Huayi Brothers Media Co., Ltd. is a well-known comprehensive private entertainment group in the mainland, founded in 1994 by Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei brothers, and in 1998, it invested in the famous director Feng Xiaogang's film "Endless" and Jiang Wen's film "The Devil is Coming" officially entered the film industry, and became famous for investing in Feng Xiaogang's Chinese New Year films every year, and then fully entered the media industry, investing in and operating films, TV series, artist management, records, entertainment marketing and other fields. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

Listed in 2009, with a market value of nearly 10 billion!

In fact, in Shen Lin's view, the most powerful thing about Huayi is not the production of movies, but the force it represents-the Beijing circle.

The entire entertainment industry is divided into Shanghai, Beijing, Hunan, Northeast and Hong Kong and Taiwan.

To give the simplest example, in the 2015 Chinese New Year, there were three movies on the market, namely Huayi's "Ghost Blowing the Lantern: Looking for the Dragon", "Old Cannon" and Deng Chao's "Villain Angel".

A week later, looking at the box office data, it is clear that "Villain Angel" has lost both word-of-mouth and box office.

In fact, is "Villain Angel" really as vulgar as the media says?

I admit that "Villain Angel" is indeed not a good movie, but the starring roles are Deng Chao and Sun Lihei, these two can be regarded as first-class stars in the mainland, and Deng Chao also sits on the country's No. 1 rated Zhejiang Province "Run, Brother" as a publicity platform.

Then, the two were criticized by the media, and they didn't even have anyone to help speak!

This is the strength of the Beijing circle!

The reason why Shen Lin went to Huayi was very simple, he didn't want to challenge this overlord, and to be honest, he was barely a yuan in the Beijing circle, after all, he was born and raised in the imperial capital!

Moreover, the relationship between Shen Lin and Wang Shuo is quite good, at the beginning, Shen Lin published "1988, I Want to Talk to the World" and asked someone to make a preface.

(You read that right, the pig's feet have been frantically snatched of Han Shao's writings)

Comrade Wang Shuo definitely belongs to the core figure of the Beijing circle.

In the late 80s and early 90s, there were two main positions in the mainland entertainment industry, one was Yuezhou and the other was the imperial capital.

The imperial capital entertainment industry is divided into three factions, one is Renyi, that is, the actors of the Imperial Capital People's Art Theater; One faction is the Imperial Capital Film Studio; One faction is what we now call the "Beijing Circle"

Renyi attacks stage plays, Beijing Film attacks movies, and the "Beijing Circle" relies on TV dramas to start.

The main figures in the Beijing film and television circle are Wang Shuo, Ye Jing, Zheng Xiaolong, and Ye Daying.

The relationship chain derived from Wang Shuo's line was Feng Xiaogang and Zhang Yuan in the early stage, and later the main characters were Lao Xu;

Feng Xiaogang is derived from Huayi brothers Wang Zhongjun and Wang Zhonglei and Jiang Wen, and from Jiang Wen is derived director He Ping, Geng Le, and Zhang Yibai.

Zheng Xiaolong's line is derived from Zhao Baogang and Uncle Ge; The offline derived from Zhao Baogang is the writer Shi Kang, and the derivative of Shi Kang is Wang Luodan.

The relationship chain derived from Ye Daying is Mei Ting, when Hong Kong artists came to the mainland to make movies, they needed various audits, but Ye Daying easily invited his brother to play Mei Ting, and after a "Red Lover", Mei Ting became popular. Later, Meiting moved to Guangzhou and Hong Kong, and Ye Daying also rented a studio in Shenzhen and raised many writers, the most famous of which is the director of "All the People Witness".

Ye Jing should be the least famous and low-key of the four, but in terms of real power, he is the most powerful one among them. If Ye Jing also has a derivative chain, it is singer Chen Yufan and his wife Bai Baihe.

Of course, Ye Jing had already broken away from the main army.

The result of the camp composed of these four people is that whoever they praise is popular, and whoever they push is popular!

Between 90 and 98, 90% of the artists who became popular in the imperial capital film and television circle were pushed out by them.

