this kind of sweet campus youth drama does not have as wide an audience as serious dramas or fantasy dramas, it is the most suitable for young actresses like them. It does not require much acting skills, they just need to act themselves and let the director make them look beautiful.

Moreover, this kind of drama attracts young fans.

Those fans of Lao Deng have been divided up by several 85 flowers. It is really difficult to snatch fans from these 85 flowers.

If young stars want to break through, it is best for them to capture young fans between the ages of 15 and 25.

As we all know, acting in this kind of youth drama is most likely to leave a deep impression on the hearts of young boys and girls who are not well-versed in the world, and even become the white moonlight in their youthful memories.

Why is Tianxian so popular? Why is her popularity still not decreasing after such a long time?
A big reason is that she entered their hearts when they were young and ignorant, becoming an indelible white moonlight. As these young fans grow older, they gradually gain the right to speak in society. As long as these fans do not grow old, it can be predicted that Tianxian will not be completely forgotten.

"Yang Hao, are you writing a script?" Liu Yifei woke up from her sleepy state at some point, and when she turned her head, she saw Yang Hao writing furiously at his desk. When she walked closer, she saw that Yang Hao was writing a script.

"Yes! I'm writing a script." Hearing Liu Yifei's movement, Yang Hao raised his head and saw Liu Yifei standing beside him, staring down at the few pages of the script that Yang Hao had just written on the desk.

"Can I take a look?" Liu Yifei's beautiful eyes revealed an eager and expectant look.

With the popularity of the movies directed and produced by Yang Hao in the past two years, his identities as a producer and director have overshadowed his identity as a screenwriter.

Having said that, who in the industry doesn’t know the strength of screenwriter Yang Hao?
From "Charlotte's Troubles" to "Detective Chinatown 3", it has been several years and has not failed once.

Liu Yifei had only heard of screenwriter Yang Hao's reputation in the circle. This was the first time she saw Yang Hao writing a script, and her face was full of curiosity.

"Fei Fei, look around." Yang Hao stood up from his seat indifferently and helped Liu Yifei, who was pregnant, to the chair.

"Is this a campus youth drama?" Liu Yifei picked up the script on the desk and read it carefully.

"Yang Hao, how did you come up with these interesting plots? This is too sweet!"

Although only a small part of the script has been written, only the first seven or eight episodes of the story, these alone have attracted Liu Yifei.

Liu Yifei turned her head to look at Yang Hao, and the process of her acquaintance with Yang Hao emerged in her mind.

"Humph! No wonder I was so bewitched by him. According to the plot of this drama, even the fairy sister would be confused!"

"Yang Hao, can you give me this script? You can play the male lead for me, and we can have a sweet campus romance." Liu Yifei looked at Yang Hao pitifully, her face full of anticipation.

"Uh!" Yang Hao was almost choked by Liu Yifei's words.

Yang Hao really wanted to complain. It was understandable for me to act in a campus drama, after all, I just graduated from college.

But you are 28 years old, a mother, and an old aunt. And don’t you look at your figure, with thick legs and a big butt. You have transformed from a fairy into a fat fairy.

Although Yang Hao likes Feixian's chubby figure, this kind of figure is really not suitable for acting in campus dramas, as it really doesn't look girlish at all.

Yang Hao could foresee that as long as Fei Xian dared to act young in a campus youth drama, he would definitely be ridiculed by the crowd.

Of course, this was just Yang Hao's inner complaint, and he didn't dare say it to Liu Yifei.

"Fei Fei, do you believe in my vision for film and television?" Yang Hao stared at Liu Yifei and said sincerely.

"Of course I believe it!" Liu Yifei replied without hesitation.

"Fei Fei, you are really not suitable for acting in this kind of TV series anymore."

"Oh!" Liu Yifei looked depressed when she heard Yang Hao say that she was not suitable for acting in campus dramas.

Pregnant women are always sentimental. At this moment, Liu Yifei wondered if Yang Hao disliked her because she was too old, because she had gained weight, or because she had lost her girlish charm.
Liu Yifei lowered her head with a lost look, which was reflected in Yang Hao's eyes. Yang Hao probably knew what Liu Yifei was thinking at this moment.

"Fei Fei, I don't mean to dislike you, it's just that you debuted too early, more than ten years ago."

"After more than ten years of debut, if I turn around and play a student again, people will definitely talk about it."

"Some people will definitely say that you are not good at acting, or even say that you have no acting skills after more than ten years of debut and can only play the role of a student in your true colors."

……

"Really?" After listening to Yang Hao's nonsense, Liu Yifei showed a puzzled look in her eyes.

She always felt that Yang Hao was talking nonsense, but for some reason she felt that what Yang Hao said seemed to make some sense.

"It must be true. How could I bear to lie to you? You are my sweetheart."

As Yang Hao spoke, his hands were not quiet. Now that she was pregnant, not only was her belly bulging, but her breasts were also growing, much bigger than before. Even though she was wearing loose maternity clothes, they were still swollen.

Pregnant women are naturally sensitive, and Yang Hao only needed to move his hands slightly to make Liu Yifei beg for mercy.

"Honey, I believe what you said, don't you? Don't move, really don't move." Liu Yifei said shyly.

Of course Yang Hao wouldn't go too far. After all, Liu Yifei was still pregnant at that time. He just said a few words.
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In the following days, Yang Hao not only wrote the two scripts "The Best of Us" and "We Are So Cute", but also recorded the climax parts of some songs from his memories of his previous life.

