Recaps

Wei Jin built his filmmaking and entertainment businesses after Buried Alive won a Silver Bear and succeeded at the box office, while using his wealth to expand into investments. The stretch ended with him giving Zeng Li a starring role in World's Finest.

• Wei Jin returned to Beijing, met publisher Shen Haobo, and began serializing Snowstrider while growing closer to Zeng Li.
• Wei Jin’s improved abilities led him to develop a music career and filmmaking plans, and he made Buried Alive with Qin Hao in the lead.
• Wei Jin opened Wei Jin Fengliu Studio, signed Huang Bai, and promised Zeng Li that he would support her acting career.
• At the Berlin International Film Festival, Buried Alive received a sustained ovation and Wei Jin won the Outstanding Artistic Achievement Award.
• Wei Jin sold Buried Alive’s overseas rights for 6.54 million US dollars, returned to China, and arranged its domestic release while investing in Chinese Paladin.
• Wei Jin developed You Are the Apple of My Eye into a film project, recruited Li Jian to sing its title song, and won $430 million after taxes by betting on Greece in the European Championship.
• Buried Alive earned 35.82 million yuan in theaters, and Wei Jin established Qingtian Capital with Xiang Wenlong to investigate investments in literature websites, gaming, and cinema chains.
• On Wei Jin’s twenty-first birthday, he gave Zeng Li the script for World’s Finest and told her she would play Shangguan Haitang.

Wei Jin built his studio’s film business through the success of Those Years, a major investment in Summit Entertainment, and new productions including Painted Skin and Crazy Stone. The stretch ended with Crazy Stone opening in theaters as Wei Jin expanded his reach in China and North America.

• Wei Jin secured China Film Group’s investment in Those Years, cast the film, and directed its production through completion and release.
• Those Years earned 118 million yuan, drew industry attention to Wei Jin, and helped him secure distribution deals and invest in online novels and cinema locations.
• Wei Jin invested in Ning Hao’s Crazy Stone and negotiated a forty percent stake in Summit Entertainment, where he directed Dead Silence and The Infiltrator.
• Wei Jin launched Painted Skin with China Film Group and other investors, cast Chen Kun, Zhou Xun, Zeng Li, Donnie Yen, and Huang Bai, and began filming.
• Those Years won festival awards, while Wei Jin promoted Crazy Stone and earned further attention after The Infiltrator succeeded in North America.
• Wei Jin returned to Beijing for Crazy Stone’s premiere, discussed its distribution prospects with Han Sanping and other executives, and the film opened on July 15.