Dawn was the first of Hong Kong's "Four Heavenly Kings" to set up a film and television entertainment company as the boss, but after so many years, why can't you come up with a "decent" actor?
At the height of the dawn of that year, even Andy Lau was "willing to bow to the wind", was the first Hong Kong star to win the honor of "Ambassador of Peace", and served as the "Hong Kong Film and Television Entertainment Ambassador" for many years, with influence all over the world.
In 1992, Bestway Entertainment Business Co., Ltd. was established in Hong Kong, Liming was the first star to sign a contract, in order to show sincerity, "Bestway" a ten-million contract plus "partner equity" impressed Li Tianwang.
At that time, "Baishihuo" in addition to dawn, but also signed Li Jiaxin, Zhou Haimei, Zhou Huimin and other artists, 3 years the company gradually grew and developed rapidly, but in 1995, "Baishihuo" experienced internal division, some shareholders and brokers have jumped ship, has always had a business mind Dawn to see the opportunity, acquired the shares of job-hopping shareholders, and finally "integrated" all the shares into their own hands, took charge of the power, and became the big boss of "Baishihuo".
It should be known that Andy Lau established the "Yingyi Film and Television Company" in 2002, and even the "Emperor Film and Television" was established in 2000, and Dawn had already taken charge of the "Baishihuo Entertainment Company" as early as 1996.
Dawn missed two points in time
The first: the end of the nineties is the peak of Dawn's career, even if "incorporated" the big company of Baishihuo, but Liming still put the focus on his own career, for the operation of "Baishihuo" in those years and there was no big move, if you increase the intensity of "recruiting" to develop film and television in that year, the current "Baishihuo" must have more right to speak.
The second: we all know that after 2000, the music industry began to decline, many music companies have collapsed, in addition to a few can also rely on music to make money, other almost difficult to make a profit, but after 2000 dawn is still a mind to develop music, has signed Wei Lan Weishi two sisters, but also with Lin Jianyue to establish the "East Asia Record Production Company".
Of course, "East Asia Record Production Company" was indeed very good at that time, and its artists were all superstars: including Andy Lau, Li Ming (partner), Xu Zhi'an, Ren Xianqi, Zheng Xiuwen, Yang Qianwei, Han Hong, He Yunshi and the new popular singers Wei Lan, Wang Yunzhi, Nongfu, Lin Yifeng, Liu Haolong, Lan Yibang, Huang Zongze, Yu Wenle and other talents. But again, there is no such thing as saying that after 2000, I could not make money on music.
The dawn of the current situation began to invest in film and television
In 2004, Dawn spent most of his time on "Baishi Huo" and began to invest in the production of movies, such as "Big City Little Things" is one of the representatives, not only to find the right rest assured, Dawn also won the "Golden Deer Movie Emperor" with its wonderful performance in the movie.
After experiencing the negative impact of the D-sucking incident in Japan, Dawn began to purposefully sign some young people with good conditions to develop in film and television, and later signed Li Zhiting, Ying Changyou, Wang Gehui and other three artists in 2005.
Missed Li Zhiting
In particular, Li Zhiting has invested a lot of resources in himself, and Li Zhiting, who has an outstanding appearance, debuted as a singer, began to dabble in film and television in 2010, and won the Best Newcomer Award at the Hong Kong Film Awards with "The Thief of Years".
In 2012, through the "Cold War" became popular in the mainland, at this time, hong Kong's entertainment industry has long since lost the scene of the year, the mainland market began to "main battlefield", even if the dawn continues to give opportunities to Li Zhiting, but the career is still not more improved.
Due to Li Ming's "obsession" to serve the Hong Kong market, in 2014, Li Zhiting and Li Ming parted ways and established their own "Li Zhiting Studio" that year began to devote themselves to "deeply cultivating" the mainland market, successively starring in "The Legend of Wu Meiniang", and also wanted "Fancy Sister" and other film and television variety shows to make Li Zhiting's career reach a new peak.
It's a pity for Wen Yongshan
In 2009, the "tender model style" in Hong Kong prevailed, and that year Dawn signed "ex-wife" Lucky and "one of the two pearls of tender mold" Wen Yongshan at the same time.
Wen Yongshan signed a contract with "Baishi huo" thinking that she could "become popular", but in addition to some catwalks, she accompanied Dawn to attend various events, and did not get any decent performance opportunities for several years. It was not that "Baishihuo" did not have resources, but that Dawn was focused on Lucky at that time.
Dawn and Luckier confirmed the relationship in 2008, during that time Dawn accompanied her every day to play around the world, today in the Maldives, tomorrow to Paris, Lucky likes to paint on its liking, set up "Xin Qian Co., Ltd.", let Lucky take charge of the painting business.
