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The second day after the signing of the contract, Morik Ruger couldn't wait to use the media resources of Warner Group to release the news that he would continue to cooperate with Firefly Pictures.

At the same time, he also said that not only will The Walking Dead be broadcast on HBO, but the two sides will maintain a closer cooperative relationship.

As soon as the news came out, the major TV networks that were still vying for projects in the past rushed to develop their own project operations.

The second episode of The Walking Dead premiered at 8 p.m. on January 22.

The picture begins with Sean dating Rick's wife, Lori Linzhong.

It turns out that when Rick was in a coma in the hospital, the zombies raided the town, and it was Sean who was protecting Lori to escape.

On the way to escape, I gradually have a good feeling.

And because Rick is not there, life and death are uncertain, and the plot with a little green happens naturally.

On the other side, after Rick killed the little zombie girl, the sound of gunfire attracted the surrounding zombies.

In desperation, he hid in a tank.

When he was trapped inside, desperate to commit suicide, Glenn appeared, radioed Rick and helped him escape.

In the original work, the Asian character of Glenn was played by South Korean actor Steven Won, but in this version, Lehman chose a Chinese-American, who has played for five years and often plays the role of thieves and villains.

Speaking of which, American stereotypes and racial discrimination are not a day or two.

Glenn then took Rick to a department store where he met several survivors.

On the top of the building, the white old man Moore was dissatisfied with the fact that a black man, a Chinese, was taken in in the team, and he used force to persecute him.

It was interrupted by Rick pulling out a pistol, and he locked More on the rooftop with handcuffs.

At this moment, more and more zombies gathered at the door of the department store, lacking water and food, Rick began to lead everyone to escape.

In the chat, Rick and others summed up some laws of zombies.

One is that a living person will be quickly infected when bitten; the other is tenacious vitality, except for destroying the brain of the nervous center, any fatal injury is useless; the third is that they will be attracted by loud noises, and have the ability to distinguish human blood, vision is almost No.

So, here comes a scene that is even more awesome than the exciting scene of ntr at the beginning.

Rick put in a zombie from the side door of the building, and smashed the zombie with a fire axe, smearing the almost black zombie blood on everyone.

Rick was ready and tried it. Sure enough, the gathered zombies didn't notice their existence.

Several people walked out along the road, cautiously all the way, but they made a little noise when they were looking for the vehicle to start, and they were chased and killed by zombies.

They continued to flee, and Moore, who was locked on the rooftop, and the black people who stayed behind also sweated in their hearts.

But when they saw that Rick and the others still drove away smoothly, they panicked and thought they had been abandoned.

The relationship between the two was not good, but the black man couldn't bear to leave Moore, who had beaten him, on the roof alone, and wanted to hand over the keys.

After some tossing, Rick drove the car and came back...

Accompanied by cheerful music and cheers when racing,

The zoomed-out lens is fixed on the initially formed protagonist group...

The Walking Dead was also under the close attention of the audience discussing the plot and other TV stations, and Nielsen announced the results as soon as he collected the ratings statistics.

The Walking Dead successfully defended its title of viewership champion in the same period. The average viewership of the second episode was 25.5 million, and the highest viewership still reached more than 27 million.

Several TV stations saw this data and analyzed the elements of The Walking Dead's huge success.

In addition to the novel plot and excellent production, the most important thing is the linkage to the movie New York Row.

Of course, this may also be related to the director's camera shooting ability.

After all, few film directors have switched to TV production.

Just like Spielberg's Band of Brothers in 2001, it also achieved great success.

The addition of such a film director's strength is also a publicity stunt for the audience.

Being able to see a film director's work from outside the cinema certainly arouses the curiosity of the audience.

Under various factors, there is such a popular audience.

However, even if you understand this, what's the use?

After all, it's still a matter of content production.

The relatively heavyweight newspaper media also praised The Walking Dead as always.

Ryman is now in the office with a copy of the New York Daily, reading the entertainment section.

With more than 2 million new subscribers added to the second week of The Walking Dead, based on specific data collected by Nielsen, there is no doubt that HBO is the big winner in this partnership.

As for the producer Firefly Pictures, an internal source revealed that the broadcast rights of the first season of this TV series will bring them more than 80 million US dollars in revenue just from the first round of broadcasts.

Not to mention the signing of a new gambling agreement. If it can be reached, the subsequent operation of offline copyrights can bring considerable benefits. In the long run, it is no less than HBO’s direct purchase of broadcast copyrights. But the production investment of the series is less than 40 million, and Lyman-Last, a film director who has continued to succeed in Hollywood, continues his success. A TV series with a profit of about 100 million, people have to look forward to his follow-up actions.

After reading this article in the New York Daily, Lyman couldn't help but think for a moment.

In terms of input and output, after deducting the studio share of Gyro and Zha Dao and some performance incentives for the behind-the-scenes creators, the first season of The Walking Dead actually earned Firefly Pictures a net profit of 70 million US dollars.

After all, running a business costs money.

The revenue is high, and the net profit left is about the same as a big-selling movie.

Still, the rights to TV series are a long-held asset in America, where protections are in place.

It is also very good for Blue Butterfly Pictures, which can take over the distribution of the offline DVD market.

If you continue to follow the distribution market, even if there are not too many media resources to promote, the need for close contact with the market is also an important distribution experience for a company like Blue Butterfly that has just started.

A long way to go...

Lyman writes and draws on the memo beside him, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter...

The rise of new online propaganda resources may be the future of newsprint media like Blue Butterfly Pictures that cannot control it.

And, of course, there's the neglected streamer...

Lehmann is more confident than anyone that the future of film and television is on the Internet.

However, the current Firefly Pictures is still too weak, with insufficient capital reserves, and cannot support the growth of streaming media terminals.

The time is not yet ripe...

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