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Chapter 644 Unbearable youthful frivolity and the four top streamers in childhood

Starring in Arrow?
Cao Xuan also heard voices from the outside world, but he could only say three words—impossible.

Not to mention Green Arrow, even if Warner made a Chinese superman, Cao Xuan would not be able to play it.

Marvel is not a fool, the non-competition agreement has been signed long ago, regardless of whether it is DC or other companies' comic-changing movies.Even Cao Xuan can't act, unless it's another superhero under Marvel.

For example, Mr. Tao, before playing Captain America, also played the Human Torch of the Fantastic Four. In addition, there are other superheroes. He is definitely the old savior of the American people.

But for a role like a superhero, playing one is to expand one's own fame and influence, and it will be boring to play too many roles.

Cao Xuan is not short of money, as long as Hawkeye's goal is achieved, there is no need to fight superhero movies.

If he really wants to act, Cao Xuan really wants to make a home-grown Chinese superhero movie, but this kind of movie is really difficult to make.

The national conditions are different, and many plots cannot be set.

Acting on behalf of the heavens, where do you put the police comrades, punishing bad people without relying on the law, strictly speaking, this is called a mob, and you can be sentenced to prison if you are arrested.

Aliens are coming, and superheroes are fighting. What should the people's army do?

There are also many times, in superhero movies, the official role played by the United States is not decent. If China shoots like this, Cao Xuan will be called by his brother-in-law to drink tea.

To put it bluntly, individual heroism is not the mainstream in China. Some viewers may like it, but it is not officially recognized.

If China really wants to make superhero movies, it will not be the kind of existence that flies into the sky and escapes from the ground, but ordinary heroes like "You Are Not the God of Medicine".

If you really want to fly to the sky and escape from the earth, I'm afraid it can't be placed in modern society.

But if it is not placed in modern society, it will become the theme of ancient costume martial arts. The audience has no sense of substitution, so what about superheroes?

So this matter, Cao Xuan can only think about it, if it is to be realized, the difficulty is not ordinary...

In late May, Cao Xuan and the main creator of "The Avengers" came to Asia for publicity.

Marvel attaches great importance to this trip to Asia, which is also understandable, because Asia is really booming this time.

At present, in the box office of "The Avengers" in various countries, North America is definitely the first. Needless to say, China and South Korea rank second and fourth on the list respectively, and Japan should be sixth or seventh.

Even if China’s box office is separated, the box office of Taiwan Province alone can reach more than 2000 million US dollars, ranking among the top [-] box offices of “Avengers” countries/regions.

For this trip to Asia, Marvel even cut back the itinerary in the United States and Europe, and also brought the main creator of "The Avengers" to Asia to brush their faces.

The first stop is South Korea.

Regardless of the fact that Japan is currently the second largest box office in the world, it may be because Marvel and DC movies are not as popular in Japan as they are in other countries.

The most popular Hollywood movie series in Japan should be "Harry Potter".

Then there are "Pirates of the Caribbean", and even "Star Wars" and "The Matrix" are more popular than Marvel movies.

In the top [-] box office charts in Japan, there are five or six films in the "Harry Potter" series, three or four in "Pirates of the Caribbean", and more than two in "Star Wars" and "The Matrix".

Prior to this, the hottest superhero series in Japan should be the "Spider-Man" series starring Tobey Maguire, with an average of almost 6000 million US dollars per film.

Currently, the box office data of "The Avengers" and "Spider-Man" series are almost the same, largely because of Cao Xuan's bonus, otherwise the data is estimated to be cut by 30%...

In contrast, the treatment of Marvel in South Korea is much better than that in Japan.

Although the land is small and the population is small, and the market potential is underestimated by Japan, South Korea's enthusiasm for Hollywood movies is enough to make North America look sideways.

Under the premise that the base market is far lower than that of the mainland and Japan, the Korean box office of many Hollywood movies can rank among the top three in Asia, and most of them even rank second or first.

