After all of them were reborn, who would still be an actor?

Chapter 581: The temple is small and the demons are strong; the pond is shallow and the turtles are numerous

After leaving the bedroom, Sun Li picked up her bag, knocked on the door of the master bedroom to say hello to Li Mingyang, and then left.

After knocking for a while without any response, Sun Li smiled mischievously and pushed the door open gently and softly.

I peeked inside and saw that there was no one on the bed. I guess he had left.

Sun Li wanted to "borrow" some underwear from Li Mingyang.

The gap in the door was getting bigger and bigger. Suddenly, Sun Li opened her eyes wide and looked at the room in disbelief.

On the coffee table, Zhong Xiaoyu was tied up like a fine work of art. Sitting on the coffee table, she was wearing a red coat, her hands were tied, her mouth was covered with black tape, and a mask was covering her eyes.

"Wuwuwu..." Zhong Xiaoyu heard the noise and started sobbing.

"It's a shame, how can you play like this!" Sun Li took off her mask and said indignantly.

Zhong Xiaoyu immediately showed a look of grievance, but the queen's next words made Zhong Xiaoyu call her a pervert.

"At least put a pillow under you. The coffee table is so cold! What if you catch a cold?"

Cold? Is that the point?

The queen untied the black stockings that bound her wrists and removed the black tape.

Zhong Xiaoyu still had a blockage in her mouth.

"Is this... your underwear?" Sun Li asked in surprise, pinching the cute Kitty cat panties.

"For the little squirrel." Zhong Xiaoyu said as he unbuttoned his jeans at his ankles.

In an instant, the queen's imagination opened up and she thought of many ways to play.

"You bastard! You only know how to torture me!" Zhong Xiaoyu untied the restraints and cursed.

Sun Li touched Zhong Xiaoyu's head. She looked pitiful, but her figure was really good, with a curvy figure like a peach.

Zhong Xiaoyu was devastated.

Sometimes when I was live streaming a game, I would be dragged to play the sandwich game.

"Bitch, you've left bloody marks on my wrists."

"Whenever I ask for money, I start to complain. I don't care about me at all!"

"My lady, please don't hesitate. If you like him, just go for it. He is not as determined as you think."

Sun Li felt very embarrassed when she heard this. She looked around the bedroom and a series of complicated scenes emerged in her mind. She didn't know how the three people played, but no sound was made.

She eavesdropped for a long time yesterday.

After washing up, Zhong Xiaoyu changed into a black sports suit and hurried out.

Sun Li followed subconsciously.

I followed Zhong Xiaoyu to the basement, pushed open the cabinet, pushed open the door, and came to a bedroom that looked very informal.

In the corner, there is a set of tables and chairs, on which are placed two monitors, fill lights, and cameras, and the background is decorated like a nightclub.

Zhong Xiaoyu sat down anxiously, turned on the screen, and started typing away at it, almost producing sparks.

"Xiaoyu, what are you busy with? Writing a script?"

But Your Majesty has heard that Li Mingyang's scripts were all polished by Zhong Xiaoyu, and Xiaoyu has an excellent writing style.

"I haven't written for a long time and no one pays me." Zhong Xiaoyu said while typing on the keyboard.

The slender fingers flew up and down like playing the piano.

Sun Li said "oh", looked around in the secret room, and sniffed, and there was a very fresh smell.

Good ventilation.

"There is such a big bed in this secret room! And it's quite soft!" Sun Li sat on the bed and felt it. It was quite comfortable.

Zhong Xiaoyu looked up at the playful empress and suddenly smiled ingratiatingly, "Empress, do you want to give it a try? This bed is very big. If you hide under the quilt, no one will know."

"Haha, you're so brave that you want to drag me into this." Sun Li patted the white bed sheet, stood up, and looked around the secret room.

"Well, it's okay if you don't want to get in the water. Are you interested in doing business together?"

"what kind of business?"

"Do live streaming! Live streaming is very profitable in Korea. You can easily make tens of millions a month."

Sun Li was excited and asked about the situation out of curiosity.

Zhong Xiaoyu took out the most recent company cash flow statement to show Sun Li and patiently fooled her.

Sun Li knew that Li Mingyang cashed in 5 million yuan from the live broadcast of flower bouquets and made a lot of money.

Very interested in live streaming.

So she invested in two live broadcast companies. They were booming when she got the investment, but after a while, they couldn’t make ends meet. Both live broadcast companies couldn’t last for three months and went bankrupt...

Sun Li had some live streaming experience, but not much. She was quickly impressed by the market prospects and daily turnover described by Zhong Xiaoyu.

