Chatty Hollywood

Chapter 381 Barbie

Compared to a sentimentalist like Emily, ABC's Billy Parma believes in statistics more.

He was the one who advocated buying "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" on ABC, and he was also a follow-up to the animation after buying it.

For him, just a sentence feels good, but there is no way to communicate.

Only good ratings data can free him from pressure and feel proud.

Therefore, as soon as the premiere episode of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" ended, he urged his staff to start counting the ratings data——

"The highest number of viewers is 8 million, and the average number of viewers is 5 million, which is pretty good!"

Although this is only a rough statistic and many details are not detailed enough, after seeing it, Billy Parma's hanging heart was relieved.

In fact, with around 5 million viewers, it is not ranked high on the ratings list of American TV programs.

Not to mention the major league finals, the Oscars and other key programs that only happen once or twice a year, it is also normal for popular American dramas to reach an average of 20 million and a maximum of 30 million viewers by the finale. of.

But that's usually the finale.

For a newly launched series, the average number of viewers is 5 million, with a maximum of 8 million, which is already a pretty good result.

What's more, according to audience feedback, many viewers find "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", which is produced in 3D and has a more beautiful and cute style compared to traditional TV animation, to be very interesting.

Many people are reminded of the animated movie "Toy Story" released two years ago.

This naturally brought a lot of audiences to "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone".

And the production of this animation is indeed very sophisticated.

Especially in terms of plot design, although because of the premiere episode, most of the time was used to develop the setting and did not enter the very interesting plot part, but Charlotte, who supervised the animation, still relied on her grasp of the rhythm. The ability makes the whole episode of animation very interesting.

"Many plots are unexpected and reasonable!"

Billy Parma sighed,

"Charlotte Booth is indeed a great director. She made a cartoon in a playful way, and it can reach this level!"

——For Charlotte, who can bring benefits to himself, Billy Parma naturally does not hesitate to praise him.

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And in the second week, after the second episode of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was played, Billy Palmer couldn't wait to hug Charlotte and kiss her!

The average is 5.89 million and the highest is 8.99 million!

The increase in the number of viewers is quite obvious!

From the growth curve, it can be clearly seen the ratings potential of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"——

This is likely to be another hit series.

——Even a cartoon!

In other words, it is precisely because "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" is a cartoon that its popularity can bring more benefits to ABC!

You know, ABC’s current owner is Disney, which started with animated movies!

They know very well what the biggest advantage of cartoons is——

Selling peripherals!

Children's enthusiasm for peripheral toys is much higher than that of adults.

And in this world, apart from women’s money, is there any better money than children’s money?

Well, there is still some, and that is girls’ money!

Disney has been holding on to its own series of animated princess movies. It would rather lose money at the box office to launch the next one, and it won’t stop until it has collected princesses from all races in the world. Isn’t that why?

——Even if it loses money at the box office, Mattel's royalties are enough to make Disney recover.

How many little girls around the world don’t like Barbie dolls?

Anyway, thinking about the money prospects in the future, Billy Parma felt his heart burning.

The only thing that makes him depressed is that the producer of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone"

It's not a studio owned by ABC, but the Spectre studio of great director Charlotte Booth.

This means that the leadership of surrounding development is in the hands of the other party.

Although Billy Parma feels that it should not be difficult for ABC to reach a peripheral development agreement with the other party.

——After all, Specter Studio is just a pure content provider. It has no experience and lacks strength in peripheral development. After all, it needs to find a collaborator.

But who will lead the cooperation is a question.

You know, Charlotte Booth is not the kind of author who becomes famous for the first time. With the other party's reputation and connections, her bargaining power is very strong.

Thinking of this, Billy Parma suddenly had a headache...

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Compared to Billy Parma, who was obsessed with money, as pure spectators, Emily and Gianna had a good life.

After watching the premiere episode together and chatting awkwardly, although the relationship between the two girls is not completely harmonious, the number of times they ridicule each other has decreased a lot.

Gianna would sometimes watch some videos she had not seen before under the introduction of Emily.

——Although the duplicitous disparagement afterward is still inevitable.

But Emily didn't care about that either.

When the second episode of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" was broadcast, the two girls sat together in front of the TV in the dormitory...

"I wish I had a magic wand!"

Jaina couldn't help but sigh after seeing all the funny reactions Harry Potter had when he tried the wand.

"It should be available soon!"

Emily, on the other hand, remained calm. As a senior movie fan and familiar with the practices of the entertainment industry, she explained,

"As long as a cartoon is popular, peripherals will usually be developed soon. Then there will naturally be a variety of wands for you to choose from!"

——There are even wand-shaped ejaculation devices!

Thinking of the weird gifts her father gave to pursue the beautiful policewoman who captured him, Emily suddenly felt that it made sense that her father's pursuit had never been successful.

Gianna didn't know what Emily was complaining about in her heart. She pouted her mouth.

"What I want is a real magic wand!"

"..."

——How can that thing exist? ?

Emily suddenly felt that while watching "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", the whole persona of her bitch-type roommate had collapsed.

Was that appearance just a disguise?

Or is it the effect of "magic"?

Emily didn't know how to describe it.

And the process of Jaina’s character collapse is still going on——

"Platform nine and three-quarters? The magic steam train here is so interesting!"

"That's true! But as for the steam train-"

Emily suddenly remembered a story told by Rajesh that Howard relayed when chatting with the Sheldon quartet.