Huayi Brothers Explained

Huayi Brothers Media Corporation
华谊兄弟传媒集团
Type:Public
Founder:Dennis Wang
James Wang
Location City:Beijing, China
Shanghai, China
Shenzhen
Location Country:China
Hong Kong
Macau
Taipei, Taiwan
Malaysia
Singapore
Locations:1
Key People:Wang Zhongjun (Chairman & CEO)
Wang Zhonglei (President)
Area Served:China
Products:Movies, television shows, music, movie theaters
Services:Talent representation for musicians and actors/actresses
Revenue: CNY 892,000,000 (2011)
Owner:Wang Zhongjun
Wang Zhonglei
Subsid:Huayi Brothers Film Investment Co., Ltd.
Huayi Brothers TV Service Co., Ltd.
Huayi Brothers Contemporary Culture Broker Co., Ltd.
Huayi Brothers Music Co., Ltd.
Huayi Brothers Animation
Huayi Brothers Advertising Co., Ltd.
Huayi Brothers International Distribution Ltd.
HB Wink Animation
Huayi Brothers
Founded:1994
Founder:Wang Zhongjun, Wang Zhonglei
Genre:Mandopop
Country:China
Location:Beijing, China
HB International Sp. z o.o.
Founded:2020
Founder:Michał Czwarek
Genre:Animated film
Location:Warsaw, Poland

Huayi Brothers Media Corp. is a Chinese multinational entertainment company that owns a film studio, a television production company, a talent agency, a record label, entainterment theme parks, and a movie theater chain founded in Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Macau, & Taipei by Dennis Wang Zhongjun and James Wang Zhonglei in 1994. The company made world news on October 30, 2009, when the Shenzhen Stock Exchange ChiNext Board was halted, after HBMC's stock price reached 122.74 percent above its IPO price, to open at 63.66 yuan per share.[1] Patrick Frater of Variety called it "China’s largest private sector film conglomerate".[2] In 2014, the company was the seventh-largest film distributor in China, with 2.26% of the market.[3]

History

The company was founded in 1994 as a film production company. It underwent a comprehensive expansion into the media industry through investing and now produces movies, TV shows, & music and operates a film studio, TV production company, a talent agency, a record label, and movie theaters.[4] In February 2011, Huayi Brothers revealed their plans to create the largest TV and film studio complex in East Asia.[5] Also, they announced that they aim to earn 10 billion yuan in the box office by 2016.[6] As of April 2015, the company was worth US$7.9 billion.[7]

In 2014 the company announced that it had agreed to invest as much as $150 million in Studio 8, the production company launched by former Warner Bros. executive Jeff Robinov, but Shanghai-based conglomerate Fosun International later signed a deal to invest in Robinov's company instead.[8] The same year the company acquired 79% stake[9] [10] [11] [12] in GDC Technology Limited, a Digital Cinema solutions provider, which was held by private equity funds Carlyle Group and Yunfeng Capital.[13] [14] [15]

Around 2019, after the delay of The Eight Hundred due to censorship, the company created a novel Chinese Communist Party committee so that “correct political orientation ... [would] mix the core socialist values of the party deeper into the company’s blood”.[16]

Huayi Brothers Movie World is a theme park inspired by the Huayi Brothers' movies, television shows, celebrities, and pop culture.[17] The park is designed to be immersive with technology, and features immersive environments that celebrate the Huayi Brothers' movies and characters. The park opened in Suzhou, China on July 22 2018, and was the first of several planned developments in China.

Artists

Productions

TV series

YearEnglish TitleAlternative TitleEpisodes
2006Soldiers Sortie士兵突击28
2009My Chief and My Regiment我的团长我的团43
2009Dwelling Narrowness 蜗居35
2010Legends of the message风声传奇30
2011 Pursuit追逃30
2011Armor Hero铠甲勇士52
2011Armor Hero XT铠甲勇士XT60
2012Husband and Wife夫妻那些事34
2012Vary Peri幻变精灵之蛋糕甜心40
2013The Heart Without Thieves无贼48
2015Jing-ju Cats京剧猫200
2018Long time no see好久不见42

