Chapter 226: Accused
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The table of "Poisoning" did not disappoint everyone, even if "Flight Attendant" is still in full swing after it has been released for a month, but the CGV theaters in South Korea still took out half of the screening halls and 115 screens to screen this movie, plus 35 other theaters, it is completely full and being sought after. ← top novel,
The kind of indecent love between the brother-in-law and sister-in-law, or the two Korean first-line actors, and the bed line between real husband and wife, completely stimulated and attracted countless Korean audiences, and in just three days, it absorbed more than 480,000 viewers into the cinema to watch, becoming the second only movie in the entire summer vacation after "Flight Attendant".
Now in the entire CGV theater chain, 10% are playing movies supported by the Film Promotion Committee, this is the lowest number, there is no way to change it, and all the rest of the screens only play Zheng Rongxuan's two movies. Although the rest of the theaters have movies from other entertainment companies playing, the enthusiasm of those theaters is not very high, and they are even trying their best to compress their share.
After all, cinema operators also want to make money, seeing the explosive box office of Zheng Rongxuan's two movies, especially the just-released "Poisoning", which is not weaker than "Flight Attendant", where can they still hold on, as long as the attendance rate of the rest of the movies is less than 65%, the theater operators will not hesitate to force the downgrade, so as to get a copy from CGV and come back to release "Poisoning".
As a result, during the entire summer vacation, people in South Korea only remembered two movies, the original "Flight Attendant", and the following "Poisoning", and other movies have completely become cannon fodder, not to mention watching, and even the vast majority of people don't know that there are other movies being staged.
On the one hand, especially the other major film production companies that lost money, they suddenly stopped doing it, especially since this year, almost all of the entire CGV theater chain is showing CGV's own movies. Either it is the introduction of other foreign films, and the films produced by these film companies that have invested hundreds of millions or billions of dollars will face the fate of having no theaters to screen, or they will be forced to be removed after only a few days.
So, after enduring one, two, three or four films, they immediately united and complained to the Korea Film Promotion Council and the management body of the Ministry of Culture against the monopoly of CGV theaters, demanding that CGV theaters must have no less than half of the screens to show films from other film companies.
Almost every film invested by CGV Group has made a lot of money, which really makes those film investors who have no theaters to go crazy. But investing in a cinema chain is not so easy, the license is a problem, and even after getting the license, you still have to have sufficient funds to build a large number of theaters.
After all, few film companies will have such a huge amount of money to support them to complete this great cause, and they can only ask the management to impose mandatory measures on the CGV theater chain.
There is also a saying that the gun shoots the first bird, just the day after the major film companies sued the CGV cinema chain to the Ministry of Culture, Zheng Rongxuan's lawyer, An Zhengyong, a partner of the Korean branch of the world's four major law firms, personally went out and sued Kangjegyu Company, one of the eight major film companies in South Korea, accusing them of infringing on the copyright of their client Zheng Rongxuan's "Taiji Flag". Kangjegyu was required to immediately cease the infringing acts. And publicly apologized, promising that there would never be any more infringement in the future.
Kangjegyu was the mastermind behind the covert incitement of the rest of the studios to unite to sue CGV Cinemas, and although the company itself was not involved in the list of companies to be sued, it was they who proposed this initiative and were the most active studios in the initial stage.
Received a summons from the court. Kangjegyu Company was a little confused, and immediately found director Kang Digui, after all, "Taiji Flag Flying" was his own script, and when they decided to invest. He assured that there were no copyright issues, and as a big director, Kangjegyu Company would not have thought that director Kang Digui would actually plagiarize.
Jiang Digui also felt angry and aggrieved in his heart. But he still resisted the anger of wanting to take Zheng Rongxuande to court, and went straight to the Copyright Committee, because the whole of South Korea knows Zheng Rongxuan's high production, and knows that Zheng Rongxuan holds a lot of copyrights for films, videos, and songs.
Similarly, there are many original creators who will not register first even if they filter it, or simply confidently won't even go to the filter, because often such a bad one will leak their works, especially scripts and the like, although the rest of the searchers will only see the outline, but it is enough to make many people feel fatal.
Jiang Digui was confident that he didn't filter it, let alone register his copyright, so Yan Zòng's crash happened.
And the results of his query showed that after checking the outline, Jiang Digui was suddenly a little angry and almost fainted on the spot.
Nima, who copied whom? How can there be such a coincidence in this world, Zheng Rongxuan's registered "Tai Chi Banner" is almost entirely the script of his own movie, and even the scene settings and actors' lines in the script are exactly the same, the key is that Zheng Rongxuan's registration time was actually a year ago, but his script was written three years ago, and it was completed at the end of last year, and he began to look for investment at the beginning of this year, and now it has been filming for more than two months.
