Chapter 159: Yu Sin is released, opening the era of online drama explosions
After having the last lunch with the crew of The Search for the Dragon in a restaurant near the China Film Base.
That afternoon, Lin Yuan got on a plane flying to Shanghai.
To this day, it is said that all filming of "The Secret of the Dragon" has been completed. For this movie that was filmed in various locations, the filming progress is already relatively fast.
However, this shooting progress is also within expectations.
First, the starring actors in the movie "The Secret of the Dragon" are basically talented actors.
Secondly, what really takes time for this movie is not the shooting, but the post-production of special effects.
Even though it only took about three months to shoot this movie, it would have to be postponed for at least another half a year until the post-production special effects were completed.
If everything goes well, it might be able to compete at the box office during this year's National Day holiday. On the contrary, it might not even be able to make it into next year's Spring Festival holiday. And for a movie of this investment level, if it can't catch up with the Spring Festival holiday, the box office will be somewhat affected.
But these are not things that Lin Yuan should worry about. He is not an investor anyway. No matter how high the box office is, his salary will be fixed. As long as the reputation of this movie does not collapse, it will basically have no impact on him.
As for capital losses?
That should be what Director Wu is worried about, after all, the cast is all here.
Lin Yuan is not the only actor with box office appeal. Strictly speaking, Huang Bo's box office appeal is much higher than that of Lin Yuan, plus two well-known actors, Xia Yu and Shu Qi.
If it really loses money, the investors will definitely not blame Lin Yuan and the other actors. They will only think that the director and screenwriter ruined the movie.
But if the final box office exceeds the management's psychological expectations, then everyone will be happy.
The investors make money, the director gains fame, and the leading actors like Lin Yuan will be more favored by the employers.
As the plane landed at Hongqiao Airport, Lin Yuan didn't think much about it.
It was already three o'clock in the afternoon. Lin Yuan did not choose to go back to the apartment directly, but went to the company first.
Since Sister Xia was promoted to the head of the brokerage department last time, she has rarely been seen without Sister Xia in the company.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that Lin Yuan does not come to the company a few times a month.
Other artists come to the company as if they are going home. Those who have received the notice have smiles on their faces, while those who have not received the notice have droopy faces, not knowing when they will be able to show off.
Only Lin Yuan came to the company as if he were a thief.
Wearing a mask, lowering his peaked cap, swiping his card to enter the company, he went straight to the office.
In the past, I could admire the slender and white thighs of the company's female artists at the door of the dance studio.
Now when I meet the company's artists, I just hope not to be recognized. Once I am recognized, within two or three minutes, the entire corridor will be surrounded by the company's artists.
It's not that Lin Yuan is not interested in them.
In fact, Confucius and the sage once said: Don’t worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality.
There are so many female artists in the company who want to compete with him on their acting skills. If he competes with just a few of them, others will definitely have objections. But if every female artist in the company wants to compete with him on their acting skills, it won't be a matter of whether the body can handle it.
Once this matter is exposed, Lin Yuan can basically announce his withdrawal in advance.
As the office door was locked, Lin Yuan breathed a sigh of relief.
When Sister Xia saw someone coming in at first, she thought it was other artists in the company who were looking for something to do with her. It wasn't until she saw such a skilled door locking technique that she suddenly realized: "Your look is quite unique, and you are acting as a paparazzi?
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Don't mention it, Lin Yuan's current image is really similar to that of a paparazzi. The only difference is that he doesn't have a camera in his hand.
After hearing Sister Xia's ridicule, Lin Yuan also said: "It's not that I'm afraid of being recognized. Maybe this is the worry of being a star."
Sister Xia rolled her eyes at Lin Yuan and stopped talking to him.
"By the way, during your filming period, you had several advertising endorsements and a movie. I wrote it down in the memo for you. It just so happens that you come back and take a look at it this time so that I can give you a reply." Sister Xia said.
While talking, he clicked on the memo in his notebook, and then turned the computer in the direction of Lin Yuan.
Since the last commercial that was shot began to frequently hit the screens of major TV stations, other products have also turned their attention to Lin Yuan, the new actor.
