rising director

"The great director asked me out, of course it's a compliment."

Faced with Zhao's boldness, Wan Xiaohu was a little overwhelmed, so he quickly stopped and said, "We'll talk about the date another day. Actually, I have something to do with you. My new script has been written, and now I'm waiting for the shooting. That's it." This "My Sassy Girlfriend". I plan to go to South Korea to chat with the original author, and then find a Korean actor to be the heroine. I need a translator. Can you come and help me?"

Su Ya asked curiously, "Are you really looking for a Korean to act in a movie?"

"Let's try the waters. If we can enter the Korean market, it will be easier to make money than the mainland."

Zhao Yueyue wanted to try: "The two of us?"

"Bring a few more people. If you invite South Korea to act in a play, you should treat the contract carefully. Moreover, "Butterfly Effect" also needs to contact the Korean distributor. It happened to go there with Huayi Brothers' sales staff to form a group, which looks more formal. .”

Raiding the Korean market is a goal that Wan Xiaohu has planned long ago. As one of the four Asian tigers, Koreans are willing to watch movies. It is a big ticket warehouse in Asia. In the years after 2000, it has been second only to Japan. The second largest ticket warehouse in Asia.Even in 2014, it was only the fourth largest ticket warehouse in Asia after China, Japan, and India.

Wan Xiaohu once read a news article, saying that in 2012, the performance of the world's major ticket warehouses, China ranked second in the world with US$27 billion, and South Korea ranked eighth in the world with US$13 billion.China has a population of 14 billion, while South Korea has a population of only 5000 million. It is such a small country, and its box office is only half that of China. The film market is really scary.

For Chinese films, especially Hong Kong films, the main ticket holders are South Korea, Japan and Southeast Asia. Now the market is basically robbed by Hollywood, and it will not happen overnight if they want to regain it.But no matter what, the road has to be taken step by step. Wan Xiaohu doesn't want to flaunt himself too great, talk about leading Chinese movies to sweep Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America, but he hopes that his personal influence can sweep the world.

As long as the influence is established, there is no need to bother to knock on the doors of various markets when making movies in the future, but distributors from all over the world will come to them on their own initiative.

Now, "My Sassy Girl", the last movie that was popular in Korea, can just serve as a stepping stone to open up the Korean market, and Wan Xiaohu doesn't want to waste it.

When not talking about business, Wan Xiaohu likes to talk and play jokes and humor.But when it comes to serious business, he is still a very serious person.

"The Korean market has always been very good, and their ticket prices are cheap, and the audience is willing to go to the movies to watch movies. Winning the Korean market is very important. Moreover, South Korea is a country with very strict etiquette. "My Sassy Girl" The reason why the novel became popular is because of the outburst of rebellious psychology under the shackles of this kind of ethics. It can be predicted that once it is made into a movie, the fans will definitely be indispensable, and there is a Korean as the heroine, and they are more likely to accept Chinese movies. .”

"It seems that you have big plans for South Korea." Su Ya poked the inedible duck leg with her chopsticks and said.

Wan Xiaohu smiled slightly: "Whoever is a director has no ambition to go abroad and go international."

"Well, it's an honor to serve the great director." Zhao wiped his mouth and nodded in agreement.

In this way, a delicious dinner is over.

Wan Xiaohu drove them back to the Peking University dormitory.

Then I drove the Mercedes-Benz S600 for a drive along the road, and passed a movie theater before I knew it.After thinking about it, Wan Xiaohu stopped the car by the side of the road and walked into the cinema.

The movie theater is a bit run-down, and many movie posters are hung on the wall. In a very conspicuous place directly opposite the door, there is a poster of "Butterfly Effect".Huayi Brothers has done a good job in publicity. Chinese audiences do not have a strong purpose in watching movies. They often go to the cinema to think about what movie to watch. At this time, the importance of posters can be reflected .

Walking to the ticket window, Wan Xiaohu asked, "What movie is there tonight?"

"There is only one show at ten o'clock. "Butterfly Effect" and "In the Mood for Love", which one do you want to watch?" asked the conductor.

"Which one looks better?"

"I watched "Butterfly Effect" more, there are two halls, and "In the Mood for Love" is not bad, it depends on how you choose."

"Are there many people watching "Butterfly Effect" these days? Is it good?"

While counting the tickets, the conductor said without raising his head: "It looks good, it looks good, many people have seen it, and they all said it was good after watching it. But "In the Mood for Love" won the best actor in Cannes, Liang Chaowei, and it looks good too." Ah, and Zhang Manyu."

Just as he was talking, there was a commotion, and dozens of people came out of the movie theater, obviously just finished watching the movie.

"Brother Bai, do you understand "The Butterfly Effect"? People don't understand it yet." A girl with a slim waist was acting coquettishly to a man with a big belly and a bald head when she passed by Wan Xiaohu.

This is Brother Bai's bald head and big belly. There is a black mole the size of a soybean grain on the left side of his face. There is still a small amount of hair on the mole. After stroking the hair on his own mole, Brother Bai hugged the waist of the water snake The slender waist: "It doesn't matter if you don't understand, Brother Bai understands everything, wait a while and take a bath, Brother Bai will have a detailed and in-depth exchange of experience with you about watching movies, ahahahaha."

