Jia Ling, who once made a big hit in the 2021 Spring Festival with "Hello, Li Huanying", returns to the Spring Festival again after 3 years as a director and starring role.
According to Maoyan Professional Edition data, the movie "Hot Hot" has a total box office of more than 2.3 billion within 7 days of its release, temporarily ranking first in the Spring Festival period.
Previously, "Hello, Li Huanying" first appeared in the first season of "Comedy Story" in the form of a sketch. After receiving good reviews from the audience, it was moved to the big screen. "Hot" is also a remake of the 2014 Japanese movie "100 Yuan Love" starring Sakura Ando. With the two films "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling has successfully won more than 7.6 billion in box office, making her the female director with the highest box office in China.
The eight main producers of "Hot and Spicy" including Xinli Media, China Film, Alibaba Pictures, Yuewen Film and Television, Dawan Entertainment, Sanya Literary Little Red Culture, Beijing Riding Pony Culture Media, and Penguin Pictures also "passed the ceremony" Have a good year.”
Behind the "win" of "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling's Dawan Entertainment is an old face who participated in the production of "Hello, Li Huanying". China Film Holdings, which previously served as the co-producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", became 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 Dawan Entertainment, Jia Ling's directly related companies include Sanya Literary Xiaohong and Beijing Pony Riding Culture.
On February 16, the stock price of China Literature Group, the company behind Xinli Films and China Literature Film and Television, soared at the opening. As of 13:13 on the 16th, the stock price of China Literature Group rose 7.21% to close at 23.8 yuan per share.
Picture/Screenshot of Jia Ling's Weibo
"Hot and Spicy" leads the Spring Festival season
"If the box office reaches 3 billion, I will be as thin as a lightning bolt."
Three years ago, Jia Ling's "unintentional" words in response to the box office expectations of "Hello, Li Huanying" have now become a reality. Jia Ling's new film "Hot and Spicy" has been very popular since it was released on the first day of the Lunar New Year.
Although Jia Ling mentioned in an interview that "Hot and Spicy" is not about weight loss or boxing, but the story of a girl learning 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, to leaking her slimming silhouette at the beginning of the release date, there is no doubt that the weight loss effect is the biggest trump card for promoting the film.
html 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 has lost 100 pounds, shows her signature pear smile, and her cheeks slim down to the jawline. Subsequently, the topic #久久久# rushed to the top of the hot search list. Netizens were so shocked that they said "I can't recognize it" and "it's amazing". Shell Finance reporters noticed that many gyms have also begun to use Jia Ling's weight loss stills as promotional flyers to attract customers.became a "hot topic" with Jia Ling's weight loss, and "Hot and Spicy" started to lead from the second day of "Shooting" and continued to lead for 6 days.
As of 12:53 on February 16, the total box office (including pre-sales) for the 2024 Spring Festival period has exceeded 7 billion, and the ranking has been basically settled.
"Hot and Spicy" and "Flying Life 2" firmly occupy the first section, "Bear Infested·Reverse Time and Space" and "Article 20" accompany each other in the second section, "Mr. Red Carpet" and "Let's Shake the Sun Together" ” are in the third range, while “Bajie: The Lower Realm of the Canopy” and “Huang Pi: The God of Wealth Cat from Heaven” were ruthlessly dumped in the fourth range.
Back to the movie itself, "Hot and Furious" is a remake of the 2014 Japanese movie "One Hundred Dollar Love" starring Sakura Ando. Both movies are about 30+ loser women who "sit at home" and change themselves through boxing. s story.
The "heat" of "Hot and Spicy" has also spread overseas. According to media reports, Sony Pictures also announced that it will cooperate with Jia Ling to obtain the global distribution rights of "Hot and Furious". This is Sony's second global release of a domestic film after nine years. Previously, Sony Pictures also won the rights to remake the English version of "Hello, Li Huanying". Both films were directed and starred by Jia Ling.
Jia Ling and her "capital circle of friends"
With the two films "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Hot and Spicy", Jia Ling has successfully won more than 7.6 billion in box office, making her the female director with the highest box office in China.
Maoyan Professional Edition shows that the box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" was 5.413 billion yuan. Among them, the split box office is 4.947 billion yuan. Calculated based on the split ratio of 39.24% for photo studios, 52.27% for theaters, and 8.49% for others, the film studio can get a box office share of 1.941 billion yuan.
Film and television companies participating in the production of "Hello, Li Huanying" include 8 producers and 19 co-producers including Beijing Culture, Ruyi Pictures, Maoyan, Beijing Wonderful, Xinli Media, Dawan Entertainment, Alibaba Pictures, and Hengdian Films square.
