Huang Xiaoming, Deng Chao, Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Liao Fan, Zhou Xun, Angelababy, Sebrina and Feng Shaofeng. Used to be their artist.
However, because my younger brother is in charge of foreign public relations, my older brother Wang is not often in the company and doesn't care about specific affairs, so his exposure rate is much higher than that of Aric.
We can almost see this boss at various awards ceremonies and movie opening ceremonies.
Since 2009, Huayi has embarked on a vigorous road of entertainment capitalization. While their brothers made a lot of money, they also made many stars who followed them earn a lot of money.
As a pioneer of entertainment in mainland China, Wang Zhonglei used to have unlimited scenery.
There are many beautiful women in the entertainment circle, and Wang Zhonglei is at the top of the entertainment circle, so the boss also contributed various famous scenes with many female stars.
Once a capital crocodile, he experienced ups and downs in business, but now his life is much darker than before.
0 1
1970, in a big yard in Beijing, the Wangs welcomed their fourth boy, Wang Zhonglei.
"Yuan" represents a certain family background and identity. When the children in these courtyards grow up, they form their social circle, commonly known as "Beijing circle", which has more social resources than others.
His father was a soldier, and later Wang and other three brothers joined the army one after another. As the youngest child in the family, he has no responsibility on his shoulders. He has always been the one who is cared for and loved. No wonder he said to himself, "I have always been a very confident person."
His family background gives him a strong sense of superiority, but his low-key and elegant behavior in front of others are related to his father's "repression" when he was a child.
He is 10 years away from Wang, but compared with his naughty brother Wang, he is better at judging the situation and more obedient.
When he was a child, Wang was often beaten by his father, and he also witnessed his brother being beaten several times.
At that time, people believed in "a dutiful son comes out under a stick". In order to save time, children will fight if they don't listen.
Jiang Wen is also a child in the compound. When she recalls her childhood experiences, she often feels beaten by her mother. Neighbors usually don't stop when they hear children crying. The collision was very serious, and the neighbors just shouted at the top of their lungs, "Don't get excited, don't break the child."
Wang Zhonglei once proudly said, "I was beaten by my father only once in my life".
Once at dinner, Wang Zhonglei and his mother said a few words. Later, I didn't know what to say and angered my dad. The angry father stood up and kicked him, directly kicking Wang Zhonglei to the ground.
After the beating, Wang Zhonglei became more "sensible". Compared with Xiong Haizi in the courtyard, he just fished frogs, dug wild vegetables and picked mushrooms every day.
When he grows up, Wang Zhonglei's favorite sport is playing basketball, because it requires many people to cooperate together.
On the contrary, he doesn't like golf, which the rich like, because the sport is too slow for him and goes against his pace of life.
Multi-person cooperation and fast pace, from these two points of view, coincide with his film career.
Wang Zhonglei is actually a very "lucky" person with a good background. When he was in college, he dreamed of opening a film company to make movies one day.
However, it takes a lot of money to start a company to make movies. Where did the money come from?
When he dreamed of movies in college, his brother Wang was working while studying in the United States. Since then, Wang has worked hard for his brother's dream.
After graduating from college, Wang Zhonglei took an iron rice bowl and went to the Materials and Equipment Department to manage bearings.
In the 1990s, after the reform and opening up, more and more people entered the business world.
While working in the office, restless Wang Zhonglei set up his own trading company in partnership with others, selling cars, wires and so on. And he makes money from everything he sells and is very popular.
But later, the partner and his father got into trouble and the company went bankrupt.
Perhaps it was this incident that made him realize that doing business with his family is the most reliable thing.
1994, Wang returned to China with a master's degree in media major from the University of Michigan and $654.38+million earned by working and delivering food.
This $654.38 million became the first bucket of gold for the two brothers to start their own businesses.
With this $654.38+million, the Wang brothers set out to start their own business ambitiously.
Because of their connections and resources, the two brothers jointly opened an advertising company called "Huayi Brothers".
Wang uses his knowledge and vision abroad to design unified logos and brochures for customers.
In just three years, the two brothers became famous in the advertising industry by relying on the resources behind them.
At first, they looked for people everywhere to find relationships to attract customers. In his client list, Sinopec, Bank of China and other big clients are impressively listed.
1997, when Xiaogang Feng's New Year movie "A, B, C and D" was released, Wang He also made a decision: set up a film and television company, and please make a film together.
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At that time, although Xiaogang Feng was famous in the industry for his film Party A and Party B, he was only a wage earner working for the film of the National Palace Museum.
When the Wangs offered him an annual salary of 4 million yuan plus share dividends, the cunning Xiaogang Feng turned into the office of Gao Jun, the boss, and revealed that someone was digging him, and took the opportunity to talk with Gao Jun about his salary.
Finally, the negotiations broke down, because the profit of the Forbidden City film industry could not give the Wang brothers such conditions.
