Behind the "win" of "Hot and Hot" Jia Ling and her circle of capital friends

Jia Ling, who once relied on "Hello, Li Huanying" to kill all sides in the 2021 Spring Festival, returned to the Spring Festival file as a director and starring actor after 3 years.

According to the data of Maoyan Professional Edition, the movie "Hot and Hot" was released for 7 days, with a total box office of more than 2.3 billion, temporarily ranking first in the Spring Festival.

Previously, "Hello, Li Huanying" first appeared in the first season of "Comedy Story" in the form of a sketch, and after receiving praise from the audience, it was moved to the big screen. "Hot and Hot" is also a remake of the 2014 Japanese film "100 Yuan Love" starring Sakura Ando. With the two movies "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Hot and Hot", Jia Ling has successfully won a box office of more than 7.6 billion, making her the highest-grossing female director in China.

The eight main producers of "Hot and Hot" Xinli Media, China Film, Alibaba Pictures, China Literature and Television, Big Bowl Entertainment, Sanya Literature and Art Xiaohong Culture, Beijing Riding Pony Culture Media, and Penguin Pictures also "had a good year" together.

Behind the "win" of "Hot and Hot", Jia Ling's Big Bowl Entertainment is an old face who has participated in the production of "Hello, Li Huanying", and China Film Co., Ltd., which previously served as the co-producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", has become the second producer of this film. Xinli Media, China Literature Film and Television, and Penguin Pictures are all "Tencent" companies. In addition, in addition to Big Bowl Entertainment, Jia Ling's directly related companies also include Sanya Literature and Art Xiaohong and Beijing Pony Riding Culture.

As of 13:13 on the 16th, the share price of China Literature Group rose 7.21% to close at 23.8 yuan per share.

Photo/Screenshot of Jia Ling's Weibo

"Hot and Hot" leads the Spring Festival stalls

"If the box office is 3 billion, I will be thin like a lightning."

Three years ago, Jia Ling's "unintentional" sentence when she answered the box office expectations of "Hello, Li Huanying" has now become a reality. Jia Ling's new film "Hot and Hot" has been full of popularity since its release on the first day of the Lunar New Year.

Although Jia Ling mentioned in an interview that "Hot and Hot" is not about weight loss or boxing, but about a girl who learns to "love herself". But from Jia Ling not appearing in public for nearly a year, to Jia Ling posting on her personal social account that she had successfully lost 100 pounds, and then to the outflow of slimming silhouettes at the beginning of the finalization, the weight loss effect is undoubtedly the biggest killer feature of the film's promotion.

On February 10, the first day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Ling posted a poster after losing weight and changed her Weibo avatar. In the poster, Jia Ling, who lost 100 pounds, showed her trademark pear vortex smile, and her cheeks slimmed out of her jawline. Then the topic #The current Jia Ling# rushed to the first place in the hot search. was so shocked that netizens shouted "unrecognizable" and "too powerful". Shell financial reporters noticed that many gyms also began to use Jia Ling's slimming stills as leaflets to attract customers.

With Jia Ling's style of weight loss, it has become a "hot topic", and "Hot and Hot" has taken the lead since the second day of "firing the gun" and has been leading for 6 days.

As of 12:53 on February 16, the total box office (including pre-sale) of the 2024 Spring Festival schedule has exceeded 7 billion, and the ranking has been basically settled.

"Hot and Hot" and "Flying Life 2" firmly occupy the first interval, "Bear Infested: Reversing Time and Space" and "Article 20" accompany the second interval, "Mr. Red Carpet" and "Let's Shake the Sun Together" are difficult brothers and sisters in the third interval, and "Bajie: Canopy Nether" and "Huang Pi: The God of Wealth Cat" are ruthlessly left in the fourth interval.

Back to the movie itself, "Hot and Hot" is a remake of the 2014 Japanese movie "100 Yuan Love" starring Sakura Ando, both movies tell the story of 30+ waste wood "squatting at home" women who change themselves through boxing.

The "hotness" of "Hot and Hot" also spread overseas. According to media reports, Sony Pictures also announced that it would cooperate with Jia Ling to obtain the global distribution rights of "Hot and Hot", which is also Sony's second global distribution of domestic films after nine years. Previously, Sony Pictures also won the remake rights of the English version of "Hello, Li Huanying", both of which were directed and starred by Jia Ling.

Jia Ling and her "Capital Circle of Friends"

With the two movies "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Hot and Hot", Jia Ling has successfully won a box office of more than 7.6 billion, making her the highest-grossing female director in China.

Maoyan Professional Edition shows that the box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" is 5.413 billion yuan. Among them, the box office is 4.947 billion yuan, and according to the proportion of 39.24% of the filmmaker, 52.27% of the theater, and 8.49% of the others, the film can get a box office share of 1.941 billion yuan.

The film and television companies participating in the production of "Hello, Li Huanying" include 8 producers and 19 co-producers of Beijing Culture, Ruyi Films, Maoyan, Beijing Wonderful, Xinli Media, Dawan Entertainment, Alibaba Pictures, and Hengdian Film.

Beijing Culture, the first producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", only earned 60 million yuan to 65 million yuan from it because of the guaranteed distribution.

The largest beneficiary is Ruyi Pictures, which is the second distributor. On February 21, 2021, HengTen Network (later renamed China Ruyi) announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Ruyi Pictures, is the main producer and largest guaranteed distributor of "Hello, Li Huanying".

