In the fifth week, no one would say "Typhoon" in the newspaper, and even the director of "Typhoon", the great South Korean director Guo Jingze, left a sentence in the newspaper that ""Typhoon" did not fail' and disappeared, no matter how much the media searched for him, he could not be found.

And the inevitable starring "Typhoon", South Korean national actor Jang Dongjian was asked by media reporters about "The King's Man", he could only helplessly say that the failure of "Typhoon" was because he met the more demonic "The King's Man".

"The King's Man" is too bewitching, the number of moviegoers in a single day broke the record, the number of moviegoers in the first week broke the record, the fastest exceeded 1 million moviegoers, the fastest exceeded 2 million moviegoers, and the fastest exceeded 5 million moviegoers, dominating the Korean box office champion for four consecutive weeks, let "Typhoon" impact, let the Hollywood movie trend attack, it just silently occupied the top position of the box office list, and pulled this gap to a big surprise.

Under the glow of "The King's Man", no film can raise its head, including "Taeji Flag Flying", which was hailed as the best war blockbuster in Korean history at the beginning of the year.

With a wave of his sleeves, Li Lin defeated "Typhoon", defeated "Taiji Flag Flying", and defeated a number of national film stars and directors in South Korea.

Xijie Entertainment was silent, the national actor was silent, the big director was silent, and on the page of the newspaper, there was only the voice of "The King's Man".

Everyone is watching to see how far "The King's Man" can go, and whether it can break the record of "Life and Death Spy", which is known as South Korea's "Titanic".

"Life and Death" is also known as "Fish", the fourth-highest-grossing film in Korean history. The savior of Korean cinema, South Korea's Titanic.

Before "Life and Death", Korean films were the same as Japanese films. In the midst of death, local movie fans don't watch their own movies at all.

At that time, there were no big local film companies in South Korea, only big distribution companies, and these distribution companies selected films from all over the world to introduce to Korea and show them to Korean fans.

In order to change this situation, the South Korean government has set up a policy that distribution companies must produce Korean films in order to have the right to distribute them. If you want to distribute as many foreign films as you want, you have to make as many domestic Korean films as you want.

However, there are countermeasures under the policy, and Korean distribution companies have switched to film companies after seeing the policy, while making low-quality Korean small films. On the one hand, it is a big deal to introduce foreign countries and make a lot of money.

Seeing this situation, the South Korean government took the lead in setting up the Film Association, which allocated tens of billions of won every year to support the development of domestic films.

But these films are not short of highlights, though. But the technique is jerky. It can't make money in theaters, and it doesn't fundamentally change the disadvantages of Korean local films.

Until the birth of "Life and Death".

South Korean director Kang Dikyu's work "Life and Death" broke various records in South Korea as soon as it was launched, and pressed "Titanic" under his feet, the highest-grossing film in Korean history, and completely suppressed a number of foreign blockbusters.

It is it that tells film investors with facts that Korean films are making money, so Korean investors have begun to invest in film and television works. Korean cinema ushered in development.

In the past, one movie after another launched an impact on "Life and Death". But there are only three that can succeed, namely "Friends", "Sebi Island" and "Taiji Flag Flying", which broke various historical records in South Korea as soon as it was released at the beginning of this year.

Judging from the box office, "The King's Man" seems to be able to break the record of "Life and Death" and become another commercial blockbuster that surpasses "Life and Death", but this week, "The King's Man" ushered in a challenger.

From Hollywood director Spielberg's new work "Memoirs of a Geisha".

As a big Hollywood director, Spielberg has many fans in South Korea and is very famous, and as soon as his movie comes out, the whole world is looking forward to it.

In the movie expectation voting, "Memoirs of a Geisha" once overpowered "Typhoon" and became the most popular Hollywood movie in South Korea.

In terms of movie ticket pre-sales, "Memoirs of a Geisha" has created a pre-sale of millions of movie tickets before it actually landed, and many media believe that "The King's Man" will be blocked by "Memoirs of a Geisha", thus losing the limelight.

"Memoirs of a Geisha? Zhang Ziyi and Gong Li's works? Li Lin looked at the newspaper and frowned slightly, "Memoirs of a Geisha" once blocked "The King's Man" in history, but it was swept with unparalleled power like the end of "Typhoon", but in the end it was swept by "The King's Man" with the autumn wind sweeping the leaves.

"I didn't expect it to land in advance like "Typhoon", and it seems that my butterfly has caused a lot of impact." Li Lin then tossed the newspaper aside.

