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Chapter 208 Cooperation
Cheng Yuan is not a saint, when Kim Youngmin said that Lim Yoona and Kim Taeyeon admired him and wanted to learn more about acting from him, he admitted that he was very itchy.

I have heard about the chaos in the Korean entertainment industry for a long time, but I didn't expect that I would have a chance to try it.

However, as the big boss of SM, Kim Young Min would not be so stupid as to leave Lim Yoona and Kim Taeyeon on the spot.

After all, there were outsiders present, Cheng Yuan's assistant was there, Song Qian was there, and the translators of both parties were also there.

Cynthia also pays attention to method and method, pushing people into your arms is the stupidest way.

Before leaving, Jin Yingmin left her personal number, saying that Director Cheng can find him if he needs anything.As soon as he left, Cheng Yu'an asked the person in charge of the company's international affairs: "SM still has a film company?"

"Yes, it's called SM Pictures. Last year, they made their first movie "Flower Boys". They filmed their company's idol star. Don't listen to what he said. The response was good. There were only 11 viewers in Korea."

"In the Korean entertainment industry, idols are at the bottom of the chain of contempt. SM wants to get a piece of the film and television industry, but no one in Korea is willing to take them to play, so they approached us. Before "Mo Gong" they had invest."

In fact, not only in Korea, the entertainment circles all over the world have no good face towards idols, and the same is true in our country. Regardless of how much they earn, fans scream wherever they go, but there is implicit contempt in the circle.

SM belongs to the sent sheep. If there are any projects with high risks that are difficult to grasp in the future, you can consider pulling him to slaughter.

But now, what Cheng Yu'an wants most now is to go to bed quickly.

Cheng Yuan slept peacefully here, and the news that SM Jin Yingmin visited Cheng Yuan over there had already reached the ears of CJ and KBS executives.

The two families don’t say anything on the surface, but secretly they have already started to think about how to get revenge on SM. From their point of view, Cheng Yu’an was invited by them, and they have been cooperating with them all the time. Cheng Yu’an’s schedule has nothing to do with your SM. You are now What's the matter with bringing three girls?

Cheng Yu'an couldn't figure out why Koreans also eat rice in the morning, with meat, soup, and kimchi as side dishes, and there were six or seven bowls in front of them.The whole is quite grand.Xiao Zhang, who sat across from him and ate together, was also of the same specification.

In Cheng Yu'an's eyes, a simple breakfast of soy milk fritters, bun porridge, etc. would be enough.

Western style, you can eat bread and drink milk.

But do as the Romans do in the countryside, after all, it is a local delicacy that is warmly entertained by people.

The taste...it's not bad, eat it fresh, Cheng Yu'an will definitely not be able to bear it if you eat it for a long time.

After dinner, Kim Jeong-ah came over with Seo Min-young from KBS.

According to Cheng Yu'an's schedule, he will stay in South Korea for 3-5 days, first to check the progress of the special effects of "The Martian" in the digital creative company; second, to lead the company's international affairs department colleagues to discuss future cooperation with the two companies.

The remote people were divided into two groups. Cheng Yuan led the special effects personnel to digital creation first, and colleagues from the international affairs department stayed in the hotel conference room to discuss cooperation with CJ and KBS.

Cheng Yuan came back to listen to the result report.

Founded in 1998, the digital creative company claims to have the largest equipment and technical force in Asia. The famous "Train to Busan" is the special effect they made.

Some of the visual effects shots of "The Martian" were done by Digital Creative. Cheng Yu'an communicated through a translator and looked at the current effects. The progress is good.

I also held a small technical communication meeting in their company to further clarify the effect I want, and it came out.

For the next two days, Cheng Yu'an had been holding meetings with people from KBS and CJ.

The distributing and broadcasting of long-distance movies and TV dramas in South Korea has always been done by the two companies. Xijie wanted to use 500 million US dollars to pre-purchase the distribution rights of Cheng Yuan's next movie in Korea, but Cheng Yuan refused.

It's not that he thinks the price is low. Chinese movies are not easy to sell in South Korea. US$500 million is not a bad price, but it's not in line with his rules.

It's not a question of whether Cheng Yu'an kills the opposite party or not if he doesn't know where the next play is.

"I have a script here, if you want to shoot it, you can try it." Filming this drama is also one of the purposes of Cheng Yuan's coming to Korea. "Currently there are only 30 episodes of the script. If you want to shoot, you can expand it to 130 or even 150 episodes."

What did Cheng Yuan take out?
Obviously "The Temptation of Wife".

Smelly and long family emotional drama with explosive ratings.

Why do it in Korea first?
Nonsense, this drama became popular in South Korea, and it will make a lot of money first when it gets here. Cheng Yu'an has already planned that it will become popular in South Korea first, and then make a wave of marketing for the Chinese version.

Xu Minying read the script and thought it was very good, she just said: "KBS's Japanese and Japanese dramas are very famous, we can make them, thank you Director Cheng for your support."

After filming, there will be more talk. "The Temptation of Wife" is the first project that Cheng Yuan took the initiative to do in the Korean market. Xu Minying wants to use "the youngest best director in Venice in history, the young man who defeated Kim Ki-duk" The title is given to TV drama marketing.

Cheng Yu'an refused.

Want face.

Anyway, he is the best director in Venice, so I feel a little embarrassed to write such a play.

But Cheng Yu'an agreed to be named as the producer, and the screenwriter was named as a screenwriter in the company.

KBS and CJ did not budge on the copyright, and demanded a 100% buyout, which gave Cheng Yuan enough face in terms of cost. According to the price of Hollywood screenwriters, an episode is 3 US dollars, and the number of episodes is 75 episodes, a total of 225 million US dollars plus screenwriting fees 75 US dollars nominal producer fee, pooled 300 million US dollars to win "The Temptation of Wife".

Cheng Yu'an had no objection to this price, after all, he was in a local area.

He didn't even need to do the production and broadcasting, and the 30-episode script earned $300 million, that's it!
Converted into RMB, 300 million U.S. dollars is only about 2000 million. Cheng Yu'an knew that selling "The Temptation of Wife" at this price was definitely a loss, but he wisely only sold the Korean copyright, and the copyrights in other regions are still in his hands.

As for CJ Entertainment, they want to invite Cheng Yu'an to play a movie, and they want to make a sequel to "Crazy".

CJ made a remake of "Grandmaid", and the result is very good!
But Cheng Yu'an's right to adapt "Old Thousand" is still a few years away, and Xi Jie wants to buy the copyright from Cheng Yu'an and make it himself.

But Cheng Yu'an didn't want to sell it: "Well, I will set up a studio in Korea. If you want, the two of us can do it together, starting with "Girls 2" first."

Jin Jingya thought about it, and agreed to Cheng Yu'an's proposal, but Xijie asked to take a stake in Cheng Yu'an's studio in South Korea, and Cheng Yu'an could only agree.

Without CJ, I couldn't do it in such a xenophobic environment in South Korea.

He didn't want to do it in the Korean market. In fact, he could predict that after making three or five films and making money, the Koreans would react.

But don't worry, there is no need for the Koreans to force Cheng Yu'an to withdraw from the Korean market on his own initiative.

Everyone negotiated and signed some memorandums and other documents. Cheng Yu'an left South Korea with the team early the next morning.

(End of this chapter)