Chapter 208: Cooperation
After all, now that the filming of "The King's Man" is at its most important, Li Junyi doesn't want to disrupt his shooting plan because of the media at this time, because his target schedule is to be released in December at the end of this year.
LotteEntertainment, as a film production company under the Lotte Group, also has its own cinema chain and distribution company, LotteEntertainment has not been established for a long time, as it was just established last year, it can only be regarded as a small brother among the film production companies in South Korea, but because it is backed by the Lotte Group, no one dares to underestimate it.
As the director of LotteEntertainment, Kang Sung-shin has been irritable lately, and he is getting more and more irritable.
As a film company that focuses on film production and distribution, it is not easy to survive under the siege of a large number of established film production companies such as CJ and ShowBox.
Since it is a film production and distribution company, it is natural to invest in and distribute films, but where are these so simple as words, it can be said that CJ.E&M has carved up nearly one-third of the cake of the film industry, and the remaining two-thirds are wantonly carved up by many other old film companies, and the remaining small companies can only survive in the cracks of this large company.
Compared with the above, what is even more difficult is that the distribution of the film has to be made difficult by the theater representatives, if the small-budget and small-production movie is not particularly brilliant in the plot, then it will not get the attention of the theater at all, not to mention the film scheduling rate, the screening schedule alone will be choked by the neck and have to obey.
As a newly established film production and distribution company, Lotte Entertainment has also indirectly helped many "down" directors and film production companies in the past two years. Not only that, but LotteEntertainment has launched a 'New Power of Cinema' program, which aims to encourage the new generation of directors to create new genres of films, and has invested nearly $2 billion for the filming of films.
After all, Lotte Theater has its own theater chain, Lotte Cinema, and because of the 'New Power of Cinema' program, LotteEntertainment has a good reputation in the film industry.
It's just that although the reputation is good, it doesn't work for fart, can these movies really make money?
Jiang Chengxin has actually thought about this question for a long time, and the longer he is immersed in the film industry. The more you know, the more the quality and cost of the film are always proportional. Although some high-budget movies may not be very good in themselves, the quality of the film, whether it is the picture or the shot, is incomparable to those small-budget movies.
Why was last year's "Tai Chi Flag Flying" able to get tens of millions of viewers, isn't it a very real movie war scene that has been spent a lot of money? The more it develops, the more large-scale and high-budget movies can get the attention and love of the audience, and the more such works, the higher the chance of success.
Jiang Chengxin knows this better. But what's the use of making the truth clearer? Where is such a movie?
"Director Jiang!"
Someone knocked on the office door outside the door, Jiang Chengxin raised his head, sorted out his appearance, and then cleared his throat before saying, "Please come in!" ”
"Director Jiang. Here's last week's theater attendance and box office situation, so please take a look! The young man who came in respectfully put the folder in his hand on Jiang Chengxin's desk, and then lowered his arm and waited quietly to the side, waiting for Jiang Chengxin's question.
"I'll take a look." Jiang Chengxin picked up the folder on the table. It opens to a table, although it looks very simple, but the number of moviegoers, attendance and box office are all clearly counted. It is clear at first glance.
Roughly glanced at the number of moviegoers of these movies on the table, Jiang Chengxin's eyes couldn't help but be attracted by a movie, and what attracted his attention even more was the number of moviegoers written later.
"Tell me about the situation of "Welcome to Dongmo Village"."
Obviously it is a movie that has been released for three days, but it was full in the screening of Lotte Cinema, and the number of moviegoers in a single theater was 20,000 in three days, how could Jiang Chengxin not be surprised!
"Yes, "Welcome to Dongmo Village" is produced by JHJFilm and Park Kwang-hyun Studio, CJ. A war movie released by E&M, the day before yesterday, that is, the day after the movie was released, the number of viewers has successfully exceeded 1 million, reaching 1.02 million! ”
The young man standing in front of Jiang Chengxin said carefully, these materials were memorized by him from the beginning, and it was precisely because of his full preparation that he would not feel panicked at this time.
Listening to the report of his subordinates, Jiang Chengxin's head was little by little, and the pen in his hand was tapping on the table again and again, making a 'click' sound, it was obvious that Jiang Chengxin was thinking at this time, thinking along with his subordinates' words.
"Tell me about JHJFilm." After his subordinates introduced the background of the film, Jiang Chengxin immediately asked again.
"Oh, that's right, JHJFilm is a film production company that has just been established in the circle recently, and the boss behind the scenes is the current director of MBC TV, Jung Hyuk Jae, it is understood that in addition to JHJFilm, there is also a JHJEntertainment that was also founded by him." When the young man said this, he couldn't help but show envy in his eyes, he just graduated last year, why didn't he have such a good fortune?
Of course, this thought only circled in his mind, and then he put it behind him, and concentrated on introducing the information about JHJFilm.
"At present, the only film invested by JHJFilm is "Welcome to Dongmo Village", which is currently being released in major theaters."
"That's what I've learned so far, Director Jiang!"
After listening to his subordinates' words, Jiang Chengxin's face once again showed a thoughtful look, his brows were tightly locked, and he didn't know what was going on in his mind.
"Director Jiang?" Seeing that he had not made a sound, his subordinate asked softly.
"Oh, then you can help me find the contact information of Jung Hyuk Jae. Just say I want to treat him to a meal! Jiang Chengxin, who came back to his senses, admonished.
