Chapter 408 The Veteran Completes the Plan (Part 1)
No matter how long the autumn rain is, it will stop. No matter how many disasters and hardships, it will pass. No matter what, with the arrival of the end of the month, the sky finally clears up. As the cool autumn wind blows yellow, Kim Jong-ming finally gets rid of Jessie Jeon's outrageous destruction. Just read the novel and go to Biquli.com
However, I don’t know if it’s a shame. After the rain and rain and no one assigned him to work, facing the harmonious weather and a harmonious life, Kim Jong-ming felt that the life in front of him became boring again. Even the Qinglong Award on the 28th could not arouse his interest.
Of course, then again, the 2013 Blue Dragon Awards did have nothing to do with Kim Jong-ming. He had no movie shortlist and did not become a judge. Even the organizing committee invited him to be a guest of the awards was hesitant and rejected. In fact, the entire Blue Dragon Awards ceremony was just a Han Hyo-joo worthy of his attention... I think so, anyone wants to see the party he bets win, it is just a very common gambler mentality.
However, after Han Hyo-joo really got the actress’ queen and got what she wanted, Kim Jong-ming didn’t feel anything anymore. The two of them just chatted a few times at the banquet later, roughly as follows:
"Congratulations, I deserve it."
"No matter what, I am still grateful to you and admire your demeanor."
"It's just a slutty and just a straightforward manner."
"...I heard that I've worked hard recently, I'm a Spider-Man and an assistant?"
"Hey, I'm also chanting fairy tales to the little girls born in the 2000s."
“It rained heavily a few days ago.”
"It's clear now..."
"Your movie is released next month?"
"Well, the premiere of the New Year's Day holiday the night before. At that time, we will ask our new Qinglong Yingying to help us later."
"Can you not go?" (laugh)
"It's true that you are not one."
"You... are really annoying sometimes!"
Anyway, this is roughly the case.
As time goes by, when it comes to the last month of 2013, unexpectedly, Kim Jong-ming encountered something that made him feel slightly stimulating... It was not that Xika had made some tricks, nor that Kim Jong-ming forced the sisters to be foot washers and go to "Three Times and Three Meals" to be original chefs, but that something happened in another variety show.
That's right, the last two episodes of "runningman" in 2013 have arrived. During this recording, it may be because he had a formal long talk with the program team and Yoo Jae-suk, and others in advance, expressing his intention to get off the car, so Kim Jong-ming was particularly able to make up during the recording of the program.
The biggest highlight of these two year-end special programs is of course the last paper boat crossing the river... And when Kim Jong-ming capsized the boat, he actually played a good show of burning the boat. By the way, he refused the help of the rescue team at that time, but instead dragged the innocent member of the same group, Jiang Gary, to carry the overturned paper boat, and then forced the last few dozen meters away!
To put it in the words he was trembling after getting ashore, he just thought it was a winter swimming... and he was also quite bold.
But the price is naturally that he has been resting in a drowsy manner for four or five days to recover. When he cheers up, New Year's Day has come to his eyes. This also means that the "Farewell" he has been brewing and looking forward to for a long time is finally released.
The premiere? Actually, there is nothing to say.
The location is still away from home, from Zhongwu Road, and from Jiangnan, it is moderately distanced from Shili CGV Cinema. Kim Jong-ming has long been used to it. In addition to the routine media, the people who support him are naturally still posting heroic posts and come if they are willing to come. Considering Kim Jong-ming's current status and influence, it is nothing more than that more people will come.
In fact, even Han Hyo-joo, who was a little arrogant before and said directly that she might not have come, came honestly.
Of course, there are some surprises in the direction of guests. For example, since it is a movie starring Kim Jong-ming and Hwang Jung-min, there should be no reason why several top male actors in the circle are in place. But in fact, although Ha Jung-woo, Xue Qianwan and others came to support them as promised, Song Kang-ho and Choi Min-sik, the two signed actors from the cube company, did not appear. If the latter can still talk about the movie "Ming Liang" in the critical period, the former's absence will be a little wrong no matter how you look at it.
But soon, with the arrival of a slightly unexpected guest, the puzzle seemed to be solved instantly... No, this guest was Zheng Hucheng, the current president's confidant, the senior political secretary of the Blue House Secretary.
By the way, with this person's arrival, almost everyone on the scene was full of thoughts, but there were two thoughts that should exist universally:
First of all, everyone understood why Song Kanghao was so unwilling to give face. The relationship was not because Song Dabing was unwilling to give face to his boss, but because she could not give face to him.
Secondly, everyone was a little dazed and moved, because in the first half of this year, the Blue House, especially the Blue House secretariat, had a very unhappy public relationship with Kim Jong-ming for the head of the Economic Promotion Group. However, in a blink of an eye, he followed the president to visit and was a main theme movie... Now, there were heavyweights from the Blue House taking the initiative to attend a premiere, and the two sides seemed to be fine. This complex relationship, interests and conflicts between big figures were completely incomprehensible to the people below.