Films

YearEnglish TitleAlternative TitleNotes
2004A World Without Thieves天下无贼
2004Kung Fu Hustle功夫
2005Cell Phone 手机
2006The Banquet
2006Rob-B-Hood 宝贝计划
2007Assembly集结号
2007The Matrimony心中有鬼
2008The Forbidden Kingdom功夫之王
2008If You Are the One非诚勿扰
2009The Message风声
2009Look for a Star游龙戏凤
2009The Equation of Love and Death李米的猜想
2009The Spring in The Winter
2010Aftershock唐山大地震
2010Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame狄仁杰之通天帝国
2012LOVE
2012CZ12十二生肖
2012Taichi 0 太極:從零開始
2012 画皮II
2013西遊·降魔篇
2013Mr. Go大明猩
2013Personal Tailor 私人订制
2013 狄仁傑之神都龍王
2014Women Who Flirt撒娇女人最好命
2015Lost and Love失孤
2015Only You 命中注定
2015 鬼吹灯之寻龙诀
2015Dragon Blade 天将雄师
2015Mr. Six老炮儿
2016The Boy 灵偶契约
2016Warcraft 魔兽世界
2016Free State of Jones 烈火邊境
2016The Wasted Times 罗曼蒂克消亡史
2016Hardcore Henry 硬核大战
2016The Edge of Seventeen 成长边缘
2016Rock Dog 摇滚藏獒
2016Bad Moms 坏妈妈
2017The Space Between Us 回到火星
2017Revenge for Love瘋岳撬佳人Distribution[18]
2017The Foreigner 英伦对决
2017A Bad Moms Christmas 阿姐響叮噹
2017Molly's Game 茉莉牌局
2018Mile 22 22 英里
2018Peppermint 薄荷
2018The Happytime Murders 快乐时光谋杀案
2018狄仁傑之四大天王
2018Ash Is Purest White江湖儿女
2018云南虫谷
2019Radioactive放射性Uncredited
201921 Bridges21座桥梁
2020The Eight Hundred八佰
2021Rock Dog: Rock Around the WorldDirect-to-Video
2021Extinct
2022The 355
2022Moonfall月落
2022 炽热的武士Distributed by Paramount Pictures in the United States and select countries (under Nickelodeon Movies)
2022Rock Dog: Battle The BeatDirect-to-Video
Thunder Agents
untitled Horror film(co-production with Dark Castle Entertainment)[19]

Talent agency

HBMC manages over 100 Chinese A-list celebrities of movie, music and TV. Xun Zhou, Angelababy, Kun Chen, Zhao Wei and Shu Qi have appeared in Huayi productions.

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: All stocks trigger suspensions on China's Nasdaq-style board under price-rise rules on first day. 12 June 2014.
  2. Web site: China's Huayi Brothers Sets Superhero Franchise Pact With Michael Uslan. Patrick Frater. October 12, 2015. October 14, 2015. Variety.
  3. Web site: China Film Industry Report 2014-2015 (In Brief). October 15, 2015. english.entgroup.cn. EntGroup Inc.
  4. Web site: About . 2010-12-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110901230544/http://www.trmusic.com.cn/intro/about.htm . 2011-09-01 . dead .
  5. Web site: Huayi Brothers to build East Asia's largest film and TV studio complex . Asia Pacific Arts . 2011-02-24 . 2011-02-26 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140413131510/http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?huayi_brothers_to_build_east_asias_largest_film_and_tv_studio_complex_16432.aspx . 2014-04-13 . dead .
  6. Web site: Huayi Brothers unveils their moneymaking plan . Asia Pacific Arts . 2011-03-16 . 2011-03-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170826065207/http://asiapacificarts.usc.edu/article@apa?huayi_brothers_unveils_their_moneymaking_plan_16522.aspx . 2017-08-26 . dead .
  7. Web site: Chinese Media Stocks Stage Major Rally in U.S. and Asian Markets. Patrick Frater. April 9, 2015. April 14, 2015. Variety.
  8. Verrier, Richard For Hollywood, the road to China is littered with broken deals Los Angeles Times. September 7, 2015
  9. Web site: Huayi Brothers to acquire leading stake in GDC Technology. Informa.
  10. Web site: China's Huayi to Pay $125 Million for D-Cinema Group GDC Technology. Patrick. Frater. September 17, 2014.
  11. Web site: China's Huayi Brothers Buys Controlling Stake in Digital Cinema Tech Group GDC. Clifford. Coonan. The Hollywood Reporter.
  12. Web site: Huayi Brothers eyes 79% stake in GDC. Chinadaily.com.cn.
  13. Web site: GDC Technology Limited. The Carlyle Group.
  14. Web site: Carlyle-led consortium acquires 80% stake in GDC Technology. The Carlyle Group.
  15. Web site: Carlyle, Jack Ma-backed fund invests in China cinemas. October 17, 2011. Reuters.
  16. Web site: Wang Zhongjun, an accidental film-maker with new-found patriotism. 2021-04-07. Financial Times.
  17. Web site: Huayi Brothers Movie World . 2023-09-08 . Thinkwell . en-US.
  18. Web site: http://cbooo.cn/m/660155. zh:疯岳撬佳人. 14 February 2017. cbooo.cn. zh.
  19. Web site: Hayes Brothers, Joel Silver Teaming on Horror Film (EXCLUSIVE). Brent. Lang. December 7, 2017. Variety.