Huayi launches the "Jubenhui" young screenwriter program Wang Zhonglei reiterates the proposition of "strong core"

On July 18, the young screenwriters program "Jubenhui" was launched in Beijing. The program is an excellent screenplay selection competition for young screenwriters co-sponsored by Xinshengtang, Century Pictures, and Yixiang Tiankai. The competition set up a million yuan prize in order to tap into screenwriter talent and create more valuable and meaningful film and television works. Twelve directors including Tian Yusheng and Chen Zhengdao will create the strongest jury to escort the competition.

On July 18, the young screenwriter program "Jubenhui" held a launching ceremony conference in Beijing. Wang Zhonglei, Vice Chairman and CEO of Huayi Brothers Media Co., Ltd., Zhou Zijian, CEO of Xinshengtang Pictures, Chen Jie, Chairman of Century Pictures, Zhang Wei, founder of Entertainment Works and Chairman of Yixiang Tiankai Culture, attended the event. The judges and mentors of "Jubenhui" also made their debut at the press conference, including director Tian Yusheng (who directed Huayi Brothers "Previous Strategies" series), Chen Zhengdao, Yi Xiaoxing, Wang Yuelun, etc.

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Jubenhui" is an excellent script selection competition for young screenwriters jointly sponsored by Xinshengtang (Huayi Brothers Investment), Century Pictures, and Yixiang Tiankai (Huayi Brothers Investment). Jubenhui started with the original intention of respecting screenwriters, hoping to tap screenwriter talents and create more valuable and meaningful film and television works. The competition will set up a million-dollar prize, which will be toured in 100 universities and bring together hundreds of film and television companies to wait for their positions, aiming to create a super IP with a box office exceeding 10 billion yuan. Twelve directors including Tian Yusheng and Chen Zhengdao will create the strongest jury to escort the competition.

Wang Zhonglei, vice chairman and CEO of Huayi Brothers, delivered a speech at the press conference: "Huayi Brothers has always spared no effort in terms of aggregating content creators, which is consistent with the original intention of 'Jubenhui'. Huayi Brothers has always respected and admired creators 'contribution to high-quality content." As a film and television entertainment company known for its content advantages,"strong core" is Huayi Brothers 'primary strategy. At present, Huayi Brothers has a team of contracted directors with very stable output and quality, and is also constantly expanding more content production sources, including Xinshengtang, which is representative of Tian Yusheng's "Previous Strategies" series, and Shangshang Pictures, whose IP is the main development project, and production companies such as STX in the United States and SHOWBOX in South Korea.

Wang Zhonglei said that in recent years, he has spent a lot of time supporting young creators and start-ups in the entertainment industry. During this year's Shanghai Film Festival, Wang Zhonglei attended the Young Filmmakers 'Night jointly organized by Xinshengtang Pictures, Centenary Pictures, Shangxiang Pictures, and Zizai Media, the "Upward Fashion Night" of Shangxiang Pictures and a loud launch conference and other activities. -- "Why am I willing to be with these young people? In fact, I am helping them establish how to make content and help them complete the conversion of content." Huayi Brothers will help the new company grow from multiple aspects such as investment support, resource support, and experience sharing.

Promoting simultaneously with the "strong core" strategy is Huayi Brothers '"Big Entertainment Ecosystem" strategy, which not only can fully realize the cultivation, maturity and transformation of content creativity within Huayi Brothers' system; more importantly, it can pass The full use of entertainment resources provides more added value and value-added capabilities to other entities outside the own system, becoming a platform for open cooperation, from which all participants can find cooperation models and required resources. Wang Zhonglei once described his new role positioning to the media-"I am now more of a beaded person, stringing these pearls together. In addition to their own pearls, these pearls also have pearls collected from outside." While cultivating high-quality content creation power for the company, Huayi Brothers, as an industry leader, is also cultivating the most scarce creative talents for the entertainment industry, establishing a culture of respecting creators in the industry, and promoting the healthy development of the industry.

Tian Yusheng, the founder of Jubenhui and the famous director who directed Huayi Brothers '"Previous Raiders" series and achieved a win-win reputation at the box office, also expressed the same expectations at the press conference. He hopes that Jubenhui will "provide a platform for young creative talents and provide everyone with an outlet for stories." Other members of the director's jury also said: The script is the foundation of a play, and a good script is the top priority of a good work. I hope that I can find a good book with vitality for myself in the process of selecting talents and complete my IP reserve.

Entering the second half of the year, Huayi Brothers '"content output" will usher in an intensive release period: "Lu Yao Zhi Ma Li"(currently being screened),"A Beautiful Accident","The Death of Romantics","I am Not Pan Jinlian","Kung Fu Yoga" and other Chinese-language giants will successively hit the domestic screen, and "Bad Mom" and "Outside the World", which cooperate with STX in the United States, will also be available to North American audiences. In addition to movies, Huayi Haohan participated in the IP giant production-the TV series "Fantasy City" has been scheduled to be released on Hunan Satellite TV on July 24. After winning the viewership champion "Good Luck Romance", SIM, a South Korean listed company invested by Huayi Brothers, announced that its next TV series,"My Sassy Girlfriend", will be broadcast on South Korean SBS TV and will be broadcast simultaneously in China, Japan and South Korea. At the same time, Huayi Brothers has expanded its investment cooperation model through various channels, constantly accumulating efforts on the "content supply" side, gathering more outstanding talents and companies, and producing works worth looking forward to.

Editor: yvonne