Chapter 537: Huayi is left behind
On June 13th, with the full release of "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" in theaters across the country, the long-awaited long-awaited head-to-head showdown between domestic films and Hollywood movies in the summer season officially kicked off. [No pop-up novel network]
As people expected, in the past six months, domestic theaters have vigorously built new theaters and greatly increased the number of screens, and the results have finally exploded in the summer file.
As an appetizer in Hollywood, "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" swept the country as soon as it was released, and it got 50 million box office within a week, winning the weekly box office championship by a huge margin.
This surprising result surpasses last year's blockbuster "Pirates of the Caribbean 3", which makes the theaters very excited.
Obviously, the Chinese film market has ushered in a bumper harvest season in a year of rapid development.
However, domestic films do not seem to have enjoyed the dividends of the significant increase in the number of theaters.
Fan Bingbing, starring Chen Xiaochun, and "Jingwumen" written by Ning Caishen, which was released at the same time, and "Looking for People in the Deep Sea" directed by Hong Kong director Tsui Hark, starring Liang Jiahui, Zhang Zhen, and Li Xinjie, although the lineup is not weak, and high hopes are also pinned, but as the vanguard of domestic films this time, they only got more than 10 million in a single week, far less than their opponents.
In this year's summer file, in the first confrontation between domestic films and Hollywood in the first week, domestic films were crushed without suspense.
But even so, fans across the country are still in a state of great anticipation, everyone is looking forward to the next movie to be a blockbuster, and the three giants of the Chinese film industry have come up with their own blockbusters and will soon all debut.
"Orphaned", "Red Cliff", "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", these three movies are almost the lineup of all the elites in the Chinese film industry.
Just thinking about the next grand occasion, fans can't help but feel excited, and the entire industry is looking forward to it, hoping that Chinese films can strike the strongest blow and break the high wall of Hollywood that has been standing in front of them.
Following a series of publicity campaigns in the early stage of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" three months ago, which whetted everyone's appetite, the two blockbusters "Orphaned" and "Red Cliff" also began to release relevant information one after another.
"Liu Dehua played a child-seeking migrant worker on the street, and no one recognized him and was left out in the cold." "Liang Chaowei and Lin Chiling's passionate bed scene inserted sparks, Carina Lau has not answered Liang Chaowei's phone call for a month."
And "Red Cliff" and "Orphaned" launched their own trailers on their respective promotional websites at the same time, and many industry insiders and fans have said that the two movies may be the best works of China Film and Huayi in recent years.
In comparison, the momentum of the crew of "Outwitting Tiger Mountain", which lost its director, is much weaker, and because Feng Xiaogang, who took over the post-production, also has to prepare for the filming of "If You Are Honest, Do Not Disturb", the progress has fallen behind a lot.
Everyone couldn't help but speculate whether Gu Xiaofan could catch up with this peak showdown with Hollywood movies?
Many sources began to rumor that "Outwitting Tiger Mountain" will be postponed to the end of this year for the Chinese New Year, in order to avoid the ferocious "Iron Man" this time......
At the same time, on June 20th, DreamWorks' animation masterpiece "Kung Fu Panda" and Huayi's abduction film "Orphans" were released on the same day, and a head-to-head showdown began!
Under Huayi's strong publicity offensive, "Orphaned" won an astonishing single-day box office of 20 million on the first day with a huge advantage in film scheduling, beating the 12 million of "Kung Fu Panda".
But just when domestic filmmakers were rejoicing, as soon as the word-of-mouth comments on major websites came out, "Kung Fu Panda" almost occupied an absolute advantage, and the score of this Chinese-themed animated film on Douban was as high as 8.0, while "Orphaned" only had 6.1 points, which was greatly inferior to the former.
After watching the movie on Weibo, netizens generally reflected that ""Kung Fu Panda" is the best animated movie in recent years, and it fits the Chinese theme and is very exciting. ”
"Orphaning is just frying cold rice in "Dear", and Liu Dehua's performance is far inferior to Gu Xiaofan and Gao Yuanyuan in "Dear".
Due to the strong student audience in the summer file, as well as the child audience led by parents, although "Orphaned" has a strong lineup and Huayi has also mobilized a strong propaganda force, but because of the "Dear" Zhuyu in front, coupled with the fact that the theme is too sad, it is far less likable than the humorous "Kung Fu Panda", after the first day, the box office of this abduction theme plummeted, directly falling to 2/3 of the box office, and it is getting worse.
On the other hand, "Kung Fu Panda" has been strong all the way in the excellent word-of-mouth, and won a single-week score of 75.1 million in the case of disadvantage, which greatly surpassed the single-week figure of 37 million in "Orphaned".
This result not only made Wang Zhonglei fall ill in anger, but also made Huayi's previous rhetoric completely frustrated, and wanting to win more box office in the summer file to defeat Hollywood has also become the laughing stock of major film critics.
Even their single-week results can't catch up with "The Chronicles of Narnia 2", which has won 37.5 million box office this week
Two weeks into the summer season, the war is becoming increasingly fierce, but the gap between the box office of domestic films and Hollywood is getting wider and wider, and more and more people are beginning to feel that domestic films are too self-sufficient to challenge Hollywood this time, and they are beginning to be discouraged.
And at the moment when Huayi, which was originally ambitious, fell behind and left the field miserably, the heavyweights of both sides went into battle!
On June 29, Chinese film leader Han Sanpin waved his flag, and the Chinese masterpiece "Red Cliff" with an investment of 600 million yuan was shockingly launched.
The film was released in a record 1,400 copies in mainland China, becoming the largest in mainland film history, and on the first day of its release, it was a sel-hot sight in major theaters in major cities.
On the first day of release in the mainland, it won an astonishing box office of 27 million in one fell swoop, and at the same time, Hong Kong, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and other 4 places also received more than 10 million US dollars.
Wu Yusen, who returned from Hollywood, led Liang Chaowei, Jin Chengwu, Zhang Zhen, Zhao Wei and other Chinese stars to blow a box office surge, like a thunderbolt on a sunny day, surpassing "Transformers" in people's jaw-dropping, creating the highest single-day box office record in the mainland.
At the same time, it was released on the same day, and Sony's Columbia Pictures blockbuster "The Whole Man Superman Hancock" was released in China.
With the blessing of the popular black actor Will Smith and blonde actress Charlize Theron, they also lived up to expectations and won a beautiful report card of 15.3 million in a single day.
plus 9.17 million for "Kung Fu Panda", 3.12 million for "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" in a single day, and 2.07 million for "Orphaned",
This series of beautiful figures also made the daily box office of the mainland movie list break through the 50 million mark for the first time! broke the record of 35.78 million in a single day at the mainland box office when the Chinese New Year files "Casting Names", "Assembly Number" and "Dear" were released at the same time last year.
The release of "Red Cliff" on this day swept away the decline of domestic films in the summer file, which greatly inspired people's hearts, and those who have watched the movie know that this time "Red Cliff" is completely in accordance with the model of Hollywood movies, defeating competitors with a royal road to a royal road.
At the same time, the three Hollywood movies "Hancock", "Kung Fu Panda", and "The Chronicles of Narnia 2" have also shown due strength, and the box office has not shown signs of decline.
Although the box office of a single film is not as amazing as "Red Cliff", their sum still surpasses the results of "Red Cliff", and this week, domestic films and Hollywood movies have tied for the first time in the summer file!