This law was disrupted by the born Swallow Zhao in 1999, just like the current Beijing circle wooing Li Yifeng and Wu Yifan, as soon as Swallow Zhao became popular, the Beijing circle immediately pulled Swallow Zhao to shoot "Heroes of Heaven and Earth", the director is He Ping, and the starring role is Jiang Wen.

Another movie made by Yanzi Zhao after the military flag incident was the movie "Green Tea" in the Beijing circle, the director was Zhang Yuan, and the starring role was Jiang Wen.

Is Lao Mouzi, the most powerful director in China, the Beijing circle? No! Director Zhang belongs to the Northwest Circle! This circle includes Lao Mouzi, Gu Changwei, and Wang Quanan. And the Beijing circle can't tolerate Lao Mouzi, and basically no one in the Beijing circle has acted in Lao Mouzi's movies, such as Lao Xu, who has cooperated with so many big directors but has never cooperated with Lao Mouzi. In 2001, Lao Mouzi filmed "Hero", and Huayi, the main force in the Beijing circle, followed closely behind with a "Hero of Heaven and Earth".

Finally, let's talk about the new generation of the Beijing circle, the new generation of the Beijing circle derived from Lao Xu is the king of fire, and the new generation derived from Ye Jing is Bai Baihe.

And among the Hong Kong directors who are trying to get closer to the Beijing circle, it is director Chen Kexin. Director Chen Kexin began to get closer to the Beijing circle in 2005 when he went north.

In 2011, China Entertainment is not as full of flowers as it was five years later, and five years later, the blockbuster movie resources are mainly controlled by Huayi, Bona, Guangguang, Ali, and Xiaoma, and good film resources will become more and more dispersed, and the producer-centered system of the capital producer will be formed.

Looking at the mainland film market in 2010, good movies, except for a few Hollywood blockbusters, are almost all controlled by Huayi.

Even Xing Ye, who was calling for wind and rain in the south, had to hand over the distribution rights of "Kung Fu" to Huayi if he wanted to enter the mainland.

Shen Lin didn't want to oppose such a force at all, so Shen Lin decided to join.

The vote is the distribution right of his first film "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love"!

At this time, Guo Siye, who was far away in Shanghai, had not yet started filming "Little Times", and Han Shao's "The Future Will Be Indefinite" did not know where it was, Shen Lin, as one of the three best-selling writers in the mainland, was definitely qualified to carry the pioneer flag of a writer as a director.

According to Huayi's usual hype thinking, Shen Lin should be welcome to join.

And the investment in "Thirty-three Days of Broken Love" is not large, it is less than 10 million, and Shen Lin's Weibo fans also have more than 10 million, so it is not a problem to recover the cost.

Of course, the above is just Shen Lin's thoughts.

……

"Yo, Brother Zhonglei, I am really a little flattered that you met me in person!"

Unexpectedly, Huayi attached great importance to Shen Lin's arrival, and actually let the titular second-in-command Wang Zhonglei meet him.

"The genius laughed."

The two exchanged a few words, and Shen Lin went straight to the point.

"Brother Zhonglei, you should know very well what I mean."

Shen Lin had already conveyed his intentions through Wang Shuo.

"I know, I want to be a director!"

Wang Zhonglei was concise and to the point.

"And what do you mean?"

Listening to this tone, it seems to be a little contemptible! Shen Lin frowned slightly.

"No problem, we can invest in Huayi,"

There must still be conditions, and sure enough, Wang Zhonglei continued: "However, we still need to arrange an assistant director, it's not that we don't believe in Shen Dacai's strength, but I'm mainly worried that you are a novice and may not be able to suppress the actors!" ”

"Hehe, understood, understood."

What can Shen Lin say? Anyway, it's the assistant director, it doesn't matter, you can still suppress it with your own strength!

“…… In addition, it is no problem for us to be the producer. ”

"Of course, of course."

Nonsense, people give money, of course they don't let you spend it indiscriminately.

“…… Also, the actor I hope to be by..."

"Brother Zhonglei, we can't buy and sell benevolence, goodbye!"

Nima, is there an end? Co-author, you just let me be an ornament?

What I hate the most is this kind of thing where investors arrange actors!

Shen Lin got up and left directly, without even thinking of continuing to talk.