When people are red, it is sitting alone in a tall building, enjoying the pursuit of thousands of people.
Just like the former "Huayi two brothers", in the entertainment industry, known as the "big and small king".
The two brothers have the resources in their hands, and the artist is crazy about it.
It also created two brothers and became a big name in the entertainment industry.
When they are beautiful, it is to be windy and to rain.
Worth more than 300 million yuan of "Daisies and Poppies", more than 200 million "Bureau Posts", Wang Zhonglei said to buy it, and did not feel the slightest pain in money.
I didn't think that the Huayi brothers, who had been scenery for more than 20 years, "set the sun" in the blink of an eye.
As the saying goes, people are unlucky enough to drink water and plug their teeth, and the repeated losses make the Huayi brothers go into decline.
What about the two brothers today, holding hundreds of millions of calligraphy and paintings in their hands?
It's not about selling old money to pay off debts. As for talking about development, it is even more a fool's dream.
Back at the beginning, for 80 million, he broke up with Zhou Xingchi, and the Huayi brothers were really "stupid to home".
I don't know how the two brothers felt when they saw Zhou Xingchi "making money all the way"?
01, ambitious "two brothers"
In 1960, Wang Zhongjun was born.
He was the second eldest in the family, and 10 years later, his parents gave birth to a younger brother, Wang Zhonglei.
Perhaps the family did not expect that in the future, the two brothers will be mixed up in the entertainment industry.
Because, after they were born, their parents had only one wish, so that both brothers could join the army.
When Wang Zhongjun was a child, he did not like to be a soldier.
He hopes that he can enter the circle, preferably be a big star, be able to stand on the stage, and be sought after.
After talking to his father about this idea, he was directly slapped and said that he was delusional.
Wang Zhongjun had just finished his third year of junior high school when his father dragged him hard to join the army.
At that time, Wang Zhongjun was still too young to know how to rebel against his father.
He had to silently join the army and suppress the actor's dream in his heart.
The fourth brother, who is a few years old, is still playing with mud at home, and he has already exercised his physique in the army.
Wang Zhonglei was the only child in the family who did not join the army, which made Wang Zhongjun also have some envy.
However, the personalities of the two brothers also have a great contrast.
Wang Zhongjun is a typical grumpy bear child, and Wang Zhonglei is a well-behaved baby who knows how to "judge the hour and size up the situation".
After 5 years as a soldier, Wang Zhongjun returned to the compound, and Jiang Wen, Yingda and other people in the same hospital all had good academic qualifications.
When Wang Zhongjun returned to the compound, he suddenly felt that he was too bad to even have a high diploma.
Not to be outdone, he turned around and applied for a school and took the night university degree.
As for the major of study, nature is still his favorite art.
After having a degree, Wang Zhongjun quickly found a good job.
In a publishing house, doing design. At the beginning, Wang Zhongjun was still able to do it with full fighting spirit.
But after working for more than half a month, Wang Zhongjun felt that it was too boring to work on art day after day.
For the family, working at a publishing house is a good job.
But in Wang Zhongjun's view, he would only bury his own ability.
Therefore, he turned around and resigned, the leader gave him a good persuasion, gave him a promotion and a salary increase, and did not keep him.
A person's heart has flown, and how can a salary increase be retained?
After resigning, Wang Zhongjun walked on the road and thought to himself, "What am I going to do?" Go be an actor"? The idea had just popped up and was suppressed by him.
They are both in their 20s and have long missed the golden age of acting. If you go to the entertainment circle again, will you not be "watching jokes" by people in the courtyard.
To say that the Beijing compound of that year was really full of talents.
Nowadays, most of the old drama bones and old directors in the entertainment industry have come out of here.
Like Ge You, Xu Qing, Ye Jing and others, which one was not famous in that year?
Looking at the "others eat meat, we drink soup" kind of thing, Wang Zhongjun will not do it.
With such a group of excellent people, Wang Zhongjun can only find another way and "overtake in a corner".
Later, Wang Zhongjun went to work in an art studio.
Gradually, he also fell in love with this line of work and wanted to develop in this direction.
In order to get more opportunities for himself, Wang Zhongjun resigned again and went to the United States for further study.
After returning from school, Wang Zhongjun also completely turned over.
After several tosses, Wang Zhongjun is 34 years old.
After returning to China, Wang Zhongjun immediately set up an advertising company, mainly engaged in print advertising business. Later, Wang Zhongjun used all the money he earned to invest in film and television shooting, making a lot of money.
He feels that the domestic film and television industry is constantly developing, and the future will be better.
But when a person works alone, there is always no time to take care of it, thinking of this, he immediately called his brothers at home and took turns to say his "grand plan", only Wang Zhonglei was willing to work with him.
Among the four brothers in the family, Wang Zhonglei has the most calm personality, and he is very interested in hearing that the second brother is doing film and television investment.
In this way, the two ambitious brothers established the "Huayi Brothers Media Company".
Standing on the vent, pigs can take off, isn't it the good fortune of the two brothers?
Feng Xiaogang was already famous in the 90s, but at that time, he was just a migrant worker. There are many well-known works, but he himself has received a pitiful dividend.
