Following who is the master behind Jing Tian and who is the father of Cecilia Cheung's third child, there is another big unsolved mystery in the film and television entertainment industry.
That is, who is the capital behind Bao Bell?
The audience is very puzzled, why his movies have repeatedly hit the street at the box office, but he has been resurrected with full blood repeatedly, and new films have been set one after another?
At the beginning of 2024, Bao Bell will have three new films, with a very poor record, one to break even, two to hit the street at the box office, and word-of-mouth without exception, all of them have pounced.
1. Cheng Xi.
In the 15th week of 2024 (April 8-14), the mainland box office rankings were newly released, and after the Qingming file, the market fell rapidly, with a total of 427 million gains, and the annual box office reached 18.083 billion.
The top three are "What kind of life do you want to live", "Godzilla vs. King Kong 2" and "Grass and Trees".
Two imported films competed for the championship and runner-up, and Hayao Miyazaki's animation narrowly beat the monster blockbuster.
"What kind of life do you want to live" has a total box office of 666 million, winning the box office champion for two consecutive weeks.
"Godzilla vs. Kong 2" reported a total box office of 783 million in three weeks, setting a good example for Hollywood movies.
The three new films "The World of Grass and Trees", "Yellow Sparrow Behind" and "The Big Villain" in the Qingming file were released in the second week, and their performance was average.
Of the five new films with volume, only two broke into the top 10 on the list.
The fantasy film "You from Wang Xing" starring Aaron Kwok and Lan Yingying only received 4.87 million in the first week, ranking ninth, far less than expected, and losses are inevitable.
The plot structure of the film is the same as last year's Wu Jing's "Goodbye, Li Kele", which is the story of a father who turns into a dog to accompany his daughter to grow up.
I don't know why Aaron Kwok wants to take on such a movie, does he think that his box office appeal can surpass Wu Jing, or does he think that his title of "box office poison" is not thorough enough?
Aaron Kwok urgently needs a commercial box office blockbuster to prove himself!
Jiang David, Yu Xiangning and Lin Baoyi's "Under the White Sun" won 5.18 million at the box office in the first weekend of the mainland, ranking eighth.
Tonight, at the 42nd Hong Kong Film Awards ceremony, "Under the White Sun" won three awards including Best Actress in one fell swoop, but unfortunately the film was not well publicized, and there were very few films scheduled in cities below the fourth tier, and the audience wanted to watch it, but they couldn't see it.
In addition, "It's Good to Have You" starring Hao Lei, Ma Su and Yang Kun, Bao Bell's "Going Out", Ge Zhaomei and Liu Dan's "Going by Boat" were all eliminated.
Focus on Bao Bell's 2024 film box office results.
The three new films are as follows:
"What's in the Zoo", which was released on January 12, directed and starred by Bao Bell, has a total box office of 108 million and a Douban score of 4.2 points.
The budget cost of the film is about 40 million, and the input-output ratio is flat.
"The Big "Anti" Faction, which opened on April 4, had a box office of 31.24 million in two weeks, and the box office was predicted to be about 42 million.
Similarly, Bao Bell served as the director and starring role of the film, and the budget cost of the film was 50 million, and there was no way to recover the cost, and the final loss was about 30 million.
On April 12, the road comedy "Going Out" starring Bao Bell was released with a box office of only 1.02 million in three days, so I don't need to say anything more about this box office.
In just four months, Bao Bell fought two films in a row, of which his company also participated in the investment of the first two, and the last one was the starring actor and received a salary.
Comprehensively calculated, Bao Bell's income performance this year is in a serious state of loss, and the box office is showing a cliff-like posture on the street.
II. Oral monument.
The reason is actually very simple, that is, Bao Bell's reputation, which is a typical result of being eaten by word of mouth.
Under the three movies on Douban, whether it is a short comment or a discussion area, almost everyone gives a very "vicious" evaluation.
Brown excerpted some.
For example, "Bao Bell is still making movies, and everyone here is responsible." ”
"Bao Bell can make a movie, and we the audience have a lot of responsibility. ”
"Who is acting as an umbrella for Bao Bell?"
"One person's blood letter: It is recommended to thoroughly investigate Bao Bell and the investors behind him!"
