Actor: My Entertainment Era

The two terms #Zhang Yuanjun’s net worth# and #Zhang Yuanjun the big boss behind the scenes# were on the hot searches on Weibo.

"Recently, Penguin's acquisition of the American independent production company Z Studio has attracted the attention of netizens. Netizens discovered that the boss behind Z Studio is none other than the famous Chinese actor Zhang Yuanjun. Zhang Yuanjun owns more than 70% of the shares of Z Studio. In this acquisition, Zhang Yuanjun made a profit of more than US$9 million, equivalent to nearly RMB 60 billion."

"Zhang Yuanjun is best known as an actor, but he has been producing and filming his own movies for a long time. After years of operation, he is now a major capital center in the domestic entertainment industry and has a considerable fortune. This time, he was dug out as the behind-the-scenes boss of Z Studio, and his wealth has skyrocketed further. Some netizens estimate that Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei may be the richest actors in the entertainment industry, and the couple's assets are estimated to exceed 10 billion."

The transformation of actors into capital has been a hot topic in the past two years. Huang Xiaoming, Ren Quan, Li Bingbing, Fan Bingbing, Yang Mi, Zhao Yanzi and others have all been hotly discussed by the audience.

But before, few people discussed Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei.

Being noticed this time was beyond the couple's expectation, but there was no need to conceal it deliberately. However, neither Zhang Yuanjun nor Liu Yifei responded to the question of their wealth.

The reporter can't find anyone!
Liu Yifei stayed at home rarely, while Zhang Yuanjun immersed himself in rehearsals in the theater.

Many times, people in the circle are not necessarily more informed than the crowd. In fact, people in and out of the circle knew that Zhang Yuanjun was rich, powerful, and could organize his own filming, but most people only knew this much.

But now it’s different, he actually has an American production company!
Sold for $12 billion, I can get $60 billion! In cash!

What is this concept?
95% of the companies on the A-share market cannot beat Zhang Yuanjun alone!

Ren Quan, the person who has the most successful capital transformation in the entertainment industry, may be at this level. Ren Quan is really rich!

This involves a question: why do celebrities, big and small, want to transform themselves into bosses?

Even if you have to sign a harsh gambling agreement, you still have to give it a try?
Because the cruel fact is that even if you are an actor as accomplished as Zhou Xun or Zhang Ziyi, you will still be the one being picked.

If you can’t be your own boss or organize a group, when you reach a certain age, no one will come to you.

Are the four returning sons popular enough? But in the eyes of the film and television company bosses, they are just vegetables in the basket, to be picked.

100 million yuan for a film? I gave it to you. If I give you 100 million yuan, I can earn 200 million, 300 million or even more from you.

Being an actor is a very passive profession. If no one wants to hire you, it’s useless even if you win ten thousand awards and say you have great acting skills.

So you have to be the one who masters the resources and develops them.

Many big-name stars are very humble in front of big guys. They can't be said to be servile, but they can be said to be cautious.

Who wants this? Who doesn't want to play poker?

It is said that Li Yapeng was determined to start his own business and become a boss because he saw actors being so humble to the capital tycoons when he was young.

This circle is a place of fame and fortune. The wealth of Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei was exposed in this way, causing many people in the circle to look at the couple like wolves seeing meat.

Some friends who knew about the situation before, such as Luo Jin, Tang Yan and others, had a much better attitude.

But it's different for some others.

Yang Mi, and especially her partner Zeng Jia, were completely shocked!

I knew that Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei were rich, but I didn’t know they were so rich!

A fortune of tens of billions.

Who would want to act with such wealth?
With this kind of wealth, the club can order young handsome guys to serve me every day!

But despite her envy, Yang Mi knows that she, Zhang Yuanjun and Liu Yifei are on different paths as actors. They are pursuing to be artists, while she wants traffic and fans. They are on different tracks, and she cannot ask for them. Whether the other party has tens of billions or hundreds of billions, it does not matter to her. She just needs to maintain the relationship.