"I don't have much spare money, five million, how many shares will you give me?"

Oh my god, so gullible!
Zhong Xiaoyu was excited, "How about 30?"

"50. The Korean market is so small, and it's not in China."

Zhong Xiaoyu refused to give in and started bargaining with the Empress. However, it was obvious that Zhong Xiaoyu was no match for the Empress when it came to bargaining.

The queen played hard to get and refused to invest at any time, and finally forced Zhong Xiaoyu to pay 40%.

After the cooperation was agreed upon, the Empress taught Zhong Xiaoyu another lesson.

The Empress did not invest directly, but instead lent money to Zhong Xiaoyu.

35% annual interest rate.

Not only signed the contract, but also recorded the video.

The Empress has a lot of spare money and has invested in many businesses, and has gained experience from suffering losses.

Zhong Xiaoyu is in desperate need of money now, and she keeps playing the victim, but she is too beautiful and plays the victim too much, and it is impossible to arouse sympathy for her at all.

Seeing that the queen was determined, Zhong Xiaoyu signed pitifully and put her fingerprints on it.

Where does ink come from?

The Empress's bag not only contained ink, but also several official seals...

Zhong Xiaoyu originally wanted to trick the empress into buying shares, but only found out in the end that he was the one being fooled. He felt so upset.

"How silly! Xiaoyu, you are so cute!" The queen laughed heartily and took out a card from her bag, "Don't stare at me, there is five million in it, work hard, I believe in you, you can definitely help me make money."

Zhong Xiaoyu took the bank card given by the queen, and the grievance in her heart disappeared immediately. She smiled flatteringly: "Queen, don't worry, Yu'er will definitely make money for you."

……

The temple is small and the wind is strong, and the pond is shallow and there are many bastards.

It is perfect for use on sticks.

Because the area is too small and resources are too scarce, the competition for survival among the Koreans is very fierce.

In the process of high-intensity competition, people's sense of morality will plummet. As long as they can protect their own resources and interests, it doesn't matter if they cross the bottom line or harm others.

Because of this strong sense of crisis and insecurity, Koreans have a strong culture of sticking together.

Therefore, when it comes to right and wrong in Korean entertainment, people often stand on the side of "righteousness" rather than "justice".

In 2024, on the eve of the Blue Dragon Awards Ceremony, a big news broke out in the Korean entertainment industry.

Jung Woo-sung was forced to admit that he had a child with model Moon Ga-bi out of wedlock, and then all of Jung Woo-sung's past was dug up one by one.

You wouldn’t know until you dig in. Once you do, you’ll be shocked to find that this Korean “time management” master is actually “doing three things at the same time”.

He had been in a relationship with his 40-year-old accountant girlfriend who was highly educated for ten years. He also had a "real" girlfriend who was 25 years younger than him. During the one-year relationship, he had a baby with a female model he didn't know well...

After the incident fermented, Jung Woo-sung attended the Blue Dragon Awards ceremony without changing his expression.

In his award speech, he first thanked the audience for their support for "Seoul Spring". He also hoped that his personal affairs would not bring tarnish to the film and apologized to everyone who was disappointed and worried about it.

Later, he admitted that the child was his and he would be responsible for the child, but marriage was out of the question.

Finally, the most dramatic scene appeared.

In this large-scale Shura arena where the stars had to face each other, artists who belonged to the same agency as Jung Woo-sung were "actively working" and applauded and cheered for Jung Woo-sung crazily, as if it was Chinese New Year.

The other actors and idols present also actively supported it, smiling and clapping.

Lee Hye-ri was the only one in the audience who was sober and had a complicated expression because she did not applaud actively.

After the incident, he was kicked off the cast list shortly after the award ceremony ended.

Korean entertainment is both absurd and realistic, and the distortion of human nature has no bottom line.

There are many cases where victims have turned evil and become perpetrators...

There is nothing we can do about the Korean entertainment industry becoming like this.

When the actors from Dongda University are not taking acting jobs, they can shoot short dramas, become internet celebrities, and sell goods online.

They earn no less than actors.

In short, there are more and more ways out, and there will not be that extreme feeling of "no way out, desperate".

Extreme regions, extreme markets, extreme cultures, extreme social structures, extreme underlying logic...have created extreme Korean entertainment.

The biggest victims of Korean entertainment are female artists.

Li Mingyang thinks so, but Korean female artists don’t think so. Instead, they think that domestic entertainment is the most terrifying.

Not only Yoona and Seohyun think so.

Rich girl Kim Ji-won and aristocratic family girl Kim Go-eun also think so!