"I hate it." The water snake leaned sweetly on the bald and big belly.

The two talked and laughed, and disappeared at the entrance of the cinema.

"Let me tell you, it is impossible for Su to change the past, and it is impossible for the final wedding photo to appear. Did you see that there are four small pictures around, one of which is Su's mother having a miscarriage, which indicates that Su will go back to his mother Suicide!" A young man counted.

Another young man disagreed: "How can there be a happy ending? You didn't listen to the last parallel theory. There is always a happiest way."

"That was to fool you. I was afraid that you would not be able to accept the cruel reality. The ending was deliberately changed. When Su went to see his father, didn't Chen Daoming say that changing the past would only make the present worse. Impossible to play God. The first time he changed, he became a murderer, the second time he changed, he killed Li Jie and Yu Hao, and the third time he changed himself, the disabled mother also got sick, each time was more miserable... "

The two argued away like this.

Wan Xiaohu leaned against the wall, listening to the people coming and going, basically discussing "The Butterfly Effect", the corners of his mouth couldn't help grinning, the movie was obviously a huge success.

The only thing that bothers me is that standing here, no one recognizes him as Wan Xiaohu.

"The road is long and long. When will I get to the point where everyone knows Zhang Yimou and Feng Xiaogang?"

0116【Sassy girlfriend】

"In November, "Butterfly Effect" tornadoes the Mainland!"

The plane was flying in the blue sky and white clouds. Wan Xiaohu was lying in the luxury cabin, watching the "Global Times" provided on the plane, a little excited and unable to fall asleep.Now is the so-called Singles’ Day on November 11th, and the flight is flying from Beijing to the capital of South Korea. At this time, the capital of South Korea has not been renamed Seoul, and it is still called Seoul.

He flew to South Korea together with Huayi Brothers' director Zhao Cheng, who specializes in publishing, and others, together with Li Xia, Zhao and the company's legal director Liu Susu, and planned to expand their network in South Korea.

In the previous period of time, "Legend of Hot Blood" has been online for less than two weeks, and it has reached the scale of 10 people online at the same time, which can be called hot. After the popularity of "Butterfly Effect" in the first week, it cooled down in the second week, but it is still the most popular movie theater for this period.

The movie is very popular in the mainland, far exceeding Wan Xiaohu's expectations. It is a pity that the mainland was not paid too much attention at the beginning, which led to the [-]% to [-]% of the signing, which is a bit low.But at the beginning, no one knew that the movie was so popular in the mainland, even if Wan Xiaohu wanted to increase the share, Huayi Brothers probably would not agree.

"Forget it, it's just a little bit of money. Now that the mainland market is skyrocketing, that's it. 5000 million box office, production and distribution can be divided into 1750 million. Even if I give them all, it doesn't make much sense. Really If you want to make money, you should watch overseas, watch North America. "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", I really look forward to next year's Oscars, let you touch Hollywood, and then I can hitch a ride and go to North America..."

Fantasizing about going to the United States to kill the world, Wan Xiaohu gradually fell asleep...

Seoul is the capital of South Korea and one of the top ten international cities in the world. Wan Xiaohu and his party are not pressed for time, so they spent a relaxing day exploring the streets of Seoul.The next day, Jin Haozhi, who had already contacted by fax, met with Wan Xiaohu in a cafe.

Zhao acted as an interpreter.

"Hello, Jin Haozhi, I'm Wan Xiaohu, the director of "My Sassy Girlfriend."

"Hello, it's the first time we meet, please take care of me." Kim Ho-sik himself has a personality similar to the protagonist of the novel, Morning Glory, very shy and introverted.

Moreover, Jin Haozhi is also a very thoughtful young man. He put forward many constructive ideas for the adaptation of his novel, and Wan Xiaohu briefly explained the script he wrote to him.

Then the two discussed it.

Two hours later, Wan Xiaohu proposed: "Well, since you have a lot of ideas, why don't you join my crew and work as a screenwriter with me." Although Wan Xiaohu has already created the script, it doesn't mean it can't be revised. Very thoughtful, some ideas, especially the suggestions for the Korean market, are very constructive.

"I am willing. Excuse me, do you want to go abroad to work?"

"Obviously yes, we came to Korea this time to find a Korean as the heroine. I remember when you sold the copyright, you told Zhao and the others that you wanted Jun Ji-hyun to play the heroine, yes ?"

"Yes, I like Jun Ji Hyun very much, I think she is Song Mingxi in my heart."

"This is just right, you can contact her with us, and when we confirm the candidate, you can go to the country with us."

"Okay then, please take care of the director in the future."

"Everyone learns from each other and makes progress together." Wan Xiaohu waved his hand, enjoying Jin Haozhi's attitude. In comparison, Koreans are quite polite.

After inviting Kim Ho-sik, I was looking for a heroine. Although Wan Xiaohu likes Jun Ji-hyun very much, he doesn't have to use her. .He cares that the heroine is Korean, but he doesn't care if it's Jun Ji-hyun.