But Zeng Jia is different. She wants to get rich by leveraging Zhang Yuanjun’s capital. She has tried before, but Zhang Yuanjun ignored her.

But now that we know his wealth and power, it is worth trying again. At worst, I can just pack up a few of Jiaxing’s golden flowers and give them to him. I don’t believe he is a saint!
The hot searches about Zhang Yuanjun’s wealth came and went quickly.

Because many people have started to dig into Zhang Yuanjun's family. His parents, brother and sister-in-law, and sister are not in the entertainment industry, and they are not interested in the entertainment industry. Although they are not afraid of exposure, there is no need to let the whole world know about Zhang Yuanjun's family relationship. Zhang Yuanjun also took time to prepare for his "Swan Elegy" during the rehearsal in the theater. This film is Zhang Yuanjun's return of favor and choosing to cooperate with Penguin.

Sun Zhonghuai found a new director, Kong Dashan, for him. Kong Dashan was a graduate student in the directing department of the Film Academy. He had made short films and won awards. He had a big imagination and was very interested in fantasy genres.

Although he was a novice with no experience in feature films, Sun Zhonghuai still felt it necessary to introduce him to Zhang Yuanjun.

In fact, there are also a large number of people in these large studios who are still making art films, and they will also support newcomers.

As soon as Kong Dashan introduced himself, Zhang Yuanjun smiled and said, "I know you. You were the one who made "Legal Future" two years ago, right?" This short film is very interesting. It talks about how art films are boring. The country has enacted laws to prohibit the filming of art films, but the protagonists and their group are still secretly preparing for the film, and they are caught by the police in one fell swoop.

It's a dark humor, a self-deprecating work.

Kong Dashan smiled and said, "Haha, I took the photo."

"What are you doing now?"

"I'm writing my own script." Kong Dashan said shyly. He never expected that he would meet the great god Zhang Yuanjun.

"Can I see it?"

"Oh, sure." Kong Dashan took out a stack of papers from his bag and handed it to Zhang Yuanjun.

"Space Exploration Editorial Department".

The current "Space Exploration Editorial Department" is very rough and unbearable to read.

Zhang Yuanjun read two pages and said, "Just start writing."

"Yes, it's rough."

"It's okay. Just write it slowly and polish it slowly." Zhang Yuanjun returned the script to Kong Dashan. "Have you read the script of Swan's Elegy?"

"I watched a little bit overnight."

"how do you feel?"

Kong Dashan boldly said: "The core of the story is very old-fashioned."

Zhang Yuanjun doesn't mind people saying that her story is old-fashioned. Kong Dashan added, "But this kind of old-fashioned story is very demanding on the actors. If it were you, I wouldn't have to worry at all."

Zhang Yuanjun laughed and said, "Actors are not omnipotent, so what if you are the director?"

Kong Dashan didn't know what to say. To be honest, he had never made a feature film and didn't know how to work with a mature actor like Zhang Yuanjun.

Sun Zhonghuai sat aside and said with a smile: "Show some confidence, just say you can direct."

Kong Dashan chuckled and didn't know what to say.

Zhang Yuanjun smiled and said, "You can join the crew as an assistant director and take over the director's duties to carry out the preliminary preparations. If you do a good job in the preparations, we will let you shoot. If you don't do a good job in the preparations, we will have to fire you. What do you think?"

Kong Dashan is in desperate need of opportunities now, so he should exercise his powers on behalf of others, seize every opportunity, shoot well, and strive to become a regular employee!

"Okay!" Kong Dashan said without hesitation, "When can I join the group?"

"Right now." Sun Zhonghuai said with a smile, "I'll take you to meet our art and special effects directors later."

After sending Kong Dashan away, Sun Zhonghuai said to Zhang Yuanjun: "You are the bad one, you are the bad one, you are trying to trick people like this."

Zhang Yuanjun smiled and said, "It's not really fishing. We will pay him a penny less. Let's see his ability first and find him a good execution partner. It's a test, but we can't deliberately bully him." (End of this chapter)