There are not many advertising endorsements coming to my door.
After being screened by Sister Xia, there were only a few left.
Lin Yuan just glanced at it briefly, then shook his head and refused, turning his attention to the movie.
Advertising endorsements are something that has both good and bad qualities. It is a double-edged sword for Lin Yuan.
Needless to say, there are benefits. Shooting an advertisement for endorsement is easy and effortless, but the pay is not low. Some product endorsement fees are even higher than movie fees. It would be a lie to say that you are not interested.
But Lin Yuan also knows in his heart that not only does accepting too many advertisements ruin his popularity with the public, but if something goes wrong with the endorsed products, he, the spokesperson, will definitely be implicated at that time. Therefore, now that he is not short of money, Lin Yuan has not accepted advertisements for endorsements.
this plan.
As for the movie that Sister Xia mentioned.
Lin Yuanguang was shocked when he saw the confirmed list of actors.
Li Lianjie, Fan Ye, Huang Jiaozhu, Angela, Gu Tianqi, Liang Jiahui, Xiang Zuo, Wen Zhang...
With this cast, the investment will start at least 300 million.
Looking at the producer again, Lin Yuan understood immediately. No wonder Xiang Zuo could appear in such a luxurious cast. The investor who co-wrote this movie was his father.
Even though he hasn't seen the script yet, just the cast makes Lin Yuan a little excited.
It was just Sister Xia's next words that suddenly made Lin Yuan a little worried.
"This movie will start shooting in the middle of next month. My suggestion is to reject the TV series "In the Name of the People" and take on this movie." Sister Xia expressed her suggestion.
As an agent, she must want to maximize Lin Yuan's interests.
First of all, the salary of the TV series "In the Name of the People" is not high to begin with. In terms of salary alone, it must be higher than the movie "Legend of the Gods", which has a large investment. Secondly, after taking this movie,
Maybe he can even establish a relationship with the Xiang family, which will be of some help to Lin Yuan's future acting career.
After hearing this, Lin Yuan thought for a moment and then replied directly: "Since there is a schedule conflict, let's forget it."
I had already agreed in front of Zhang Fengyi and Gao Yalin and so many veteran actors, and now it was impossible for him to recommend the TV series "In the Name of the People".
Originally, he was somewhat interested in this movie, but now Lin Yuan is not even interested in reading the script.
If Lin Yuan had read the script, he would definitely be glad for the decision he made.
Don't look at this movie. Although this movie has an extremely luxurious cast and is billed as a 3D masterpiece, in fact, these luxurious actors are just to serve as a foil for Xiang Zuo.
Seeing that Lin Yuan rejected both advertising endorsements and movies, Sister Xia just glanced at Lin Yuan and didn't say anything else.
She is just an agent, giving these suggestions. As for whether to adopt them or not, it is Lin Yuan's final decision.
After talking about this incident, Sister Xia also mentioned two other things.
"The Film Association's application has been approved, and you will be considered a member of the Film Association from now on."
Lin Yuan still had some impression of this matter. At that time, teacher Zhang Fengyi asked him to take time to write an application, so he wrote the application before filming the movie "The Secret of the Dragon". He didn't expect it to be approved so quickly.
This is indeed a good thing for him.
Having said this, Lin Yuan turned around and asked, "What's one more thing?"
"One more thing is that the online drama you shot before will be released soon. You should consider whether you should post on Weibo to promote it." Sister Xia said in a calm tone.
She has never been very optimistic about Lin Yuan's filming of this web series.
Since the first year of online self-made dramas in 2014, new online dramas can be found almost every day. Over the past year, hundreds of online dramas have been broadcast on major video websites, but how many of them really become popular in the end?
There are only two online dramas that are really popular, "The Crown Princess's Promotion" and "Tomb Raiders".
Moreover, it was okay to film the web drama "Remaining Sin" before. After all, Lin Yuan had not won the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor at that time. Even if the web drama failed, it would not be a big deal to Lin Yuan.
But what about now?
An actor whose movies frequently break box office records actually starred in an online drama that cost less than 10 million.