However, what these people don’t know is that Kim Jong-ming is actually a little helpless about Zheng Hu-sung’s arrival. His "Veteran" is completely a pure commercial movie, and it has nothing to do with the other party, and there is no need for the other party to support him. In fact, if Zheng Hu-sung can be replaced by Uncle Dabing, it might be better.
But how to say it? Compared to a president of a country, the aunt was not only a little paranoid, but also a little narrow-minded and short-sighted, and even emotionally active. She was so worried about the movie "International Market" that praised herself and her father. It was not enough to ask from time to time. It was inexplicable that a senior political secretary left his job to inquire about the situation in person!
But if you say a thousand words, can Kim Jong-ming not support you? As a guest, can you still drive you out? As for everyone’s thoughts in private, they can only let everyone think about it.
In this way, the red carpet, media meetings, fan meetings, and the steps that should be taken are all in a step-by-step manner... Let's talk about the truth here. No one questioned the whole process, nor did anyone make trouble. From the beginning of the red carpet to the seats, the atmosphere in the entire cinema was harmonious. Think about it, this is South Korea, any Korean audience, no matter you are a senior official at the Blue House or a professional film critic who is determined to be picky, or a lucky audience who simply came in the lottery, no one would think that the movie co-created by Huang Zhengmin, Kim Jong-ming, Liu Chengwan, Liu Haizhen, and Wu Dazhu, who are at the peak, will be a bad movie!
If these people really make a movie that makes people feel chewy, it will only show that the basic pills of Korean movies!
In fact, judging from everyone's reaction after the movie ended, the movie did not disappoint everyone. Basically, most of the audience were talking about it with a refreshing and unsatisfactory taste. A few media reporters who wanted to rush to write were also rushing and serious about publishing.
However, among the abortion, our director Bong Joon-ho seemed a little withdrawn as usual. He put on the hat he brought with his down jacket, lowered his head, and walked out along the abortion alone... This was also impossible. He just couldn't change his bad habits. Every time he watched a movie, he would bring his own notebook and comment on the movies, making everyone around him helpless. He himself knew that he was annoying, so in recent times, he actually rarely participated in premieres and other occasions. He would choose places with fewer individuals to watch movies slowly, which was really unreluctant. For example, today, he was always used to hiding in the corner of the screening hall to watch movies alone, commenting alone, talking alone, and then avoiding the reporter... going home alone.
However, the situation seemed a little strange this time, because when I walked to the cinema service hall, someone was waiting for him there.
"Director!" Kim Jong-ming greeted the somewhat confused director with a smile, and there were several major directors such as Choi Dong-hoon, Kang Di-gyu, Qiu Changmin, Lee Huan-kyung, Han Jae-lin, etc., and they all looked over, and they felt a little confused. I don't know if it was a little uncomfortable because they were watched. By the way, at this moment, not only some media reporters and audiences were around these major directors, but many idols and actors who came to attend the premiere also stopped to act as temporary star-chasing people.
"Why don't you turn on your phone when the movie is over? We have to come here to stop you." Jin Zhongming took a step forward and grabbed the other party directly.
"Hey... I forgot." Bong Joon-ho was obviously confused. "You have something to ask me for? What are you going to do? Are you planning to hold a director meeting?"
"Nothing." Kim Jong-ming smiled without hesitation. "I just wanted to invite a few directors to have a meal and ask some professional questions by the way. I booked a private room in the Chinese restaurant in Jiangnan."
"So that's it." Bong Joon-ho still nodded in confusion.
To be honest, the director of Bongda knows that the organizers generally have additional public relations actions after the premiere, but first of all, he doesn't understand why Kim Jong-ming was so impatient and even stopped him in public; secondly, he can't figure out why Kim Jong-ming came to entertain his directors, shouldn't it be that Yoo Seung-wan came to come? Then Hwang Jung-min went to be responsible for the entertainment of the actors, and Kim Jong-ming went to deal with the media, so that's the reason, right?
"Director Lee Junyi and Director Yoon Ji-jun are here too." Kim Jong-ming said as he pulled each other out intimately. The group of directors behind him quickly pushed away the requests of group photo signing and followed quickly. "But these two people were temporarily stopped by people who were familiar with each other in the screening room. Director Lee Junyi seemed to be stopped by a media acquaintance, Director Yoon Ji-jun... Uh, but they all called and asked us to go first, and then they would naturally follow him in a while."
"So that's it." Bong Junhao nodded while pretending to be clear, but was still a little confused. "Director Lee Junyi and Yoon Ji-jun..."
At this point, Bong Joon-ho suddenly felt a sudden excitement in his mind, but immediately looked back at the large number of directors that came out together, from Kim Jong-ming's fledgling director Choi Dong-hoon to Lee Hwan-kyung, who had just recently risen with movies such as "The Gift of Room 7" and "Viewing the Face", and Han Jae-lin... Then, when he looked at Kim Jong-ming's smiling expression, a trace of enlightenment immediately rose in the heart of the great director.
I see!
The lights are on, the New Year's Day holiday is approaching, and the whole of Seoul is full of luxury.
Half an hour later, in a Chinese restaurant in Jiangnan, Kim Jong-ming's exclusive private room, as high-end Chinese dishes were delivered like water, bottles of high-end liquor with a height of 100% and low-grade Korean soju were arranged one after another. The atmosphere at this time was already much more casual than in the cinema before.
