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Chapter 403
New screen for remote confrontation.

Cheng Yu'an tore Zhang Weiping apart.

This provides enough after-dinner talk for the deserted movie market after the National Day and before the Lunar New Year.

"Chengyuan wants to poach Zhang Yimou, Zhang Weiping angrily reprimands Cheng Yu'an"

"The separation of Zhang and Zhang is a foregone conclusion, and many companies want to contact Zhang Yimou"

"The biggest highlight of this year's Lunar New Year file is Zhang Yimou's "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" against Xu Ke's "Dragon Gate Flying Armor". Chairman Cheng Yu'an did not deny the fact of poaching, but said that this is a normal business operation and film cooperation. The reporter called the person in charge of Zhang Yimou's studio, but as of press time, no one answered the studio's call."

"From the bottom of the two Zhang's 16-year cooperation history, why did Zhang Yimou choose to break up at this time?"

In the past two days, the whole Internet has been talking about the two breaking up.

Of course, in the war of public opinion, ten heart pictures are not a long-range opponent.

Zhang Weiping has offended too many people in the film industry, and the long-distance media has deep roots. From theaters to publicity, they are all long-distance friends and partners.

Therefore, since the incident broke out, the media has dug up what Zhang Weiping did.

For example, "Golden Armor" disregarded Zhang Yimou's objection and forced Jay Chou, who was not good enough in acting, to join the group. The bad marketing tactics made Gong Li very angry and vowed "not to be on the same stage with Zhang Weiping"; "Three Shots" used Zhao Jiaban; "Three Hairpins" unspoken rules for a certain actress (not named).

Some media also said that Zhang Weiping instigated Zhang Gong and Zhang Weiping to break up.

At that time, Zhang Gong and Zhang Yimou had a very close relationship. With Gong Li in hand, Zhang Yimou did not have to worry about box office and awards. Zhang Weiping believed that if the two did not break up, it would be impossible for him to "control" Zhang Yimou.

Therefore, when Zhang Weiping and Gong Li participated in a certain car brand event together, Zhang Weiping temporarily proposed to Gong Li and Fang Lao of the brand to dance together. At that time, Gong Li did not refuse when facing the public.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Weiping took the opportunity to film the dancing scene and arranged for the newspaper to break the news.

Zhang Yimou and Gong Li had a big fight over this, so Zhang Weiping started his magical operation.

He lobbied between Zhang and Gong separately, pretending to comfort them, but spoke bad things about each other.

To Gong Li, he said: "Lao Mouzi is too small, why don't you just dance, what a big deal."

When talking to Zhang Yimou, he said: "Gong Li is really too, so many people are watching, and they all know that you are together, it is too indiscreet."

Faced with the fuel added to the flames by their close friends, the gap between Zhang Yimou and Gong Li, who originally had only a slight rift in their relationship, grew bigger and bigger.

Zhang Yimou, who has always been reserved, chose to deal with this relationship coldly under Zhang Weiping's suggestion and refused to communicate with Gong Li, which also made both parties miss the opportunity to know the truth.

In this way, after five years of love, Zhang Yimou and Gong Li announced that they would part ways because of this turmoil.

After losing Gong Li, Zhang Yimou's films had no "box office guarantee", so many investors followed Gong Li and "abandoned" Zhang Yimou, which forced Zhang Yimou to suspend his career.

Love suffered a blow, and his career stagnated again. Zhang Yimou, full of bitterness, had no choice but to find his friend Zhang Weiping to confide in.

Seeing this, Zhang Weiping suppressed the joy in his heart, and quickly asked about his situation with concern. When Zhang Yimou responded that he was running around looking for investors, Zhang Weiping immediately proposed to be his investor.

When he heard that his friend wanted to invest, Zhang Yimou, who felt that he had no confidence, immediately chose to refuse, because Zhang Yimou believed that his next film might not be a success, and the investment risk was very high, and he did not want his friend's "kindness" to be in vain. .

However, as a qualified businessman, Zhang Weiping couldn't fail to see Zhang Yimou's strength. Even if the next movie fails, won't he succeed in the future?

So Zhang Weiping insisted on investing in Zhang Yimou, and Zhang Yimou agreed after repeated persuasion failed.

In this way, in 1996, Zhang Weiping got his wish and became Zhang Yimou's partner.