It is worth mentioning that in addition to "Hello, Li Huanying", in the capital market, China Confucianism has repeatedly staged "small and big", and in less than ten years, it has become a Hong Kong listed company with a market value of more than 20 billion. In December 2023, Wanda Film changed hands to China Confucianism, and Chen Zhixi became the chairman of Wanda Film. Before becoming the new helmsman of Wanda Films, Chen Zhixi served as the executive president of China Ruyi and the producer of "Hello, Li Huanying".

However, this time "Hot and Hot" was released, Ruyi Pictures only participated as a co-producer. According to Maoyan Professional Edition, there are 8 producers participating in "Hot and Hot", namely Xinli Media, China Film, Alibaba Pictures, China Literature Film and Television, Big Bowl Entertainment, Sanya Literature and Art Xiaohong, Beijing Pony Riding Culture and Penguin Pictures.

Among them, Xinli Media, Alibaba Pictures and Jia Ling's Big Bowl Entertainment are the old faces who participated in the production of "Hello, Li Huanying", and China Film Co., Ltd., which previously served as the co-producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", has become the second producer of this film. Beijing Culture, the first producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", and Huayi Brothers, the co-producers, did not share the box office feast of "Hot and Hot", and were replaced by three Tencent companies, Xinli Media, China Literature Film and Penguin Pictures.

On January 23, Xinli Media issued a statement through the official Weibo of "Hot and Hot": Xinli Media is the first producer of the movie "Hot and Hot", and the film is jointly invested and filmed by Xinli Media and Sanya Literature and Art Xiaohong Culture Media Co., Ltd.

In addition, in addition to Big Bowl Entertainment, Jia Ling's directly related companies also include Sanya Literature and Art Xiaohong and Beijing Pony Riding Culture. Sanya Literature and Art Xiaohong is the second largest shareholder of Big Bowl Entertainment, accounting for 20%, its actual controller Wen Yushuang, has a close relationship with Jia Ling, in 2018, in the name of Big Bowl, established Big Bowl (Tongshan) Film and Television Culture Studio;

Jia Ling's "Big Bowl Dream"

According to the Qichacha app, Jia Ling has a total of 5 companies associated, of which 4 have been cancelled. Big Bowl Entertainment is the only company left in Jia Ling's business map.

In July 2016, Beijing Culture, an A-share listed company, announced that the company plans to jointly invest in the establishment of Beijing Big Bowl Entertainment Culture Media Co., Ltd. with Jia Yuling (Jia Ling), Zhang Guanghui and Sun Jibin with its own funds of 10 million yuan to expand the comedy creation business, with the goal of building China's first comedy unicorn company in the future.

According to the announcement, Dawan Entertainment plans to have a registered capital of 1 million yuan. Among them, Jia Yuling (Jia Ling) contributed 350,000 yuan, holding 35% of the shares, and was the largest shareholder of the company, and Beijing Culture contributed 10 million yuan, holding 20% of the shares. According to the cooperation agreement, the board of directors of Big Bowl Entertainment is composed of 5 directors, and the chairman of the board is a director appointed by Jia Yuling (Jia Ling). Jia Yuling (Jia Ling), Zhang Guanghui, and Sun Jibin irrevocably promised to work full-time in Big Bowl Entertainment for at least five years.

At that time, the capital market valued Big Bowl Entertainment at 50 million.

Shell financial reporters combed and found that in addition to Jia Ling, the artists under Big Bowl Entertainment also include Zhang Xiaofei, Xu Juncong, Zhang Taiwei, He Huan, Bu Yu, Zhu Tianfu, Ji Qing and other artists, Sun Jibin, Liu Honglu and other screenwriters.

Under the leadership of Jia Ling, in 2016, the artists under Big Bowl Entertainment began to participate in many comedy variety shows such as "Happy Comedian", "Comedy Story", and "Spring of Comedy Class", and frequently showed their faces. The movie "Hello, Li Huanying" was also born from the sketch of the same name in "Comedy Story" that year.

In 2017, Big Bowl Entertainment produced the real-life star improvisational comedy show "Happy Drama Club", which was listed on Zhejiang Satellite TV, and the regular guests except Yang Di were all its artists. Jia Ling revealed in an interview that her company's main business is to do variety shows and sketches, but she will further enter the film and TV drama market in the future.

In February 2021, Jia Ling's self-directed and self-starred "Hello, Li Huanying" won the box office champion of the Spring Festival stalls that year with a total box office of 5.413 billion yuan, and also took the "first step" of Big Bowl Entertainment in the film market.

In August 2021, in order to alleviate the financial pressure, Beijing Culture plans to transfer its 20% stake in Dawan Entertainment for 25 million yuan, and Beijing Culture will no longer hold shares in Dawan Entertainment. Xiaohong Culture took over and became the second largest shareholder of Big Bowl Entertainment. According to the financial report at the time, Big Bowl Entertainment lost 11.7824 million yuan in the first half of 2021.

At this time, the valuation of Big Bowl Entertainment has reached 125 million. Shell financial reporters noticed that at present, the works in which Big Bowl Entertainment participates are highly bound to Jia Ling, and they have not yet been involved in the production of film works by external companies.

According to Jia Ling's revelation during the promotion of "Hot and Hot", the next film "Turning Thoughts and Flowers" (record title: "War of Light") has entered the preparatory stage, and actors Zhang Xiaofei and Yang Zi will also participate. According to the filing of the National Film Administration, the filing unit of "The War of Light" is Wanda Pictures Co., Ltd.

Beijing News Shell Financial Reporter Zhao Fangyuan

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