Wang Zhongjun saw Feng Xiaogang's ability and immediately set out to talk to him about cooperation.
Feng Xiaogang is already a big director, full of pride, and he was reluctant to cooperate with Wang Zhongjun at first.
But I didn't expect that Wang Zhongjun would eventually offer an annual salary of 4 million yuan to tempt him.
Don't say, this trick is really ok, Feng Xiaogang thought, where to do it is not to do it, but Huayi brothers have more money, why should I take this little dead wage.
Feng Xiaogang, who was not rich in the economy, still bowed his head for reality and went to Huayi Brothers Company.
After Feng Xiaogang joined Huayi, all three of them became red and earned.
In 1998, "No See, No Dispersion" was released, and it earned 43 million at the box office. After Wang Zhongjun saw the box office, he smiled so hard that his mouth could not be closed, and he was happy to give Feng Xiao just a few hundred thousand dividends.
Since then, Feng Xiaogang has also been willing to produce works. In the following decades, works such as "No Thief in the World", "Endless", and "Tangshan Earthquake" were higher than the box office.
From the original tens of millions of box office, to the later hundreds of millions of box office, Huayi Company earned a lot of gold and silver.
Only by making money from works, it is still quite difficult for the huayi brothers to become big names in the entertainment industry.
No, the two brothers wanted to "cover the sky with one hand" in the entertainment industry, and began to lobby Wang Jinghua to join Huayi.
Wang Jinghua's artists can all top half the sky. Big coffee like Chen Daoming has not diminished in popularity so far.
With such confidence, Wang Jinghua simply ignored the lobbying of the two brothers. There was no way, the two brothers had to show "sincerity", it is reported that it was given shares.
Later, Wang Jinghua took his artists to Huayi to develop. In just a few years, Huayi has hundreds of artists.
Moreover, these artists are all booming, like Huang Xiaoming, Liu Jialing, Liang Jiahui, who are the top streams of that period.
For a time, Huayi Brothers became a big guy in the industry that directors and artists "respected".
02, arrogant, decay to the point of wandering on the verge of decline
The fact that the two brothers, Wang Zhonglei and Wang Zhongjun, were able to break the gold with their profits and run Huayi well shows that their ability is absolutely super strong.
But why does Huayi still go into decline?
Among them, it is inseparable from the arrogance of the two brothers.
From the qi to Wang Jinghua and Feng Xiaogang, offended Zhou Xingchi, and this time and again the discord, so that Huayi's reputation suffered a heavy loss.
For others, the reason why Huayi can develop so rapidly is inseparable from Wang Jinghua and Feng Xiaogang.
But unexpectedly, the two brothers would play the set of "crossing the river and demolishing the bridge".
At first, Wang Jinghua was quite a favorite of the artists.
But for Wang Zhonglei, he does not like "will be an artist".
Rather than coaxing and holding the artist, he prefers to use interests to control the development of the artist.
Wang Jinghua disagreed, and she regarded artists as brothers and sisters, not just tools to make money.
The two have different management concepts, which causes Wang Jinghua to leave in anger.
Wang Jinghua's next operation is to really let the two brothers eat a "muffled loss".
At that time, Huayi Brothers had many opponents, but only Orange Sky developed the best.
Wang Jinghua ran to Huayi's largest rival company to develop in a fit of rage.
Huayi Brothers also suffered "heavy losses" as a result.
For Wang Jinghua's departure, Wang Zhongjun also knew that it was his own and his brother's problem, but he was still a dead duck with a hard mouth, declaring to the outside world that Huayi could develop without anyone.
But actually? The Lack of Wang Jinghua's Huayi Brothers is simply unbearable in the management of artists.
Almost every once in a while, artists leave.
In order to retain the artist, the two brothers "endured the pain of cutting love and kept people with shares".
Huayi continues to throw out shares, and more and more artists come to share a piece of the pie.
Huang Xiaoming also valued their shares, joined Huayi, and later also took off against the wind, and the scenery for many years.
Immediately after that, Feng Xiaogang was also clamoring to leave.
This time, the Huayi brothers learned to be obedient, no longer hard bar, but continued to "use money to keep people." ”
In 2009, after Huayi went public, it really ushered in the "peak stage".
Wang Zhonglei has successively invested in tourism, finance and other industries to realize huayi brothers' diversified development plan.
However, an incident in 2013 made Huayi Brothers decline step by step.
In this year, Huayi Brothers' box office revenue reached 3.1 billion, which was 800 million more than that of Guangming, another major media company at that time.
One of the most profitable films, "Journey to the West and Descending Demons", was produced by Zhou Xingchi.
The relationship between Zhou Xingchi and Huayi brothers is quite good, but I did not expect that once the interests were touched, Zhou Xingchi was just a "stepping stone".
When the work was published, Zhou Xingchi and the two brothers Wang Zhongjun said: "If my work can get 500 million box office, I will get an additional 80 million dividends." ”
In view of the previous cooperation, this time Zhou Xingchi did not sign a text agreement, but verbally spoke to Wang Zhongjun.
When Wang Zhongjun heard this, he was very happy to agree, saying that as long as he could make money, he would give more dividends.