Marvel's previous films have achieved good results in South Korea. For example, the box office of the "Iron Man" series and "Hawkeye" in South Korea exceeded 2000 million US dollars.

Although it doesn't seem like much, you must know that South Korea's box office is not high.

So far, "Flying the Flag of Taegeuk", which ranks fourth in film history, is only worth more than 6400 million US dollars, while "Avatar", which ranks first, is the only film in Korean film history with a box office of over [-] million US dollars.

It is no exaggeration to say that a box office of more than 2000 million US dollars in South Korea is considered a pretty good result.

Cao Xuan even once suspected that South Korea does not calculate movie scores based on box office data, but based on the number of movie viewers. Is it because the box office data is too shabby.

Of course, this is just a joke.

South Korea will do this mainly because the statistics technology was not perfect in the early years. Of course, there are also major theaters and some distributors who resist paying taxes, and it is easier to play tricks with population statistics.

This is not just the case in South Korea. Due to various reasons, the box office of Japanese and French movies is sometimes counted by the number of moviegoers.

However, under the large international environment, countries still use box office revenue as the main statistical method. In the original time and space in 2013, South Korea will also start to change the model, changing the number of moviegoers to more intuitive box office data.

Although due to differences in age, ticket prices, and market elements, it is difficult to convert the number of Korean moviegoers to the US dollar box office, but according to the trend in recent years, it is about 5000 million U.S. dollars or almost 1000 million moviegoers.

The estimated box office of "The Avengers" in South Korea should be in the early 6000 million, and it is expected to hit the top five in movie history.

At the same time, it also means that almost 1000 million people in South Korea watched the movie.

You know, the total population of South Korea in 2012 was just 5000 million people, which means that one out of every five people in South Korea went to the cinema to watch "The Avengers".

Of course, there must be a big discrepancy in this calculation. It does not rule out the fare gap between big cities and small cities, and there are still many people who use it twice.

But even so, such a high popularity has made "The Avengers" a phenomenon-level movie in South Korea this year.

Not to mention the foreshadowing of other Marvel movies before. Although the box office of those movies is not as exaggerated as "The Avengers", they still have an average of millions of people per movie.

In addition to the accumulation of network and TV channels, "The Avengers" immediately felt the superstar treatment as soon as it arrived in Seoul.

"Ouba Cao Xuan, hello Sara."

"Iron Man, ah, ah, I'm going to die."

"Hawkeye, so handsome."

"Oh!! Widow sister kill me!!!!!!"

"..."

To be honest, Cao Xuan debuted for so many years, fans in every country have seen it, and experienced various scenes.

But if he were to choose objectively, Cao Xuan would have to admit that fans from Japan, Japan and South Korea were the most professional fans he had ever seen.

Especially in South Korea, the entertainment industry has been highly developed in the past few years, so that the various "quality" of fans have continued to soar, and supporters have been playing well.

When picking up the plane in South Korea, he saw hundreds of members of Cao Xuan’s Korean fan group, each holding a board, and then pieced together a huge support sign about 30 meters long.

The above is a still photo of him in "The Avengers" with various bows and arrows, and a sentence in Chinese, Korean and English is printed at the end, which was shouted by many fans.

"Our superhero, welcome to Korea!"

"Thank you, thank you, Sara."

Even Cao Xuan, who has been through battles for a long time, was rarely moved by this kind of heart. He clasped his hands together and bowed slightly to greet fans many times when passing by the aid sign.

Cao Xuan's grand meeting at the airport made other people in "The Avengers" envious.

But there is no way, who made Cao Xuan not only a Hollywood movie star, but also the world's pop king.

Not to mention their home games in Asia, even when they are promoting in Europe and America, their popularity cannot compare to Cao Xuan.

In this regard, actors are indeed not as popular as singers. On Twitter, Facebook and other social platforms, most of the top-ranked singers are singers.

Because even if the audience likes a film and television work, this work is not completed by an actor, there will be a certain diversion, and people may also like the film and television itself, or like the characters.

