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Chapter 618 Exit?
In the past two years, the Hong Kong and Taiwan film circles have had a very strange grouping phenomenon.

When mainland companies use their actors, they must use their directors, and if they use their directors, they must use their film crew, editors, dubbing artists, etc.

If you use one, you need to use a litter.

This is the way Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers came up with to deal with the rise of the mainland.

Especially in the past two years of the promotion of the step-by-step account sharing experiment.

This policy aims to alleviate the conflict of interests between producers and theaters, and further promote the industrial production of domestic films.

Purely Hong Kong films, Taiwan films, and co-productions do not enjoy this policy.

For this reason, mainland production companies have begun to reduce cooperation with Hong Kong and Taiwan actors and directors.

Because once there are too many Hong Kong and Taiwan teams, it is impossible to apply for the qualification for step-by-step account sharing.

This is also the reason why "Taiping Wheel" can't get a ladder account, but "One Step Away" and "Taking Tiger Mountain by Outsmart" can.

It doesn't matter if the director of "Taiping Wheel" is not from the mainland. The starring cast includes Chinese, Korean, and Japanese personnel, which does not meet the definition of "domestic film".

And "One Step Away", although the investor is Hong Kong Island Music Emperor, but Shu Qi is the only one in the main creative lineup from Hong Kong and Taiwan, so he can naturally apply for the qualification for step-by-step account sharing.

In "Taking Tiger Mountain Out of Wisdom", only Xu Ke is the director of Hong Kong Island, and the rest of the main creators are from the mainland except Liang Jiahui who plays the mountain sculpture, which also meets the requirements.

This policy makes it very difficult for Hong Kong and Taiwan filmmakers to live in the mainland.

Invitations from mainland China to Hong Kong and Taiwan actors have dropped sharply in the past two years. Even if they star in, they will play some insignificant supporting roles. The chances of playing the leading role have decreased by nearly [-]% compared to previous years.

Hong Kong and Taiwan actors are the most popular in the Mainland, of course Zhen Bullets.

But in the past four or five years, he has left the "Ip Man" series, and only one "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" has sold well.

The rest of the movies all hit the street.

There are several big-selling series in the Hong Kong market, such as the "Eavesdropping" series and the "X-War" series. These movies will not find him to act. Hong Kong directors prefer to choose Gu Tianle and Liu Qing who have better literary and drama Yun, Zhang Jiahui and others.

Coupled with the fact that there are fewer film contracts from the mainland, Zhen is really in a hurry.

He has the deepest experience of the decline of action movies. There are too many choices in the market now, and traditional action movies are no longer the audience's first choice.

After two more plays, he was really worried that he would be cold.

So he thought of the "Ip Man" series again.

He knew that the script of "Ip Man 3" had been communicated with the actors, so he waited for him to come to the door to apologize remotely and reduce the salary.

After filming the second part, he reported 7000 million yuan to Yuan Yuan for the third part.

Yuan Yuan disagreed, and only agreed to give 5000 million, saying that this was already the highest price in the market.

This is still the price 3 years ago.

The Zhenzi team collapsed due to remuneration and remote negotiations, and the "Ip Man" series was directly hidden remotely.

There is no way this year, if he doesn't sell a big one, it will be difficult for him to turn around in the future.

Therefore, he assigned his agent to join with the director Ye Weixin, to visit Yuan Yuan and talk about the third part.

At the end of the year, everyone was busy, and Guo Fei and Chen Zhixi didn't have time to receive them. Instead, they asked a vice president in charge of the Hong Kong and Taiwan markets to preside over the meeting.

Zhen Zibao is willing to take the 3 million salary agreed 5000 years ago to star in "Ip Man 3", but Yuan Yuan further lowered the price, this time he is only willing to give 3000 million.

Zhen Bullet's manager was so angry that he almost rushed out of the door. He tried his best to make Zhen Bullet a brand of Chinese-language action movies. The biggest selling point of the "Ip Man" series is him, and he can't just get such a low salary of 3000 million.

