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"Director Lee Chong, hello, I'm shobox Choi Min-woo." A middle-aged man in a suit walked into the office with two cups of coffee.
"Hello, President Choi." Li Zhong took the coffee and said to the middle-aged man.
Founded in 2oo2, Shobox owned Korea's largest cinema, MegaboxNetep1Ex, and Korea's largest cable operator, On*Media. and produced a number of excellent films. In recent years, it has competed with cJ Entertainment for the first place in the industry.
Choi Min-woo is the co-founder of Shobox and the current president of Shobox. Choi Min-woo is extremely capable and courageous, and has guided the company on a right path since the establishment of Shobox, so Shobox has become bigger and bigger in recent years.
"President Choi, I'm here for my independent film business." Li Zhong said straight to the point.
"I've heard about you, and I'm also surprised by Liu Xiuli's approach, but why should I make a movie that has been rated as being over 18 years old and can be watched, especially now on the Spring Festival schedule." Cui Minyu said slowly.
"Well, President Cui, what I want to tell you is that because I re-shot some shots, and then re-edited them, I have to re-rate, and it is estimated that this time I will be rated as a restricted watch over 19 years old" Li Chong took a sip of coffee.
"Over 19 years old?" Choi Min-woo was a little surprised.
"Yes, because I came here to discuss with you about my film, I gave the editing of the film to Master Kim Min-sun for editing, but I brought the first version of the previous one for you to see." Lee Chong took out the tape of the movie and handed it to Choi Min-woo.
"Are you sure I'm interested?" Cui Minyu looked at Li Chong with some amusement.
"Hehe, if there is a chance to fight cJ Entertainment and Liu Xiuli, I don't think shobox will give up this opportunity, right?" Li Chong took another sip of coffee.
"Are you so sure?" Choi Min-woo asked.
"You better take a look, maybe you'll like it, the new cut version is better than this." Li Zhong said unhurriedly.
Choi Min-woo made a phone call, and a young man came after a while, "You show this movie to Minister Li of the industry department, and then ask him to give me a rating list as much as possible." ”
In the next two hours, Li Chong and Cui Minyu talked about a lot of other things, and they got along happily on the surface.
"Why did you come up with the idea of making a movie like this?" Choi Min-woo asked.
"I saw the murder of Yoo Yong-chul before I was in the army, and I have been following the progress of the trial since I was in the army, and as more and more details are revealed, I think the public should know something about human nature." Li Zhong said.
Saying this, the young man knocked on the door before and came in, handing Cui Minyu a text. Cui Minyu opened the article, which said, according to the current rating, the current editing, if the publicity budget is less than 500 million, the box office is expected to be about 2oo; If the rating is restricted, if the editing can be better than now, and the box office is around 15o with the same publicity, it is generally worth it.
Cui Minyu looked at the report and pondered a little, in fact, according to Cui Minyu's thoughts, as long as it can hit cJ Entertainment, he doesn't care about Li Chong's movie at all, but he is a little reluctant to give Li Chong this schedule of the Spring Festival, this schedule is the time when the box office is hot, if there is a big director's movie, it will be very helpful to the company.
"Eh, Director Li Chong, can I wait for your final edit to come out and we'll talk?" Cui Minyu finally decided to give Li Chong a chance, as long as Li Chong's final editing can pass, this schedule will be given to him.
"Okay, you wait a minute, I'll make a call." Li Chong looked at the time and estimated that Kim Min-sun's side should be about the same, so he called Jang Hoon, and Lee Chong had already thought that he would have to take out the final edited version, so he asked Jang Hoon to go there and wait.
Half an hour later, Jang Hoon brought the tape that Kim Min-sun had just edited. Everyone went to the screening room to watch together, this time the treatment was much stronger than before, President Choi Minyu, Minister Li of the Executive Department, Minister Ma of the Department of Production and Management all came, and even a shareholder of the company.
Because of the version of this clip, Li Chong also watched it for the first time, so Li Chong watched it very seriously from beginning to end, and while watching it, he was also thinking about it, what is the difference between himself and Kim Minshan, Kim Minshan made full use of the characteristics of the atmosphere to make the movie editing extremely coherent, because Li Chong's reshot shots make it very fascinating and unstoppable at every ** point, even if it is rated as 18 years old and above to watch, the plot of the movie will introduce the audience to the cinema.
"Okay, I'll watch this movie, the box office won't be low!" Director Zhang, the shareholder of Shobox, said. Minister Li of the line department is also very satisfied with this version, which previous version can only be said to have a good plot, the editing is still a little jerky, and the plot is also a little obscure, if you follow this version, the box office should not be bad.
Choi Min-woo felt that it was fortunate that he did not refuse Li Chong's request, if he hadn't really missed such a good movie. "Director Li Chong, let's talk about the box office share of the movie." Choi Min-woo led Lee Chong to the office again.
"Our line is usually 5% of the box office, but if your movie is released during the Spring Festival, I need to increase the share. And it's also released in theaters under our shobox, and I want to increase the share. Choi Min-woo said his request.
"Well, how much are you going to get?" Li Chong also knew that this schedule gave him a rookie director, and it was impossible for him not to let out some blood.
"I want 8% for the line and 65% for the movie," Choi Minwoo said.
"Nope." Li Zhong said without hesitation.
"The normal line is 5%, I will give you 7%, as for the cinemas under Shobox, I will give you 63% to make up 7 floors, and other cinemas, I will only give 61%, if you can negotiate a lower level, I don't care, the money for selling copies is also mine, and I ask for no less than 600 million in publicity costs, we will take half of it." Li Zhong said what he thought, which is also his bottom line.
Cui Minyu thinks about it, this result is not bad, if it goes too far, Li Chong may switch to other companies, after all, there are not only two companies in South Korea, cJ and shobox, and they have always taken the lion's share.
"Deal, but this movie rating?" Choi Min-woo estimates that this movie must be over 18 years old to watch it.
"Let's treat it as a restricted-level propaganda over 19 years old," Li Chong is still more conscious.
"When are you going to release it?" Cui Minyu asked again, this is a matter involving publicity.
"Well, of course, the sooner the better, my idea is to miss the Spring Festival, release it after the Spring Festival, and give us a full month of publicity period." The date of Lee's release has actually been decided.
"I'm planning a spooky Valentine's Day, what do you think?" Li Chong looked at Cui Minyu and said with a smile.