There is a "new melon" in the entertainment industry!
It is reported that Beijing New Picture Pictures Co., Ltd. (which has been revoked) has added another court announcement, unsurprisingly the plaintiff is Zhang Yimou, and the defendants are Zhang Weiping and Zhang Jing.
Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping can be regarded as "golden partners", the two have created a lot of box office myths in the circle, and have also launched many classic works, why are they court-court now?
In fact, "Good Brothers" was only a dozen years ago, and since 2011 the two of them have become "the most familiar strangers".
At that time, after the two broke up, the news of choking each other was repeated.
First of all, the publicity film is reluctant to share the stage, and then the two parties compete for "baby", and they have stated that their artists such as Zhou Dongyu and Ni Ni are popular by themselves, and they have the actual management right to it.
When the two sides refused to give in, Zhang Yimou's side was again exposed to the "Chaoshengmen Incident", and finally paid 7.48 million super student fees.
In this regard, Zhang Yimou also criticized zhang Weiping in his biography for the manipulator behind this matter.
The "rumors of bad relations" between the two have caused an uproar.
So, why did the brothers, who were once very good friends, become what they are now?
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="24" > sympathize with each other to breed contradictions</h1>
In the 1980s, Zhang Yimou launched a number of works with strong personal colors, which were loved by countless fans and became a hot filmmaker.
At the same time, Zhang Weiping is taking the start-up capital to devote himself to the real estate industry, mixing up in the circle and making a lot of money.
Two big coffee characters who seem to have no intersection, but because Gong Li has been implicated.
At this time, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li often cooperated together, the relationship was extremely "intimate", and she also became an indispensable star in the history of Zhang Yimou's fame.
No coincidence, Zhang Weiping's wife is a fan of Gong Li.
Once the two of their mutual friends organized a party, and Zhang Weiping's lover saw Gong Li and took the initiative to come forward to say hello.
In this regard, Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping officially met.
Although their respective fields are different, after all, they are all industry leaders, and the two people with similar successful experiences have seen each other at first sight, and the number of weekday exchanges has gradually increased, and they have slowly become friends.
In 1995, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li increased their contradictions due to many factors, and their feelings gradually faded, and they were scattered in the last shot.
However, at this time, Gong Li had already become one of the guarantees of Zhang Yimou's film box office, and was preparing to shoot a new movie "There is something to say".
After the investor heard that the two were deadlocked, they immediately reduced the investment by about 16 million, and Zhang Yimou decided to abandon the cooperation between the two sides after thinking twice.
Even if it is a big winner in the film and television industry, the funds are trapped for a while.
Fortunately, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou saw his sad face at dinner, so they took the initiative to ask what was wrong, and Zhang Yimou told him what had happened, saying that he lacked 26 million yuan of investment.
I thought that Zhang Weiping could only listen to his complaints and could not give accurate advice.
Without thinking, Zhang Weiping, who was rich and powerful, responded: "Isn't it money, I'll invest it."
Although many first-line movie stars were invited to sit in the town and a lot of money was thrown, the initial cooperation between the two could only end in a loss of more than 18 million.
The first finished product not only did not achieve the desired results, but also lost a lot of money, which surprised both of them.
However, Zhang Weiping is very sorry for talent, he did not blame Zhang Yimou, but continued to invest 10 million yuan to set up a new picture film company, the main business is to do Zhang Yimou's films.
Since then, the two brothers, known as "Two Zhang", have begun a "legendary cooperation" that has lasted for more than ten years.
After that, the two "golden partners" continued to launch classic works such as "No One Can Be Less" and "My Father and Mother", which were deeply loved by the public, and Zhang Yimou's films re-occupied a place in the film and television market.
Due to the cooperation many times and mutual trust, the two people who have business contacts have never signed a contract, all of which are verbal agreements, which also lays the groundwork for the deterioration of the relationship between the two in the future.
The first person to see that there was a problem with the two-person partnership model was Zhang Yimou's father, Zhang Bingjun.
In 1997, when his old father died, his "last words" to Zhang Yimou were "You are not Zhang Weiping's opponent at all, if you don't cooperate well, you will definitely not be able to deal with him."
At that time, Zhang Yimou did not think so, who expected that many years later, this remark would become a slur.
In fact, at that time, the outside world always thought that they were intimate "iron brothers", but they did not know that the two had a clue of contradiction since 2000.
Here Sister Rice has to say that the old father's vision is really "poisonous".
This year, Zhang Yimou's films slowly shifted from literary films to commercial films, and directed a film "Happy Time".
As the "first New Year's Eve work", Zhang Yimou spent a lot of effort, whether it is the actor setting, or the setting of the scene and plot, it is the top configuration.
Unfortunately, the audience did not pay the bill, and they complained that they could not understand the film.
In the face of this film, which has been called a "failure" from word of mouth to box office, Zhang Yimou's response is that his shooting concept is not to make money, but to express his views through the film, as long as he can recover the cost, investors do not lose money.
However, as a businessman, Zhang Weiping believes that film can not only pursue art, but also consider the market and audience.
To put it bluntly, one for the ideal, one for the banknote, both of the goals are correct.
But this kind of contrary thinking, accumulated more, will always have an outbreak.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="101" > concepts are different to the point of enmity</h1>
Therefore, after the two cooperated in 4 films that have been in a state of losing money, Zhang Weiping no longer allowed Zhang Yimou to play freely and began to subjectively interfere in the marketing of the film.
Since then, the two films have begun to prepare for the pure "commercial film" "Heroes", which is based on the Hollywood blockbuster level in many aspects such as investment and production.
Budget funding alone is as high as $30 million.