From liking a work to becoming a personal fan of a certain actor, a certain degree of purification is required.

And liking singers is very simple. Even if you like songs more than the singer itself, it is difficult to feel bad for the singer. The number of fans and popularity is relatively easy to accumulate.

Especially some ultra-popular singers have certain idol characteristics, and their popularity and number of fans can easily crush actors and entertainers of the same level.

"Be envious, two fewer films, two more albums, maybe even a Grammy."

Cao Xuan looked at the sour widow sister and couldn't help but tease, which drew two big eyes.

However, Cao Xuan is really not a run on others. The widow sister is indeed a singer. She has released albums before and collaborated with several big-name singers, but the results are not very good.

Cao Xuan has never heard of Widow Sister’s album, but later there was an animation film "The Voice of Joy", and the Widow Sister who acted as the dubber sang a song. Her deep and hoarse voice has a different kind of sex appeal. In fact, it is very suitable for singing lyrical songs.

Of course, with her current momentum, it is the right thing to seize the time to make a big splash in Hollywood, and there is really no need to change careers.

A singer is not famous for having a good voice.

Cao Xuan's singing skills are much better than hers, without golden finger songs, he will never be able to reach the level of the world's king, maybe he doesn't even become an artist, but chooses to go into business.

If he is lucky enough to make some achievements, a few years later, at the annual meeting of a large company, he will come on stage as the boss to play "Nothing", hang and beat the old king and crush the pony...

Cao Xuan may not be the most profitable among the rich, and his acting may not be comparable to those old fritters, and he may not even be the most handsome, but when it comes to singing, he is not convinced by anyone.

.........

The hotel arranged by the South Korean organizer this time is not the Shilla Hotel, but a five-star hotel called Four Seasons Hotel.

This made Boss Cao heave a sigh of relief. I don’t know why, but he’s a little scared about that now, especially after Cao Li and Cao Yang were born, it’s best to avoid it.

This is a promotional itinerary in South Korea for about three days, then Japan for two days, and then returning to China for about a week.

There was not enough time, so I took a short break. That night, the main creators of "Avengers" accepted interviews with Korean TV stations.

Dry interviews are not eye-catching, so the Korean TV station made an authentic Korean meal, and then asked everyone to eat, comment, and accept interviews at the same time.

This kind of publicity mode is also to a certain extent that Koreans are showing their own culture, and at the same time they hope to be praised by these international superstars, so as to gain a sense of satisfaction.

Although Cao Xuan more or less disliked the purple rice, kimchi, barbecue, etc. on the table, he still understood this approach.

Because these routines are also used in China. For example, when some international superstars or NBA stars and football stars come to China, the organizer also asks them to eat dumplings, play mahjong, write Spring Festival couplets, and recognize Chinese characters.

Cao Xuan also received similar treatment when he went to the UK and Brazil, such as tasting British black tea and playing beach football.

In essence, it is to please the local audience, or support and recognition, which is a very normal way of publicity.

But then again, let Cao Xuan seriously praise these things, he really can't boast, he really doesn't think purple rice with kimchi is a peerless delicacy.

He simply acted as a wave of introductions and translations on the spot. He has been to Korea many times, and he is quite familiar with these things in Korea, and the introduction is clear and logical.

The widow and the others cooperated very well. Although they didn't exaggerate how delicious it was, they nodded in approval, and they couldn't help highlighting good and delicious (delicious).

This is the most basic publicity etiquette, as long as it is not really unacceptable, it will be positively evaluated.

It's the same in Korea, and it's the same when going to China. Only they know how they actually feel, but if they really like it, their evaluation and performance will be more enthusiastic.

Next came the interview session, the host was fluent in English: "Excuse me, except Senior Cao Xuan, have you ever been to Korea before?"

"I'm here for the first time."

"Me too."

Several people looked at each other, and most of them came to Korea for the first time. Under normal circumstances, for non-work reasons, the first choice for Americans to come to Asia is Japan.