With Zhang Weiping's funds, Zhang Yimou's filming was able to continue, and the first film they collaborated on was "Speak Well".

As the first "test the waters" of the collaboration, Zhang Weiping did not hesitate to invest in this movie. He even did not hesitate to stop the two projects he was working on, and pooled 2600 million yuan into it.

However, although Zhang Weiping's investment is generous, his attitude towards this movie seems to be just to let Zhang Yimou follow him wholeheartedly,
So much so that it underestimated the value of the film in overseas markets and sold it to another company at an ultra-low price of 800 million.

In the end, after the film was released, the company resold the copyright at the same time as it became popular, and the revenue was as high as 4600 million, which surprised Zhang Weiping.

Zhang Weiping thought that Zhang Yimou was talented, but he didn't expect to be so strong. This made him regretful, but also pleasantly surprised that he had found a treasure.

So from then on, Zhang Weiping made up his mind completely: to transfer the main position of his career from real estate to the film industry.

In 1997, Zhang Weiping established his first company in the entertainment industry, "Heart Picture".

In this way, the "little three" Zhang Weiping succeeded in taking the position and successfully replaced Gong Li's position beside Zhang Yimou.

Some media dug up the last words of Zhang Yimou’s father, one is to ask Zhang Yimou to give birth to a son to carry on the family line of the old Zhang; the other is to ask Zhang Yimou to be careful about Zhang Weiping: “You must be careful about Zhang Weiping, after you separate from him, you will definitely be retaliated against.” , you are not his opponent."

For my father, "be careful of Zhang Weiping" is as important as carrying on the family line of the old Zhang family.

One can imagine how thoroughly my father saw Zhang Weiping.

Now that Zhang Weiping is breaking up, Zhang Weiping dances so joyously, but Zhang Yimou remains silent, which makes the media feel that "Zhang Yimou has a long-standing grudge against Zhang Weiping, and the breakup may be a foregone conclusion."

The remote media at the center of the storm was surprisingly calm at this time.

Yuan Yuan has been in contact with Zhang Yimou since "Three Guns". Now it has been more than two years or three years, and the discussion is almost over. I originally wanted to save Zhang Weiping the last dignity, and then announce it to the public after "Jinling Thirteen Hairpins" is released. , I didn't expect Zhang Weiping to launch an attack in advance.

"I'm afraid that Zhang Weiping will make a fuss about "The Thirteen Beauties of Jinling." Chen Zhixi's worry is not unreasonable.

"It's okay, if he wants to know something interesting, just take the money and leave." Cheng Yu'an said, "We will return the production fee he invested."

"It wouldn't be Zhang Weiping if he could take the money and leave."

"It's okay, I'll file a lawsuit at the worst. The copyright of "Thirteen Hairpins" is in the hands of Zhang Yimou, and Ni Ni is also signed in Zhang Yimou's studio. He has no advantage in emotion, reason, or law." Cheng Yu'an said while reading the document, " Without Zhang Yimou, he is nothing."

"Oh, by the way, have you checked out Zhang Yimou's accounts?"

"I found out." Chen Zhixi said, "I didn't expect Zhang Weiping to be so ruthless. After more than ten or twenty years of cooperation, he would split up tens of millions."

"He didn't respect Director Zhang's status as an international director at all."

"Didn't you show Zhang Yimou this account?"

"Not yet, but Zhang Yimou is looking into it himself, and he probably will find out soon."

"It should be. Has he paid the fine for exceeding his birth?"

"Just guard against Zhang Weiping's move. It was completed last month, but it was not announced to the public." Chen Zhixi wanted to kill Zhang Weiping in one fell swoop, not giving him any chance to fight back. I want to sign Zhang Yimou."

"Who?"

"Everyone else is fine, Xiao Ma is the most energetic." That's why Chen Zhixi came to report to him today instead of Zhong Lifang, "Xiao Ma would have signed the director, they want to fish in troubled waters."

"They can handle Zhang Yimou, let's talk about it." Cheng Yu'an said disdainfully, "Let's do this in advance, you should do a good job in the docking of "Thirteen Hairpins" first, and let the legal side also prepare, and follow the picture at any time Go to court."

"Don't worry, I've made arrangements."

(End of this chapter)