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Chapter 492 A Trip to South Korea
Cheng Yu'an had to go to Korea before flying to Cannes.

Korean film studios were turned upside down by Cheng Lingfeng's "Ex Machina".

The box office of this film is not very good. Now is not the time when artificial intelligence is the hottest, but it has paid off.

DVD and Internet copyrights are pure money.

Lin Yooner also got several nominations for the movie of a small size in the United States because of this movie, which can be regarded as opening a little bit for SM.

CJ Lotte and the others wanted to tear SM apart.

At first, Cheng Yu'an sat on the mountain and watched the tigers fight, but in the past two months, the troubles of several companies have gone too far, and all kinds of insidious tricks have been used, which inevitably affected YC Studio.

Cheng Yu'an had to intervene.

However, Cheng Yu'an refused without thinking about signing an exclusive cooperation agreement with a major film company proposed by the four major film studios.

Although they are very willing to pay.

SM is naturally on his side. During the meeting, Kim Young Min denounced CJ and other producers for monopolizing the Korean market: "We can only cooperate with some unknown screenwriters and directors to make some low-budget films. No theaters are willing to accept our distribution. If you do this, sooner or later you will destroy the Korean film market.”

CJ and the others obviously did not admit that they had a monopoly: "Your movie is good, why can't it be released? We have never let theaters not accept your movie."

This is indeed the case, but the Korean market is too small. Every year, Hollywood movies plus the movies of several major local production companies basically eat up the market, leaving no share for new companies like SM.

YC Studio is able to distribute films in South Korea relying on the distribution of the four majors, and it also does not have the ability to distribute films.

We had a two-day meeting in South Korea, and they quarreled all the time.

It's ridiculous to say that CJ and Lotte are willing to sit down and negotiate with SM through Cheng Yu'an, a foreigner.

YC Studio encountered the pressure of public opinion in South Korea the year before last, and stopped for a whole year. Last year, it began to re-release the film, but it only produced one film-"Band-aid".

It will still be released on Christmas at the end of the year.

The box office was not bad, and a total of 250 million people were mobilized to watch the movie.

This made Xijie very dissatisfied, and released one a year, or at the end of the year, what do we eat like this.

This year, the four major film studios are patted on their chests to ensure the safety of YC Studio's operation, and asked him to release films boldly: "Korea is an open market, and we welcome global partners."

YC Studio doesn't believe a word. So far this year, there is still no movement at all, and they only stick to the Korean version of "Running Man".

It's not that I don't have a notebook in my hand, but I just don't send it out.

The arrival of Cheng Yu'an allowed them to find their backbone.

Cheng Yu'an came to the studio office, and first looked at the studio's annual revenue last year. It was okay, the movie made money, and the follow-up income of several old TV series was also okay. The cash cow mainly relied on "Running Man".

Life is pretty good, especially the few executives sent from China, I heard that they eat very well in South Korea.

"You can play, don't make any trouble." YC Studio is far away from the headquarters, so it is inevitable that the management will not be in place. "The headquarters will not wipe your ass when the time comes."

The so-called do as the Romans do, Cheng Yu'an can't ask them to keep themselves clean.

"Don't worry, Mr. Cheng, we have the numbers."

"Are you counted? Can you still count them when you play?" Cheng Yu'an didn't believe that they could manage their own stuff, "I said, why were you so happy at the time, and you wanted to come to Korea by yourself.

"You can't seriously find a girl to fall in love with and get married. You guys are almost 40, what do you want to do if you don't get married? Play like this for the rest of your life."

"It's not that we're in South Korea, and we can't help ourselves. Sometimes we don't pick up, and they put on a face, thinking that we don't respect them.

"Mr. Cheng, you don't know, we don't want this kind of entertainment, the girl will be beaten when she goes back." The more she said, the more reasonable it became.

Cheng Yu'an can't control this kind of thing, so he can only repeatedly persuade him to be careful:
"I estimate that in two or three years, the Korean market will not be able to continue. You have to think about whether to stay in Korea or stay in China."

After a few words, the group finally talked about this year's production: "You have to believe what they say, but you can't believe it all. After the troubles in the past two years, we can get a more relaxed environment, and we can release more movies this year." Two films."

"We also feel the same way, but there are only five or six mature books in our hands, which one do you want to shoot?"

"How about the two-beat book I wanted you to find?"

Long-distance is not optimistic about the so-called Sino-US co-productions. At the beginning of the year, it developed a new concept of "one film, two films". The first experimental film naturally aimed at China and South Korea.

"There is indeed one." The vice president of the studio took out a script, "We made this script together with China, and tried to erase the cultural differences between the two countries. It looks good."

Cheng Yu'an took the book and called it "The Strange She".

Tell the story of an old woman who returned to her 20s after getting her hair cut in a time barbershop.

Song and dance, comedy, family, and a little romance.

A well-done script.

"The project hasn't officially started yet, but we have already started looking for actors. In China, we want to find Yifei to act in this play."

Cheng Yu'an smiled and said, "If you want to find her, you can find it by yourself, but I have no objection if she is willing to pick me up."

"But Yifei said a few days ago that she couldn't take it. We looked at Yifei's schedule. She finished filming "Interstellar" and she won't be able to play this year. Anyway, she won't take it."

This script is actually very suitable for Liu Yifei, and Cheng Yuan also thinks that she should take this play, but since she doesn't want to take it, she has her reasons: "Let me ask for you. If Yifei really can't take it, let Yaya act, and she also It is very suitable, we will promote her this year."

"How about this year's TV series?"

"It's okay. Korean historical dramas have been very popular in recent years, but we are foreign monks. If we can't get involved in historical dramas, we can only do idol dramas. This year, we plan to cooperate with SBS on "The Heirs."

Cheng Yu'an took the notebook and clicked his tongue: "Idol dramas really haven't changed in 100 years, and they are still Cinderella and Prince routines."

It's still the story of the domineering CEO falling in love with my Mary Sue, and men all over the world love me.

The audience of idol dramas are young women, and their psychology was thoroughly studied by Andersen as early as 100 years ago.

Just love watching this.

"Okay, just do this."

After a day's meeting and returning to the hotel at night, Cheng Yu'an remembered to call Liu Yifei to ask why she didn't answer "Strange She".

"Oh, this script is pretty good, but I don't have time." Liu Yifei was still in the studio, and only had time to answer Cheng Yu'an's call during the break.

"Do you have anything else to do after Interstellar?"

"No." But listening to Liu Yifei's tone, I always felt that she was insincere, "I want to accompany you after the filming of "Interstellar", and you are so anxious to drive me into the crew."

"Okay, okay, don't shoot if you don't want to shoot, then I gave this film to Yaya?"

"Give it to her, don't you want to praise her this year?"

"Are you coming to Cannes?" Cheng Yu'an asked her.

"I can't come, it's been my show for the past two months, and the crew can't leave." The assistant told her to go on the show, "Hey, I'm coming." Liu Yifei responded, "I won't tell you, I'll go to the show gone."

(End of this chapter)