In this way, Zhou Xingchi's careful work, after the release, the box office broke through 1 billion, and finally ended up to 1.25 billion.
Huayi made a lot of money, but Wang Zhongjun thought that this would cost 80 million more, which was really heartache, and he was reluctant to let the money flow out.
Therefore, the two brothers once again played the old drama of "crossing the river and demolishing the bridge".
Zhou Xingchi is not a newcomer to the entertainment industry, who has been mixed for many years, how can he tolerate others' "perfidy"?
Hearing that Wang Zhongjun did not give money, Zhou Xingchi turned around and sued Huayi in court.
The Huayi brothers are also not vegetarians, and Zhou Xingchi is a fight to the end, and even in public, zhou Xingchi does not understand movies at all.
When he said this, he simply laughed off the teeth of the people.
Zhou Xingchi at that time, filming a fire, comedy movies so far no one has surpassed.
After being a director, you can direct a work at will, and you can get hundreds of millions, billions of box office.
Stephen Chow doesn't understand movies, so who knows movies? Is it Wang Zhongjun, or Wang Zhonglei?
The Huayi brothers' words made Zhou Xingchi very angry, and he turned his head and ran to the light.
Zhou Xingchi's purpose is also very clear, you are not kind to me, and I will not be kind to you.
Ten years is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, and Zhou Xingchi only took two years to make Wang Zhongjun's brothers regret their mistakes.
In 2015, "The Mermaid" grossed 3.3 billion yuan, and Ray also became the number one in the industry.
As for the Huayi Brothers, there are only 3.1 billion out of 10 works, and there is no Zhou Xingchi alone.
Tit-for-tat confrontation with the brave wins, the two brothers eat defeat, can only be said to be caused by "rat eyes and light".
However, when people have money, their hearts begin to drift.
Since 2014, Wang Zhongjun has been constantly "spending money indiscriminately". A company's capital is the lifeblood of development.
However, Wang Zhongjun gave a lot of money to the so-called "top calligraphy and painting" and threw it out.
In 2014, Wang Spent $377 million to buy a painting by Van Gogh.
The following year, another $185 million was spent on Picasso's paintings.
In 2016, the "Bureau Post" worth 207 million yuan was photographed by Wang Zhongjun.
Nearly 800 million of the funds, just used up.
Such a bold method of using money may be able to do it in the entire entertainment circle.
Wang Zhongjun probably did not expect that one day he would personally buy these calligraphy and paintings and sell them one by one.
03, Huayi fell, and the two ended miserably
In the entertainment industry for more than 20 years, to 2019, the exposure of a news has pushed the two Huayi brothers to the cusp of the storm.
Someone revealed that Huayi was already in debt, and Wang Zhongjun sold his property to repay the debt.
In fact, the decline of Huayi can be traced back to 2016.
After the matter of Zhou Xingchi and Huayi was exposed, Huayi's reputation has been declining, and the quality of the works is even more unbearable to look at.
By 2018, Huayi's stock price plummeted again, from the highest time of more than 30 yuan a share, all the way down to a few yuan a share.
Just like Ma Yun today, the assets of the two brothers are constantly shrinking.
By 2019, the company lost billions of dollars, and Huayi was directly forced by the court to repay the debt.
To this end, Wang Zhongjun did not hesitate to sell his property and retain Huayi.
Looking back, Wang Zhonglei once confessed that he hoped to run Huayi into a century-old company.
Unfortunately, Huayi has been developing for less than 30 years, and it has already fallen into a deep valley and is difficult to climb out.
By 2020, the entire film and television industry will be affected by the fluctuations of the epidemic, but only Huayi is extremely loss-making.
Several movies to be broadcast have been adjusted for the schedule, and Huayi funds cannot be returned, resulting in a broken flow of funds.
In order to preserve Huayi's existence, the two brothers had to sell their stocks to repay their debts.
However, no matter how much they sell their property and sell stocks, the final funds they get are only more than 2 billion.
But Huayi's loss amount is far more than that. What problems can be solved? When Huayi was at its poorest, the available funds on the books were less than 1 billion, but the debt funds were as high as more than 3 billion.
In 2021, the development of all walks of life has improved step by step, but Huayi still has not been able to turn over, but has fallen deeper and deeper.
According to the annual report on performance issued by Huayi, the amount of loss for the whole year of 2021 is as high as more than 900 million.
As for 2022, there are only 3 works to be broadcast by Huayi, and it is still unknown whether these works can be turned over.
Epilogue:
Did Huayi fall? Not yet, but not far from falling.
After all, a company that has been in debt for many years, if there is no big opportunity and no one to help, it is too difficult to stand up on its own.
Like JD.com, companies with many debts and good development cannot find a few in the whole country.
As for Huayi, there is no such good reputation, and there is no big pattern like JD.com.
A company that was originally only for profit, and what a human touch.
Huayi's popularity is true, but it has also offended many partners.
It is also for these reasons that Huayi has difficulties, and no one has come to help so far.
The two brothers were filed and executed, and there was no one to help the outside world.
Today's Huayi can be described as "roasting on the fire." ”