Chapter 313: Fight to the End

Gangnam District, Seoul, South Korea

Liu Zhenxun sat in the office, sighing worriedly.

We have just entered November and there are still nearly two months left until 2012.

But for Liu Zhenxun, his 2011 ended early.

He is the CEO of South Korea's Showbo Entertainment.

Founded in 2002, this is one of the top film companies in South Korea that integrates production and distribution.

But in the year 2011 that is about to pass, Xiubao Entertainment suffered a tragic blow.

At the beginning of the year, "The Great Detective of Korea" produced and released by his own company was a box office hit, with a total of 4.79 million viewers. It was undoubtedly the most popular Korean film at the beginning of the year and also ignited the entire Korean film market in 2011.

But shortly afterwards, the company's highly anticipated blockbuster film Sleeping with the Enemy suffered a humiliating failure, with less than 200,000 viewers, causing heavy losses to the Show Bao Company.

What made Liu Zhenxun feel even more pressured was that the movie Sunshine from competitor CJ Entertainment was a box office hit, sweeping across South Korea and earning the highest number of viewers in the first half of the year at 7.36 million.

As one thing grows, another shrinks. Especially in this year when the Korean box office is booming, Soobo Entertainment feels quite deserted.

What made Liu Zhenxun even more frustrated was that in the second half of the year, with the popularity of Transformers 3, its competitor Lotte Entertainment once again launched the Ultimate Weapon: Bow, which surpassed Sunshine with 7.46 million viewers and won the annual domestic box office championship, only losing to the imported Hollywood blockbuster Transformers 3.

Relatively speaking, Xiubao Entertainment also launched a number of movies in the second half of the year, including Highland Battle and Only You, but it still failed to reverse the downward trend.

On the other hand, competitors, CJ Entertainment and Lotte Entertainment, have both started to firmly sit at the top and second place in the Korean box office with very satisfactory box office results, while Soobo Entertainment has been squeezed to fifth place, even falling behind some small distribution companies.

This made Liu Zhenxun very depressed.

According to statistics from the Korean Film Council, this year is a big year for Korean films at the box office, especially the popularity of local films, which has benefited local Korean film companies.

But Xiubao Entertainment was clearly excluded.

The setbacks of two blockbuster movies, Sleeping with the Enemy and Only You, put Yoo Jin-hoon under tremendous pressure.

what to do?

How to reverse the company's decline?

This has become a big problem before him.

Even if 2012 is really the so-called end of the world, he doesn't care!

Sitting in the office, smoking one cigarette after another, he could hardly see the direction in the smoke.

Suddenly, the cell phone dinged.

He put out a burnt-out cigarette in his hand, took out his phone, and found that it was a message from WeChat.

He exhaled, and a stream of white smoke went straight to the phone.

I opened WeChat and saw that this message came from Yoona’s celebrity account and was a link.

Lim Yoona?

The Korean national idol!

She is also the only Korean super diva who is popular in European countries so far.

Although this queen was brought up by the Chinese, and although South Korea's local SM agency has been clamoring to ban her, it is still difficult to resist Yoona's charm that has swept across South Korea.

“A new song is out!”

Liu Zhenxun clicked on the link and started listening to the song directly on his mobile phone.

As the song slowly flowed out, he gradually became a little dazed by it.

This is a sad slow song that describes the true feelings of a girl who loves her boyfriend but is treated coldly.

In this song, Yoona Lim uses her almost screaming voice to powerfully express the cruelty of emotions.

To Liu Zhenxun, this seemed not to be a statement of emotion, but a statement of reality.

It only took a few minutes and the whole process was over quickly.

He clicked replay again and listened to it again.

"It's so touching. I never thought that Yoona could sing a song like this!"

"Yes, the song was so sad that it made me cry!"

"As someone who has experienced emotional trauma, I cry every time I listen to it!"

"Why would Master Huan write such a song for Yoona?"

"Did they break up?"

"Why do you want to break up? Yuner is very good, why doesn't Master Huan like her?"

"Yes, if they break up, I will never believe in love again!"

