Rebirth of the Director in Korea

When the number of viewers of “Welcome to Dongmakgol” reached one million, everyone was guessing when the number of viewers could reach two million; when the number of movie viewers reached When it broke two million in five days, everyone began to guess whether the next three million would break the record?

However, when everyone saw that the score of “Welcome to Dongmakgol” exceeded 3 million in 10 days, everyone began to guess where it would end.

the past few days Whenever the box office results of the previous day are announced, the first call of Park Kwang-hyun as the director will always be on Jung Hyuk-jae’s cell phone, between the two people In fact, I didn’t say anything. I just took this opportunity to discuss the attendance of the movie and the schedule of the theater. As for the issue of publicity and distribution, CJ.E&M has already taken care of everything.

When Park Kwang-hyun invested all of his belongings in this movie, he actually had the idea of ​​fighting back because he has been busy with work in the past few years, and his girlfriends who have been with him for many years have also been with him. He broke up. Both his parents at home have their own jobs and sources of income. That’s why he thinks about putting his savings for many years into this movie. The idea is that if he fails, he will start all over again. !

Although the beginning and the process were a bit difficult, the result was wonderful. The funds invested in the previous period have been completely returned to the circulation. As for the current profit calculation, it is comparable to his previous years of income, no wonder Most recently I came to Park Kwang-hyun and I felt very good.

Park Kwang-hyun is in a good mood, and CJ.E&M is also in a good mood, especially Lee Sung-in, as the one who promoted the cooperation between the two sides, because of the hot screening of this movie, The image of the company and the big leaders in mind has deepened a lot, especially when the company’s leaders publicly praised his efforts and achievements in film distribution during the meeting. If no surprises, it would not be a salary increase or promotion. Far.

Before, Lee Sung-in, as an ordinary team leader of CJ.E&M, was only responsible for the implementation of the publication of several films. As for the signing of the contract in person There are also movies, but the results are somewhat unsatisfactory. Compared with the company’s other distribution leaders, it is a failure.

Like Lee Sung-in is Park Kwang-hyun. As a director, he couldn’t invest in his movie. This man in his thirties had been alone at night. Tears, who says that men don’t cry, but they’re not sad.

Because of this experience, two people of similar age walked very close to each other, and they became friends after getting along a few times.

“Gwanghyun, came here so early today?” Pushing open the private room door, Lee Sung-in saw Park Kwang-hyun sitting at the table at first glance. He was holding a tea cup in one hand and a cell phone in the other hand, and he didn’t know what he was looking at, with a bright smile on his face.

“What are you looking at? Smiling so happy?” Lee Sung-in couldn’t help being a little curious when he saw Park Kwang-hyun’s appearance, and then asked.

“Ah, it’s nothing, just watched a few news about our movie!” Seeing the visitor, Park Kwang-hyun immediately got up and replied and said hello.

Lee Sung-in of the two is one year older than Park Kwang-hyun, so it is true that Park Kwang-hyun should be called Lee Sung-in or hyeong.

“When did you come here? It was quite early today!” After sitting down, Lee Sung-in said with a smile.

“It’s actually not too early, I just arrived, after all, it’s not far from where I live, and it’s only ten minutes by car.” I was confused when I heard Lee Sung-in. , Park Kwang-hyun explained.

“By the way, did you call Hyuk-jae -ssi?” Lee Sung-in asked hurriedly when he thought of this.

“Have a fight, he said he is already on the road, and he will be there in a while!”

The three people gathered together, the reason is naturally because of “Welcome to Dongmakgol”. Just the day before the dinner, that is, yesterday, the number of viewers of the movie “Welcome to Dongmakgol” has reached 3.78 million, breaking 4 million is already nothing difficult, really speaking of which is the movie theater. For a movie, the number of people watching the movie can break through 4 million immediately.

If three million is a cut-off point, then “Welcome to Dongmakgol” can be said to have exceeded 80% of South Korea movies. When the number of viewers of “Welcome to Dongmakgol” continues to move towards four million, the number of people who continue to advance, every 10,000 people increase, it means that a movie has been left behind by it.