And even more ugly, let's just look at the picture.
The result of all this is cumulative.
Bao Bell participated in starring in movies and TV series, but none of them have a high-scoring work, such as "Unique Hero" starring Zhou Yiwei, "Big Man" starring Wang Qianyuan, "My Adolescence" with Sun Yi, and "Happy Agent" starring Jia Ling and other stars The reputation has just passed.
Since "Big Man", he has also been obsessed with remakes, the starring role is not enjoyable, he must be his own director, and the word of mouth is without exception, all of them hit the street.
For example, "Big Red Envelope" scored 4.7 points on Douban, "Sunshine Sisters" scored 4.4 points, "Fat Squad" scored 4.2 points on Douban, and the aforementioned "What's in the Zoo" and "Big "Anti" faction.
These movies also have one thing in common, none of them are original works, they are all remakes, as if they were mass production remakes.
After watching "The Big "Anti" Party", someone joked: "Bao Bell's remake speed, the Korean supplier has run out of stock, and the French supplier urgently fills in a "Who is the Superhero". ”
In the eyes of the audience, Bao Bell has become synonymous with bad movies, and over time, many audiences, as long as they see a film and television drama starring Bao Bell, they are directly defined as "bad movies", and they don't need to watch it, just one star.
Bao Bell's reputation has become like this, why can he continue to direct and make movies?
Because of his previous works, except for "My Girlfriend is a Robot" (42.61 million) and "Sunshine Sisters" (94.97 million), which hit the street at the box office, the rest of the movies have been good at the box office.
In other words, there is still a group of loyal fans of Bao Bell who continue to contribute to the box office, which responds to Feng Xiaogang's theory of "garbage audiences and garbage movies".
Using Bao Bell's movies to measure Feng Xiaogang's words, you can understand at once, it is precisely because there are such "garbage audiences" who continue to send money to Bao Bell, how can Bao Bell's "garbage movies" be reduced?
Affected by word-of-mouth, Bao Bell's loyal fans have awakened this year, he has 13 million fans, but not many people go to watch his movies, and he has been fooled again and again, who owes him movie tickets?
3. Connections and capital.
Some people will ask, who is the capital behind Bao Bell?
My personal analysis is that the reason why he was able to come out as a director and invest in a number of films is closely related to his connections and capital.
The first is networking.
This starts with Xu Zheng's "Hong Kong Embarrassment".
Xu Zheng can be regarded as Bao Bell's Bole, without Xu Zheng, there would be no Bao Bell today.
"Hong Kong" is the third sequel to the series of movies "People in Embarrassment", and the first two parts have created high box office successes, especially the second "People Are Embarrassed in Thailand" received a box office of 1.26 billion.
Wang Baoqiang is one of the leading actors in the series of movies, and the role of Bao Bell in "Hong Kong" was originally prepared for Wang Baoqiang.
But Wang Baoqiang insisted on not getting paid, and added an additional 20 million investment to enter, but he wanted 20% of the box office, Xu Zheng felt that it was not cost-effective after calculation, so he politely rejected Wang Baoqiang, and finally chose Bao Bell.
"Hong Kong Embarrassment" is as expected, the box office exploded 1.6 billion, and the male No. 2 Bao Bell became famous.
Later, various film and television resources were soft, and he also joined a very famous variety show "Run, Brother" at that time, he not only got the corresponding salary, but also got to know a number of stars in the circle.
As the saying goes, one more friend has one more way.
In 2016, Bao Bell and Bao Wenjing got married, the best men were Han Geng, Du Haitao, Wang Zulan, Li Canchen, Zeng Yijun, and the bridesmaids were Liu Yan, Zhang Xinyi, Wang Ou, Mo Xiaoqi, and Jia Ling.
can be a bridesmaid and bridesmaid, and the relationship is naturally not ordinary.
In 2024, Bao Bell's "Big "Anti" faction" will be released, and a group of celebrities will help promote it for free.
There are traffic stars Wang Yuan, Lu Han and Yang Chaoyue;
There are powerful stars Deng Chao, Huang Bo, Hu Ge and Zhang Yi;
There are popular stars Ma Li, Zhang Xiaofei and Ni Ni;
There are also friends in the circle, such as Li Chen, Lin Yun and Chen He.