"The person above, you all misunderstood. Anyone who knows Yoona knows that this is the theme song of Yoona's new movie!"

"Movies? Is Yoona filming a movie?"

Liu Zhenxun was a little surprised when he saw this.

He had met Yoona several times and followed her WeChat. He seemed to have heard that she had made a movie before, but the media did not follow up on the details.

There is actually no way to do this, because Yoona is now focusing more on the European, American and Chinese markets.

In South Korea, she is extremely popular, but SM is calling for a ban on her, resulting in her not being very exposed in the media.

But even so, it still can't stop her from becoming a national idol.

If she made a movie, there would definitely be a market for it in Korea!

Liu Zhenxun immediately turned on his computer, clicked on Google, and searched for the two keywords "Lin Yoona" and "movies".

Google immediately popped up a news link.

"Lin Yoona makes her big screen debut, writing the diary of a lovelorn girl who finds her true love again!"

Liu Zhenxun immediately clicked on the news to read it.

In an interview with the media, Lin Yuner said, "This is not a sad movie, this is a very positive movie. It tells us that a broken heart is not terrible. As long as you are brave and strong enough to walk out of the shadow of a broken heart, a beautiful relationship is waiting for you in the future!"

This sentence made Liu Zhenxun think of the movie Only You that Soobo Entertainment will release in the second half of the year.

Judging from the cast and budget, this movie is considered a big production among romance films, but it suffered a box office failure.

After analysis, there are many reasons, but many people believe that it is related to the reputation of the movie.

And the reason why the movie has a bad reputation is that it takes a sad line, and still plays the clichéd plot of a man and a woman who end up being separated by death, which has been outdated for many years, which makes the audiences feel disgusted.

Now, hearing what Lin Yuna said, Liu Zhenxun's eyes lit up.

Yes, they are all romance movies, but in the end people believe in love again and become more positive and optimistic.

Moreover, this movie stars Yoona, and it is also Psy’s first movie. With two superstars starring in it, it has great box office appeal!

Thinking of this, Liu Zhenxun immediately grabbed the phone in the office and called.

"Hey, immediately, contact this Chinese film company called Miracle Entertainment and tell them that we want to import Love Is Not Blind. Yes, we must get it and try to release it at the same time!"

"What, too late? November 11th? It's okay, isn't there still a few days left?"

"How about you book me a plane ticket and I'll fly to China right away to talk in person!"

Liu Zhenxun had a hunch that this movie would be worth watching!

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I hadn't slept for two days, and when I did I slept for almost a whole day.

When Yang Huan opened his eyes, his head was dizzy. He picked up the phone next to him and looked at it.

Wow, it’s already past four in the afternoon!

What a sound sleep I had!

He was the only one left in the room, neither Zhang Ning nor Lin Yuna were there.

This made him doubt. Was he dreaming last night?

I turned on the light, pulled back the warm quilt and looked around on the sheets. I could see several stains, one of which was faintly blood red.

Only then did he feel sure that it was not a dream.

He climbed up from the bed, stretched his limbs and muscles, jumped down, walked into the bathroom, brushed his teeth and washed his face, took a shower, and finally went to the locker room to change into dry clothes.

The room was well soundproofed, and as soon as the door was opened, the noise from downstairs came in.

Zhang Ning, Lim Yoona and Horikita Maki were all sitting in the living room.

Psy, Sun Yue, Zhao Yuanfang, Li Zhushan, Liu Mingwei and others have all arrived and are talking together.

Hearing the noise upstairs, everyone in the hall looked up.

As soon as Zhang Ning saw Yang Huan, her face turned red, obviously remembering the madness of last night.

Lin Yoona blushed even more, lowered her head shyly, and dared not look at Yang Huan again.

On the contrary, Yang Huan was the most shameless and walked downstairs with a smile on his face.

"Why are you all here?"

"Master Huan!"

Everyone stood up and greeted.

"We are discussing something about the movie!" Sun Yue said with a smile.

He walked forward in small steps and asked respectfully, "Master Huan, do you want me to get you something to eat?"