In the past two years, China's tourism has also been better. On the contrary, South Korea can't be said to be uninterested, but it is indeed tepid.

However, in the United States, South Korea’s popularity is not low, it should be second only to India, Japan and China, because there are many Koreans in the United States, so many arrogant Americans know about South Korea.

This is not an exaggeration. Many Americans have very poor reserves of geography.

Cao Xuan has personally seen people who think Australia is Europe, and there are only a dozen or twenty countries that they can remember, most of them are in America and Europe, and there are only a few in Asia. Many people even refer to Asia as Japan, China, etc. , India and other countries instead.

But even though it was the first time I came here, I should praise it, and the widow said: "I was shocked by the enthusiasm of the Korean audience. We saw thousands of people at the airport, which is incredible."

The South Korean host also said proudly: "The number of pick-ups today is as high as more than 3500, which is second only to the last time Manchester United came to Korea in recent years."

You know, there is Korean star Park Ji-sung in that Manchester United team, plus a vote of stars, who are wildly sought after by Koreans. To some extent, their popularity is higher than that of the Korean national football team.

"How did senior Cao Xuan feel when he saw that fan's support sign? As far as we know, it was the result of two days of rehearsal after the Korean fan group rushed to make it overnight."

"I would like to thank everyone for their hard work. I am really touched. That road sign gave me a big surprise. Fans are my superheroes."

This is Cao Xuan’s sincere admiration. Apart from other factors, Cao Xuan may have some reservations at times, but only for the fans who really like and support him, no matter which country they are from, they always have respect and gratitude.

Before coming here, I also specially asked people to collect some Hawkeye still photo posters of "The Avengers". I plan to sign hundreds of copies in the next few days and send them back to my Korean fan group. grateful.

"Did you see the action of the fans when picking up the plane?"

The host intersected his thumb and index finger, and made a heartfelt gesture. The widow sister and the others imitated one after another, and Lei Shenhan asked a question.

"I see, is this counting money?"

"It's a heart-to-heart gesture, a gesture to express liking."

The host explained, looked at the stunned people, and Cao Xuan, who was already covering his face in shame, suppressed a smile and asked.

"Do you know who invented this movement?"

The widow and the others are not fools.Seeing this scene, he immediately turned to Cao Xuan.

"Chris, is that you?"

"Young and frivolous are all young and frivolous."

Cao Xuan is not very embarrassed. He was young back then, and he had just become popular for a few years. Facing the fans' pursuit, he only wanted to be handsome.

"Ooh!"

The widow and the others were also very excited and surprised. In their impression, Cao Xuan was relatively calm and calm in private, and most of the time he was as imposing as those Hollywood giants.

Although everyone is considered equal in private, in fact, the major creators are a little scared and cautious of him.

As a result, Cao Xuan never expected that Cao Xuan still had such a "coquettish" side, and immediately started booing, Robert Downey Jr. even whistled.

Cao Xuan was a little embarrassed at first, but then he simply broke his can, with a calm face.

What's wrong with being handsome?
Who didn't have a young age, you wanted to be handsome but no one cheered you on, this is exclusive to the idol group.

But aside from this problem, the Korean host is very mature, chatting neither humble nor overbearing, and is also very good at mastering the interview scale and creating an atmosphere. During an interview, everyone enjoys themselves.

At the end of the interview, the host wanted to take a photo with the main creators, and everyone agreed, and then compared their hearts to the camera.

Cao Xuan shook his head and laughed, but also stretched out his fingers to cooperate.

As he gets older, it is indeed not suitable for him to be handsome, but he will not always put on airs, and it is also very interesting to joke occasionally.

.........

The next day, "The Avengers" came to participate in the fan meeting again. There were tens of thousands of people present, which once again made everyone feel the influence of Marvel in Korea.

It is said that it is a fan meeting, but it is actually very embarrassing that no one in "The Avengers" can speak Korean, so even if they chat, they have to be accompanied by a translator.

But the fans are still very strong, no matter whether they understand or not, they cheer for a while before speaking.