In order to achieve the most satisfactory box office effect of "Hero", Zhang Weiping used marketing methods that many domestic films had never used before.
First, the first copy of the new film, which was extremely confidential, was not airlifted to the scene until the day of its premiere.
Secondly, in order to combat the market atmosphere of rampant piracy at that time, Zhang Weiping even signed contracts with major theaters during the release period to remove all the ceilings of the screening version, and everyone who entered the film had to carry out a full-body security check.
Such a forward-looking innovative model has added an unprecedented mysterious color to "Heroes", and has also speculated its audiovisual rights from the initial starting price of 5 million to a sky-high price of 17.8 million.
You know, at this time, the most expensive film rights on the market are only 300,000.
Finally, Zhang Weiping also spent 1.3 million yuan to hold the premiere ceremony in the Great Hall of the People, inviting a total of 500 well-known Chinese and foreign media before and after.
I have to say that in terms of business smell, Zhang Weiping is indeed a genius.
In the end, "Hero" became a hit on the day of broadcasting, with a total of 250 million yuan in the mainland and 1.4 billion yuan in global box office revenue.
In the same year, the domestic film box office totaled 500 million, and "Hero" accounted for half.
It is worth mentioning that Zhang Yimou's expectation for this film is only 20 million box office, after all, his focus is not on money, but on the connotation of the film.
Therefore, while the box office was a great success, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou's ideas also deviated, and Zhang Weiping began to shift from marketing to intervention in film creation in order to continue the glory of this time.
In 2006, Zhang Yimou prepared to shoot "Full of Golden Armor", and the original partners were Gong Li and Zhou Runfa.
But Zhang Weiping always believed that although the two were famous, they were not loved by young people, and the protagonist should be replaced by Jay Chou, who was in flames at that time.
Just when the script was about to be completed, Zhang Weiping still strongly imported his own ideas, so that the screenwriter and Zhang Yimou had to quickly revise the script.
In addition, Zhang Weiping also added a hard plot: Gong Li and Liu Ye should have "forbidden love" in the play.
Zhang Weiping's intervention does have a lot of appeal to young audiences, so the film finally achieved a box office success of nearly 300 million.
However, Zhang Yimou was scolded as the "king of bad films", and many fans believe that he disregarded word of mouth in order to make money.
Perhaps, at this time, Zhang Yimou has resentment, but there is nowhere to say, which also leads to the contradiction between the brothers is likely to gradually "escalate" invisibly.
In 2009, Zhang Yimou planned to shoot "Three Guns Shooting Surprise", the original tone of the film was a serious suspense genre.
However, when Xiao Shenyang became popular that year, Zhang Weiping saw that the fan effect brought by Jay Chou was better, so he recommended Xiao Shenyang to enter the group to shoot this film.
Although Zhang Yimou was very reluctant, due to Zhang Weiping's mandatory requirements, in the end, he could only make the whole team change collectively and let the "Zhao family class children" integrate into it.
This film made with a hard scalp has once again made Zhang Yimou criticized, and "Three Guns" is also considered by many people to be "the worst bad film with the worst reputation".
This time, Zhang Yimou finally couldn't help it, and said bluntly in front of the camera: "I feel like I have fallen into the ditch, because it lacks cultural value and is the product of commercial coercion."
It can be heard that Zhang Yimou has a lot of reluctance about Zhang Weiping's decision-making.
With Zhang Weiping's interference and opinions on the film, Zhang Yimou finally broke out, and the two officially fought each other in the filming of "Jinling Thirteen Chao".
In 2011, before the release of "Jinling Thirteen Chao", Zhang Yimou bought the film and television rights of this work, and then the original author Yan Geling consulted with Zhang Yimou for a long time and wanted to buy the rights to the TV series.
At that time, Zhang Yimou promised that as long as the film entered the late stage of production, he would return the rights to the TV series free of charge.
Unexpectedly, a few months before the film started, Zhang Weiping, who was mainly interested in profit, sold the copyright of his TV series at a "sky-high price", and Zhang Yimou did not know about it.
In addition, Zhang Weiping also believes that Ni Ni's "bed scene" should be added to the movie to have more selling points, and during the publicity period, he also hyped up this vulgar plot.
Zhang Yimou was furious when he heard this, and directly scolded: "The grade is too low, it is simply a waste of our labor."
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="181" > conclusion</h1>
Therefore, during the promotion of the movie "Jinling Thirteen Chao", it is rare to see the "two Zhang" scenes on the same stage.
For a time, the rumors were very loud.
During the promotion of the film, it did not appear in the same frame five times.
In the same year, Zhang Weiping admitted that he had nothing to do with Zhang Yimou, and Zhang Yimou also choked that he had no autonomy in the movie and became a cash cow.
The middle two also quarreled over "competing for stars" and "super life", and Zhang Yimou was once involved in the whirlpool of "super life" being crusaded.
In 2015, Zhang Yimou, who completely tore his face, took the "new picture" to court, saying that he did not sign a contract at the time and was owed 15 million yuan at the box office of "Three Guns".
In the end, the court ruled that the new picture should give Zhang Yimou a share of 2.46 million yuan, and Zhang Weiping's side refused to perform its payment obligations, and was listed as a dishonest person and restricted high consumption.
Looking back on the past, the two former brothers have made such a scene, which is indeed regrettable.
However, behind the chicken feathers in this place, many fuses have long been buried.
It can only be said that people with different goals, if they cannot tolerate each other, it is better to end cooperation early and stop loss in time, otherwise they can only be like now, full of devastation and leave in vain.
Author: Fried Hu Card
Editor-in-charge: Zeria
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="227" > previous selections</h1>
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