Although he couldn't figure out what was going on with these two almost identical scripts, he still hoped to make an appointment with Zheng Rongxuan and talk to Zheng Rongxuan to see if there was something wrong. He knew that it was impossible to win this lawsuit, even if he had started writing it three years ago, but the key was that he ended it later than Zheng Rongxuan, and Zheng Rongxuan registered the copyright a year ago, even if he found a powerful lawyer, it was impossible for An Zhengyong to be the opponent, and he really couldn't come up with evidence that he ended before Zheng Rongxuan, or even Zheng Rongxuan plagiarized himself. After all, the two had never seen anyone before, and Zheng Rongxuan had no contact with him Jiang Digui.
The dramatic changes made Kangjegyu feel embarrassed and unbelievable, the original script directed by Jiang Digui was actually "plagiarized", if this lawsuit could not be settled with CGV or Zheng Rongxuan, then Kangjegyu had invested more than 6 million US dollars but all of them were lost, the key is that not all of these investments were invested by themselves, even if they are also film companies, But in 2000, a multi-purpose cinema line was acquired. I haven't paid off the loan yet.
When Jiang Digui ran to the CGV Group with a full stomach of questions to meet Zheng Rongxuan, he encountered an answer that annoyed him: "I'm sorry, Director Zheng doesn't usually come to the group, and we don't have the right to make an appointment on our behalf." ”
In desperation, Jiang Digui took a lot of twists and turns to find Zheng Rongxuan's agent Cui Yunxi, but the answer he got also made him depressed: "Director Jiang, Mr. Zheng admires your directorial talent very much, and has mentioned many times that you are one of the directors he respects. It is not Mr. Zheng's intention to implicate you in this matter, otherwise lawyer An Zhengyong would not have sued Kangjegyu, and if Director Jiang is unhappy there, I hope you can consider CGV Group after regaining your freedom. ”
Kang Di Gyu was already at the beginning. I didn't feel a little confused in the name of the indictment, and after checking the outline of Zheng Rongxuan's script, plus some rumors I heard, I guessed that this was a war between CGV Group and Kangjegyu Company. I'm just a fuse, the key is that the script of this play was written by myself, which is absolutely true.
"Can you make an appointment for me with Mr. Zheng Rongxuan? I really wanted to discuss the creation of the script and the shooting of the film with him. Jiang Digui still asked without giving up. There is no way, few people know Zheng Rongxuan's private number, and he is not familiar with director Guo Zairong, and other familiar directors don't know, so he can only bite the bullet and go directly to Zheng Rongxuan's agent.
Cui Yunxi shook his head with a smile and said: "I'm sorry Director Jiang, Mr. Zheng is not in Seoul, he didn't say when he will come back, and he rarely discusses creative issues with others, and he will not meet guests." ”
Cui Yunxi was embarrassed to spray him directly, what if you are the director, what is Zheng Rongxuan's status, if anyone who comes over wants to make an appointment to meet, then he will be busy all day long.
Jiang Digui, who had a gray nose here at Zheng Rongxuan, didn't wait to return to Kangjegyu Company, and after the agent answered a phone call, he knew that the movie he was shooting could not be made again.
After Zheng Rongxuan sued Kangjegyu, the cooperating companies Korea Pictures and Mirovision sued him in court, accusing the other party of breach of the investment agreement and demanding that the other party return the $1.5 million each of the film investment funds that had been invested.
"Tai Chi Flag Flying" is a joint investment of three companies, after all, it is a large investment of tens of millions of dollars, kangjegyu company is because the funds are a little tight, and secondly, it is also in line with the practice of sharing risks to find two partners, but I didn't expect that now as soon as something happens, the two partners immediately sued it.
The dramatic changes have made the companies in the Korean entertainment industry sway from side to side, but most of the decision-makers of entertainment companies believe that this is almost an unsolvable war, especially the film companies that have sued the Ministry of Culture for the monopoly of CGV cinemas are a little regretful at this time, because even if a week has passed, although the Ministry of Culture has interviewed the relevant personnel of the CGV Group, the results are not satisfactory, because the CGV Group has not violated any Korean laws, let alone monopolized.
CGV Cinemas is not only supporting the films of the Film Promotion Committee, but even the films of other film companies have also obtained the corresponding release qualifications in CGV Cinemas, and CGV Cinemas has never violated its agreement with them, but when the attendance rate of their films does not reach more than 60%, they withdraw their films, and the blame can only be blamed for the fact that the films they invested in cannot attract more audiences.
In the face of CGV Cinemas' explanation, the film companies that sued CGV Cinemas were a little numb, for fear that after being hated by CGV Cinemas, they would never want to release CGV Cinemas with 70% of theaters in South Korea in the future, but this war set off by them has just begun, and now they have issued their own complaints, if CGV Group does not fight back at all, then how will it lead the Korean entertainment industry in the future. (To be continued......)