Among other things, the scene was indeed very lively.

The organizers did not allow "The Avengers" to support the entire concert, and arranged multiple programs during the concert.

One of the men's groups caught Cao Xuan's attention.

There are a total of 12 people, all of whom are pretty boys. Their popularity is not particularly high, but there are also some girls screaming.

Cao Xuan asked the leader of the organizer for a question. Sure enough, the boy group is called EXO. They just debuted for two months and only released a mini-album, but the sales are good.

Currently, this boy group is highly praised by SM, otherwise they would not perform at the "Avengers" fan meeting. It is considered a relatively promising newcomer group in the industry.

"There are four members of this EXO team who are all Chinese, would you like to meet them?"

To be precise, it is three Chinese + one Canadian.

Cao Xuan knew this boy group very well, two of the four big traffic niches were born, and the other two were not much inferior.

The most legendary thing is not their achievements, but that one fell in love at the peak and paralyzed Weibo, another stepped on the sewing machine as a top streamer, one returned home and inherited billions of dollars, and another claimed to be a virgin in his 30s.

I dare not say too much, but in the past ten years, this boy group will definitely leave a certain existence in the history of Chinese entertainment.

Even because of its "legendary", it is difficult to be surpassed by younger generations...

"It's okay to meet you."

Cao Xuan is still quite willing to watch the excitement. Back then, he specially went to see Girls' Generation who had just debuted, and now he also wants to see the top four in childhood.

EXO, who had just finished the performance, was about to pack up and leave when he was suddenly stopped by the person in charge of the organizer.

"Stay here, there will be big people wanting to see you soon, you won't be allowed to leave, you can't leave."

The members of EXO were a little confused, they didn't know how they, a young boy group that had just debuted, would fall into the eyes of big shots. The accompanying manager was afraid that something might go wrong, so he hurriedly called the head office for help.

As a boy group that is going to be launched, SM still attaches great importance to this EXO, and specially sent a vice president to negotiate.

"What did you do?"

"The company didn't train you to get you into trouble."

"Xiba, why did the artist department choose you bastards?"

The vice president had a bad temper, and he seemed to have just rushed back from the liquor store. As soon as he arrived at the scene, he glared at everyone viciously and scolded them indiscriminately.

Korea has a strict hierarchy, and reprimands and scolding are commonplace in the workplace. The dignified vice president, not to mention scolding, just slaps him a few times, and few dare to stab him.

EXO was scolded and bowed his head in silence, a few refused to accept and wanted to stand up and argue, but were firmly held back by his teammates.

Just as the vice president was showing off his lust, the previous meeting finally ended. There was a knock on the door of the dressing room in the backstage, and Cao Xuan opened the door and came in.

"sorry for disturbance."

"You didn't see..."

The vice president, who was still angry, thought it was a staff member, and turned around to scold someone. Suddenly seeing Cao Xuan's face, his face changed from flushed and angry to a flower, and his body, which was originally upright, suddenly bent down. 30 degrees.

"It turns out that President Cao is here to welcome you from afar."

Cao Xuan looked at the other party and squinted his eyes and thought for a while: "You are the director of that SM, named Park..."

"Park Zhican, I didn't expect you to remember me. Oh, I'm really honored."

Vice President Park has a proud look on his face. As a senior executive of SM, he knows Cao Xuan's energy.

Not to mention the super entertainment group that spans Asia, in South Korea alone, the game company and investment company under its name have assets worth billions of dollars, and even Cao Xuan himself is a shareholder of two major Korean entertainment companies, SM and JYP.

Although there are not many shares, but backed by various resources, he has a great influence in the company. It is no exaggeration to say that a few words can make him, a wage earner named vice president, go away, and it is even difficult to find a next job.

In chaebol-shrouded South Korea, people fear the super-rich more than the government, and pride themselves on socializing with them.

Hearing that Cao Xuan remembered himself, even Vice President Park, who is already at the top of the Korean entertainment industry, was very happy and felt very honored.

(End of this chapter)