In this way, the Wang brothers dug it up with a high salary.
1998, with tens of millions earned by advertising companies, the Wang brothers began to enter the film and television industry.
Tens of millions of dollars was a "huge sum" in those days, but it was pitiful for making movies.
Insufficient funds, the Wang brothers mortgaged their personal assets. Wang Zhonglei said: "I have signed a lot of words, and now I feel that the risk is quite high."
At first, they made a TV series called Psychological Clinic and made some money.
Later, I invested in the movies "The Devil Came" and "Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin" by Jiang Wen and Chen Kaige, and they didn't make any money.
Jiang Wen didn't pass "The Devil Comes", which is a waste of time. However, Chen Kaige's "Jing Ke Stabbed the King of Qin" didn't invest much at the box office, and in the end, it was wiped out, and tens of millions hit Shui Piao.
Chen Kaige's films always have a strong personal style, and sometimes even have some paradoxes with the market. Over the years, apart from Farewell My Concubine, it seems that Chen Kaige has never made a movie that is applauded and hit the box office.
Even today, Chen Kaige's film style has not changed much, and there is no breakthrough. How to reach a settlement with himself and the market and find a balance point may be a lesson that Chen Kaige needs to learn more about movies.
Huayi Brothers' biggest turning point was investing in Xiaogang Feng's film Endless.
After the film was released, it won 50 million box office, which doubled the confidence of Huayi Wang Brothers.
In this film, Wang Zhonglei also plays a friend of Fu Biao.
After the big shots, heroes of heaven and earth, mobile phones, etc. The films invested by the Wang brothers have all won good box office.
Xiaogang Feng is different from Chen Kaige. He comes from the bottom of society, knows what kind of movies people want to see, and grasps the pulse of the film market more accurately.
Later, world without thieves, Banquet, Assembly and If You Are the One made Huayi famous in the entertainment circle and established its dominance.
Wang Zhonglei said of Xiaogang Feng, "He shoots whatever the audience wants to see".
Xiaogang Feng became Huayi Brothers' biggest trump card, while Ge You and comedy became Xiaogang Feng's trump card.
With the great success of Huayi Brothers in the film and television industry, the value of Wang Brothers is also rising, and the scenery is infinite.
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Wang Zhonglei looks elegant and comes from a good background. His position in the entertainment circle makes him an ideal target for many actresses.
As long as you climb this rich man, it means that the resources of the entertainment circle are chosen by yourself, and fame and fortune are at your fingertips.
Wang Zhonglei's early marriage is the regret of countless female stars.
The Wangs seem to have a precedent of early marriage. Wang Zhonglei's brothers got married early in their twenties, and Wang Zhonglei was no exception.
Wang Zhonglei's wife Wang Xiaorong is a Chongqing girl. Like many Chongqing girls, Wang Xiaorong is beautiful, and it is not a problem to become a star with her face value.
When Wang Xiaorong first saw Wang Zhonglei, he was deeply attracted by his handsome appearance and elegant temperament.
But at that time, Wang Xiaorong had a boyfriend, but that didn't stop Wang Xiaorong from loving Wang Zhonglei.
Wang Zhonglei didn't accept Wang Xiaorong's confession at first. The reason he gave was simple: "I like girls older than me."
And Wang Xiaorong, two years younger than Wang Zhonglei.
Since then, they have not seen each other often. They have known each other for three years and only met five times.
Wang Xiaorong often wrote love letters to Wang Zhonglei, but Wang Zhonglei refused one by one.
After Wang Zhonglei failed to set up a trading company, their relationship improved.
Wang Zhonglei called Wang Xiaorong and told her, "Let's get married."
Regarding love, Wang Zhonglei once said: "Love must be a very hot thing, and my view of love should be very hot."
However, this relationship was rejected by both parents. Wang Xiaorong's family doesn't agree with her because her daughter has a boyfriend.
The reason why Wang Zhonglei's parents object is that Wang Xiaorong's home is away from home, and they want this excellent son to marry a Beijing girl.
Because in those days, Beijingers still had a certain sense of superiority compared with foreigners. Marry a foreigner, people will always think that children are worthless, and they can't marry a local girl before marrying a foreigner.
Wang Zhonglei's mother even said to him, "You make me feel particularly humiliated. Do you know how many poor relatives there are in their family? They will go to Beijing to see a doctor and then ask you for help. "
Wang Zhonglei's parents, as the first people to enter the city from the countryside, encountered many such things in their early years. At that time, almost every day, relatives from rural Wang Zhonglei came to Beijing for medical treatment and visits. There must be a knock at the door at three or four o'clock every morning, which makes Wang Zhonglei's mother feel some kind of shadow.
Wang Zhonglei is independent and stubborn. He didn't try to persuade his mother. He thought, "You can agree or disagree, but I will get married anyway."
Later, Wang Zhonglei's wedding was held in Chongqing. Three or four hundred people came to the scene, but there were no relatives or friends of Wang Zhonglei.
