In 2010, the movie "Man on the Road" starring Wang Baoqiang and Xu Zheng was officially released, and the investment of this film was only 7 million this year, but it eventually received more than 50 million at the box office.
To this day, this movie is still called by many netizens as the best domestic road movie, and there is no one. "People on the Road" made Xu Zheng see how profitable it was to invest in movies, so in 2012, Xu Zheng pulled Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo and directed and acted in a work "Tai 囧".
The cost of this film is still not high, the Middle East pieced together, and finally raised thirty million investment, can take out the film remuneration is not much, and finally gave Wang Baoqiang two million, Huang Bo took three million.
But even so carefully calculated, the film still had problems in the shooting, and halfway through the shooting, the investment in "Tai 囧" ran out, so Xu Zheng found Huang Bo and complained to him: The three million film remuneration promised to you may not be able to give you in a short time.
Huang Bo is also very moralistic, waving a big hand and saying: I don't want three million films, just as if I invested in this movie, I can earn the best money, and if I can't earn it, I will dedicate my brothers to the movie.
With the help of friends, the movie "Tai 囧" was filmed without any danger, and was officially released on December 12, 2012, and finally exploded at the box office of 12.6.7 billion, becoming the first film in China to exceed 1 billion box office.
With this movie, Xu Zheng made a lot of money, and Huang Bo also earned 50 million dividends with investment, only Wang Baoqiang, tired and tired, did someone else's wedding dress, and only got two million pieces of remuneration.
The success of the "囧 Series" gave Xu Zheng a taste of sweetness, and he planned to hit the iron while it was hot and launched the movie "Hong Kong 囧" in 2015. Wang Baoqiang can be said to be the signature of this movie, if he is the male protagonist of the movie, then the movie can basically be said to be stable.
So Xu Zheng found Wang Baoqiang, offered a salary of five million, and invited Wang Baoqiang to star in "Hong Kong 囧". But this time Wang Baoqiang was shrewd, so he told Xu Zheng that he did not want five million, not only did not want a piece of remuneration, but also added another ten million investment.
Wang Baoqiang's meaning is very clear, he knows that he and Xu Zheng starred in this movie, and eventually they will definitely be a big seller. If you add 10 million investments, the dividend will not be more than 5 million.
If the box office can reach more than ten or two billion, with its own investment, it will be more than Huang Bo's income in "Tai 囧".
However, Xu Zheng's answer was very tough, and he directly stated his attitude and rejected Wang Baoqiang's investment request. Eventually, the two people parted ways, Wang Baoqiang pulled Chen Sicheng to start the "Detective Chinatown" series, and Xu Zheng found Bao Bell to star in his own movie.
"Hong Kong 囧" was released in 2015, and finally hit the box office at 16:30 million, and Xu Zheng once again made a lot of money with this movie. But unfortunately, "Hong Kong 囧" won the box office but lost word of mouth, leaving Wang Baoqiang, the perception of this movie has greatly declined.
In 2020, Xu Zheng launched the self-directed and self-acting "囧Mom", the cinema of that year was really a fairy fight, before there was Huang Bo and then there was Wang Baoqiang, if "囧Mom" was released as scheduled, it may lose very badly.
But that year, for special reasons, all the movies were announced to be withdrawn. Therefore, Xu Zheng made a very bold decision, if he could not compete with others, it was better to take the initiative and directly sell the movie to ByteDance, and he withdrew from the plight of the epidemic.
Although Xu Zheng was later boycotted by many people in the industry, Xu Zheng still made a lot of money with his own operation. It can be seen from this that Compared with the actor and director, Xu Zheng is more like a businessman.
The reason why he refused Wang Baoqiang's investment that year was nothing more than that he did not want to share a piece of the pie with him, which eventually led to the two parting ways.
Wang Baoqiang's departure has caused the reputation of the "囧 Series" to plummet, and this big IP has also begun to decline, all because Xu Zheng cares too much about interests and does not care about feelings.
But then again, if it weren't for Wang Baoqiang's departure, "Detective Chinatown" would not have come out. Xu Zheng's choice just helped his opponent and set up a big enemy for himself.
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