Beijing Culture, the first producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", only made 60 million to 65 million yuan from it because of its guaranteed distribution. The biggest beneficiary of
is Ruyi Pictures as the second distributor. On February 21, 2021, Hengteng 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, Chinese Confucianism has repeatedly performed "using small things to make big things". In less than ten years, it has become a Hong Kong listed company with a market value of over 20 billion. In December 2023, Wanda Film changed ownership to China Confucianism, and Chen Zhixi became the chairman of Wanda Film. Before becoming the new helmsman of Wanda Films, Chen Zhixi served as executive president of China Ruyi and was the producer of "Hello, Li Huanying".
However, this time "Hot and Spicy" is released, Ruyi Pictures will only participate as a co-producer. According to Maoyan Professional Edition, there are 8 producers participating in "Hot and Spicy", namely Xinli Media, China Film, Alibaba Pictures, Yuewen Film and Television, Dawan Entertainment, Sanya Literary Little Red, Beijing Pony Riding Culture and Penguin film industry.
Among them, Xinli Media, Alibaba Pictures and Jia Ling’s Dawan Entertainment are old faces who have participated in the production of "Hello, Li Huanying". China Film Group, which previously served as the co-producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", has become this company. The second producer of the film. The first producer of "Hello, Li Huanying", Beijing Culture and Co-producer Huayi Brothers, did not have the opportunity to share in the box office feast of "Hot and Spicy". Instead, three companies under the Tencent family, Xinli Media, China Literature Film and Television, and Penguin Pictures .
On January 23, Xinli Media issued a statement through the official Weibo of "Hot and Spicy": Xinli Media is the first producer of the movie "Hot and Spicy". The film is produced by Xinli Media and Sanya Literary Xiaohong Culture Media Co., Ltd. The company jointly invested in the filming.
In addition, in addition to Dawan Entertainment, Jia Ling's directly related companies include Sanya Literary Xiaohong and Beijing Pony Riding Culture. Sanya Literary Xiaohong is the second largest shareholder of Dawan Entertainment, accounting for 20%. Its actual controller Wen Yushuang has a close relationship with Jia Ling. In 2018, Dawan (Tongshan) was established in the name of Dawan. Ma Xiaoqi, the founder of the Film and Television Culture Studio and Beijing Pony Riding Culture, is also Jia Ling’s friend for many years and once founded the Xiaowan Family Photo Studio.
Jia Ling’s “Big Bowl Dream”
Qichacha App shows that Jia Ling is associated with a total of 5 companies, 4 of which have been cancelled. Dawan Entertainment is the only company left in Jia Ling’s business landscape.
In July 2016, the A-share listed company Beijing Culture announced that the company planned to use 10 million yuan of its own funds to jointly invest with Jia Yuling (Jia Ling), Zhang Guanghui, and Sun Jibin to establish Beijing Dawan Entertainment Culture Media Co., Ltd. to expand comedy In terms of creative business, the goal is to build 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) invested 350,000 yuan and held a 35% shareholding ratio, making her the company's largest shareholder; Beijing Culture invested 10 million yuan and held a 20% shareholding ratio. According to the cooperation agreement, the board of directors of Dawan Entertainment consists of five 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 Dawan Entertainment for at least five years.
At that time, the capital market valued Dawan Entertainment at 50 million.
Shell Finance reporters found that in addition to Jia Ling, Dawan Entertainment’s artists 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, Dawan Entertainment's artists began to participate in many comedy variety shows such as "Happy Comedian", "Comedy Story", "Spring of the Comedy Class", etc., and appeared frequently. The movie "Hello, Li Huanying" is also based on the sketch of the same name in "Comedy Story".
In 2017, Dawan Entertainment produced the live-action celebrity improvisational comedy show "Happy Drama Club", which aired on Zhejiang Satellite TV. The regular guests were all artists except Yang Di. Jia Ling revealed in the interview that her company's main business is to produce variety shows and sketches, but it will also further enter the film and TV series markets in the future.
In February 2021, "Hello, Li Huanying" directed and starred by Jia Ling won the Spring Festival box office championship that year with a total box office of 5.413 billion yuan, and also took the "first step" of Dawan Entertainment in the film market.
In August 2021, in order to relieve financial pressure, Beijing Culture planned to transfer its 20% stake in Dawan Entertainment for 25 million yuan. Beijing Culture will no longer hold shares in Dawan Entertainment. Xiaohong Culture took over and became the second largest shareholder of Dawan Entertainment. According to the financial report at the time, Dawan Entertainment suffered a loss of 11.7824 million yuan in the first half of 2021.
At this time, Dawan Entertainment’s valuation has reached 125 million. Shell Finance reporters noticed that at present, the works in which Dawan Entertainment participates are highly tied to Jia Ling, and it has not yet been involved in the production of film works by external companies.
According to what Jia Ling revealed during the promotion of "Hot and Spicy", the next film "Blooming Flowers" (recorded title: "War of Light") has entered the preparation stage, and actors Zhang Xiaofei and Yang Zi will also participate. According to the registration status of the National Film Administration, the registration unit of "War of Light" is Wanda Pictures Co., Ltd.
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