"Hey, Director Zhang."

"What?!"

"You want to join the Age of Light?!"

“……”

Two hours later, in a high-end club in the capital, Wu Yuan saw Zhang Yimou with a depressed expression.

So, you and Zhang Weiping had a falling out?"

Zhang Yimou nodded.

His expression was very sad and depressed.

In 1996, Zhang Yimou became acquainted with businessman Zhang Weiping and began to cooperate.

Their first encounter can be traced back to a party in 1989.

In 1997, Zhang Weiping founded the "New Picture" film and television company, and in order to facilitate cooperation, he almost did not refuse Director Zhang's film projects.

At a dinner, Zhang directed Zhang Weiping to confide in his predicament, he was planning to make a movie, but he faced great challenges due to investment cuts and changes in the heroine. With the help of friends, Zhang Weiping did not hesitate to pay out of his own pocket to support his film project.

In addition, Zhang Weiping also insisted on adding some large-scale scenes to the movie, which made Director Zhang feel very uncomfortable and felt that he interfered with his creation.

Zhang Weiping also attacked Director Zhang on the Internet, saying that his studio was an illegal "leather bag company", and doubted whether the agent around Zhou Dongyu was qualified.

Thus, the bet evolved into a 16-year golden time of cooperation.

In order to ensure the smooth production of the film, Director Zhang purchased the copyright of the work in advance, and assured the author that once the film production is completed, the copyright will be returned unconditionally.

Although the first film lost money, Zhang Weiping saw the potential and value of Director Zhang.

This move made Director Zhang feel ashamed and angry.

This cooperation lasted 16 years, and as many as 11 of the films directed by Director Zhang were invested by Zhang Weiping.

This cooperation not only made Director Zhang's career flourish, but also pushed Zhang Weiping from obscurity to the pinnacle of fame and fortune.

This collaboration catapulted Director Zhang to fame as an acclaimed director who won numerous awards at home and abroad.

The relationship between the two eventually collapsed because of the filming process of "The Thirteen Hairpins of Jinling".

Since 2011, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou's friendship has been in trouble.

The hype during the publicity period also made Director Zhang feel that the grade of his movie was damaged. These factors have led to the escalation of the conflict between the two.

However, a few days before the official filming of the movie, Zhang Weiping unilaterally sold the copyright of the film and television drama and made a lot of money.

However, entanglements of interest and personal grievances gradually eroded this friendship.

In September 2012, Zhang Weiping's company suddenly issued a lawyer's letter, demanding that the management rights of all artists under Director Zhang's studio be withdrawn, including Zhou Dongyu, Nini and other hot stars.

At that time, Director Zhang had already achieved a little success, and Zhang Weiping was in the rising period of his career and was full of ambition.

In short, in a word, the two have completely broken up and torn apart.

Wu Yuan is also concerned about this matter, not to mention that he knew about it in his previous life, just to say that this matter is in an uproar, and the whole country knows about it, and he can't be ignorant.

It's just that what Wu Yuan didn't expect was that Zhang Yimou would actually find him.

He had never said anything similar to Zhang Yimou to solicit him before!

As a result, Zhang Yimou actually made a phone call, hoping that he could set up a new studio and be attached to the era of light and shadow, and to attach Zhou Dongyu and other girls to the era of light and shadow.

This kind of studio affiliation is also just becoming popular this year, starting from Huayi, the two Bingbing have set up their own studios, affiliated with Huayi Entertainment, which is a new way of cooperation.

And the studio can also pay less tax.

"It's not impossible" Looking at Zhang Yimou with a look of hope, Wu Yuan really couldn't say anything to refuse.

Originally, after he and Zhang Weiping broke up, he was a little physically and mentally exhausted, and took the initiative to cooperate with Wu Yuan, but if he was rejected, it is estimated that Zhang Yimou's introverted personality is really autistic.

Thinking back on the whole process of the two Zhang breaking up, Wu Yuan felt that there was no big problem in cooperating with Zhang Yimou.

If he remembers correctly, on the original trajectory, Zhang Yimou cooperated with LeTV.

After he signed LeTV, an actress named He Jun broke a shocking news in the entertainment industry on the Internet.

She claimed that Director Zhang violated the policy by giving birth to three children, and exposed a photo of Director Zhang's wife, Chen Ting.

Although Director Zhang got married as early as 2011 and had three children, the outside world did not know about it.

After this incident was exposed, Director Zhang was strongly condemned by public opinion.

And the reason why this matter was exposed was led by Zhang Weiping, and it was the result of his behind-the-scenes manipulation, in order to make Zhang Yimou ruined.

In fact, he did it, Zhang Yimou not only suffered a loss of reputation, but Zhang Dao also faced a compensation of 7.48 million yuan.

This put him in financial trouble.

Yes, it's so ridiculous, the top director in China is in financial trouble in the face of more than 7 million compensation.

It was also because of this incident that Zhang Yimou discovered that when he cooperated with Zhang Weiping, Zhang Weiping monopolized a lot of movie box office profits, and in fact, there should have been tens of millions of dividends belonging to Zhang Yimou, which were all put into Zhang Weiping's pocket by himself.

In July 2015, he sued New Pictures, demanding that he pay him a box office share of 15 million yuan.

However, under the counterattack of the other party, only 2.4634 million yuan was finally obtained, but this amount has not been paid.

Even in 2019, Xinzhao's business license was revoked due to poor management, and Zhang Weiping was also restricted from high consumption, but he did not repay the money.

can only say that Director Zhang is miserable, he has cooperated for more than ten years, and Zhang Weiping, who thought he was his good friend, even stabbed him behind his back.

But even in this case, Zhang Yimou was not defeated, but his film career was thriving.

After leaving Zhang Weiping's obstacles, Zhang Yimou's film career attracted a second spring, and the awards and box office doubles, not only becoming a major domestic commercial film again, but also literary and artistic films, and won many awards.

"Return", "The Great Wall", "Shadow", "On the Cliff", "Man Jianghong" and other films, Wen Neng won the three domestic gold medals for best director, and Wu Neng won the mainland box office champion, and his achievements were far higher than the previous decade.

It is definitely a good thing that such a high-quality director can be included in the light and shadow era.

And if there is the light and shadow era behind the help, Zhang Yimou will not be so embarrassed when facing Zhang Weiping's counterattack.

And actors such as Zhou Dongyu and Ni Ni are also good seedlings.

Without much hesitation, Wu Yuan directly agreed.

"Director Zhang, I have wanted to cooperate with you for a long time, but I saw that your cooperation with Zhang Weiping was very stable, so I never opened this mouth."

"The era of light and shadow is very welcoming to excellent directors like you, and I hope our future cooperation can be happy, I am not a person like Zhang Weiping."

Wu Yuan stretched out his hand to Zhang Yimou with a bright smile and shook it heavily with him.

"Look ahead, Zhang Weiping's villain's matter, leave it to the company to help you solve it!" (End of chapter)