Wang Zhonglei

essential information

Personal experience

Wang Zhonglei, born in Beijing in 1970, is a member of the army.

He graduated from Beijing Youth College of politics in 1990. When he was at school, watching movies was his biggest hobby after class. As soon as he graduated from University, he immediately wrote to his brother Wang Zhongjun in the United States, saying that he wanted to open his own film and television company. As a result, he was killed by the sentence "where does the money come from?" and had to look for a job.

In 1994, he and his brother Wang Zhongjun founded Huayi Brothers.

In December 2000, Huayi Brothers Taihe Film and television Investment Co., Ltd. was established as a director and executive vice president of the company, and formally entered the film and television industry. Invest in New Year's movies defense and counterattack and scraping.

In 2001, he invested in shooting big shot, looking for guns, heroes of the world, etc.

In 2003, he invested in shooting "mobile phone" and won the annual box office champion of domestic films in mainland China.

In 2004, he supervised the production of "Kekexili", which has achieved good reputation and achievements at home and abroad; in the same year, "no thieves in the world" attracted much attention with its box office of over 100 million.

In 2005, the company changed its name to Huayi Brothers Film Investment Co., Ltd. and invested in the production of "night banquet" and "ink attack".

In 2006, several blockbusters such as "baby plan", "chicken and dog restless", "night banquet" and "ink attack" occupied half of the domestic film market.

At the end of 2007, the war blockbuster "assembly", supervised by Wang Zhonglei and directed by Feng Xiaogang, opened for three weeks, with a box office of nearly 200 million, a new box office miracle of domestic films.

In 2010, "Tangshan earthquake" and "Di Renjie's Tongtian Empire" occupied the top box office, of which "Tangshan earthquake" took more than 600 million.

In 2011, Wang Zhonglei was the producer of 1942 directed by Feng Xiaogang.

In 2014, Wang Zhonglei took his son, brother William, to participate in Zhejiang satellite TV star parent-child reality show "Dad is back.".

On the evening of February 18, 2016, Huayi Brothers announced that: Huayi Brothers intends to appoint Mr. Wang Zhonglei, vice chairman and general manager of the company, as the director and chairman of Huayi Chuangxing, to participate in the decision-making of major issues of Huayi Chuangxing, and guide the future operation and management of Huayi Chuangxing.

In October 2020, he served as the co president of aolaiwu Producers Association.

Personal life

family

In an interview in 2008, Wang Zhonglei mentioned that his father has always been proud of their two brothers; Wang Zhonglei and his brother Wang Zhongjun have been focusing on the development of entertainment industry in social culture since they officially entered the film industry as Huayi Brothers in 1998.

feeling

When Huayi Brothers opened its first cinema in Chongqing in 2010, Wang Zhonglei said that he was Chongqing's son-in-law, but that's not why he opened his first cinema in Chongqing. Wang Zhonglei's wife, Wang Xiaorong, is from Chongqing. She is younger than Wang Zhonglei. They have known each other for three years. When Wang Zhonglei was very poor, they formally confirmed their love relationship. At first, their association was opposed by their parents. The two celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in 2014.

On August 30, 2014, entertainment tycoon Wang Zhonglei, President of Huayi Brothers, and his wife Wang Xiaorong held a make-up wedding on their 20th wedding anniversary. Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, Na Ying, Feng Xiaogang, Zhang Hanyu, Zhao Baogang, Wang Xiaofei, Lin Yilun and other friends in the circle attended the celebration. Wang Zhonglei's children also act as flower boys. Lin Yilun, Na Ying and others act as the best man and bridesmaids, but Song Dandan finally snatches the flowers. Wang Zhonglei told his first wife Wang Xiaorong at the wedding ceremony, "20 years ago, I married you with a bag, but I didn't let you wear the wedding dress. 20 years later, I'll put on the wedding dress for you."

As the father of two children, Wang Zhonglei's daughter went to school abroad; his son Wang Yuan was also born on April 28, 2006, and appeared in "Dad's back".

Main works

Making movies

Magazine interview

variety show

social activities

On October 25, 2006, he and Yuan Tao, the managing director of Huayi Brothers Music Co., Ltd., visited Sina to receive an interview and answer questions on how to create a "super girl" singer.

On December 15, 2008, he attended the 2008 starlight ceremony held in Beijing OCT Grand Theater and was awarded the annual outstanding contributor of entertainment industry.

On June 24, 2010, Su Youpeng and Chen Zihan attended the opening ceremony of Huayi Brothers cinema in Shanghai, Chongqing.

On September 6, 2010, director Tsui Hark and his wife Shi Nanshan, starring Carina Lau, Li Bingbing and Andy Lau, attended the Party of "Di Renjie's empire" held at the 67th Venice Film Festival. Wang Zhonglei, President of Huayi, a film production company, attended the party.

On the evening of November 2, 2011, she appeared in the "bazaar men's ceremony" held in Beijing 798 Art District.

On November 20, 2012, he appeared in the press conference of Zhou Xingchi's new work "journey to the West · subduing the demons" in Beijing.

On December 12, 2012, Jackie Chan's film "Zodiac" was held in Beijing's bird's nest. Producer Wang Zhonglei also showed up with his son. His son in blue sportswear was naughty and cute.

In 2014, Wang Zhonglei took his 8-year-old son "brother William" to participate in the large-scale star parent-child reality show "Dad is back" launched by Zhejiang satellite TV. In the second week's program, William, who has only studied English for two years, acted as the father's interpreter in the program, and his English fluency shocked the audience.

Award winning record

On December 3, 2016, Wang Zhonglei won the "2017 iqiyi scream night film producer of the year" award.

Southern People Weekly commented on the candidates for the 2010 China charm 50.

On October 14, 2020, Wang Zhonglei won the 27th Huading Award for best producer in China.

Character evaluation

Wang Zhonglei is a strict father who does not laugh or talk. He has a proper way to educate his children. (Netease Entertainment review)

"Huayi Brothers" brings people a serious and persistent attitude towards movies. In Wang Zhonglei's body, we deeply feel his love for film and the long-term planning of the film industry of this tireless filmmaker. In the future, we also hope that "Huayi Brothers" can continue to be the vanguard of "comprehensive entertainment corps" and create a more mature entertainment ecosystem. (global review)

Character controversy

On December 20, 2017, Huayi Brothers announced that the company recently received the "decision on Issuing warning letters to Huayi Brothers Media Co., Ltd. and relevant personnel" from Zhejiang regulatory bureau of China Securities Regulatory Commission (hereinafter referred to as "Zhejiang securities regulatory bureau").

Zhejiang securities regulatory bureau said that Huayi Brothers failed to timely and completely disclose the income sources of the two subsidiaries within the scope of the 2015 consolidated statements, and only supplemented and disclosed the above matters on October 26, 2017; Wang Zhonglei, general manager and vice chairman of the company, is mainly responsible for this. The above behaviors violate the provisions of Article 2 and Article 3 of the administrative measures for information disclosure of listed companies. According to the provisions of Article 58 and Article 59 of the administrative measures for information disclosure of listed companies, our bureau has decided to warn the company and Wang Zhonglei.

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