You picked up the wine glass and said to yourself, one glass to the morning sun and one glass to the moonlight, awakening my yearning and softening the cold window, so that I can fly against the wind without looking back
How many people have you met who are as lost as me, who are searching like me, who are doing nothing like me?
The person who said he would stay with you until old age, is he still here now? Is it that the promise could not withstand the wind and rain, so you turned away, do you still remember that I am your most beautiful flower, do you still remember my long hair

……

After Yang Hao wrote down the climax parts of "Xiaochou", "An Ordinary Person Like Me", "The One Who Said at the Beginning That He Would Accompany You Until Old Age", etc., he hummed them softly and recorded them with his mobile phone.

Package all of these and pass them to the company's music producers, asking them to write lyrics and music.
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"Yu Li, Zeng Jia, Liu Shishi, have you checked to see if everyone from your company is here?"

During his stay in the United States, Yang Hao also held an important video conference, to which all senior executives from Jiaxing Media, Little Lion Media, and Haori Media were invited.

"Mr. Yang, everyone is here." Yu Li, Zeng Jia and Liu Shishi spoke one by one.

After the staff debugged the projector and confirmed that there were no problems with the video conferencing equipment, Yang Hao began to get down to business.

"You should all be aware of the online drama market this year. With the competition among several major video companies, the price of purchasing TV dramas has been rising again and again. Last year, it was more than one million per episode, but this year it has soared to more than two million. According to this trend, it will definitely not be a problem for it to rise to three million next year."

"This is just the purchase price of the video platform. If the price of selling to TV stations is included, the selling price of a single episode of the TV series may reach 5 million or 6 million."

"Have you ever done the math? Assuming we have 80 episodes for a TV series, we can sell it for 4 million to 5 million."

"The profit is not even worse than a movie with a box office of 10 billion."

When Da Mimi, Zeng Jia, Liu Shishi, Yu Li and others heard what Yang Hao said, their adrenaline surged and their breathing became rapid.

There are few people who enter the entertainment industry who do not pursue financial gain, and everyone is no exception.

"With the increasing success of online literature adaptations in the past two years, video companies have a special liking for TV series with big IPs and big names, and are willing to pay for them, so I decided to increase the number of TV series produced in 2015."

"Jiaxing Media, Little Lion Media, and Haori Media will all participate."

No one present was stupid. At this moment, they realized that Yang Hao seemed to have hoarded a large number of online novel copyrights a long time ago.

Could it be that this is the day Yang Hao has been waiting for?

Did Yang Hao realize the spring of online dramas very early on?
Did Yang Hao realize long ago that TV dramas would one day make more money than movies?
Horror!
Da Mimi, Zeng Jia, Liu Shishi, Yu Li and others were amazed and could not help but admire Yang Hao's accurate vision for film and television investment again.

In an instant, Da Mimi and Liu Shishi's hearts were filled with warmth, and they felt that they had really followed the right person.

Although Yang Hao is a little fickle, in the entertainment industry, aren't all talented people like this?

Besides, Yang Hao is a playboy, but he is really willing to give resources. You know, many producers and managers are the kind of people who won't take responsibility even if they have pulled up their pants.

According to this logic, Yang Hao can definitely be considered a good person in the entertainment industry.

After the meeting, Yang Hao sent the list of projects that were ready to be launched to everyone.

"Legend of Fuyao", "Ashes of Love", "The Rebel Princess", "Ghost Blows Out the Light", "Princess Agents", and "Ode to Joy".

There are six TV series in total, and many of them are big IPs.

With six projects launched at the same time, Da Mimi and Liu Shishi couldn't help but marvel at Yang Hao's strong financial resources.

It is 2015 now, not two years ago. The actors' pay has more than doubled. Top actors like Da Mimi and Liu Shishi basically get a starting pay of to million for a drama. If the number of episodes is large enough, to million is not impossible.

For a costume or mythological drama like this, the funding required to produce a play is at least hundreds of millions.

In other words, these six projects will require an investment of at least 5 million yuan, plus Yang Hao’s previous film "The Witch", the production cost is as high as million yuan.

Even if Yang Hao only accounts for the majority and does not invest the entire amount, he must at least put out 700 to 800 million yuan.

How much does this cost?

Thinking of this, Da Mimi and Liu Shishi looked at Yang Hao in the video conference and suddenly became tender and affectionate.

There is one thing Yang Hao didn't say. The reason why he provided so many resources to Little Lion Media and Jiaxing Media was that he wanted to list the two companies in the next few years.

Cash out and leave before the masks are released. Keep enough cash flow to survive the three-year film and television winter.

Of course, the more important point is to increase investment in film and television, accumulate cashback funds, and then wait for the release of "The Witch" to make a big splash.

This time the film is being released worldwide, and if the cashback funds are too little, Yang Hao is afraid that it won’t make a splash.

This was his first time testing the system on a global scale, and he could not afford to make any mistakes.
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This video conference was held for all senior executives of Jiaxing Media, Little Lion Media, and Haori Media. Soon, the artists under the three companies knew the content of the meeting.

All the artists know that they cannot compete with leading actresses such as Da Mimi, Liu Shishi, Zhao Liying, Yang Zi, and Di Lieba.

But there are as many as six items.

Moreover, several of them can be considered ensemble dramas, with so many outstanding characters that there is no need to worry about not getting a role.

The most excited ones are the male artists from Jiaxing.

Yang Hao's company only has two male artists signed, Li Xian and Chen Xiao. Little Lion Media has none. So with so many vacant male roles, wouldn't they have a chance?

For a time, artists from several companies were ready to seize this opportunity.
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The news of the video conference was still spreading, and soon many film and television companies also knew about Yang Hao’s big move.

After being tested in the market over the past two years, Yang Hao's company's TV series have already established a good reputation in the industry, and are not much worse than the movies produced by Yang Hao.

Many agents knew that this was an opportunity, and they brought their own artists to recommend themselves to see if they could get one or two roles for their artists.

(End of this chapter)