She is known as the "3 billion sister" in the industry;
She is the "most profitable producer" in the circle.
She is currently the most promising investor in the circle;
Her name is Chen Zhixi, she is a filmmaker and an actress.
You may not have heard her name, but you must have seen her work as a producer:
For example, "Hello, Li Huanying", "A Little Red Book", "Detective Chinatown 1", "Pancake Man", "Tai Lu of The Man Again", "Pretend Couple", "Border Storm", etc., are all acclaimed masterpieces.
In 1982, Chen was born into a wealthy family in Harbin to business parents.
At the age of 8, she was exposed to skating training, and because of her extraordinary persistence and hard work, she became the main player of the Bayi skating team.
Just when everyone thought that Chen Zhixi was going to become a professional athlete, because she was invited to shoot a movie of skaters, she was exposed to film and television shooting for the first time and became interested in acting.
In 1996, Chen Zhixi was admitted to the Central Academy of Drama, and in her junior year, she cooperated with Sichenkova to shoot "Out of the Blue River", and became famous for the role of "One Flower".
Later, she successively cooperated with Zhang Fengyi, Mei Ting, and Xu Zheng, and when she cooperated with Xu Zheng in "Li Wei as an Official", Chen Zhixi praised Xu Zheng for his talent as a director, which made Xu Zheng have the idea of being a director.
Xu Zheng said on the spot: "The day I became a director, you wanted to come and be a producer for me. ”
During the period of being an actor, Chen Zhixi felt that he was not very pretty, he did not have a great competitiveness among actresses, and the initiative to be an actor was very small, more was to pick people, and he was often robbed of the scene by actors with resources.
If you find unreasonable points in the play, you don't dare to raise them with the screenwriter and director, because you are only a young actor with shallow qualifications and are not qualified to give opinions.
Behind the bright and beautiful in front of the screen, there are often capital bosses who master the rules of the game. This also made her shake her path as an actress.
However, what prompted her to change her mind was an unspoken experience, when Chen Zhixi was filming in the crew, an investor always went to her and gave gifts.
Because they don't know each other well, they don't pay much attention to each other, and gifts are politely rejected.
As a result, the role she had originally signed was forcibly replaced, from the protagonist to a supporting role, she did not compromise after understanding the original commission, and intuitively refused to play that play.
Chen Zhixi, who has a strong personality, decided to change careers, and in 2010 she turned to film producer with a heart that was not angry.
Producers are different from actors, the challenge and difficulty are greater, from the early stage of pulling investment, to the small things of sesame seeds on the post-film shooting scene, to the follow-up publicity and distribution, etc., a series of things need to be managed by the producer, and this complex and tedious work makes Chen Zhixi pay and learn a lot.
From the 2010 movie "You Deserve to Be Single", to 2011's "Pretend Couple", and then to 2012's "Border Storm", Chen Zhixi went from panic and dissatisfaction at the beginning to gradually getting better later, allowing her to accumulate rich experience and resources.
The one-sentence joke of that year became a reality, which made her meet Xu Zheng's "Tai Lu of Man Again", with Xu Zheng as the director and Chen Zhixi as the producer.
In 2012, the movie "The Tai Lu of The Journey of Man Again" was released at the end of the year, and the box office of the film exceeded 1.2 billion yuan at the end, Xu Zheng was a new director of the First World War, and Chen Zhixi was also known as the "most profitable producer" at that time.
The movie "Pancake Man" released in 2015 gave Chen Zhixi the title of "3 Billion Sisters".
This also allowed Chen Sicheng to throw an olive branch with "Detective Chinatown 1".
In 2020, the movie "A Little Red Book" scored 8.0 and grossed 1.4 billion.
The 2021 blockbuster movie "Hello, Li Huanying" is also the producer she served as, with a box office of 5.4 billion, helping Jia Ling complete this dream that was 4 years late, and also adding a lot of color to her title of "3 billion sister".
The explosion of these films has to make people admire Chen Zhixi's vision.
No wonder some people say: she may be the most promising investor in the circle at present.
This year, she was also invited to participate in the large-scale competitive program "Director Please Advise", and her performance was also very brilliant, harvesting a large number of fans, because of her authenticity and her frankness.
In the short film "Ji" directed by Wu Zhenyu, chen Zhixi retorted: "The movie needs to be understood by the audience, after all, the audience spends money to buy tickets to watch the movie. ”
Although the comments of those "high-end" public film connoisseurs have been set after set, as an audience, I have only resonated with Chen Zhixi's views.
I have to say that Chen Zhixi is indeed a clear stream in the circle, in the mixed entertainment circle, holding up a clean sky for capable directors and actors.