Waiting for the time when Jung Hyuk-jae came, Park Kwang-hyun called the waiter to serve a few dishes and white wine, and the two of them just like the side dishes and the small wine, chatting very comfortably From the beginning, the atmosphere is quite Rongqiao.

“Gwanghyun-ssi, what have you been up to lately?” Lee Sung-in picked up the wine glass and touched Park Kwang-hyun, then asked.

“I haven’t been busy lately, I’m just busy, I don’t know what I should do! My mind is not on the script at all.”

I heard Park Kwang-hyun wrinkle a picture Speaking of which, Lee Sung-in Haha smiled, very understanding his current mood.

If said that when the investment in the movie could not be determined, Park Kwang-hyun’s heart was more worried and bad; but after the movie was released, this worry and bad turned into a right The worries about the future of the film are concerned about the audience’s evaluation; when the number of movie viewers came out, this worries turned into worries about film distribution and publicity. In short, Park Kwang-hyun was unable to do so for a moment. Take time off.

“Sungren-ssi, what about you?” Park Kwang-hyun asked immediately after speaking.

“Well, I’m the same as my previous job. No, do I need to be responsible for the promotion plan for the third week of the release of “Welcome to Dongmakgol”? Because the movie has been in theaters for eleven days. There must be an innovation in the routine, so recently I have been busy with the new publicity plan”

“Really, I really have to thank Chengren for taking care of this!” Park Kwang- Hyun said sincerely, and even gestured to Lee Sung-in slightly nodded.

“How Kwang Hyun-ssi, do you have any new film plans or a summary of the new film recently?” Lee Sung-in leaned close to Park Kwang-hyun and whispered, as if he was afraid of being caught I listened to it.

Hearing Lee Sung-in’s question, Park Kwang-hyun immediately shook his head. It’s not that there is no new film plan, but Park Kwang-hyun wants to take a break during this time, and then Take your parents out for a stroll.

“There is no new film plan, and I want to take a break for the most important reason!” Park Kwang-hyun explained.

Directing can be said to be the most difficult profession in the entertainment industry. It is not that singers and entertainers are inferior to directors, but that the director is a hard-working person. Production crew prepares before filming, guides actors after filming, and is stuck because of the screening time and funds stipulated in the contract. The funds are just that, and investors don’t care about other problems. Anyway, the funds are just so much, I want more. Not at all, so I can’t tolerate the director’s panic during the filming. You must know that every minute of delay is money!

After the movie was released, the director began to worry about whether the movie was good or not. How did the audience evaluate the movie? Concerned about the performance of the movie in the number of viewers, these are all things that the director is worried about!

“Please tell me when there is a new film plan, there must be no problem with funding!” Before Park Kwang-hyun said that he has a new film plan, Lee Sung-in has already entered the advertisement Time is up.

Through the excellent performance after the release of “Welcome to Dongmakgol” this time, you must know that CJ.E&M has already taken a fancy to Park Kwang-hyun, the “new director” in the director circle. This time came to Lee Sung -in came here with the task of acting as a lobbyist, and then as much as possible to build a relationship with Park Kwang-hyun, even if he can’t be allowed to join his company, he still has to have a face with Park Kwang-hyun. Familiarity and familiarity will lay a solid foundation for future cooperation between the two parties.

Listening to Lee Sung-in’s words, Park Kwang-hyun was laughed first, and then remembered the story of the movie “Welcome to Dongmakgol” when he was looking for investors at first, didn’t expect it for half a year Over time, the change is so big. Before, I had to go to “cry hal-abeoji and sue hal-meoni” to ask for investment, but this time is different. You don’t need to speak for yourself, and the investment has already come to the door.

“Guangxuan-ssi, our company has been holding a’College Student Film Festival’ in the past few years. Next month is the opening ceremony of this year’s’College Student Film Festival’ on the 10th. Do you have time to go by? “

After talking about the above, Lee Sung-in turned to the topic of’College Student Film Festival’. In fact, his request was to invite Park Kwang-hyun to the opening ceremony. A few words, encourage the college students.