Ding dong......

The mobile phone rang, Li Lin glanced at it and showed a faint smile, this mobile phone is a Samsung customized mobile phone, there is only one in the world, and it was specially made by Samsung Group in order to repay Li Lin for giving them endorsement.

The body is pure white, mixed with some platinum, and the front is inlaid with twelve diamonds, sparkling, just this mobile phone, the price on the market is more than 500 million won, equivalent to 2 million Chinese dollars.

As a price, Li Lin must use this mobile phone in public, and he needs to endorse Samsung mobile phones from time to time.

"Li Linxi." Director Lee Jun-ik called, and just listening to it, you could hear the excited voice, "An American distribution company has come to us." ”

"We're about to land in the United States."

Li Lin was in a very flat mood when he heard this, and there were no twists and turns at all.

He knows exactly what the urine of the American distribution company is.

They will buy a movie that sells well in Asia, but not for any distribution, but for the real purpose of making a disc for niche movie lovers in the United States.

This is the case with horror films like "The Grudge" and "The Pen Fairy".

The second is the remake.

When they think the idea and plot of a movie is very good, they will buy the copyright, or at least the adaptation rights, and then remake the Hollywood movie.

This is the case with the American version of "The Grudge" and the American version of "Infernal Affairs" and "The Departed".

The reason why they flopped instead of being released directly was mainly a problem with American audiences, for American audiences, Asian faces are almost the same, and an Asian movie, they only feel that there is a lack of interest.

Like "Heroes" and "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic", they inevitably encountered Waterloo in the United States, and to put it simply, it was entirely because Americans don't like to look at Asian faces very much.

On the contrary, many European films sell well in the United States.

As for "The King's Man", it was indeed released in the United States, but it was only released in some not very good theaters, and the time period was not very good.

It didn't break $200,000 at the U.S. box office, and it was released just three days after its release.

However, the distributor made a lot of money on the release of the disc, and many American comrades regarded the work as a Korean gay film, and in fact, the American distributor also promoted it as such.

"Don't expect too much." Li Lin couldn't help but pour cold water on Li Junyi, "By the way, who will buy it, and how much will they pay to buy it?" ”

The plan for U.S. distributors to buy foreign films is usually a buyout, hundreds of thousands of dollars and millions of dollars, for other countries, this buyout fee is very high, but for American distributors, it is too cheap to be at a cheap price.

In the United States, a movie with an investment of less than 100 million yuan is embarrassed to say that it is a blockbuster, while a blockbuster can buy hundreds of foreign films.

For distributors, tens of billions of movies don't necessarily add up to blockbusters.

Blockbusters have box office, peripherals, discs, TV networks, and online on-demand, etc., but foreign films have a disc market, and when they accumulate a lot, they often make a lot of money, and if some miracles emerge in it, then they will make more money.

"It's Miramax Films." Li Junyi said jokingly: "What, you just told me not to look forward to it, and now you are looking forward to it?" ”

"I didn't look forward to it, don't forget jì, this movie was invested by me, although I am not optimistic about his box office in the United States, but I am optimistic about the price of its buyout, more or less it is also a sum of money, and it is still US dollars, don't you say?" Li Lin said with a smile, but his heart moved.

Miramax, an independent Disney-owned producer, is known for discovering low-budget films and foreign films, and he is even more famous than Lionsgate, which specializes in horror films.

The reason why Chinese fans are familiar with Miramax is entirely because Miramax was one of the first Hollywood studios to enter China.

It was he who single-handedly brought "Hero" to the United States, and won the first weekly box office championship, starting the journey of Chinese films into the United States.

At the time, many people thought that Miramax's investment had failed, because "Hero" had a box office of $50 million in the United States, and Miramax bought out the rights of Hero in North America for $25 million, which seemed to be a loss.

But in fact, Miramax is the investor of "Hero", the copyright of "Hero" belongs to Miramax, and the so-called $25 million buyout is actually just a right-handed behavior, and this behavior also avoids US taxes.

The $31 million investment earned $170 million at the global box office, and then on the release of the disc, Miramax made another lot of money, and at the same time entered the Chinese market, and Miramax made a lot of money.

That's why Zhang Yimou said in an interview, 'I didn't expect this film to be so popular in China.'"

For Zhang Yimou, "Hero" is his work to enter the American market, he never thought that the box office would be so high in China, and it opened the era of blockbusters in China. (To be continued......)