When they got married, Wang Zhonglei not only failed in business, but also quit his job, and so did Wang Xiaorong.
Although they were two unemployed youths, Wang Zhonglei still felt very happy when he recalled that time: "Because neither of us had a job, we had an eight-month honeymoon."
Now they have been married for more than 20 years and have two children. Although there is no quarrel with Wang Xiaorong, the ambiguity between Wang Zhonglei and female stars has occurred from time to time.
Being in the colorful entertainment circle, especially as the boss of Huayi, he was once rated as "the most handsome boss in China". Wang Zhonglei is surrounded by actresses from all walks of life and has many temptations.
Kiss from Li Bingbing.
The princess embraced Angelababy.
Having an affair with Fan Bingbing.
Show intimacy with Zhou Xun.
Sitting on a stool with Zhang Ziyi.
Among these female stars, the relationship between Wang Zhonglei and Huo Siyan has always been confusing.
At that time, Huo Siyan made her debut in the entertainment circle and took the route of "Jade Girl".
Shortly after signing Huayi, Huo Siyan became the object of Huayi's support.
Wang Zhonglei and Huo Siyan can be seen in Huayi's various activities and dinners.
In the big photo of Huayi, Huo Siyan was properly in the C position, and even Li Bingbing, the "First Sister of Huayi" at that time, could only stand in the second row.
At that time, the scandal between Wang Zhonglei and Huo Siyan was raging.
Even wang wen also, the little princess of Huayi, wrote an article sarcastically on Huo Siyan's birthday: "Don't celebrate your birthday first, learn how to be a man first."
Princess huayi's words are more like the relationship between the two.
Because these words seem to be dissatisfied with Huo Siyan getting too close to his father, venting, and wronged his mother.
However, no matter how much gossip there is outside, he and his brother Wang follow the same principle: no divorce.
04
Undeniably, Wang Zhonglei is one of the bosses with the most beautiful scenery and the highest exposure in China.
How beautiful was Wang Zhonglei then?
Holding brokerage contracts of hundreds of stars such as Zhou Xun, Fan Bingbing, Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming and Deng Chao. In a word, he can let the other side stand firmly in the front line of the entertainment circle, or he can block and marginalize.
Huayi is the first private film and television company listed in the mainland. After listing in 2009, the stock price soared. 20 15, with a market value of more than 90 billion.
This figure is close to Wang Zhonglei's dream market value of 1000 billion.
So the stars tried their best to please him.
Villa and luxury car are already the standard of this boss.
When many people flocked to pursue all kinds of luxury goods, Wang Zhonglei boasted: "Luxury goods are just my toys."
Besides, he likes wine and cigars.
He has all kinds of wine in his house. For red wine, he will taste it from one producing area to another, and then buy it in large quantities if he likes it.
However, in the process of development, Huayi inevitably has many problems.
For example, relying too much on Xiaogang Feng, although Wang Zhonglei said that "it is not accurate to say that Huayi relies entirely on director Xiaogang Feng".
But the fact is that almost all of Huayi's explosive movies were made by Xiaogang Feng.
For the new generation of directors trained, no one can stand out.
Although Wang Zhonglei claimed that "we are not capital players", Huayi, Xiaogang Feng, Zhang Guoli and others all made gambling agreements. Through this gambling agreement, Huayi operates as a star.
Jerry Lee, Angelababy, Ryan, William Feng, and so on, Huayi also played opposite them.
In order to complete the gambling, these stars desperately pick up all kinds of bad plays, and the overall decline in the quality of film and television dramas is not unrelated to the gambling agreements prevailing in the entertainment industry.
From 20 16, Huayi began to decline.
From 20 18 to now, huayi has suffered losses year after year, with the lowest loss of several hundred million a year and the highest loss of 10.
At this point, Huayi's share price has dropped from the peak of 32 yuan to today's 3 yuan, which is a big diving.
The scenery of Huayi Brothers is long gone.
In the past two years, Huayi frequently reported that it was enforced by the court, with debts exceeding one billion.
To this end, Wang even sold his collection to save the market. He said: "I am not ashamed to sell paintings ... I can sell anything for my life and the safety of the company."
Many people know that Wang likes collecting famous paintings. For this hobby, he spent hundreds of millions on paintings.
In order to win the original "Poppies and Daisies" by Van Gogh, he spent 377 million yuan on it.
Once upon a time, Huayi stars gathered, and the Wang brothers drank coffee all the way, applauded, and flowers were everywhere. Nowadays, there is a sad feeling of people walking in tea.
Wang Zhonglei once talked about the imagination of Huayi: "I hope Huayi Brothers' brand will become a century-old shop".
However, Huayi was founded less than 30 years ago, but at present, the road to development is full of thorns.
How to get out of the predicament and restore the glory of the past is a big challenge for Huayi.