Bao Bell wants to invest in films, to make movies, and these connections alone are enough to support him to run various films.
Besides, these friends in the circle can also introduce him to various big names, in a word, Bao Bell has no shortage of investors at all.
Secondly, it is capital itself.
Before Bao Bell was developed, the car he drove was Chery QQ, and after it was developed, it was replaced by a Porsche Cayenne.
He participated in various variety shows, and it was revealed from the camera that his personal mansion on the Fourth Ring Road in Beijing was worth more than 60 million yuan.
Then check that Bao Bell has opened two companies under his name, and four companies are partners, and the main restaurant "La Zhuang" is a national chain store, and he also made a lot of money in those years.
and his wife Bao Wenjing and his mother have companies.
Brother Brown checked the movies produced by Bao Bell and found no obvious abnormalities, many of the movies were produced by his own company.
Therefore, from the analysis of the above two points, it can be concluded that the capital behind Bao Bell is actually his personal connections, and there is no problem on the surface at present, as for the source of funds behind the concealment, I don't know.
Fourth, Deng Chao and Wang Baoqiang.
In two consecutive fights, Bao Bell took a route very similar to Deng Chao.
The starting points are very high, Bao Bell relied on "Hong Kong" to make a name for himself, and Deng Chao relied on Stephen Chow's "Mermaid" and Cao Baoping's "Scorching Sun" to become the audience's favorite actor.
After that, Deng Chao and Yu Baimei cooperated to produce a lot of movies, and the box office was very good at the beginning, but in the later stage, like Bao Bell, it was eaten up by word-of-mouth, so that the total box office of "Chinese Ping Pong: The Jedi Strikes Back" last year failed to break 100 million.
Look at Bao Bell again, at the beginning of the remake of "Fat Man Squad", it could still get 260 million box office, but now the box office is only more than 30 million, after Deng Chao's fall, what should Bao Bell do?
In 2017, Wang Baoqiang's self-directed and self-starred "Havoc in Tianzhu" won three awards at the 9th Golden Broom Awards for Most Disappointing Film, Most Disappointing Director and Most Disappointing Screenwriter.
Who would have thought that Wang Baoqiang actually went to the awards ceremony in person, and the moment he received the golden broom, he also gave an apology speech, saying that he owed the audience a movie and would make up for it later.
In the summer of 2023, Wang Baoqiang's second independently directed film "In the Octagon Cage" will be released, and finally achieved a Douban score of 7.3 and a box office of 2.2 billion.
After five years of hibernation, Wang Baoqiang turned down several film contracts, tried his best, and proved himself with his strength, he can eat the director's bowl of rice.
Let's take a look at Bao Bell.
In 2019, "Fat Squad" also won the Most Disappointing New Director Award at the 10th Golden Broom Awards, but he directly scolded Cheng Qingsong, the founder of the Golden Broom Award, in his circle of friends.
The scolding is really a little ugly, which is in stark contrast to Wang Baoqiang's sincere apology, in other words, don't you really know what the quality of your director's work is?
Brother Brown believes that he should first introspect, then hibernate, and then rise like Wang Baoqiang.
First of all, you have to know that your work is a bad movie.
You must face up to your own movies, and then concentrate on creation, use local original scripts, don't you have a film company yourself, dock some excellent projects, and do not remake.
Then, screen out the projects that you think can be made into hits, polish the script, and then find the creative team to study how to shoot without collapsing, and even find a way to shine at the film festival.
In the end, it takes three or five years to precipitate, relying on this work to reverse his reputation, of course, don't run variety shows during this period, and like Jia Ling, reduce the time of appearance.
I believe that after some hard work, Bao Bell will be able to turn around gorgeously!
V. Conclusion.
In 2021, Zhang Songwen gave a question to an actor in "I Am an Actor", saying that an actor ran the crew dozens of times and was finally rejected, how to act?
In fact, the archetypal character he is talking about is Bao Bell.
In order to be able to play the role of Wei Xiaobao, Bao Bell, who is not yet famous, recommended himself, and after being rejected, he stayed in the group for three months, and even shaved his hair.
In the past, Bao Bell had dreams and perseverance, but what about Bao Bell now?