"Okay, I'll go!" For the boss's words, the subordinates didn't dare to be ambiguous at all, not only did they not dare to be ambiguous, but even after listening to the boss's advice, he immediately pushed the door and walked out, trotting all the way to find the contact information.
Watching his subordinates run out, Jiang Chengxin smiled slightly, and then put his eyes on the number of viewers on the table, staring at the dazzling number of viewers of "Welcome to Dongmo Village" with a pair of eyes. For a moment, Jiang Chengxin thought a lot of things in his heart.
'It's not easy! ’
The pen in his hand wrote the name of 'Jung Hyuk Jae' on the paper, and looking at this somewhat ordinary name, Jiang Chengxin found that he was suddenly looking forward to the next meeting between the two
In the past two days, Jung Hyuk-jae has lived a life of two points and one line from three points and one line, and when he was filming "My Name is Kim Sam Soon", he was running from home to company to TV station, but now he is much more leisurely, and he has become running on both sides of home and company, although it seems to be idle, but in fact he is busier than before.
The filming of "The King's Man" doesn't need Jung Hyuk-jae to care, but he just has the title of a producer. You can't just ignore the movie at all, right?
"Welcome to Dongmo Village" is currently in theaters, although the release of the movie is handed over to CJ.E&M, I can't just pay attention to it, right?
In addition, because of the success of "Welcome to Dongmo Village", JHJFilm's fame has also increased greatly in the film industry recently. Many directors and production companies have invested in film projects here, hoping from the bottom of their hearts that they can cooperate with Zheng Hyukjae, or they can get Zheng Hyukzai's investment. Now who in the circle does not know the 'small company' of JHJFilm!
It took only two days for the number of moviegoers of "Welcome to Dongmo Village" to break one million, but it took three days for the number of moviegoers to break two million, and the box office on weekdays was already worse than on holidays. Despite this, according to statistical data, even on weekdays, the attendance rate of "Welcome to Dongmo Village" can still reach more than 50%, what is this concept?
The achievement of breaking 2 million moviegoers in five days has stunned many film production companies and dropped their jaws, which is particularly unscientific! When did small- and medium-budget movies start to dominate the box office charts?
Many movies that chose to be released during this time were dumbfounded, thinking that the release in August was a good time period, there were not too many movies piled up, there were no big-budget Hollywood blockbusters to grab the market, and the students also had time, so they could mix up a good result. But no one expected that Hollywood blockbusters had not been encountered, and a "Welcome to Dongmo Village" made everyone extremely embarrassed! What the hell is going on?
Many filmmakers were a little speechless, curious in their hearts what kind of liar this was, and after they entered and watched it once, everyone was convinced, you look at me, I look at you, no one is silent.
After watching the first time, many filmmakers have gone to watch the second time, if the first time is to watch the plot, then as filmmakers, they walked into the cinema for the second time to study the line of the movie, a good movie, its storyline must be excellent, and its rhythm is also excellent!
For a time, "Welcome to Dongmo Village" became the research object of many filmmakers.
After reading today's documents, Zheng Hyukzai sat on the chair and couldn't help stretching, after sitting for a day, the bones up and down his body were full of soreness, and he got up and moved his body, and he felt better.
Walked to the window and looked at the scenery outside the window, the traffic on the street seemed extremely busy, the busy life always passed quickly, he couldn't help but want to stop, this was just about to take a break, the mobile phone on the table rang again.
Jung Hyuk-jae picked up his phone and looked at the caller ID, it was an unfamiliar number, which he had never seen before.
Although it was strange in his heart, Jung Hyuk-jae still connected the phone and pressed the call button, "Hello, I'm Jung Hyuk-jae!" ”
"Hello, Jung Hyuk Jae, I'm Kang Sung-shin from LotteEntertainment!"
The elegant environment of the café, the chandelier with warm yellow light overhead, looks very cute, and it is obviously a very pleasant thing to sit in the café with a cup of coffee. If you're with your boyfriend or girlfriend, it's even more perfect!
On this afternoon, Jung Hyuk-jae was also holding a cup of coffee, but the woman sitting in front of him was not a beautiful woman, let alone his girlfriend, but an uncle with a shaven beard, or an uncle with a shaven beard and long hair, at least in Jung Hyuk-jae's opinion, if you only look at the back, you can easily be deceived.
"Hello, Jung Hyuk Jae, I'm Kang Sung-shin who called you in the morning!" Kang Sung-shin glanced at Jung Hyuk-jae in front of him, smiled and stretched out his right hand.
"Hello, I'm Jung Hyuk-jae!"
It's not so much that he's the director of Lotte Entertainment.,Look at his image as well as an artist.,His long hair fluttering his voice sounds very magnetic.,It's not a girl at all.,It's a good match with his bearded image.,Just listening to the voice and looking at his long hair.,There will be a sense of disobedience.,Incomparably strong sense of disobedience.。
At this point, Jung Hyuk-jae only shook his head for a few seconds, and then immediately reacted, "Jiang Sung-shin xi, did you have something to do with me this time?" ”
Hearing Zheng Hyuk-jae's words, Jiang Sung-shin did not procrastinate, but said straight to the point: "Jung Hyuk-jaexi, I came here this time to talk about cooperation with you!" ”
"Cooperation?" Hearing him say this, Jung Hyuk-jae was a little surprised.
"Yes, it's cooperation!" Jiang Chengxin emphasized again, "About cooperation in films! ”
LotteEntertainment? Cooperate?
In an instant, many thoughts flashed through Jung Hyuk-jae's mind (to be continued...... to be continued)
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