After all, almost everyone seemed to understand as Bong Joon-ho before, and knew what Kim Jong-ming was thinking.
What do you think? After sitting down, you will carefully look at the people who came today. Who still has no idea?
Choi Dong-hoon——"Robber League"—official record of the Film Revitalization Committee, 12.98 million viewers;
Li Huanqing——"Gift from Room No. 7"——12.81 million viewers;
Jiang Digui——"Tai Chi Flag Flying"——11.75 million viewers;
Qiu Changmin - "The Two-Faced King" - 10.01 million viewers (if Kim Jong-ming hadn't intervened, this number would have been more);
Bong Joon-ho——"Hanjiang Monster"——10.9 million viewers;
Bong Joon-ho——"Snow Country Train"——9.35 million viewers;
Han Zailin——"Observing the Face"——9.13 million viewers;
If we add Lee Junyi and Yoon Ji-jung who are coming soon, as well as their 10.35 million moviegoers, and Hae-woon-tai, which has 11 million moviegoers, it can be said that with the upcoming New Year's Day 2014 as the deadline, the movies that have over 9 million moviegoers in Korean movies in this time and space, except for the old man Kang Youshuo who did not premiere today, then all the Korean high-box office directors will be there tonight.
If that's the case, considering that although Kim Jong-ming is very famous and has many main movies, the box office has not yet exceeded 9 million, it seems that there is no need to say anything more about what "professional issues" he wants to ask for.
"I'll make a promise first." Choi Dong-hoon is the most casual among everyone. He should eat, drink and talk. There is no way. Who can make him the director of Kim Jong-ming's debut? "It's okay to have ten thousand!"
“It’s definitely OK.”
“It’s really OK.”
"I don't have to run..."
"It shouldn't go wrong."
Since someone has opened his head, everyone is not under pressure. Anyway, they are talking privately in the private room, not afraid of something wrong and embarrassing. More importantly, everyone has real materials, and they vaguely understand in their hearts that this figure is not really holding Kim Jong-ming. If they weren't worried about being ridiculed and flattered, even if they were asked to tell the media in public, it would be nothing!
"Actually, there are some things that others may be embarrassed to say." Choi Dong-hoon, the current Korean movie box office record holder, took a cup of Moutai and took a slap in five seconds before he could barely continue speaking. "Only I can say it will not be embarrassing. In fact, the value of the box office is obviously inversely proportional to the size and activity of the market. Now, the box office of movies has reached 9 million and 10 million this year. It is difficult to be with directors Bong Joon-ho and director Kang Di-gyu, who made the record-breaking movie that year.
It’s not the same thing at all. Zhong Ming, just look around and you will know that most of the people who come today and their works have created box office milestones in the past 13 years. Why? Because the market is very good now, and ordinary people are willing to watch movies. So Zhong Ming, don’t regard the box office of nine million or ten million movies as a hurdle. The market is just right. At your level, if you take out a good movie, you will naturally have a good result, right?"
"That's right." Kang Di-kyuk, who was very elegant, also spoke with a smile. "Actually, if it weren't for the subject matter, some of your previous works might have broken records long ago, and the most valuable and representative one here is "Uncle". The movie "Uncle" is a nineteen-banned film and a Korean movie happens to be at the lowest point in the market, otherwise it would have been a hit... As I said, the so-called "Million-Million-Actor" is a natural thing for you, and there is no need to think too much."
The two spoke, and everyone nodded. Even Han Jae-lin, Qiu Changmin, Lee Huanqing and others who had only created a box office milestone in 13 years, had no intention of refuting it, because Choi Dong-hoon or Kang Di-gyu were talking about the standard truth, and they couldn't even refute it!
In fact, that's it!
"That's true." Kim Jong-ming also smiled. "Actually, on the way here, I just got a more accurate number. In 2013, the cumulative number of viewers in South Korea reached about 210 million. This is undoubtedly a very high number, and for the Korean population, it is undoubtedly a number close to the limit. From the perspective of this number, with a total number of viewers of more than 200 million, any movie can basically achieve a good result as long as it can get a good share in a better period. To reach 900 or 10 million, it only requires a dominant share."
"Since you know so clearly, what else should I call us here to ask for advice?" Choi Dongxun was a little amused. "Don't you need to ask us if the schedule is good, right? Isn't it your final decision? It's easy to take over the New Year's Day schedule and gain a dominant market share, right?"
Jin Zhongming smiled without saying a word.
"If I guess correctly, what Zhong Ming wants to ask is not a low-level question of whether this movie can exceed tens of millions." Bong Joon-ho, who had not spoken but just lowered his head to enjoy Dongpo's elbow, finally raised his head and showed his mouth full of oil. "He came to us, there should be only one meaning, that is, he wanted us seniors to help him analyze whether his "Veter" movie can achieve a "breakthrough" box office, thereby filling the gap in his personal high box office achievements. Right?"
Jin Zhongming smiled slightly and nodded as usual. It was...that was it.
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Chapter completed!