Myeongdong, located in Jung-gu, Seoul, South Korea, is not only the financial center of South Korea, but also the vane of Korean fashion trends, the most fashionable and trendy shopping place in Korea, where there are a variety of brand stores, fashion stores, department stores, users can buy the latest fashion and cosmetics, and can enjoy a wealth of food and entertainment activities while shopping, which can be called the most popular spot for young people, and it is also a must-see attraction for foreign tourists.

In a Korean restaurant in Myeongdong, Lin Yuquan put down his fork and looked at the busy commercial street through the window.

"Brother Yuquan, aren't you eating?" Liu Yifei looked at the Mingdong fried pork cutlet on the plate in front of Lin Yuquan and asked.

"I don't eat it, I don't like to eat this, you know, what I like is Chinese food like back pot meat and braised pork." Lin Yuquan shook his head, and then looked at the pork chops on Liu Yifei's plate that were about to be wiped out with some amusement: "It's you Yifei, are you so hungry?" Or this Myeongdong fried pork cutlet is really so delicious, when you were in the street before, you ate a lot of konjac skewers, fried rice cakes, blood sausages, and now you can still eat so much, be careful if you eat like this again, you will become a bun face again. ”

"It's rare to come to Seoul, of course I have to eat more, this is a Korean specialty, you can't eat so authentic in Kyoto, besides, I just eat more in the past few days, how can I get fat?" Liu Yifei smiled sweetly and continued to concentrate on dealing with the food.

"You." Because there was someone next to him, Lin Yuquan was in a hurry, did not say the word snack, glanced at the time and said: "Then you hurry up and eat, after eating, we will go to the KBS main hall and the new hall first, and then participate in the recording of the music bank's program." ”

"Okay." Liu Yifei said without raising her head, and soon, she swept away the pork chops on the plate, took out a tissue to wipe the oil stains on her mouth, and said with satisfaction: "Brother Yuquan, finish the work." ”

"Miss Han, check out." Lin Yuquan said to a fashionably dressed young girl sitting at another table next to him, a part-time Korean translator he hired in advance, who is said to be studying at Seoul National University and is fluent in Chinese, and she helped get the ticket for the music bank recording they attended in the afternoon, and her uncle seems to be a PD in KBS.

"Okay, Director Lin, you and Miss Liu wait a minute." Han Meixi showed a sweet smile, and then walked towards the counter with elegant steps, for fear of leaving a bad impression on Lin Yuquan.

Of course, there is a reason why she did this, if it wasn't for accompanying the two to the cinema to watch "Red Cliff" last night, she didn't know that her guest this time was actually an artist, and the movie she made would be so exciting and shocking. And after going home at night to check the information, I was even more shocked by Lin Yuquan's identity as a director and screenwriter, you must know that in South Korea, the status of directors and screenwriters is much higher than that of actors. What's more, this young and handsome Chinese director is not an ordinary director, his last film "Huo Yuanjia" has a global box office of as high as 170 million US dollars, such an amazing box office is much more than the highest-grossing "Taiji Flag Flying" in the history of the Republic of Korea directed by Kang Digui! The most amazing thing is that the movie he is releasing called "Red Cliff" just won the box office in North America last week, and if nothing else, the final box office performance of this movie will be higher than the $170 million of "Huo Yuanjia". For this reason, many people on the Internet are now wondering why there are no such excellent young directors in the Republic of Korea.

In the face of such an eye-catching foreign director, of course, she must maintain the image of the Republic of Korea in front of the other party and not embarrass the country and the nation.

After settling the bill, the group of three went to Yeouido 18, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul.

Lin Yuquan has not planned many trips in South Korea, but he is going to focus on visiting the Korean entertainment industry, such as the buildings and program recording of the three largest TV stations in South Korea, such as KBS, SBS, MBC, and singer agencies such as S*M, YG, JYP.

While Lin Yuquan and Liu Yifei were enjoying their journey with great interest, in North America, "Red Cliff" encountered strong competitors.

December 9th, the Friday of the second week of this month, according to the convention of movie releases, this day is usually a good time for new movies to be released in North America, especially after the overall box office dismal in the first week of early December, the box office began to pick up this week, so naturally there will be films scheduled to be released on this day, and there will be four of them, which can be described as menacing and abrupt.

One of the most high-profile is Dinis's year-end blockbuster "The Legend of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", which has cost more than $150 million to make, making it the most expensive of the three films. But that's not the reason it's getting the most attention, it's because of the fact that people like Harry. Potter, like the Lord of the Rings series, Narnia Kingdom Adventures is yet another magical film based on the best-selling novel. His original novel is "The Magic Kingdom of Narnia" written by British writer C.S. Lewis (Louis) in the 1950s, this fantasy literary masterpiece has long been popular all over the world, has won the highest honor of British children's literature "Carnegie Literary Award", with a cumulative global sales of more than 85 million, is a classic magic series on a par with the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy, with countless fans, it can be said to be stepping on the shoulders of giants.