If this online drama has a good reputation, it will be just the icing on the cake for Lin Yuan, but if it fails to gain popularity, it will obviously have a certain impact on Lin Yuan's box office appeal.
But now that the web drama has been filmed and is about to premiere on the iQiyi platform, it is useless for her to say these words now. She can only remind Lin Yuan to see if he wants to promote the web drama.
"Is Yu Zui going to start broadcasting?"
After hearing this, Lin Yuan was a little surprised.
He started this web drama a long time ago. Twelve episodes were filmed and it took almost two months to complete. If Sister Xia hadn't reminded him, he would have almost forgotten that he had filmed such a web drama.
drama.
The story of the web drama "Yu Zui" is very simple. It tells the story of police school student Yu Zui who entered a special selection and was selected by Xu Pingqiu. He joined the special service and became an undercover agent. After that, he successfully approached Fu Guosheng and others, and a series of thrilling stories happened during his undercover career.
Due to the sensitive subject matter, iQiyi does not dare to publicize it. After all, the current censorship of online dramas is far from as strict as that of dramas to be broadcast on satellite TV. Once the promotion is too hot, you may be targeted.
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There is another important reason.
That is, apart from the starring role of Lin Yuan, their web drama has absolutely nothing else worth promoting.
The other leading actors are all little-known actors, and together they are not as popular as Lin Yuan at the time.
The only one who can make a fuss about publicity is Lin Yuan.
So the crew's idea is very simple. Wait for a week after the show starts to see the response from the audience. If the response is good, they will take the opportunity to promote it. If the response is not good, it will save them time to promote it and be scolded.
Lin Yuan entered the iQiyi platform and took a look at this online drama.
It will officially premiere next Monday, and currently you can only see a few TV trailers of the first few episodes on the platform.
"If you promote it, the results of the first broadcast should be very explosive, but you can't be sure about the reputation." Sister Xia did not forget to remind Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan nodded.
For him, promoting this web series is just a matter of fingers.
It seems quite simple, but the web series has not yet been launched, and no one knows how this web series will be evaluated by the audience.
Lin Yuan stood up from his seat, glanced at the time, and said, "I'll go back and read the preview first, and then I'll make a decision later."
At that time, he read the script and had a good evaluation of this web drama.
But the script is a script, and if the final editing effect of the crew is completely different from the script, it is not impossible.
This is just like the sequel to Journey to the West. The original plot of twenty-four episodes had to be shot into thirty episodes. In the end, the only way to increase the length of the episode was through constant repetition of fighting actions.
Lin Yuan was not worried about the script. What he was worried about was that after the script was edited, it would no longer have the same flavor as when he read it.
After coming out of the company, the assistant took him directly back to the apartment.
Fortunately, this girl Song Zuer went to film with the team. Otherwise, if she dared to come to visit again today, Lin Yuan would definitely teach her a lesson.
While resting on the sofa, Lin Yuan also turned on his mobile phone and searched online for information about the web drama "Yu Zui".
I thought that the crew of Yuzui would use his status as the leading actor to promote this upcoming online drama online.
What he didn't expect was that they had never officially promoted him as the male lead.
It can be seen that not to mention that Sister Xia is not optimistic about the online drama, even the producer Yang Chunxiao, who is responsible for promoting Yu Zui, is not optimistic about this online drama.
However, "Yu Zui" still has some tricks in its promotion.
For example, post some of Lin Yuan's emoticons or short clips of Lin Yuan's appearance in the series on Weibo to gain fans' continued attention and forwarding.
As a result, there was no trace of Lin Yuan at all in the promotional newspaper.
Netizens thought that the crew of "Remaining Sin" was trying to sell dog meat to others, and they severely condemned the crew from a high moral point.
Especially Lin Yuan's fans.
Although Lin Yuan can be said to have done a very poor job in maintaining fans, but these fans are self-conscious!
When I saw that Lin Yuan was included in the starring list announced by the cast of "Yu Zui", but Lin Yuan was not seen on the promotional poster, some fans of the fan group discussed it and directly scolded the cast of "Yu Zui" and made it a hot search topic on Weibo.
