Last year's "Tai Chi Flag Flying" brought the audience back to the war-torn years, and director Kang Digui used his lens to clearly and truly show the cruel side of war in front of the audience.

The crew of "Taiji Flag Flying" is composed of more than 200 staff, more than 25,000 extras were used for filming, and the pure production budget was as high as 13 billion won, and the film spent 2 billion yuan just to build a location.

It is precisely because of such a 'craftsman' spirit that since the release of "Tai Chi Flag Flying", the number of moviegoers has exceeded 1 million in two days, and the number of moviegoers in 7 days has exceeded the 3 million mark, it can be said that the Korean movie in 2004 belongs to "Taiji Flag Flying", the hot movie scene, the hot movie-watching crowd, and finally succeeded in fixing the number of moviegoers of this war movie at 11.75 million, becoming the second Korean movie with more than 10 million viewers, and also surpassing the movie "Shibi Island" Successfully ascended to the throne of the No. 1 grossing film in Korean film history.

If the crown of Korean movie viewers in 2004 belonged to "Taiji Flag Flying", then in the first half of 2005, there were no phenomenal movies like "Shibi Island" and "Taiji Flag Flying".

Although the two movies "Enemy of the People 2" and "Marathon" at the beginning of 2005 handed over perfect answers, only "Marathon" had more than 5 million viewers, and the final frame was 5.19 million, which stimulated the Korean media at the beginning of 2005, and many media at that time said that '2005 is another year of vigorous development of the Korean film industry, and it is not a problem for the number of moviegoers to exceed 100 million'.

From the beginning of 2005 to the beginning of August, the throne of box office viewers has been maintained by "Marathon", and the optimistic year of 2005 in the mouth of the media has not opened its arms to filmmakers. That's just at this time. As soon as the tone of the media changed, they began to collectively sing about the decline, and the originally optimistic and healthy film industry seemed to disappear in an instant, replaced by a sluggish film industry and moviegoers.

Because of the development of this topic, many media have joined this big discussion, and experts and commentators from all walks of life have done their best to say how miserable and miserable this year's film industry is, as if the entire industry will collapse tomorrow.

Media reporters have no discipline, TV shows also come to join in the fun, and experts from all walks of life sit in front of the camera. Balabala's professional vocabulary confused the audience.

Compared with the behavior of reporters joining in the fun, people in the film industry also have a lot of worries in their hearts, although they are in a competitive environment, but the healthy and orderly development of the entire film industry can drive everyone to develop together, if the film industry is broken, then they are not far from unemployment.

But those worries and doubts were shattered with a film released in August, called "Welcome to Dongmo Village".

In fact, before the release of "Welcome to Dongmo Village", it was the kind of movie that did not show the mountains and water, although it was strongly promoted by CJ Entertainment, but the media was not optimistic about the movie. In particular, the budget of the movie is not too high, and the director who directed the movie, Park Kwang-hyun, has not heard much about it before, so the media generally has a cold attitude towards this movie.

But when the number of moviegoers exceeded one million in two days, the viewing record of "Tai Chi Flag Flying" was flattened. On the third day of the movie's release, the popularity still did not decrease at all, and there was a certain increase, and the number of moviegoers reached 580,000 on the third day. The cumulative number of moviegoers is 1.59 million, and when the number of moviegoers exceeds 2 million is close at hand, the media have already gone crazy. Because the momentum of watching this movie is definitely not worse than the results of "Tai Chi Flag Flying", it is not impossible for the number of moviegoers to exceed 10 million if it continues like this!

In 2005, the Korean film industry finally produced another phenomenal film, which undoubtedly shocked the spirits of people in the film industry, because everyone saw a bright future.

Park Kwang-hyun and Jung Hyuk-jae, the names of the two also appeared in front of the eyes of people in the film industry for the first time.