This alone is enough to make this film attract attention, but as Disney's ambition to sweep away the decline in recent years and make a comeback, "The Legend of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" is not so simple.

To this end, Disney specially invited Hollywood's new director Andrew . Adamson, the other party is the director of the first two parts of the blockbuster animated film "Shrek", the second of which grossed $441 million in North America and $883 million at the global box office.

Adaptation of famous books, famous directors, and huge investment, on such a strong foundation, Disney is still not satisfied, and has hired New Zealand's WETA (Weta Digital) studio, which has helped "The Lord of the Rings" create zào, to produce amazing computer special effects for the film, striving to show the imaginative magical world of "Adventures in the Kingdom of Narnia".

Coupled with Disney's overwhelming advertising campaign, fans' expectations for the film are simply overwhelming.

A "Legend of Narnia: Lion, Witch and Magic Wardrobe" has put "Red Cliff" under strong competitive pressure, not to mention the other three new films that are also not to be underestimated and are also worth paying attention to.

Speaking of which, two of the three new films have a little to do with Lin Yuquan. The first is Li Yu's "Brokeback Mountain", a film about taboo themes that has previously won the Golden Lion Award at the Venice Film Festival, and is favored by all walks of life to win the next Golden Globe Awards and Oscars. The second is "Memoirs of Yiji" starring Zhang Ziyi, Gong Li, and Yang Zimoan, which is adapted from Arthur. Gordon's 1997 best-selling novel of the same name in the United States is also considered to be a success in the awards season, and Gong Li is the most promising.

However, these two literary and artistic films were released at the beginning of the theater scale, so although there is attention, it is difficult to put pressure on "Red Cliff" at the box office, and what can really add another fire to the originally competitive box office competition is the last of the four films "Oil Maze", also translated as "Xin Ruina", strictly speaking, this is not a new film, because this movie has been released before, but the scale of the release is small, similar to the situation of this week's "Brokeback Mountain" and "Memoirs of Yiji", and this week's film by " Drug Network screenwriter Steven. The film directed by Gaian and starring George Clooney will be expanded to 1,752 theaters, and it is naturally expected to disrupt the situation with its good reviews.

It was in this context that the fierce battle for the box office this week began on Friday.

"Red Cliff", "The Legend of Narnia: Lion, Witch and Wardrobe", "Oil Mystery", "Brokeback Mountain", "Memoirs of Yiji", as well as the previously released "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", "Unstoppable", "Magic Warrior", "Four-Eyed Chicken", "Friend", etc., driven by this series of films, countless fans have ignited their enthusiasm for watching movies and have entered the cinema.

For fans of fantasy movies, The Legend of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe is naturally the first choice, well, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, but this is already its fourth week of release, and many fans have already seen it before, but the fans of "Harry Potter" are well-known, so the number of people who watch it is still a considerable number. "Red Cliff" has attracted a large number of fans who are interested in Lin Yuquan and like epic war movies because of the relationship between Lin Yuquan and the previous word-of-mouth publicity.

Fans watched the movie, and the production company, director, actors and countless media reporters of the film itself paid close attention to the results of the box office war, and there was nothing to say all night, and the box office war on Friday quickly came to an end in the attention of all parties, and the result was indeed unsurprising, the high-profile "The Legend of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe" won the box office battle on Friday without any suspense, easily earning $19.8732 million at the box office in a single day, while "Red Cliff" resisted the impact of a number of new films, won a box office of 10.3575 million US dollars on Friday, which is also a good result of winning the second place without suspense.

On Saturday and Sunday, the battle ended, and finally on the North American weekend box office charts from December 9th to December 11th, "The Legend of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe", which opened on a large scale in 3,616 theaters, won the top spot at the box office with a huge advantage, and won $67.0641 million at the box office in three days, while "Red Cliff" was the box office champion and was driven down before even the butt was hot, but Shuguang Film Company has enough reasons to be happy, this week "Red Cliff" With a slight decline of 30, it won another $35.7023 million at the weekend box office, and the cumulative box office in two weeks was $108.7 million.

In addition, the only movies with a box office of more than 10 million are "Oil Maze" and "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the former box office is $11.3257 million, the latter is $10.1746 million, and other movies like "Unstoppable", "Magic Woman Warrior", "Four-Eyed Chicken", "A Friend" and other movies have not grossed $5 million, and "Brokeback Mountain" and "Memoirs of Yiji" failed to enter the top ten this week due to the lack of theaters, but the single-museum box office of "Brokeback Mountain" ranked first among all films this weekIt is believed that after expanding the number of theater releases, the box office will increase tremendously. R1152