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As a result, the crew of Yuzui couldn't stand it anymore and quickly sent out a Lin Yuan emoticon made by the crew.
That is, Lin Yuan stood in front of the white background, put on an innocent look, and introduced himself: "My name is Yu Zui, nicknamed Bitch Yu."
It wasn't until this emoticon was posted that Lin Yuan's fans realized that they had rushed to the wrong crew...
Lin Yuan really filmed this web drama, but the crew didn't directly use Lin Yuan for publicity.
After seeing his fans doing this, Lin Yuan couldn't help but laugh on the sofa.
After learning about this farce, Lin Yuan searched online for netizens' reactions and opinions after seeing the trailer of Yu Zui's web drama.
If the feedback from netizens is good, he will also promote it on Weibo and sell the crew a favor.
But if the audience thought it was a bad movie, he would definitely follow the example of the crew and watch from the sidelines, and stay put for the time being.
With his current popularity, with three million dollars to star in this web drama, the crew of Yu Zui can already say that they are winning.
Under such circumstances, Lin Yuan would not promote this web drama, and the other party would not say anything. It would be too late to even have fun, so why would he need a bicycle?
After opening the #yuzui# topic area on Weibo.
Only then did Lin Yuan realize that even though the crew of Yu Zui didn't do much publicity, there were quite a few netizens who had seen the trailers for the first three episodes of this online drama.
Of course, almost nine out of ten of these netizens came here for the starring role of Lin Yuan.
A netizen named "Eat a Bean" on Weibo commented under the topic: "Don't be fooled by the trailer. I was at the filming scene. This web drama is a sequel to the scorching sun. Lin Yuan did not have any symptoms after the injection."
Instead of dying, he was arranged to be an undercover agent. This news is absolutely true!"
After seeing this comment, Lin Yuan almost spit out a mouthful of water.
This netizen’s imagination is really good, and it’s still burning in the sun, so lucky he can figure it out!
And there are many netizens commenting below, "Yes, I am the camera, I can testify!" "I am the stool that Lin Yuan's crew sat on when filming, and I can prove that what he said is true, and Yu Zui is actually Xiaofeng."
"I am so proud that Lin Yuan can star in this online drama. I like to watch all the online dramas produced by Lin Yuan. (50 cents for positive reviews, remember to delete the brackets."
What kind of nonsense do netizens post every day this time?
Lin Yuan, who usually doesn't do high-intensity surfing, was directly amused by these sand-stained netizens.
In addition to the ridicule from these netizens, Lin Yuan finally found a normal comment.
A non-famous self-media public account "Qingyu Gang" posted this review:
"First of all, I would like to commend iQiyi for its vision and strength in content production. They have chosen an IP that is most suitable for adapting into a web drama. Compared with fantasy themes that require a lot of money to create, urban criminal investigation is relatively low-cost and easier to create.
Restore the original image in the minds of IP fans."
"The cast of this drama is also relatively reasonable. Lin Yuan, who is a talented actor, plays the leading role. The image and style are more in line with the original work. There are also familiar actors from the Criminal Investigation Bureau. This kind of drama is most suitable for new directors and new actors.
, it is also easy for an experienced actor like Lin Yuan to give full play to his performance. To be honest, after watching the three episode previews, Lin Yuan’s performance is really good, and he has revealed all his pretense of being unserious.”
Lin Yuan can be sure that at least he has not paid any of these official accounts to get positive reviews.
As for the three-episode trailer, we can tell that there are so many things, either there are real things, or we have received real things.
But if he still promoted it like this after getting money, Lin Yuan felt that it was a bit perfunctory.
There are so many things mentioned earlier, why did you just mention them all when you praised him?
Isn’t it hot to get this money?
Originally, when he saw this, Lin Yuan was planning to post a post to promote this web drama.
But when he moved his gaze downward, he killed this idea in the cradle.
There are more than 20,000 comments in the topic.
Lin Yuan just flipped through two pages.
Apart from the joking comments, the real positive reviews are less than one-fifth.
Going to the back, there are basically all negative reviews. Since there are no likes from Lin Yuan's fans, there are no negative reviews at all on the first two pages.
