Recently, Zhang Weiping was restricted from high consumption because he owed Zhang Yimou a huge sum of 2.46 million.
It is reported that the producer Zhang Weiping failed to perform the payment obligation determined by the effective legal document during the specified period-to pay 2.46 million box office share to Zhang Yimou, and the Chaoyang District People’s Court of Beijing took measures to restrict consumption and must not implement high consumption. And consumption behaviors that are not necessary for life and work.
Zhang Weiping is Zhang Yimou's old partner for many years. He has worked as a producer for many films such as "My Father and Mother" and "Hero". Zhang Weiping's company, New Picture Film, once invited Zhang Yimou as the artistic director. Since the establishment of the new screen,
has been cooperating with Zhang Yimou for more than ten years. This time, the two went to court over the issue of box office split, which is not only a simple debt dispute, but also a microcosm of the cold in the film industry market.
Three years from "Hero" to Xiying
The pinnacle and decline of the new picture
In 1989, Zhang Weiping invested more than 26 million yuan for Zhang Yimou's film "If You Have Something to Say", and finally only received a return of 8 million. And Dong Ping, who got the distribution rights, changed hands for a profit of 46 million. Zhang Weiping decided to set up his own film company.
In 1997, Zhang Weiping established the "New Picture Film Company" in Beijing with his assets in the business of aviation food, medicine and real estate, specializing in film production, production and distribution. Zhang Weiping is the chairman and Zhang Yimou is the art director. After the establishment of
, New Pictures successively invested in films such as "No One Less", "My Father and Mother" and "Happy Time" directed by Zhang Yimou, which won many international film festivals and domestic film awards, and made major artistic achievements. , But still not profitable economically.
In 2002, "Hero", which was produced and released by new pictures, won a box office of 250 million, opening the "commercial blockbuster era" of Chinese movies. Afterwards, the new pictures took advantage of the victory, and successively launched "Ambush on Ten Sides" and "Full City with Golden Armor" and other successful films in the market, becoming an important force in promoting the industrialization and marketization of Chinese films. After
directed by Zhang Yimou, the new picture invested and filmed "Three Shots Surprise" at the box office of 261 million yuan; "The Love of Hawthorn Tree" set a new record for domestic literary films with a domestic box office score of 160 million yuan; "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" domestically With a box office of 610 million yuan, it ranked first in the 2011 Chinese-language movie box office list and achieved great commercial success. Zhang Weiping has a firm foothold in the film and television industry, and the two are also known as "golden partners."
However, the new screen betting all resources on Zhang Yimou is too risky. During
's tenure as the chief director of the Olympic Games in Zhang Yimou, New Picture Films even stopped filming for three years, not making a single work, and rejected other cooperation opportunities. For Zhang Yimou's film production, the producer Zhang Weiping even "doesn't read the account book or the script".
This kind of cooperation based on mutual trust and understanding goes beyond the commercial level. Once the trust is broken, it is undoubtedly a fatal blow to the new picture.
The dispute over arrears has lasted for 4 years.
industry norms have become a development pain point
As early as 2015, Zhang Weiping and Zhang Yimou went to court for the distribution of box office share of "Three Guns Surprised". Director Zhang Yimou believes that New Picture Films violated the agreement and failed to pay himself 15 million yuan in share, while Zhang Weiping said that he would not owe Zhang Yimou's remuneration and share.
In September 2015, the Chaoyang Court of First Instance required New Picture Films to pay Zhang Yimou’s "Three Guns" share of 15 million yuan; the following year Beijing Third Intermediate Court ordered New Picture to pay Zhang Yimou’s "Three Guns" share of more than 2.46 million yuan; after both parties Appeals were filed many times, and the court finally ruled that Zhang Yimou’s "Three Guns" should be divided into more than 2.46 million yuan.
In October 2019, Zhang Yimou applied to the Chaoyang Court for enforcement. Zhang Weiping failed to fulfill his obligation to pay and was restricted by the court for high consumption and consumption behavior that is not necessary for life and work.
For the film and television industry, arrears are not the case.
