Chapter 570 Busy Worker Bee

Shuibo Production is like a machine that never sleeps and is busy again. Shuibo's employees are like a bunch of busy worker bees.

The popularity of the five movies also put pressure on the TV drama department next door. After receiving new production commissions, they started filming non-stop.

While the film department is making rapid progress, the TV series department is actually not idle, but is constantly developing. The personnel department expanded the number of contract workers, making the standing army about one-third larger than before.

It seems that there are not many new people recruited, but judging from the production habits of the Japanese broadcast industry, the use of temporary workers is a routine operation. In a crew, the number of temporary workers is far more than that of regular workers.

The current economic environment is not good. Even if the ripples of the Great Recession have not spread to the broadcast industry on a large scale and will not cause them to lay off employees, the increasingly large labor market and the people who are desperate for a job have made most production platforms unwilling to Give up this good opportunity to save labor costs.

Why maintain a group of regular workers when you can use temporary workers who are cheaper, don’t have to pay pensions, and can be fired easily?

Therefore, even the top five production bureaus have significantly reduced the number of permanent employees recruited in the new quarter. Water Wave Production seems to be an anomaly.

But this also shows its ambition. The company will have bigger things to do in the coming year. Employees who were worried about layoffs due to the Asian financial crisis were relieved for a while, and their confidence and fighting spirit also increased.

The TV drama department has begun to boldly use new screenwriters for new projects. Only two dramas are original scripts by Kei Fujiwara, one is "The World of Deception" and the other is "Jumping the Line".

The other two dramas are historical dramas created by Miura Fuyube and idol dramas by Shiraishi Monet and Togada Nanako. The four dramas are broadcast on different platforms, which are the five major TV stations after Fukuyama TV.

In fact, since the new president of Matsunichi Pictures came to power, Fukuyamadai has been very proactive in easing the relationship with Kei Fujiwara. The deputy director who had previously withdrawn his capital was also reassigned.

In fact, there was not much conflict between Kei Fujiwara and Fukuyamadai. The conflict with Fukuyamadai was actually an extension of the conflict with Shigesuke Nobi. Naturally, Kei Fujiwara didn't want to have too much trouble with one of the five major television stations. He wasn't a child, so there was no need to make enemies just for emotional reasons.

Therefore, Kei Fujiwara attended the banquet hosted by Fukuyamadai and Matsunichi a few days ago. However, at the banquet, Kei Fujiwara said that it would be better to postpone Fukuyamadai and Matsunichi Pictures' request for cooperation again.

It’s not that I’m still holding grudges, it’s mainly because I’ve already reached an agreement with other TV stations and can no longer change the broadcast platform. As for movies, there are no new plans recently.

The reason why he did not say anything was that Kei Fujiwara clearly saw the decline of Fukuyama Station's meteorology.

In the past few years, Fukuyamadai, which has been unstoppable with its Yuejiu drama, has shown some decline.

First of all, the competition is not so strong. When Kei Fujiwara was there, and not long after he left, most viewers during the September 9th period, especially those in Tokyo, would almost habitually turn on Fukuyama Station and not make other choices. Only if the TV programs on Fukuyama Channel are not to your liking, you will jump to other TV stations to watch.

Since the Fukuyama Television Production Bureau took over the September 9th time slot, it has also habitually relied on the September 9th drama. Coupled with the previous bad culture of the TV station looking down on producers, it has had a great negative impact on this TV station. As a result, Fukuyama Terrace has been going downhill.

Although it has not replaced the position at the end of the Dongdaotai crane, it is far inferior to before. But they are unwilling to give up their profits to Shuibo like Dongdaotai, so it is better not to cooperate for the time being.

And TTV will also broadcast a large-scale Yuejiu drama in a month, and it will compete head-on with Fushan Channel. Regardless of winning or losing, it at least marks one thing, that is, the original Fukuyama Channel gave the other five "Yuejiu" The inherent impression of being invincible in dramas has disappeared.

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"The Embalmer" is now in theaters, and the promotion of "City of the Deep" has also begun in full swing.

Kei Fujiwara released the newly cut trailer on major TV stations, but the actual publicity effect made Kei Fujiwara quite worried.

The story of "City of the Deep" doesn't have too many gimmicks to particularly arouse people's interest.

The so-called gimmicks are plots that are novel and memorable, such as the "violent woman" character setting of the heroine in "My Sassy Girl" and the obvious contrast between her sweet appearance and fiery personality;

For another example, in "Infernal Affairs", the black and white camps place undercover agents in each other's camp, allowing the audience to understand the main plot of the movie through the trailer and become curious.

However, the promotional points of "City of the Deep" do not seem to be outstanding. The main storyline of the film, in short, is the story of a pair of teenagers looking for a city lost in the depths of the ocean. It does not belong to the type of story that can bring freshness to the audience, and the trailer itself is not edited very well.

In addition, there are so many releases in January that it is indeed not very conspicuous among the trailers.

Kei Fujiwara paid special attention to the latest discussions about this movie on forums and in newspapers and magazines. Although this movie has indeed aroused expectations from the market and the audience, the reason why everyone is looking forward to this movie is Because this is the fourth film produced by Shuibo.

What everyone is looking forward to is the "Shuibo Production" sign, not the plot of the movie itself.

Regarding the story of a boy searching for the deep-sea city in the movie, as well as the painstaking efforts and ingenuity of director Otomo Keiichi who insists on hand-drawn animation, not many people care...

Fujiwara Kei couldn't help but sigh: January... is not a good time after all.

There is also news from the United States.

First, Yui Mizuhara bought a small production company after coming to the United States. In the United States, there are many such film companies, and many of them go bankrupt and transfer every month. It is not difficult to buy such a small company, but if it does not have much distribution capabilities, it still needs to find a distribution company to cooperate.

Kei Fujiwara agreed. After all, if you want to buy a film company with distribution capabilities, you need a lot of funds. Mizuha Productions also needs to put more cash into production and does not have that much budget to invest overseas.

And they don't know much about the North American market. It may be possible to produce a movie, but if they distribute a movie, they may face more difficult situations and have to deal with some unknown institutions. Before they become familiar with it, they should leave it to more competent agencies. It is better to use a distribution company that is familiar with the local area.

Kei Fujiwara wrote several scripts that he believed would be successful in the North American market, and the filming costs were not particularly high. He asked Yui Mizuhara to register with the Screenwriters Guild of the United States first, and then use these scripts to attract producers after registration. Filmmaker and director.

Miya Sato was indeed quite capable and used her personal connections to make an appointment with the producer named Bruce Van Tesen. However, after hearing Yui Mizuhara's request for cooperation, Bruce declined politely. The reason is that his schedule for the next three years is very full, and there are already other films that require him to be a producer, so he really has no time to make other films.