Chapter 32: Jiang Wen, who I haven't seen for a long time
In the 90s of the last century, two brothers surnamed Wang joined forces to set up an advertising production company. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
This company is the Huayi Brothers who later became famous all over the country!
At that time, there were really few companies specializing in advertising production, and the Wang brothers quickly rose to the top!
Then in 98, they met Feng Xiaogang under the introduction of a friend, and invested 11 million yuan to shoot the Chinese New Year film "Endless".
As a result, the film grossed 33 million yuan, becoming the box office champion in 1999, which further inspired them to lean into the film industry.
After Feng Xiaogang, two thousand years later, Wang Jinghua joined, and the most basic territory of Huayi was formed.
Huayi will insist on one point, Beijing circle!
Coupled with the country's need for the entertainment industry to be more market-oriented, Huayi has caught up with the good times, developed step by step, and finally became China's first private entertainment company to go public.
Look at Bona again, Bona is considered to have been created by Yu Dong.
Yu Dong is a real businessman, the force behind him is the HK team, all HK directors want to go to the mainland to make money, he helps matchmaking.
has released a lot of good films, of course, there are even more bad movies, Wang Jing's "Macau Vice" trilogy is all from Bona!
The beginning of Guangguang relied on Wang Changtian's super media sense, from a reporter to a career, it only took 16 years to make Guangguang the largest private media company in the country!
In recent years, Guangguang has insisted on the strategy of turning direct, and the effect has been very good!
From Shen Lin to Xu Zhengzai to Han Shao, including this year's Deng Dynasty, by the way, they also signed Zhang Yimou!
The days when light ruled the Chinese film industry obviously continued!
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Yu Dong wanted to get to know Shen Lin since "33 Days of Broken Love", when he said in an interview with "Southern Weekly", ""33 Days of Broken Love" cost more than 8 million and sold for 450 million, which made them (director HK) blind. ’
He admires Shen Lin very much and feels that this young man is likely to create a new glory for mainland film directors.
It turns out that Yu Dong's vision is very good, Shen Lin is really awesome, and his four movies in two years have directly refreshed various records in mainland film history.
However, it has nothing to do with Bona, to be exact, with him Yu Dong!
Shen Lin wants to make a movie, some of them are given money by the owner, and even a science fiction film like "Interstellar", Wang Changtian dares to spend 100 million US dollars for him to shoot!
It's Yu Dong instead, does he dare?
Yu Dong's goal is to build Bona into a company like Palaimeng, he does not sign a contract with any director, the advantage is that many directors are willing to accept his investment, and the disadvantage is that those top directors' plans, he has no possibility of participation!
But he still has a negative opinion on Wang Zhongjun's words.
If you make a movie, you should insist on making a movie, or you can invest in theaters, or you can sign a contract with a movie actor, what do you mean by 'de-filmization'?
Do you think the Internet is so difficult?
Everyone can see that investing in theaters is the safest way to invest in theaters these days, but Huayi is engaged in Internet investment, capital investment, and game development!
Have you ever worked for those well-funded Internet companies?
However, Yu Dong will definitely not tell Wang Zhongjun his truest thoughts in his heart, after all, in addition to business cooperation, the most competition between the two is.
“… Shen Lin has been a bit too smooth in the past two years, and I think he will always go downhill!"
Wang Zhongjun finished his speech, looked at Yu Dong, and probably wanted him to say a few words that echoed him.
"But he has been trying different types of films, what is the most popular TV series called "Please Answer 1990", I am also watching, I think the way this TV series is filmed is very right, he filmed the first two episodes first, and handed over the rest to other directors, if something goes wrong, he will take over, his vision has surpassed many professionals!"
Yu Dong mentioned the TV series.
"But it's just a TV series after all!"
Wang Zhongjun thought for a while, "The influence of TV series is always not as good as that of movies!"
"I heard that Guangguang has trained at least three directors with this TV series and earned almost 200 million!"
Yu Dong lowered his voice, and then smiled and said to Wang Changtian, who came to greet him: "Mr. Wang's demeanor is still the same!"
Wang Zhongjun also greeted Wang Changtian with a smile.
No matter how much you resent each other, you still have to have the necessary politeness, after all, it's all in this circle, and you can't see you when you look down!
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There are many big-name directors and stars who come to watch the movie.
Zhang Yimou put down the new work "Return" that he was tinkering with, and led Chen Daoming and Gong Li to come over to cheer, Huang Bo and Xu Zheng also shared the attention of many reporters, and the most surprising thing was that Jiang Wen and Uncle Ge also came!
"Teacher Jiang Wen, Uncle Ge, long time no see!"
These two are far superior to Shen Lin in terms of status and strength, and Shen Lin's posture is very low.
"You kid has been amazing for the past two years!"
Jiang Wen glanced at Shen Lin with a slight sigh.
The little characters who followed Feng Xiaogang and Wang Shuo's butts have become the new king of Chinese commercial directors in just three years, not to mention, they went to the United States to make a movie and won two actors, and even won the Oscar for Best Picture!
No matter what people do behind their backs, whether it's public relations or smearing opponents, they have really become Oscar-level directors!
What's even more unexpected is that this product has made a science fiction movie, and the global box office is not low.
The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves!
"Fooling around, how can you compare to you, is "One Step Away" finished filming?"
Jiang Wen is notoriously slow and expensive to make films!
"I'm done shooting, and now it's supposed to be in post-production. ”
It was Uncle Ge who answered Shen Lin.
"And when will it be released?"
"Wait for this year's Lunar New Year, you don't have a movie to play this year's Lunar New Year!"
Jiang Wen interjected and asked.
"No, six movies in three years, I'm tired enough!"
Shen Lin shook his head, "By the way, this is Cook Dick, who is in charge of the movie at Disney, these two are the best actors in China at the moment, Jiang Wen and Ge You!"
Cook Dick just came to Shen Lin.
"I know you, "The Devil is Coming"! Ge You, I know you too, "Alive"!"
Of course, Cook Dick knew Jiang Wen, otherwise he wouldn't have asked Jiang Wen to star in "Star Wars Story: Rogue One" two years later.
Uncle Ge, not to mention, Best Actor at the Cannes International Film Festival!
Then, Shen Lin saw Jiang Wen talking to Cook skillfully in English, and Uncle Ge smiled a little embarrassedly.
Jiang Wen is very talented, this is an indisputable fact!
But when it comes to directing, he's a little too narcissistic.
Because he used all his talent to satisfy himself, Jiang Wen's movies were a little ungrounded, or extremely narcissistic.
Someone commented on Jiang Wen: As an actor, he is very good, but the type and style are not unique, and as a director, he is unique. The talent is very high, but the basic skills are not solid. The occasional grandeur is too dazzling to make people ignore the flaws for a while. Once settled, some details are rough and messy, and they are still a little dazzling. This is different from Ang Lee, who is content that you may not agree with, but technically almost impeccable. Jiang Wen is the George Best of the director, and he even dares to wear Cruyff's crotch when he is awesome, but he is never perfect.