The youngsters of the new generation are very interested in the background story of the movie “Welcome to Dongmakgol”, especially the stories about the film production companies that have “eyes but no beads” in the background story. Everyone is very interested in this. It’s a mutually beneficial thing to invite Park Kwang-hyun to participate this time.

“Is it the tenth of next month?” Park Kwang-hyun thought for a while. It seems that he will have nothing to do next month. Because this matter is not big, Park Kwang-hyun did not think too much. So he agreed. Isn’t it just being a judge or something? For him is this not just reaching over to snatch away the grain?

The two people sat together for about ten minutes, and then they heard that the private room door was pushed open from the outside. The two of them looked intently and it turned out to be Jung Hyuk-jae. They were just thinking about it. It’s not a phone call with him to ask where he is, didn’t expect it’s here!

“Hyuk-jae -ssi, come, come! Come and sit, just waiting for you to come, the waiter will serve!” Lee Sung-in greeted Jung Hyuk-jae to sit down, and then The waiter in the private room said’Serve’!

Of the three, Jung Hyuk-jae is undoubtedly a junior, but because of the cooperative relationship between the two parties, the patriarch should be addressed in honorifics. See Park Kwang-hyun and Lee Sung-in Arrived early, Jung Hyuk-jae reacted and said hello to these two people who came today.

“Not good means, I am late today.” Jung Hyuk-jae said embarrassedly.

“It’s okay, it’s okay!” Upon hearing Jung Hyuk-jae’s words, Lee Sung-in waved his hand first, and then continued.

“Hyuk-jae -ssi, at the premiere ceremony of the movie a few days ago, didn’t you say that you want to develop in the film? How about, does Hyuk-jae -ssi have a suitable script?”

Meet, Lee Sung-in asked straight to the point.

Although it is clear in my heart that there will be more important things to be announced at the scattered gathering today, but the Chinese character didn’t expect this incident will involve you, and what happened to the past few days? Why do large and small film production companies want to find themselves?

Like Lotte Entertainment, they found themselves first for the cooperation of film distribution, and secondly, they fell in love with themselves. Forgive me for using the word “fancy”, but the word here is Jung Hyuk -jae said it himself.

Although Jung Hyuk-jae has never proven himself in the film industry before, it can be passed through the ratings of several TV series. There is no shortage of directors these days. What is lacking is a good Screenwriter and script, especially Screenwriters like Jung Hyuk-jae that have passed the test of the market are even more rare. It’s no wonder why Lotte Entertainment and CJ.E&M, etc. His reason.

A good script can definitely hold up half of the movie. The other half is the acting skills of the actors. The two complement each other and then this is a good movie.

“Come on, cheers!”

When a table full of dishes came on the table, Lee Sung-in picked up the wine glass in front of him and raised it high. His hands trembled because of excitement, and more than one-fifth of the full glass of wine spilled out.

“Wish the results of “Welcome to Dongmakgol” get better and better, everyone has a drink!” Immediately after Lee Sung-in, Park Kwang-hyun also picked up the glass in front of him.

“Cheers!”

After a few glasses of liquor, the three of them didn’t drink more, but picked up the chopsticks and chatted with them while eating. The atmosphere between the three is quite harmonious.

After taking a few bites, Jung Hyuk-jae stopped the chopsticks in his hand, put the chopsticks aside, and said, “I heard a news, and I don’t know if it’s true!”

“What news?”

When Jung Hyuk-jae said that, Lee Sung-in and Park Kwang-hyun’s curiosity was also seduced by him. Unanimously, he put down the chopsticks in his hand, stared at Jung Hyuk-jae and Park Kwang-hyun in front of him without blinking, and then asked.

“That’s right, it seems that the movie quota system will be cut in half from next year.” Jung Hyuk-jae whispered.

“Really?”

“Is it real this time?”

I heard Jung Hyuk-jae say that, Park Kwang- Both hyun and Lee Sung-in can’t help but grow their mouths. This is not good news for filmmakers, especially for Small Accomplishment and small-produced movies.

Since the bald operation started many years ago, the film quota system can be regarded as supporting many small film production companies. It is very difficult to survive in the cracks of large companies. Obviously, this time is the goal. For small film production companies, it can be expected that when the time comes will be another reshuffle.