Li Mingyang had always felt surprised by this until he became an external director of CJ, attended CJ's shareholders' meeting, and came into contact with the center of Korean entertainment.

Finally found the reason.

The starting stage of Korean movies was so miserable!
In fact, just like the mainland, it has been cheated to death by the Hong Kong circle... In the process of continuous losses, it discarded the dross and retained the essence, forming a simple film system.

Then, in the past two years, the industry officially took off after the introduction of Hollywood resources. Korean entertainment has relaxed various restrictions on Hollywood, and Hollywood has also supported Korean entertainment in many aspects, not only in terms of funds, but also in terms of technology, concepts, systems, and teams.

For example, Bong Joon-ho's Snowpiercer.

This movie brings together three of the most influential filmmakers in South Korea, Bong Joon-ho, Park Chan-wook, and Song Kang-ho, and the behind-the-scenes team is from Hollywood.

In essence, this movie was controlled by Hollywood's Weinstein, who used local Korean resources to make money.

Weinstein is just the tip of the iceberg of Hollywood capital in Korea. Korea has a lot of Hollywood capital.

Like the six major Hollywood companies: Warner, Fox, and Sony...but these giants have been observing and the decision-making of big companies is too slow.

Not as mobile as independent production companies!
The cooperation between China and South Korea is also very close, and China Film Group has invested a lot of money.

It’s just that I’m afraid the stick will be swallowed… it’s too close!

So a lot of walls were set up, and the most terrifying one is that there is no difference between the domestic entertainment industry and the Hong Kong circle.

How shady is the Hong Kong entertainment industry... It's world-famous! Not inferior to Hollywood!
In terms of the depth of the dark, Hong Kong's golden age was the best in Asia, and there are all kinds of unbelievable things. You can find a lot of them by searching on the Internet...

There is no worst, only worse.

Pure rumour!
But Korean artists really believe it!
Li Mingyang felt that this was not conducive to his future plans. He was from Dongda University and his roots were in the domestic entertainment industry.

So he refuted it on the spot, fighting against twenty-one directors alone.

Li Mingyang originally thought that the board of directors would use his experience to fight back.

It was indeed used, but Li Mingyang used his current achievements to slap all the directors in the face.

Then one of the directors, who was of Chinese and Korean descent, fought back from another angle.

The various experiences of Korean superstar Kim Hee Sun in the country!
To be honest, she is really miserable...

First, he was treated as a plaything by his eldest brother who "saved his life", and then he was drugged in the mountain city.

They went to the mainland to make movies to make money, took off their clothes before filming, had no dignity at all, and were treated as a joke by investors.

In addition to Kim Hee Sun, many Korean stars have been treated in this way when they went to China.

The Chinese-Korean mixed-race director not only spoke, but also presented the facts. Hundreds of pages of information, eight books in total, were placed in front of Li Mingyang.

Li Mingyang took a look and found that it was similar to what he knew, but the Korean side was obviously exaggerated and even more miserable.

He insisted that these were just one-sided statements from the stars.

"The mainland film and television industry is still the same group of people as the Hong Kong industry. The bad habits are the same, just a change of broth."

"The Hong Kong circle has been gone for a long time."

“The Beijing circle is worse than the Hong Kong circle.”

The Chinese-Korean mixed-race director concluded with one sentence.

Li Mingyang was speechless.

He finally realized that this meeting was specially held for him.

At the end of the meeting, the accounts were settled.

To date, New World’s film copyrights have been sold to 151 countries around the world, setting a new record for the number of overseas copyright transactions for Korean films.

Sales reached 3700 million US dollars, which is not much.

Mainly Hollywood, Tokyo University, and Small Days do not accept it.

These three are the big buyers of film copyrights.

The number of moviegoers in Korea was 715 million, with box office revenue of 519 billion won.

It's long past the break-even point.

According to the Korean movie box office sharing rules, the first thing to deduct is 10% value-added tax + 3% film development fund.

After deducting these two items, the cinema will deduct 50~55% of the profits and 10% as distribution fees.

Finally, 27~22% remains for the producers.

Because Shinsegae is produced by CJ, the cinema only deducts 50% of the profits, and the 10% distribution fee is also borne by CJ.

New World will receive 37% of the total box office revenue.

That is about 192 billion won.

Of course, New World has only been released for more than half a month, and it can make more money in the future.

New World can be said to be the most profitable movie of CJ in recent years.

The reason, of course, is that it won an award at the Cannes Film Festival. The award boosted the sales of overseas copyrights, and the investment was quickly recovered.

Goodbye My Soul Mate was released yesterday.

After 48 days of release, the cumulative number of viewers reached 315 million and the total box office was 241 billion won.

