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He liked the script itself, and Liu Anran also promised to let him participate in the adaptation of the script, and he would not give him any interference when he was filming. Where to find such a good producer? Anyway, Guo Zairong has been making movies for so many years, and this is the first time I have encountered it.

Although it is said that the director is the center of the Korean crew, this thing is not absolute. When encountering a good script, the director has to make some cut-offs in some places, and he must respect the producer.

In the past few days, Liu Anran has not been idle, and he has released all George and Liu Yi, doing whatever he likes, and he followed Kim Myung-kwan to carefully study the structure of South Korea's film industry.

In his previous life, he didn't study it very carefully, because at that time he had only made low-budget movies in China, and after carefully studying various materials here, he found that it was a bit difficult to make a lot of money by making movies in South Korea. Unless you make a film that will have an earth-shattering number of moviegoers in South Korea in the future, you can only make a little money to spend.

For every movie ticket sold in South Korea, 10% VAT and 3% of the film fund will be deducted, and the rest of the money will be scored by the producer and distributor and the theater.

But there is also a very important point, these theaters and distribution companies are inextricably linked.

Here in South Korea, many directors or production companies rarely go to the distribution company after they get a project and shoot it directly, but the distribution company will directly participate in it, so the actual profit belonging to the producer is not very large. If you can shoot it wholly owned, it is estimated that in terms of sharing with the theater chain, your proportion may not be so high.

But with these drawbacks, there are also advantages, and the investment in the film is small. The production cost of 5 or 6 billion won is a medium-cost movie, and more than 10 billion can be counted as a big production.

According to the current exchange rate between the Korean won and the US dollar, 5 billion won is about 4 million US dollars, and even if the price fluctuates a little, the difference is not much. But now look at those Hollywood movies, they often cost tens of millions of dollars, and there is no higher or higher.

Now there are two problems in front of Liu Anran, one is whether he is responsible for the distribution of the film or find a distribution company, and the other is the theater chain.

If you want to save your mind, you can find a distribution company and ask them to contact the theater, but in this case, the profit that is not very much will be cut again.

There are also some difficult choices for theaters, CJ, Showbox, and Lotte, these three companies occupy half of all theaters in South Korea. If you want to be released in South Korea, you'll have to get one of these three. The difficulty is that these three have their own distribution companies, which can be regarded as a parallel system of distribution and cinema chains.

In fact, this is also one of the drawbacks of the development in South Korea, which belongs to consortium finance, and everything will basically be controlled by various consortiums.

In the end, he chose the Lotte Group. His reason is also very simple, those two have left Lotte far behind, but now Lotte is also in the position of the third child, and they can always tilt the profits by bringing such a good film to the past.

Riding in the business car of the Shilla Hotel, he followed Kim Myung-kwan to Lotte Pictures, which he would go there in person to show his sincerity.

"Hello Mr. Andy, I'm Park Jung-hee, the head of Lotte Cinemas, and I don't know when your movie is going to be released." Seeing Liu An, Park Jung-hee asked with a smile.

"When the script is adapted, we will start filming, and it is expected to be released in July next year. Because this is a youth film, the elements in it are very suitable for young people to watch. Liu Anran nodded and said.

"In July, the schedule was a little difficult to handle. Unless you make some concessions on box office sharing, otherwise the quality of the films we don't participate in the distribution is not very good. Park Jung-hee said with a frown.

"Director Park Jung-hee, I don't know what the proportion of the box office will be." Liu Anran also frowned and asked.

He knew that Park Jung-hee was taking the opportunity to blackmail, and if they were not interested in this film, they would directly refuse. This is to see yourself as a small company, and you can completely eat yourself.

"Mr. Andy, I'm afraid we can only give you about 25% of the share." Park Jung-hee said indifferently.

Seeing Liu Anran's brows furrowed even tighter, Park Jung-hee continued: "Mr. Andy, in fact, this proportion is not low. The summer season is a very important viewing period, in fact, not only us, but also the rest of the theater chains will give priority to the films they produce. ”

"The movie you made, on the premise that you haven't seen the sample, I can give you 25% of the box office share, which is really not low."

Liu Anran nodded, Park Zhengxi was telling the truth. Good things will naturally be kept for themselves, how can they be distributed to outsiders.

"Director Park Jung-hee, I also have my own film company in the United States. In fact, this time I came here not only to discuss the release of this movie, but also to talk about future cooperation. Liu Anran spoke again.

"I can't guarantee anything else, in the future, the copyright of the movies I shot in the United States in Korea will be handed over to you at a preferential price."

"I'm sorry, Mr. Andy, even if there is a future cooperation, I will not increase the box office share." Park Jung-hee shook his head with a smile and said.

"If you're one of those well-known producers or directors in Hong Kong, I can also take that into account. However, you are from the inland of China, and this will not give you any points in this negotiation. ”

Looking at Park Jung-hee's slightly contemptuous smile, Liu Anran's fists under the table couldn't help but clench. He is not angry at Park Chung-hee's denigration of films made by mainland directors, because at the box office, even the films produced in the small country of South Korea are indeed better than those produced in China in some ways.

His anger was tightly because Park Jung-hee said this to himself, angry at Park Jung-hee's contempt.

In the early days of his career, he suffered a lot of such experiences in Korea. It wasn't until these brokerage companies in South Korea began to pay attention to the Chinese market that there was some relief.

The moment he was reborn, he vowed to make those who looked down on him bow their heads high, and now this Rakuten Pictures has been written down by him in a small notebook.

“ok。 Director Park Jung-hee, it seems that we will not be able to continue today's negotiations, so I will leave. After Liu Anran finished speaking, he turned around and left directly.

Park Jung-hee didn't even do the basic etiquette, just picked up the coffee and gestured.

"Mingquan, remember, in the future, our company refuses to cooperate with Lotte Pictures in any form." After coming outside, Liu Anran said to Jin Mingquan.

He is such a small belly, he can bury a small hole for Song Xueliang in advance on Principal Chen's side, how can he give up after being insulted like this today.