If there were more positive reviews, Lin Yuan might really mistakenly think they were all positive reviews.
After flipping through a few pages, more and more negative reviews appeared in Lin Yuan's field of vision.
"Putting aside acting skills, is this a policeman played by Lin Yuan? He is just like a gangster. Everyone else is using their own methods to make money in order to survive for forty days. It would be better for him to use these criminal methods."
"I really don't know how Lin Yuan thought of taking on such a web drama. It's not that I despise web dramas, but who would use a good script to make a web drama? I originally had a good impression of Lin Yuan, but now
Let’s forget it.”
"Is it worthy of my fans to start accepting such bad movies after winning the Best Actor Award? I really don't know how much salary this web drama gave him, so that someone with Lin Yuan's ability can be cast in such a web drama."
"There are so many problems with this drama. The trailer alone makes me unable to complain. Is this definitely a movie starring Lin Yuan? Doesn't he pick on the script?"
"Others are fine, I just want to complain, girls with big breasts are not big either!"
"..."
Regarding the negative reviews above, Lin Yuan only agrees with the last one.
As for the other bad reviews, Lin Yuan really doesn't know how to explain it. What can be seen from the three-episode trailer?
Even a complete story frame has not yet appeared. How did these netizens infer that this was a bad movie?
Moreover, when he took on this web series, "Donkey Gets Water" had just been released.
I was considered a second-tier star at that time, what does it have to do with winning the Best Actor title now?
However, Lin Yuan didn't want to explain it below. When he knew that this online drama was about to premiere, he had already thought that such a situation would happen.
Strictly speaking, these netizens are not targeting Lin Yuan.
This is entirely because the current market situation is like this. You can count the web dramas that are available on one hand.
So they really can't understand that if Lin Yuan doesn't make a good movie, why does he have to go into the muddy waters of online dramas?
The only reason that can be explained is that the money given to this web drama is too much.
After reading the topics on Weibo, Lin Yuan began to hesitate.
The reason is very simple. In his opinion, judging from the script of this online drama, even if it is not a great drama, it still feels like a good drama.
Lin Yuan naturally hopes that there will be more viewers and more fans to watch and support this web drama. However, the negative reviews in the current topic are like a roadblock, which makes Lin Yuan temporarily
Some are undecided.
After thinking for a moment, Lin Yuan exited the backend, logged into his personal account, and edited an update.
"The online drama "Remaining Sin" starring me will be officially launched on iQiyi next Monday at 8 o'clock every night. I also ask all fans to support..."
After editing the update and confirming that there was nothing wrong with the content, Lin Yuan took a look at the time and clicked to publish the update.
The moment it was sent on Weibo.
A new prompt appeared in the background.
"You have a new like!"
"You have a new comment!"
"..."
As soon as the dynamic front foot was released, fans immediately liked and commented on the back foot. From this, it can be seen that Lin Yuan's fan activity is relatively high.
Lin Yuan was not in a hurry to read the comments, but waited for five minutes before looking at the nearly a thousand comments under this post.
The initial comments basically had nothing to do with the upcoming premiere of "Yu Sin".
"First!"
"Front row!"
"Lin Bao is finally willing to post updates. The last time I saw updates was the last time."
The dynamics later began to become normal.
"Damn it, Yuanhua, you stopped being a fisherman and started filming online dramas?"
"Web series? Did I read it correctly? Are you sure it's not a new movie being released?"
"Isn't it true? After waiting for several months, you ended up filming a web drama? Nowadays, domestic web dramas are all bad. There really is nothing to watch. Don't ruin your reputation just for money."
"You really starred in this online drama. I thought the crew was using your name to deceive you!"
"I'm looking forward to watching Lin Bao's new drama after get off work on Monday. I'm looking forward to the coming days!"
After seeing the comments below, Lin Yuan couldn't help but sigh.
Among the ten comments, basically only one expressed expectations. Most of the other fans had a negative attitude towards this web drama.
And just after Lin Yuan posted this update.
There was originally no news today, but as more and more comments were posted on Lin Yuan's post, related topics directly appeared on Weibo's hot search list.