Converted into RMB, the box office has exceeded 100 million.

The total investment of this film is only 5 million won, which is less than 48.2 million yuan, and the return on investment is as high as .

37% of the profit, 89 billion won.

When the summer vacation is over, I will go to the domestic film market and take a look. No matter how much I earn, it will be a big profit compared to the low cost.

He will receive 5% of the box office revenue for both films.

A total of 14 billion won.

So little!
The profit margins in the Korean film market are really low.

All the money goes to the film companies. There's nothing we can do about it since the four major film companies have a monopoly.

“Director Li, this share of the profits will be deposited into Huabou Technology’s account today. The subsequent share of profits from New World will have to wait until New World is released. If you have no problem with this, just sign the confirmation form.” Li Meijin said with a smile.

Li Mingyang signed it readily.

He didn't feel that he earned less.

The total number of viewers for Shinsegae and Goodbye exceeded 14 million, but the share was only billion won.

As for Shinsegae, Lee Mi Jin paid him over 2 billion won.

This treatment is not inferior to Bong Joon-ho.

"Director Li, if you are busy in the future, you don't have to come to the meeting every time. Just find a representative to come." Li Meijin said.

"Ah."

"Today everyone talked a lot about things between China and South Korea, so I'll just say a few more words." Li Meijin glanced at all the directors with a smile, "Director Li should focus on making movies, don't bother him, if there is anything, we can talk about it next year. Director Li's coming here to make movies is a recognition of our film market. The profits from his two movies have already exceeded the total profits of CJ Entertainment's film department last year."

All the directors applauded loudly at the right time to express their approval.

Li Meijin smiled and nodded, raised her hand to signal everyone to be quiet, "Next, Director Li will shoot Seoul Spring. This movie has a gambling agreement, and the specific content will not be announced for the time being. I can only tell you that Director Li's goal for Seoul Spring is not to break 10 million people, but to break 20 million people!"

The whole house was in an uproar!

The directors present here are very familiar with the depth of the Korean film market.

Ten million people is out of reach.

Twenty million people is just a fantasy.

But Li Mingyang's adaptability to the Korean culture has exceeded everyone's imagination, it's simply a miracle!
New World, a banned film that has been released for more than half a month, has broken many records with great momentum, and the fact that it has reached 700 million viewers is a miracle among miracles.

It is very likely to become the first 19-rated movie in history to exceed 10 million viewers.

Although the directors were shocked, they still gave warm applause.

After all, Li Mingyang is synonymous with miracles. He is both highly productive and stable, and is good at making a variety of film types. Compared to him, other Korean directors are just like trash...

"Oh, there's another piece of good news." Li Meijin turned to look at Li Mingyang, "This morning, CCTV bought the broadcast rights for New World, and it's expected to be broadcast on CCTV6 by the end of the year."

The scene was suddenly filled with noise. A movie that could not be shown in Dongda Cinemas was bought by Dongda Radio Station and would be released at the end of the year!
Unbelievable!

incredible!

What a miracle!
Li Mingyang was stunned for five seconds, then he grinned and led the applause.

After a while, everyone in the audience applauded!
……

Yanbei, a club.

"Fuck! How is this possible!" Wang Dajun said in disbelief.

"The headquarters called us personally to inquire, and it was quickly confirmed! It will be released on CCTV-6 at the end of the year." Wang Xiaolei didn't understand either. How could a movie like New World be broadcast?

Wang Dajun folded his arms, thought about it over and over again but couldn't figure it out, so he called Zuoshandiao.

"You guys should take care of yourselves first! If you don't make achievements this year, don't even think about getting a dime of subsidy next year!"

"Third Master, I'm just curious! Didn't the General Administration forbid the introduction of New World? How did the Central Radio and Television Station introduce it?"

"Is it bothering you?"

"No, no, I'm just curious..."

Snapped!
The person on the other end hung up the phone. Wang Dajun touched his ear and sneered.

"Brother, what did he say?"

"He didn't say much. I guess he himself didn't know what was going on. It's not like he can make the decision on this matter..."

"Hey, I never thought that this kid could have such a good life in Korea."

“That’s why we have to bring him back.”

"I never understood why we had to pull him back. This would do us no good at all!"

Wang Dajun laughed sinisterly twice, "Things are different now. Even if we are willing to let him come back, he may not be willing to come back. Don't forget that the Cheongdam-dong incident was caused by the chaebol in his name."

"This is easy. He didn't have much contact with the case. Just say a few nice words and the matter will be over."

"You underestimate him. He won't bow his head."

"Who can go against money?" Wang Xiaolei said disapprovingly.

(End of this chapter)