In the end, the playful Lekir "got tired" of Dawn, and the two 4-year marriage came to an end, but Lekiel did not lose, squandering Dawn's 700 million net worth in 4 years. I have to say: the cost of tender molds is high!
On the other hand, Wen Yongshan, into the "Baishi Life" for 3 years is also waiting for a "Big Hunt", in 2013, this movie starring Ren Dahua, Zhang Jiahui box office double harvest, Wen Yongshan played two roles in it, acting skills are online, at that time Wen Yongshan has been "targeted" by another film and television company.
After the dawn of the "divorce storm" began to enter the "semi-retired" state, the operation of "Baishihuo" no longer paid attention to it, and in the blink of an eye, Wen Yongshan's contract expired, at this time, "Sun Film and Television" saw the opportunity to successfully sign Yongshan in 2015, and in the same year, he took advantage of the company's investment to win opportunities for Wen Yongshan, and finally succeeded in the position of female killer in "Equator".
Since then, with the strong boost of "Sun Film and Television", Wen Yongshan has continued to make progress, and has now become one of the few "characters" in Hong Kong young actresses who can pick the beams, coincidentally, in the recently closely watched "Manslaughter 2", Wen Yongshan and Li Zhiting are one of the main actors, the two have long been deeply recognized by the mainland market, I don't know if Dawn will "regret" when she sees it, if she "snacks" on them, now the two are still helping themselves to make money!
In recent years, "Baishihuo" has signed 3 potential new stars
Zheng Ziyue
2013 International Fashion Show "Grand Finale Model", graduated from the Communication University of China, Zheng Ziyue is a proper "good look and double high newcomer", from 2016, Dawn increased the cooperation between "Baishihuo" and the mainland, signing a mainland newcomer It is also logical that Zheng Ziyue is the first mainland newcomer to sign a contract.
Since 2016, Zheng Ziyue has starred in a number of film and television works large and small, but most of them are supporting roles, it is reasonable to say that such a "double high" newcomer as long as he is willing to make some capital and give more resource opportunities, it should still be easy to become popular, depending on how dawn works next.
Shen Zhuoying
Speaking of Shen Zhuoying, shen Zhuoying, who debuted as a magazine "cover girl" in the early years, was signed by TVB to become its artist.
In 2009, he starred in the supporting role of TVB's blockbuster drama "Student Police Attack" and became popular in Hong Kong, and has since performed well in many works. Moreover, Shen Zhuoying is eloquent and often guest hosts of TVB big and small evenings, which can be said to be versatile.
But TVB "mountain culture" is serious, in which actors without background are difficult to get a chance, Shen Zhuoying spent 10 years in TVB, during which even a female third role did not have a chance, 32-year-old Shen Zhuoying did not want to waste youth, in 2016 made a decision to leave TVB.
After a year of rest, Shen Zhuoying set off again, after which there was no place for her in Hong Kong, and the unwilling Shen Zhuoying followed the example of her predecessors "going north alone", and signed Dawn's "Baishihuo" by chance, starring in the movie "Hanshan Hidden Dragon" in 2017, and then starring in "Alone" with Zhang Xiaoquan.
It is reported that Dawn is still very optimistic about Shen Zhuoying, may be speaking Cantonese for the sake of it, recently invested in a movie about "revenge" by "Baishi Huo", and has now fixed the role of Shen Zhuoying's female second, it seems that Shen Zhuoying will usher in the "second spring of career" with the help of Dawn.
Hong Junjia
Speaking of Hong Junjia, I believe that everyone is most impressed by Zhong Wei, who played Ren Dahua's "head horse" in "Icebreaker Action", a standard model figure, not handsome at first glance, but very stylish.
Don't look at Hong Junjia's maturity, the young man is from 1991, his ancestral home is Xiamen, born in Hong Kong, graduated from the undergraduate class of the Acting Department of the Beijing Film Academy in 2011, and is also in the same class as Zhou Dongyu and Gulinaza. Fluent in Cantonese, Hong Junjia and Hong Junjia have developed like fish.
In 2018, he was appreciated by Dawn and signed a contract with "Baishihuo", and since then, the focus of his career has been all on the mainland, and in 2020, he starred in "Crackdown on Violence" with Wu Yanzu and Wang Qianyuan and was well known to more audiences.
Summary: Dawn is the most profitable of the "Four Heavenly Kings" and the one with the most business acumen, but in terms of "holding the horn", it is really almost meaningless, and it is really necessary to learn from Gu Tianleduo.