"Well, now that you mention it, I am indeed hungry, but I want to eat Horikita's Japanese food right now!"

Horikita Maki was called. She looked at Zhang Ning and Lim Yoona, then looked at everyone else. She was a little shy, but still stood up.

"I'll do it!"

After saying that, he went straight into the kitchen.

Sun Yue and others were full of envy.

Look at Master Huan, he is a responsible rich second generation.

How proud would it be to have a popular Japanese female star fly all the way from Tokyo, Japan to prepare a meal for you?

Yang Huan was completely focused on the movie and walked into the living room and sat down.

"Come on, tell me, what's going on?"

Sun Yue glanced at everyone and realized that he had to speak first.

"Master Huan, the response to the new song has been very good. It's only been more than eight hours, but it has already caused quite a stir online. The MV has been viewed over a million times. I've read some of the comments, and they're all very positive."

Yang Huan nodded, "What else?"

"We have just received several calls from distributors in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, Thailand, Singapore, the United States, the United Kingdom and other countries and regions who are interested in our film."

Yang Huan didn't expect that a new song and an MV could have such an effect.

"It's no wonder, the song has received good response and fans love it. The song portrays Yoona's miserable image, but our movie is about finding true love again, which creates a big gap. Many people are looking forward to it!"

Zhang Ning feels that this song is not only well-written, but the theme of the song and the content of the movie form a very good interaction, which also leaves a deep impression and suspense on the fans.

"You women just like this kind of romantic stuff. I wrote the song, and I didn't think it was so complicated. It's just a song, isn't it?"

Yang Huan teased Zhang Ning with a smile.

"Keep going!"

Zhang Ning suppressed the shame in her heart. What do we women mean?

Don't be sexist!

But she continued to report on her work.

There are so many people here!

If you want to talk about love, let’s do it in bed at night.

"I've learned that the boss of Fangyuan Group is named Qian, and he has always had a close relationship with the Qin family. I also learned about the situation through some channels. I heard that the decision to cancel the cooperation with us came directly from the top."

"Then there's nothing to say. Since they don't want to cooperate with us, there's no need for us to bother them. I don't believe that without them, we will fail at the box office!"

After hearing this, everyone nodded continuously.

"In the next few days, we will proceed in two steps. The film company's marketing will continue as usual, but we will also coordinate the promotion of the new song. However, we must emphasize that this song reflects Yoona's inner voice in the movie, but this is not a sad movie."

"Or rather, this movie is about a heartbroken woman who was heartbroken after a breakup, and how she bravely walked out of the shadow of the breakup and found love again!"

"These days, people go to the cinema just to have fun. Who would go to those tear-jerking romance movies for no reason?"

Having said that, Yang Huan looked at Sun Yue again.

"So, Lao Sun, if someone sees our movie as a tragic love story, then it's your failure!"

Sun Yue stood up immediately, "Don't worry, Master Huan, I know what to do!"

"Also, I plan to promote the product in several important box office cities in China, so Old Bird and Yoona might have to work hard then!"

After hearing this, Psy also stood up.

“Master Huan, if you say one thing, don’t even mention hardship, even if it means losing my reputation, I won’t say a second word!”

After a pause, Du Ziteng was quite touched.

"My family was poor before, and they all looked down on us. Every time I went back home, I was treated coldly, and no one took us seriously!"

"But since I met you, Master Huan, everything has changed!"

"Without you, there would be no me!"

"Master Huan, don't worry. Just one word from you and I will stand by this movie to the end, even if I die of exhaustion!"

After listening to this, Yang Huan nodded continuously and gave Du Ziteng a thumbs up.

As for Yoona, given their relationship, there is no need to say anything more.

"Okay, this time, we have to work together to win this battle and let those guys who look down on others see that we, Miracle Entertainment, will use this movie to represent local films and fight to the bitter end with those Hollywood blockbusters!"

"If we kill them, we will all become heroes of Chinese-language films!"

"good!"

"Master Huan said it well!"

Everyone's blood suddenly boiled.