On November 29, 2012, at the end of the year, the good drama in the Chinese film industry has just begun.

Today, the two blockbusters "1942" and "The King's Feast" were released on the same day, and the 12th New Year file officially began, which announced the official start of the longest New Year file battle in history.

The Year of the Dragon festival lasts from November 29 to February 14 of the following year, lasting nearly 80 days, which can be called the longest in history.

The reason why the mainland Chinese New Year stalls can occupy such a long cycle is that the Chinese people not only have the habit of Christmas and New Year's Day, but the more important Lunar New Year is also an irreplaceable first-class festival.

Although the box office champions in the past two years have been won by movies released in the summer file, "Wolf Warrior", which was released in the Chinese New Year file last year, won the box office championship in Chinese film history with a super high box office of 2.3 billion.

However, the top domestic directors led by Feng Xiaogang and Jiang Wen still put their movies in the Chinese New Year file as usual, and the summer file became Li Mu's one-man show.

This year's Lunar New Year file is also the same as usual, with many big directors competing with new films at the end of the year.

This year's Chinese New Year file Cheng Long's "Zodiac", Liu Weiqiang's "Blood Drops", and Zhou Yanfa's "Big Shanghai" are all coming to share the Christmas and New Year's dinner, and in January next year, there will be domestic productions "The Grandmaster" and "Journey to the West: Demon Suppression" will appear in turn.

Feng Xiaogang, Liu Weiqiang, Wang Jing, Wang Jiawei, Zhou Xingchi, Lu Chuan, and the six directors gathered in the New Year.

Zhang Guoli, Chen Daoming, Ge Wei, Huang Xiaoming, Zhou Yanfa, Liang Chaowei, Liu Ye, Wu Yanzu and other stars took turns to appear.

In addition, there is also the Journey to the West-themed movie "Red Child", as well as the addition of "Zhu Xian" produced by Li Mu Company, and more than ten domestic blockbusters were released throughout the Chinese New Year.

In addition to domestic films, there are also several Hollywood blockbusters released in the Chinese New Year file, such as the 3D sci-fi blockbuster "2012", the 3D adventure blockbuster "Life of Pi" directed by Chinese director Li Press, and the feature film "Cloud Atlas" starring Hollywood superstars, in which Chinese actor Zhou Xun played a supporting role, the movie of the same name starring Hugh Jackman, Russell Crowe, and Anne Hathaway, "Les Miserables", and "Robbery Chaser" starring Nicolas Cage......

These dozen or so films constitute the absolute main force of this year's Chinese New Year file, and more than 90% of the box office will be produced from these films, and the final box office champion must also belong to one of these movies.

Similarly, there are more than 60 other small and medium-budget movies that will also make soup in the Lunar New Year stalls, but if nothing else, most of these movies will make money for copies at most.

There are certainly very few people who can actually drink a mouthful of soup, but there are still countless filmmakers and production companies who flock to this schedule for this soup.

As for the Spring Festival file, since the box office of "Journey to the West: The Return of the Great Sage" exceeded one billion in 10 and won the box office championship, it has gradually become a popular schedule.

However, no matter how good the schedule is, it is useless to have no excellent movies, and the so-called Spring Festival stalls have been lacking enough weighty movies in the past two years, and the only "Hong Kong Embarrassment" that got a box office of more than 500 million on the seven days of the Spring Festival was still released at the end of the Lunar New Year stalls.

In this way, the so-called Spring Festival stalls are naturally not valid, and people are still used to dividing the Spring Festival holiday into the New Year stalls.

However, this year's Spring Festival may be different, Zhou Xingchi took his fantasy adventure comedy film "Journey to the West: Demon Conquering" directed by him after a gap of six years, and it was released simultaneously around the world on February 10, 13, the first day of the Lunar New Year.

It is said that except for the two sides of the Taiwan Strait and three places, all the overseas rights of the film in the entire Southeast Asia have been sold.

"Yangtze River No. 7" in 08, "Kung Fu" in 04, and "Shaolin Football" in 01, Zhou Xingchi has made a total of three movies since the new century.

But such a small number of works did not affect his popularity at all, and "Shaolin Football" was banned in the mainland in 01 year, but it undoubtedly won the annual box office championship in Xiangjiang, and ranked fifth in the box office of Xiangjiang film history with a box office score of 60 million.

There are different opinions about the reasons why "Shaolin Football" was banned in the mainland, but there are two that are more credible.

The first is that the film was released in Xiangjiang without going through the review of the Film Bureau, which violated the relevant regulations of the Film Bureau.

The second point is that during the two sessions, some deputies proposed to put "Shaolin" and "football" together, which affected the religious feelings of Buddhists and also affected the seriousness of thousands of Shaolin temples.

In the general environment at that time, the Xiangjiang film market has become increasingly sluggish, and a large number of Xiangjiang films have aimed at the domestic market, which is somewhat of a prestige.

In fact, in addition to "Shaolin Football", Zhou Xingchi also has a film that has been rejected for release in the mainland, that is, "Domestic Lingling Paint".

There are many reasons why this movie was banned, Li Xiangqin played by Yuan Yongyi in the movie is Li Xianglan's daughter, Li Xianglan is the Li Xianglan sung in Zhang Xueyou's song "Li Xianglan", and Zhou Xingchi still plays and sings this song in the film. In the eyes of many Chinese, Li Xianglan is a neon star who pretends to be a Chinese to work for Far Eastern policy.

Coupled with the political sensitivities involved and the blackening of the image of government soldiers, it is normal for the film to be banned.

In addition to "Shaolin Football" missing the mainland, "Kung Fu" in 04 beat "Ambush on All Sides", "No Thieves in the World", "The Lord of the Rings", "Spider-Man", "New Police Story" and other domestic and foreign blockbusters with a box office of 173 million yuan to become the box office champion of the year.

Although "Yangtze River No. 7" in 08 is no longer Zhou Xingchi's signature comedy, it still ranks fourth at the annual box office with a box office of 203 million, and "Ip Man", "Iron Man", "Kung Fu Panda", "King of Kung Fu", and "Zero Zero-Seven: Quantum of Solace" are all ranked behind it.

After a lapse of six years, I saw Zhou Xingchi's movie on the big screen again, and countless acquaintances have long been looking forward to it, and the major pieces of paper have also regarded "Journey to the West" as the biggest opponent.

Most of the post-70s, post-80s and post-90s generations spent their childhood in the movies of Zhou Xingchi, Zhou Runfa, Cheng Long, and Li Lianjie.

The post-70s watched the videotapes, and the post-80s and post-90s also met them through the movies of these people that were repeated over and over again on TV.

In the past few years, most local stations would basically take turns to play classic movies from the eighties and nineties, and it is no exaggeration to say that these young people in their twenties have watched most of these four people's movies at least five times.

This is the real superstar, the only four superstars in China, fans cover all ages, and have huge box office appeal.