On June 28, the summer of 2012 officially began, and the Xianxia masterpiece "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" and "Painted Skin 2" produced by Huayi Brothers jointly produced by Shengda Pictures and jointly distributed by Guangxian and Berner officially landed in the domestic film market.

One is a super-popular adaptation of the Xianxia masterpiece, which has a large number of loyal fans and is jointly released by the two giants.

The other is a sequel to the once popular movie, bringing together Chen Kun, Zhao Wei, and Zhou Xun, the three first-line stars, and the director is Wu'er Fan, who has filmed "Havoc in Heaven".

As the two most eye-catching movies in July, "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" and "Painted Skin 2" were released at the same time, and the summer file was ignited at the beginning and came directly to the climax.

The theater chain is also very optimistic about these two movies, and the first day of "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" reached 34%.

The previous work of "Painted Skin 2" has proven itself, plus the actors have not changed, and the director has even shot a 1.5 billion box office Wuer fan, and the theater directly gave a super high schedule of 42%.

It can be seen that the theater chain still attaches more importance to "Painted Skin 2", and it is uncertain how many readers of "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" can be converted into audiences.

On the same day, six movies were released, including "Pigman: The Embarrassment of Danger", "Cell-Rey and Max", "Seafood Marines", "Charm Makeup", "Very Kidnapper", and "Youth Fighting".

Coupled with the movies such as "Ruffian Heroes: All-Out War", "The Driver", and "Pandora's Sword", these small-budget films can only divide the remaining 23% of the film schedule.

On June 28, "Painted Skin 2" ranked first on the box office list of the day with a first-day box office of 80 million.

and "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" achieved an excellent result of 60 million on the first day, ranking second only to "Painted Skin 2" at the daily box office.

As for the box office of several other movies combined, there is still this half, which perfectly plays the role of cannon fodder.

Looking at the numbers on the report, those movie theater owners couldn't wait to give all the scheduled films to the two movies "Painted Skin 2" and "The Legend of Mortal Immortals".

In the following three days, "Painted Skin 2" continued to occupy the box office champion on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and the box office increased significantly, with a total box office of 320 million in three days, and the total box office just exceeded 400 million in four days of release.

And "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" relied on a huge fan base and the joint public relations of several companies, and the revenue was 270 million on the third day, with a total box office of 330 million.

The first two movies in the summer season were all box office hits, injecting a boost into the domestic film market.

In the following working days, "Painted Skin 2" fell by only 40%, and collected another 330 million in the entire five-day working day, and the total box office reached 730 million in less than ten days after its release.

And "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" is also very strong, winning 280 million again in five working days, and the total box office reached 610 million.

Although the combined box office of these two movies is currently only 1.3 billion, it is only the result of the ten days of the release of "Wolf Warrior" last year.

It's not even as good as "Three Dozen White Bone Spirits" and "Journey to the West: Daughter Country" released last year.

However, the results of 600 million in nine days are dazzling enough, as long as the box office does not dive much, it can hit the billion mark.

""Painted Skin 2" collected 800 million box office in nine days after its release, and such a high box office first stemmed from the success of "Painted Skin 1". If the gold absorption speed of "Painted Skin 1", which was the dark horse at the box office that year, was "wind speed", then "Painted Skin 2" was definitely "speed of light". The storyline of "Painted Skin 1" is relatively complete, using an old story to allude to the social hotspots at that time, the rampant of the junior, the helplessness of the original partner, and the degradation of social morality, which resonated with many female audiences and generated a lot of emotion in their hearts. And "Painted Skin 2" continues this line, "face or heart" also alludes to love and even value choices in a rapidly developing society. To use a more fashionable phrase, the story and theme of "Painted Skin 2" are "down-to-earth" enough. ”

"In many cases, superficial portrayal of characters and expression of dead and alive love is an effective theatrical device. "Painted Skin 2" is like this, Huo Xin's atonement, Princess Jing's inferiority complex, and fox fairy Xiaowei's viciousness are all expressed very simply and directly. In addition, the same-sex love between Xiao Wei and Princess Jing is also vaguely expressed in the film. This is a "surprising" episode, because such a plot setting increases the depth of the character's personality and the layering of human nature - or "demonic nature". ”

"Compared with "Painted Skin", "Painted Skin 2" has not made much progress. It is nothing more than atonement, the search for life, love problems, and so on. For a long time, they are all discussing the wonderful relationship and emotions between Zhou Xun and Zhao Wei that belong to women, and only stepped on the brakes when the audience was about to watch it as a lesbian movie. It is suitable for a pair of girlfriends to watch together, because it is obviously a textbook for a rational woman to persuade a sensual woman how to look at love, unlike a movie. ”

As a sequel movie, "Painted Skin 2" will inevitably be compared with the first one.

Although the director made a small change to the story in order to avoid being similar to the first part, although it is still atonement and a love triangle, it is not old-fashioned.

Overall, this sequel is still very successful, both at the box office and by word of mouth.

And "The Legend of Mortal Immortals", as the beginning of the film adaptation, has a box office of 600 million within nine days of its release, which can definitely be regarded as a big hit.

Especially this movie is not particularly famous from the director to the actors, and the starring role is a second-tier student who has just debuted, and Chen Tianqiao is satisfied enough to have this achievement.

Although the reputation of the movie is not very good, after all, it is just a director and a newcomer who is not well-known, and the Douban score is only 6.5, just above the passing line, and now the trend is quite stable, and it is estimated that it is all supported by fans of the original book.

Once all readers watch it, the box office will definitely plummet, not to mention that there will be other new films released later, and it is estimated that it is impossible to reach the billion mark.

However, "The Legend of Mortal Immortals" is a long story of more than five million words, which is enough to shoot seven or eight films, and now the first part is successful, and the later series can be counted as long as they don't jump.

Besides, this book is not over yet, and it is completely possible for the author to keep writing, after writing the demon world, writing the demon world, after the ascension to the fairy world, after the fairy world is over, there is also the god world, the god world is over, then the holy world, and finally dominates the universe.

As long as the author is willing, he can finally write that he was plotted by his friends in a big war, defeated in the mortal world, and once returned to the time when he was still a teenager and had not yet cultivated.