Lin Yuan has been on the hot search list on Weibo before, but this is the first time that his fans have complained about it.
[The new actor’s online drama premieres. Is he willing to degenerate or is he hungry? 】
After seeing this topic, Lin Yuan really wanted to have an offline real-person PK with the creator of this topic.
What does it mean to be self-indulgent and hungry?
Isn't it just that I accepted a web drama? How serious is it to this extent?
"call......"
Lin Yuan threw the phone screen aside and took a deep breath.
All he can do now is pray that the crew will not edit the content of the web series randomly. If they edit it randomly, he will really shoot himself in the foot this time.
...
Not long after topics related to Lin Yuan were trending on Weibo.
In the office of Shanghai Tingdong Pictures, a director clicked on a topic that suddenly became a hot search topic and looked at it with interest.
After learning the cause and effect, the director couldn't help but chuckle.
Everyone was waiting in the conference room for the meeting in an hour. When they saw this director suddenly laughing, everyone looked over.
Yu Meng, the director next to him, saw this and asked: "Old Wu, what are you laughing at?"
Lao Wu put his phone directly in front of Yu Meng and said mockingly: "See for yourself, if Lin Yuan doesn't make a good movie, what kind of online drama will he make? Isn't this losing the watermelon and picking up the sesame seeds?"
Yu Meng took a look, with a bit of surprise in his eyes. He was still very impressed by the actor Lin Yuan.
He even thought about whether to collaborate with actor Lin Yuan in a movie, but Lin Yuan's operation this time really made him confused.
He shook his head, but Meng hadn't spoken yet.
Several other directors at the conference table couldn't help laughing.
"By the way, talking about this, I just remembered one thing. Guess what was the first film Lin Yuan took after winning the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor?" A potbellied director said with a smile.
"What show?"
"Isn't it just this web drama?"
The director shook his head and said disdainfully: "TV series, in the name of the people! The salary is only 12 million!"
After hearing this, several other uninformed directors burst into an uproar.
Twelve million film salary?
Are you sure they heard correctly?
Although they had never had contact with Lin Yuan before, given Lin Yuan's popularity at that time, the salary for a movie was only about 15 million, and the salary for a TV series was even higher.
After winning the Golden Goblet Award for Best Actor, the salary should be higher than before.
Why do you still accept a TV series with a salary of 12 million yuan? Isn’t this lowering your self-esteem?
"That TV series is still understandable. There are quite a lot of veteran actors. Maybe Lin Yuan didn't give face to someone when they invited me. But for this online drama, I really didn't understand it. I remember that the total investment for this online drama was not even
Let’s go to 10 million. If you don’t make any money, you’re wasting your time filming these online dramas.” One of the directors said, shaking his head, seeming to feel pity for Lin Yuan.
Look at it from the perspective of their employers.
Lin Yuan's behavior really made them feel ridiculous.
With Lin Yuan's current popularity, even if it has been two or three months since he won the Golden Goblet Award, there is absolutely no problem in accepting a movie with a salary of 20 million yuan.
As long as Lin Yuan speaks out, movies will come to his door.
In the end, Lin Yuan was in trouble, wasting his own money-making time on filming these online dramas, which is really ridiculous to say.
In addition to these investors.
After seeing the news posted by Lin Yuan, those little freshmen also laughed behind their mobile phones.
They never thought that a front-line actor like Lin Yuan would one day star in an online drama.
Little freshmen like them know how deep the water in online dramas is.
After all, one of the ways they make money is by filming web dramas or web dramas, and they only film web dramas that require large investments. Only web dramas with large investments will get more money in their hands.
With the idea of watching a good show, they also searched for investment in this online drama.
The total investment does not exceed 10 million, and Lin Yuan's salary is only 3 million.
With such a small salary, even young talents like them are not interested in it. I really don’t know how a new actor like Lin Yuan would agree to it.
Under the intense interaction of netizens.
This hot Weibo topic is also continuing to ferment.
And just as all parties were prepared to watch a good show, the time soon came to eight o'clock on Monday night.
The web drama Yu Zui officially premieres on the iQiyi online video platform!