Speaking of Park Kwang-hyun's words, everyone still has a little impression, after all, this circle is so big, and although this movie is his first feature-length film, he has directed a story in the movie "The Enemy in Four Rooms" before, so when it comes to Park Kwang-hyun, everyone is no stranger.

It's just that the name of Jung Hyuk-jae is a little unknown, and people who know a little bit about Jung Hyuk-jae introduced it to the people around them, and everyone has a little understanding in their hearts, it turns out that this former TV drama screenwriter and director is ah!

If singers, TV actors and movie actors in the entertainment industry are an obvious hierarchy pyramid, then although there is such a hierarchy in the director circle, the boundaries are very blurred, mainly because the word director is too broad.

Many of the directors who are engaged in film directing have transferred from the TV advertising industry, TV dramas, etc., so there is no such thing as who looks down on whom.

The director's circle is not large, so a lot of news spreads very quickly, and from Jung Hyuk Jae to everyone's sight, some information about him is well known to many people. When he learned that Jung Hyuk-jae also participated in the investment of the movie "Welcome to Dongmo Village", and his share was not small, some depressed little directors turned their eyelids and spent their minds on him

It was already more than eight o'clock in the evening when he got home from work, and when he opened the door, he was greeted by his sister's lovely smile, and seeing such a healing smile, Jung Hyuk Jae felt that the fatigue on his body seemed to disappear in an instant.

Hanging his coat and hat on the hanger at the door, Jung Hyuk Jae reached out and rubbed the top of his sister's head, and asked with a smile, "How was it, did you have a good day today?" ”

"Hmm!" Hearing his brother's words, Zheng Minchu nodded vigorously, and then said with a smile: "Brother, when we went to the movies, we also met classmates from school, when I heard that I was the sister of the great director Jung Hyuk-jae, you didn't know their eyes, they all looked straight!" ”

As he spoke, Zheng Minchu smiled even more heartily.

"Did you tell them that my brother was the director?" Watching my sister look happy. Jung Hyuk-jae couldn't help but say with a smile.

"Ani, it's not me, it's Lin Yun'er who said it!" Zheng Minchu defended himself.

Is there any difference? You tell Lin Yun'er, as soon as Lin Yun'er's big speaker broadcasts, she will naturally sell herself, Zheng Hyuk-jae complained in his heart.

"And ah, there are many girls in our classmates who regard you as their idol?"

"Why?" Jung Hyuk-jae felt extremely strange.

"Because he's handsome!"

Well, sure enough, it's a world of faces.

After laughing for a while, Jung Hyuk Jae sat down in the kitchen and prepared to cook something simple in the evening. As for the ramen troop pot proposed by his sister was vetoed by Jung Hyuk-jae, if you eat ramen, it is better to drink some soup, where will those things be nutritious.

After doing all this, his sister was watching TV in the living room, and Jung Hyuk-jae returned to his bedroom, turned on the computer, logged in to his mailbox and looked at it, almost not startling him.

Except for a few work emails. There were more than 100 new emails, and Jung Hyuk-jae was frightened and looked through a few of them, so he had a general understanding of these emails, and it turned out that these were all film project books submitted to him. It's just that the number is a little too scary, because the configuration of this computer is a little outdated, the moment the mailbox is opened, Jung Hyuk Jae almost feels that the computer is about to explode.

Jung Hyuk-jae is not surprised how his mailbox was exposed. If you want to know your private number in this circle, you just need to ask a few more people.

What made him strange was that he hadn't talked about investing in the circle. Or the news of receiving film project books, how can these people think of submitting so many project books to themselves?

Jung Hyuk-jae glanced at all the film project books, there were no movie titles he was familiar with, and there were no creative movies that caught his eye, and he closed the browser in a disinterested manner, and Jung Hyuk-jae returned to the kitchen to prepare today's dinner.

After the two had dinner, Jung Hyuk-jae and his sister sat on the sofa together, watching TV rarely.

Jung Hyuk-jae recalled the last time he watched TV, it was more than a month ago when "My Name is Kim Sam-soon" was first broadcast, and Jung Hyuk-jae watched the first episode of the TV series with the members of the crew.

