Superstars start as villains

Chapter 84 Farewell to 2003.

"Director Gao, if there is no problem, let's sign the contract today, shall we?"

Gao Qunshu nodded again and again, smiling brightly. Speaking of which, he should be lucky. He has been contacting buyers since [Conquer] was finished. However, the market for TV dramas this year is really not good. The highest bid is only 450 million. Knowing that the cost of this drama is only 420 million, it is a waste of his busy work for a year.

Therefore, Gao Qunshu pressured the investor not to sell. This pressure lasted for half a year, but he did not expect that [Infernal Affairs 3] became popular in the mainland. Zhou Xing, as the male number one, naturally became popular. If the mainland TV series wanted to sell well The price, isn't it just the leading role?

[Conquer], which no one cares about, suddenly became a favorite, and finally Jinling TV defeated other competitors with a price of 760 million.

A TV series made a net profit of 340 million. According to the current market conditions, it is definitely a blood profit. Of course, most of the money went to the investor, and Gao Qunshu only got a little hard work.

"It seems that we still have to make a movie!"

Gao Qunshu heard that the "Infernal Affairs" series has earned hundreds of millions of dollars in profits, and the domestic film market has become increasingly popular recently, so he couldn't help but move his mind.

What's more, if you are in the film and television industry, TV dramas are always inferior to movies. If you really want to become a great director, you have to make movies.

Jinling Satellite TV spent so much money to buy the copyright of [Conquer], of course it was not for the purpose of putting dust in the film library.

In fact, Jinling Satellite TV has not had a good life these years. It is close to the inland. Although it has canal resources and is developing well, it is still not as good as the first-tier coastal cities.

Fortunately, the power of role models is infinite. The rise of Mango TV in recent years has given them hope. In the same inland city, Mango TV is very rich. Look at yourself, why?
To put it bluntly, the conditions of Mango Satellite TV are not as good as those of Jinling, so Jinling Satellite TV also began to join the reform army.

This is also the reason why the station agreed to broadcast "Conquer". You must know that this kind of police and gangster TV series adapted from real stories is easy to step on the thunder, and this time the station leaders are willing to go all out.

Taking advantage of the popularity of [Infernal Affairs 3], after three days of warm-up, Jinling Satellite TV immediately launched [Conquer]

Zhou Xing was stunned when he received Gao Qunshu's call. He thought that this drama should have been aired long ago. After all, it has been less than half a year since he went to Xiangjiang to film "Infernal Affairs 3".

Naturally, Gao Qunshu would not talk about the twists and turns in the middle of the phone call, but just expressed his gratitude to him, and at the same time expressed his intention to make a movie.

After chatting for a while, Zhou Xing hung up the phone and saw Anli staring at him with his eyes. He couldn't help laughing: "Sister Anli, even if you are as handsome as me, you don't have to be so obsessed with it, right?"

"Bah!" Anli spat at him, dissatisfied: "I'm afraid you will be fooled by him again."

Apparently Anli is still brooding about Zhou Xing's downgrading to accept the filming of "Conquer".

In this regard, Zhou Xing could only shrug his shoulders helplessly, and then switched the channel to Jinling Satellite TV. Fortunately, Jinling is a Shangxing TV station, and the signal can be found in the capital as well.

【Conquer】 premiere.

Generally speaking, domestic police and gangster TV dramas are shot from the perspective of the police, such as the famous "Serious Cases Six", this kind of TV series is quite good to watch, but the audience will naturally feel aesthetic fatigue after a long time.

However, "Conquer" is filmed from the two perspectives of the police and the bandit, which is very fresh, and the image of the police in the play has also got rid of the high-level heroic image, and the villain is not the kind of low IQ who can't survive three episodes .

The two consecutive episodes that night made many Jinling viewers very hooked.

Especially Liu Huaqiang played by Zhou Xing. At the scene of killing Wu Tian, ​​he was a black gangster who killed people without batting an eyelid. In the hospital, he was a good brother with deep affection for his younger brother.

[Conquer] was aired in early spring, and the weather was still relatively cold. After watching the TV series, the family had no other entertainment, so they inevitably started discussing. The most discussed was not the plot, but the looks of the decent and the villain.

In the play, Xu Guoqing, the deputy chief of the police, has a fierce look on his face, his eyes are wide open, and those gangsters are trembling with fright.

What about Zhou Xing?There is a trace of ruffian in his handsomeness, in Jinling's local saying: ruffian handsome ruffian handsome.

Many viewers even joked that if the two of them switched roles in another play, there would be no violation of harmony.

[Conquer] premiered, and the ratings in Jinling area reached 13.5, and this is just the beginning.

"Are your melons ripe?"

"When others hit the south wall, they chose to look back. When I hit the south wall, I chose to push down the wall!"

"Aren't you angry and called a young man?"

"Giving you a chance is useless."

The lines in these TV dramas quickly became the mantra of young people in Jinling area, and these plots have also become what people call: famous scenes.

[Conquer] There are only 33.2 episodes in total. When the tenth episode was released, the ratings in the Jinling area exceeded [-], which shows how popular it is.

Satellite TVs in other places naturally wanted a piece of the pie, so Jinling Satellite TV earned back the 760 million yuan they had bought for the copyright just by selling the rebroadcast rights, and the advertising fee became a pure profit.

It is estimated that Jinling Satellite TV has not seen money back for a long time. It sold the rebroadcast rights of "Conquer" to more than 30 TV stations at one time, and those TV stations spent money, so they naturally wanted to broadcast it.

So, a very interesting phenomenon appeared, because in 2003, cable TV was still used, and there were only about [-] channels that could be searched in some inland cities, but when I turned on the TV, it was [Conquer], and I changed it to another one. The station is an advertisement, and another station is still [Conquer].

With the role of Liu Huaqiang, Zhou Xing also began to gradually enter the field of vision of TV audiences. Speaking of it, the influence of TV dramas is much greater than that of movies, because there are not many people going to movie theaters these days, but since the reform and opening up Since then, the penetration rate of TV sets has been raised.

Soon, Anli found that there were more and more commercial performances and announcements coming to Zhou Xing, and the price had increased to a certain extent, and after that, he never mentioned Zhou Xing's self-depreciation.

During the Spring Festival of 2003, Zhou Xing was destined to be busy. In fact, for artists, all festivals and holidays are their busiest days.

On New Year's Eve, Zhou Xing made a phone call back to his hometown in the backstage. Although his parents only told him to pay attention to his health, they could hear that they were still a little disappointed, but there was no way. This period of time is crucial to him.

"Happy New Year." Everyone worked hard for a year, and Zhou Xing also prepared red envelopes for his assistants and stylists.

"Wow, thank you boss."

After everyone opened it, they found that it was a thick stack of Grandpa Mao. They immediately cheered and shouted: Boss is big.

2003 has passed quietly, and 2004 is about to unveil its mysterious veil.

(End of this chapter)