The young lady learned and put it into practice, and the next day she asked Shi Shi, Shu Chang and Ning Hao's wife Xing Aina to go shopping.

"Where's Director Cheng? He just came back, why don't you accompany him to go shopping with us?" Shu Chang said with a smile.

"He doesn't need to accompany him. He will fly to South Korea today."

"Why is he going to Korea?"

"'A League of Thieves' is going to South Korea for filming, and he went to have a meeting with the person in charge there."

"I heard that Jackie Chan is starring in this movie. Is it true?"

"Well," the young lady confirmed, "Jackie Chan has signed a contract, but there is a time conflict with his own "Twelve Zodiacs", and the two parties are coordinating the shooting plan. Oh, have you finished it? I am not starring in this film.

How could I know so clearly?"

Here, the girls went shopping without saying much. On the Korean side, Cheng Yuan got off the plane and took a special car from the Korean studio.

"Mr. Cheng, since the beginning of this year, we have been under pressure and the number of movie scripts we have been able to obtain is much less than last year." said the vice president of the studio.

"what happened?"

"Our results last year were so good that we already caused dissatisfaction among the Korean audience."

"We didn't take first place at the box office either. What are they doing?"

YC Studio did not take the first place in the Korean market last year, but last year the studio occupied 3 places in the TOP15.

The three movies were produced by different labels, including CJ, Lotte, and New, but attentive viewers still discovered something strange.

Now a small group of viewers are protesting online, saying that YC Studio should be driven out of the Korean market.

"What did CJ and the others say?"

"They didn't care."

"Forcing CJ to deal with it, if you can't even handle this matter well, how can we cooperate in the future? I still want to vote for "Pacific Rim"." Cheng Yu'an said in the car while flipping through the studio's report for last year.

"Find time to set up a company to specialize in film and television investment, and transfer the money we earned in Korea to China. I have a hunch that Korea will not be able to do it for another five years at most. Now there are still CJ and others who are pressing us. Wait.

Most of the Korean audience reacted and CJ and others did not dare to go against public opinion."

"This market is so exclusive."

Of course, I only say this to my own people.

Cheng Yuan got off the car, and the person in charge of the Korean side of "Thieves" was Ahn Soo-hyun from Showbox.

"Hahaha, Director Cheng." An Xiuxian bowed slightly to Cheng Yu'an.

Ahn Soo-hyun is older than Cheng Yu-an and entered the industry earlier than Cheng Yu-an. He is considered a senior. But even in South Korea where seniority is a serious issue, Ahn Soo-hyun still has to bow to Cheng Yu-an and say hello.

"Ah, you have a good time, please install PD."

"Director Cheng, Showbox has confirmed the shooting location in South Korea. Do you want to go and see it on the spot?"

"Okay, let's go check it out and take in the sights of South Korea." When we get to someone else's territory, we naturally have to watch the food being served.

It's said to be a field trip, but in fact there are only a few places where filming can be done in Korea.

"Thieves" has a lot of scenes in South Korea. Showbox and the Chinese team negotiated for nearly two months before finalizing the filming location.

Ahn Soo-hyun walked around with Cheng Yu-an for more than half a day, briefly looked at several shooting locations, and talked about some specific arrangements for the shooting, and then returned to the hotel.

Showbox was very attentive this time and found the shooting location that met Cheng Yu'an's requirements.

At 11 o'clock in the evening, Cheng Yu'an returned to the hotel room after a meeting with his team. As soon as he turned on the computer, Liu Yifei made a video call.

Cheng Yu'an answered, and the faces of three girls appeared on the screen: Liu Yifei, Liu Shishi and Shu Chang.

"Hello, Director Cheng."

"Hello." Cheng Yu'an smiled, "Where are you?" Judging from the background, it should be a hotel somewhere.

"We are playing in Thailand." Liu Yifei said.

During the day, a few people felt that shopping was boring. Shu Chang mentioned that she wanted to go to Thailand. Liu Yifei responded immediately. Liu Shishi had no objection and just followed the team. Xing Aina had something to do at home and couldn't go.

So I bought the latest flight ticket to Phuket and left as soon as I could.

"How are you in Korea?" Liu Yifei asked.

"It went very well. I just came back from the meeting." Cheng Yu'an saw the three women's faces in the video were slightly red, "Your assistants don't care about you, let you drink like this."

"This wine is not for you. If you drink too much, you can just take a nap." Shu Chang said, "Xiqian, hang up the video and let's continue drinking."

Cheng Yu'an smiled: "Okay, you guys play, please be safe." After that, he hung up the video.

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The next day, Cheng Yuan will take his assistant casting director to meet with Korean actors.

Cheng Yuan adapted "Thieves" to a certain extent.

Tiffany, the hostess of the Tears of the Sun Gem, was replaced by a Korean.

The two groups of thieves are both Chinese. The difference is that one group is from Hong Kong Island and the other is from overseas Chinatowns.

The two groups cooperated in Macau to steal Tiffany's Tears of the Sun, and then started a trading battle in South Korea.

Today I want to meet the actors Tiffany and Wei Hong.

These two supporting characters, Cheng Yuan, were arranged by Han Fang.

According to Cheng Yu'an's opinion, of these two characters, only Wei Hong is somewhat interesting, while Tiffany is just a one-liner with two lines, and she can be given to anyone.

But I didn't expect Showbox to find Cui Minzhi and Luo Meilan.

He can understand Luo Meilan. At this time, Luo Meilan is not very famous. Luo's peak period was after "Sowon" in 2014. In the next two years, she will win the supporting actress Grand Slam from the three major Korean film awards (which is also very good

results).

Luo Meilan is now 36 years old and fits Tiffany's age requirements very well. Cheng Yuan decided to play her after watching her performance.

What Cheng Yu'an couldn't understand was that a great master like Cui Minzhi would come to audition for a role like Wei Hong.

Choi Min-sik is one of South Korea's top three national movie stars, with a very high status.

The simplest analogy is that he is equivalent to Korean Fat Brother.

Of course, Cheng Yu'an also liked Cui Minzhi's performance very much and expressed surprise at his arrival.

There was no need to audition for him, Cheng Yuan simply chatted with him for a long time.

In fact, it was Cui Minzhi who came to audition for a supporting role like Wei Hong at his own request.

Korean actors have never been recognized in the international market. So far, no Korean actor has won an international heavyweight award.

Choi Min-sik has achieved top status in South Korea and also wants to enter the international market.

So he sold this to Cheng Yu'an.

Of course Cheng Yu'an would be happy to have a master like Cui Minzhi join the team.

After selecting Korean actors, Cheng Yu'an stayed in South Korea for another three days to roughly finalize everything here.

Before returning to China, Cheng Yu'an still asked the person in charge of the Korean studio: "Keep a low profile this year. Do some TV series and two less movies. Last year was indeed a bit high-profile."

In the years when the Chinese market was almost conquered by Hollywood, although there were strong calls to "protect domestic films," no one said that they wanted to drive Hollywood out.

But the Korean market is different. They can't drive away Hollywood, but they really dare to drive away Chinese filmmakers.

Which temple should I enter and what sutras should I recite?
Chapter completed!