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Chapter 371 In Korea

The young lady made good use of what she had learned, and asked Shi Shi, Shu Chang, and Ning Hao's wife Xing Aina to go shopping the next day.

"Where is Director Cheng? You just came back and you don't want to accompany him to go shopping with us?" Shu Chang laughed.

"He doesn't need to accompany him. He will fly to South Korea today."

"What did he go to Korea for?"

""The Thieves" is going to South Korea for filming, and he went to have a meeting with the person in charge there."

"I heard that Jackie Chan is going to star in this movie, is it true?"

"Well," the young lady affirmed, "Jackie Chan has already signed the contract, but there is a time conflict with Big Brother's own "Zodiac". How could I know so clearly."

The girls here are not much to say when they go shopping. In Korea, Cheng Yuan got off the plane and left in the special car of the Korean studio.

"Mr. Cheng, since the beginning of this year, we have been under pressure, and the scripts we can get are much less than last year." The vice president of the studio said.

"what happened?"

"Our performance last year was so good that it has caused dissatisfaction among Korean audiences."

"We didn't take the number one spot at the box office either. What are they doing?"

YC Studio did not take the first place in the Korean market last year, but last year's TOP15, the studio accounted for 3 places.

The three films were hung on different labels, including CJ, Lotte, and New, but attentive audiences still noticed something strange inside.

Now a small group of viewers have demonstrated online, saying that YC Studio will be kicked out of the Korean market.

"What did Xijie say?"

"They didn't care."

"Forcing Xijie to deal with it, if you can't handle this matter well, how can we cooperate in the future. I still want to vote for "Pacific Rim." Cheng Yu'an said while flipping through the studio's report last year in the car.

"Find time to set up another company, specializing in film and television investment, and transfer the money we earned in South Korea to China. I have a hunch that it will not work in South Korea for another five years at most. Now there are Xijie and others holding back, waiting Most of the audience in South Korea realized that CJ and the others did not dare to go against public opinion."

"The market is so exclusive."

Of course, this is only for my own people.

Cheng Yu'an got off the car, and the Korean director of "Alliance of Thieves" was Ahn Soo-hyun of Showbox.

"Aha, director Cheng." Ahn Soo-hyun bowed slightly to Cheng Yu'an.

Ahn Soo-hyun is older than Cheng Yu-an and entered the industry earlier than Cheng Yu-an. He is considered a senior, but even in South Korea where seniority is serious, Ahn Soo-hyun still bows to Cheng Yu-an.

"Ah, Hase, Ann PD."

"Director Cheng, Showbox has already confirmed the filming location in South Korea, do you want to go and see it?"

"Okay, let's go and have a look, and visit the scenery of Korea by the way." When we arrived at their territory, we naturally had to wait for the dishes.

It is said to be a field trip, but in fact there are only a few places in Korea that can be filmed.

"Alliance of Thieves" has a lot of scenes in South Korea. Showbox and the Chinese team negotiated for nearly two months before deciding on the filming location.

Ahn Soo-hyun walked around with Cheng Yu'an for more than half a day, took a rough look at several filming locations, talked about the specific arrangements for the shooting, and then went back to the hotel.

Showbox was very careful this time, and found a filming location that met Cheng Yu'an's requirements.

At eleven o'clock in the evening, Cheng Yu'an had just returned to the hotel room after a meeting with the team. As soon as he turned on the computer, Liu Yifei made a video call.

Cheng Yuan answered, and the faces of three girls appeared on the screen: Liu Yifei, Liu Shishi and Shu Chang.

"Hello, Director Cheng."

"Hello." Cheng Yu'an smiled, "Where are you?" Looking at the background, it should be a hotel somewhere.

"We are playing in Thailand." Liu Yifei said.

During the day, a few people felt that shopping was boring, Shu Chang proposed to go to Thailand to play, Liu Yifei responded immediately, Liu Shishi had no objection, just followed the team, Xing Aina had something to do at home and couldn't go.

So I bought a ticket for the latest flight to Phuket, and left as soon as I said.

"How are you doing in Korea?" Liu Yifei asked.

"It went well, just came back from the meeting." Cheng Yu'an saw the three girls in the video blushing slightly, "Your assistant doesn't care about you, let you drink like this."

"This wine is not good, just sleep after drinking too much." Shu Chang said, "Sissy, hang up the video, let's continue drinking."

Cheng Yu'an smiled: "Okay, you guys play, be careful." After speaking, he hung up the video.

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The next day, Cheng Yu'an was going to take his assistant casting director to meet the Korean actors.

Cheng Yu'an adapted "The Thieves Alliance" to a certain extent.

Tiffany, the hostess of the Tears of the Sun gem, was replaced by a Korean.

Both groups of thieves are Chinese, the difference is that one is from Hong Kong Island, and the other is from overseas Chinatown.

The two gangs teamed up in Macau to steal Tiffany's Tears of the Sun before engaging in a deal fight in Korea.

Today I want to meet the actors Tiffany and Wei Hong.

The two supporting roles, Cheng Yu'an, arranged for the Korean side.

According to Cheng Yu'an's view, these two characters are only worth watching, and Tiffany is just a two-sentence coupe, which can be given to anyone.

But unexpectedly, Showbox found Cui Minzhi and Luo Meilan.

Luo Meilan can understand very well. At this time, Luo Meilan's reputation is not very big. Luo's peak period is after "Suyuan" in 14. In the next two years, she will win the Grand Slam of the three major Korean film awards for supporting female roles (also very good. results).

Luo Meilan is now 36 years old, which fits the age requirement of Tiffany. Cheng Yu'an watched her performance once and decided to play her.

What Cheng Yu'an couldn't understand was that a master like Cui Minzhi would audition for a role like Wei Hong.

Choi Min-sik is one of South Korea's top three national film stars with a very high status.

The simplest analogy is that he is equivalent to South Korean Fa Ge.

Of course, Cheng Yu'an also liked Cui Minzhi's performance very much, and was pleasantly surprised by his arrival.

There is no need to audition for him, Cheng Yu'an simply chatted with him for a long time.

In fact, Cui Minzhi would come to audition for a supporting role like Wei Hong, and he asked for it himself.

Korean actors have not been recognized in the international market. So far, no Korean actor has won an international heavyweight award.

Choi Min-sik has already reached the top in Korea and wants to break into the international market.

So he sold this to Cheng Yu'an.

With a master like Cui Minzhi joining, Cheng Yu'an is of course happy.

After selecting the Korean actors, Cheng Yu'an stayed in Korea for another three days and roughly finalized everything here.

Before returning to China, Cheng Yu’an still asked the person in charge of the Korean studio: “Let’s keep a low profile this year, make TV dramas, and make two fewer movies. Last year was indeed a bit high profile.”

In the years when the Chinese market was almost occupied by Hollywood, although there were loud voices for "protecting domestic films", no one said that Hollywood should be driven out.

But the Korean market is different. They can't drive away Hollywood, but they really dare to drive away Chinese filmmakers.

What temple to enter, what scriptures to recite.

It's right to make money in a low-key manner.

(End of this chapter)