Long distance doesn't matter: "We have already completed the film schedule for next year. There will be new films in every schedule. At worst, we will not make "Ip Man". The literature department has a backlog of [-] scripts if not [-]. We don't have to worry about not having a film to shoot."

"The company has to focus on high-concept, big-budget films. Films like "Ip Man" don't have that high priority in the company."

Zhen Bullet's agent thought for a while and said, "3000 million is fine, but we want 12% of the box office dividend."

"Joke! In the entire Chinese film industry, the actors who are eligible to receive box office dividends can be counted on one hand. Our family, Yifei, has to participate in investment and production to get this amount. What are you doing!" "Are you Jackie Chan or Ge You!"

Remote is just a word, love to shoot or not!
In the end, under the "mediation" of director Ye Weixin, Zhen Zifang and Yuan Yuan each took a step back, and paid Zhen Zi 3600 million yuan to start the third part of "Ip Man".

In fact, this has already exceeded the reserve price of 3000 million that Zhen Bullet gave his agent.

And our director Cheng Yu'an is currently in Korea.

He's here to handle YC Studio.

At the end of this year, YC Studio teamed up with CJ to launch "International Market".

The film was released on the 17th, and it exceeded 150 million viewers in the first weekend, winning the championship of the week.

Up to now, the box office of "International Market" has exceeded 450 million viewers in Korea, and it is a big favorite for the annual championship.

The film's success has sparked repulsion among South Korean audiences who can't accept a Chinese company claiming their top box office title.

However, CJ did not escort YC Studio so hard this time, and their wolf ambitions gradually emerged.

They want to take advantage of this public opinion and take advantage of the momentum to swallow YC Studio.

However, they still hoped to use Cheng Yu'an's channel in Hollywood to go overseas, so they didn't go too far at the beginning.

It’s just that the public opinion has fermented so much this time, CJ is a little bit powerless and can’t suppress it, so YC Studio has to think of a way.

YC Studio has been developing in South Korea for seven or eight years, and is very familiar with Korean methods, so it has been procrastinating.

Cheng Yu'an's arrival in Korea this time is to make up his mind for YC Studio.

"You informed us that the Koreans will do it sooner or later, and we have made some preparations, but we didn't expect them to do it so soon."

Isn't it? A two-shot "Strange She" and "Back to 20" will be released simultaneously in both countries next month.

The cooperation between the two parties can be said to be in the honeymoon period, and CJ's action at this time really caught YC Studio by surprise.

"It's okay, we still have time." This kind of acquisition case can't be completed in a year or a half. If it is dragged on, it may take two to three years. "How many films have we pressed now?"

Cheng Yu'an had signaled to YC Studio before to take a photo of the notebook in his hand as soon as possible, so that he could get away and go back to China and make potatoes (Korea).

""The Insider" and "The Veteran" have finished filming and are waiting for the schedule; "Virus" and "Tunnel" are still in preparation and will be launched next year; the script of "Young Police" is still being perfected. So much is in hand for the time being."

After Cheng Yu'an listened to the report, he asked again, "What about TV dramas?"

"We don't do TV series. We only have the "Please Answer" series. They mainly focus on our movies, and there is no opinion on the TV series."

Tudou (South Korea) will focus on the TV drama market, and the studio needs to make room for it.

"Let's do this first. Don't accept new notebooks, just digest the ones in your hand within two years. I'll buy you time."

How to buy time?Give benefits!
The Korean film studios are only interested in Cheng Yuan's Hollywood channel. He wants to go overseas, and Cheng Yuan doesn't mind helping (keng).

In his hand, he saw that there were plenty of projects selling actual tiankengs.

However, in the future, Tudou (South Korea) will have to mix in South Korea, and it should not be too miserable. It is best to make a little bit of money like "Tron: Legacy".

Give some sweetness, so we can continue to cooperate.

(End of this chapter)