Zheng Hyuk Jae just sat down here, and the mobile phone on the table rang very annoyingly at this time, Zheng Minchu glanced at his brother next to him, and said, "Brother, answer the phone, see who called you!" ”

Jung Hyuk-jae picked up his phone and looked at the display screen, feeling a little puzzled in his heart, "Jiang Zaijingxi, is there something wrong with the crew when you call me at this time?" ”

The person who called, Jiang Zaijing, the agent recruited by the company last time, is currently filming with the company's only artist, Li Junji, to solve possible problems in the crew.

Before that every week in Kyoto, Jiang would regularly report to Jung Hyuk-jae about the week's work, but there had never been a sudden call like today, if it wasn't for the crew's problems, Jung Hyuk-jae couldn't figure out what the purpose of Kang's phone call was.

"President, at present, there are two investors in the movie "The King's Man", one is Cineworld, and the other is EaglePictures, but today one of the investors, EaglePictures, suddenly said that it was going to withdraw its investment, which caught everyone off guard."

On the phone, Jiang Zaijing said helplessly, with a bit of unwillingness and reluctance in his words.

At present, as Li Junji's agent, the first thing he has to consider is the future development of his artist, although Li Junji is only a newcomer who is newer than a newcomer in the entertainment industry, but his debut work is the protagonist of the movie, and this kind of treatment is rare in some large companies. From the beginning of the acting skills in the preparation stage of the film, to the later dance study and rehearsals in the group, Kang Jae-kyung has been closely following Lee Jun-ki's side.

The movie has been filming for a while, because the preparation is relatively sufficient, so in terms of the progress of the shooting, or the quality of the shooting, the movie "The King's Man" can be said to be very fast.

experienced some problems before the filming started, but I didn't expect the movie to encounter such a thing as the withdrawal of investors in the middle of filming, and everyone was dumbfounded.

"No, how could he be allowed to withdraw halfway? Before the start of the auction, shouldn't the funds of the two investors be remitted to the third-party insurance company? Jung Hyuk-jae asked.

"It should be like this, yes, it's just that the two investors are remitted in sections, and this time EaglePictures suddenly prepared to withdraw its investment, which suddenly made the crew and Cineworld particularly passive, and the filming schedule scheduled for this afternoon was canceled." On the phone, Jiang Zaijing introduced.

"Lee Joon-gi, his mood is quite stable, right?" Jung Hyuk-jae asked with concern.

"His mood is fine, but he is affected by the suspension of the crew, and his mood must be uncomfortable." Speaking of this, Jiang Zaijing couldn't help but sigh lightly.

In the past few months with Li Junji, he has always seen the persistence and hard work of the young man in his eyes and in his heart, and said that opportunities are for those who are prepared, like this time the role of "The King's Man" is like tailor-made with him, so suitable. It's just that before this opportunity can play its role, the crew has fallen into a shutdown, not to mention that it will not be released, and it is a special suspense to be able to finish filming.

"What about Cineworld? There is such a thing as the withdrawal of investors from the crew, they can't sit idly by, you must know that their investment in the whole movie is not small, right? Jung Hyuk-jae asked.

"Originally, yes, but there was such a mess at this point in the filming, and it seems that Cineworld is no longer ready to add more." Speaking of this, Jiang Zaijing felt that his head was big for a while, what a good thing, because of the sudden situation, good things turned into bad things, which no one expected.

"And in the process of filming, director Li Junyi has always wanted to ask for more investment, because he wants to make the picture and music of the film more exquisite, but such negotiations have not been understood by EaglePictures, so the contradiction between the director and the investor has always existed."

Next Kang Jae-kyung's words, Jung Hyuk-jae didn't listen to it much, he only knew that there was a problem with the funding chain of this movie, and he seemed to have the option to intervene at this time, you must know that this is "The King's Man"! (To be continued......)

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