In 2014, director Gao Qunshu sent a Weibo to ask for salary, "One of the producers of "Detective Hunter Zhang" that owes me the director's remuneration and the starring Zhang Lixian's full remuneration. The chairman of Beijing Yuanxin International Culture Media Co., Ltd. is also the producer of this film. Mr. Zhao Guangxin, who has been urging for more than half a year, has repeatedly promised very happy, but you just refused to pay for various reasons. You can only speak here:Please pay the back salary as soon as possible. "Weibo has been forwarded nearly a thousand times, attracting many netizens to watch. If
said that the case of Gaoqunshu only fermented in a small area, the screenwriter Lu Wei pushed the chaos to the fore.
Lu Wei once participated in the so-called "domestic film". The screenwriting work of "Farewell My Concubine" and "To Be Alive" by Gao Feng. The "Red Cherry", which he participated in the creation of the script, hit nearly 40 million box office in the film market environment in 1995. However, as a screenwriter, Lu Wei did not earn a penny. Yes. In an interview with
, Lu Wei said: "The Xiaoxiang Film Studio was in charge of "Red Cherry" at the beginning, but later Xiaoxiang transferred the project to another unit, and that unit has been dragging away from the contribution fee. Screenwriters have no status. In China, any screenwriter is writing in tears. The low quality of domestic film and television works is directly related to this. "
, from director to screenwriter, is not immune. Whether it is about scripts and salaries, or box office sharing, the disputes that have caused have severely affected the enthusiasm and enthusiasm of industry workers, threatened the healthy development of the industry, and became a cancer hidden at the foot of the progress. .
Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping’s closeness behind
is the trend of the entire film and television industry from hot to cold.
Zhang Yimou and Zhang Weiping went from closeness to parting. The dispute between the two also reflects the changes in the capital market in the era of Chinese film business.
cat’s eye data shows, 2016 In 2017, the total box office of national films was 45.4 billion. In 2017, the total box office of national films was 55.8 billion. In 2018, it was 60.7 billion. The growth rate dropped from 22.9% to 8.7%. The high growth of
for many years has attracted a large number of capital to enter the industry. The total market continues to expand, but there are also many bubbles. The inconsistency of the content supply of
with market demand and box office growth has received market feedback. "Outside the circle" capital lost a lot of money and fled one after another, and the capital market reached a freezing point. China The film industry has entered a period of cooling off from rapid development.
"The capital of the film industry has been drastically reduced, and the first crisis of Chinese film is coming. Wang Changtian, President of Guangguang Media, at the opening forum of the 2018 Shanghai International Film Festival stated the cruel current situation of the industry. With the addition of policy tightening and the influence of "yin and yang contracts", "high price pay" and "tax turmoil", the market procurement volume plummeted , The financial supervision of the industry has been strengthened, tax inspections have been tightened, and the industry has continued to fluctuate.
At present, the market value of Wanda Movies, which has a market value of 100 billion yuan, only has a market value of more than 30 billion, and the market value of Huayi has dropped to more than 10 billion. In the past two years, Film and television stocks have shrunk in a large area, and the entire industry has suffered a cold winter. Since 2019, 1884 film and television companies have shut down across the country. From a national perspective, in the first three quarters of 2019, a total of 646 filming and production TV series have been recorded in the country, compared with 886 in the same period last year. The number of episodes has dropped by 27%, and the number of episodes has dropped by 30%.
The survival status of actors and stars at the same time is not optimistic. The operating rate of Hengdian has declined, and popular artists such as Di Lieba have no movies to film and can only show their faces in variety shows. Zhou Xun, Zhang Ziyi, Movie celebrities such as Tang Wei have also "reduced dimensionality" to film TV series. It is inevitable that
will be cold for a short time. After 10 years of rapid expansion in the domestic film market, there are many chaos in the industry. A series of irregular operations that have been exposed and caused by it The chain reaction allows filmmakers to re-examine the market, examine their capital, and examine themselves.
This will surely become an important stage in the process of industrialization for Chinese films to become normative and rational. We look forward to the arrival of a benign environment. Please mark the original article of
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