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On the eve of the summer vacation in 2010, there was a small-cost comedy dark horse work, which shined in June of that year. The film achieved a box office record of nearly 50 million yuan at an ultra-low cost of 7 million yuan (data reference from Baidu Encyclopedia), and the limelight can be described as instantaneous. The dark horse of
is the comedy of the theme of "Spring Festival Transport" starring Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang's first CP-"People on the Road".
This film can be said to be another new exploration of domestic comedies after Feng Xiaogang’s Beijing-style comedy and Ning Haoduo’s black humorous comedy. And Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, who have worked together for the first time, also inexplicably give people the feeling of a long-lost golden comedy combination of Stephen Chow and Wu Mengda.
Subsequently, thanks to the good reputation of "People on the Journey", at the end of 2012, Xu Zheng launched the first self-directed and self-acted hilarious road comedy-"Tai囧", which is still a big success. In addition to Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, the film also includes the actor Huang Bo, who is not at all losing his funny skills.
Thus, the first domestically produced super hot movie was officially born.
The film received a total of 1.267 billion yuan in the box office during the Lunar New Year festival that year, setting a number of records. It was not until the release of "Monster Hunt" three years later that its domestic film box office champion status was officially replaced by the latter.
However, the great success of "Tai囧" has brought in the "parting ways" of Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang, the soul figures of the "囧 series".
We can clearly find that Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang have never collaborated on any works since "Tai囧" in 2012. Even "Hong Kong囧" (released in 2015), which is the orthodox sequel to "Tai囧", only sees Xu Zheng but not Wang Baoqiang. There was a rumor during
that the role of Bao Beier was still locked on Wang Baoqiang at the beginning, but later due to film remuneration issues, Bao Beier was eventually replaced.
However, the author is skeptical of this statement. Regardless of whether the role of Bao Bell in "Hong Kong囧" is suitable for Wang Baoqiang, only from "Tai囧" after Wang Baoqiang's "Destined to Heaven", "Frozen: Rebirth Gate", "One Man's Martial Arts" and Chen Kaige's " In films such as "Taoist Down the Mountain", it can be seen that Wang Baoqiang has deliberately changed his play path after "Tai囧" and does not want to continue to be limited to the purely funny characters in the "囧 series".
However, several action films after Wang Baoqiang's "Tai囧" are hardly successful. It wasn't until 2015 that he co-produced the detective comedy "Detective Chinatown" with Chen Sicheng (screenwriter + director), and his career was considered a turnaround.
The film not only explores the new genre of domestic comedy + detective + suspense for the first time, but also makes the detective duo Tang Ren and Qin Feng played by Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran in the film become a new comedy CP and enjoys popular support.
And the ghostly charm of Zhang Zifeng's acting burst at the end adds a lot of color to the film.
Relying on its excellent reputation, "Tang Detective 1" earned more than 800 million yuan in the box office that year. Although it is far less than "Tai囧", it has accumulated countless fans. When the second film was released on Lunar New Year's Day in 2018, the box office broke out in an instant, and finally received a staggering 3.397 billion yuan box office, which shows the potential of this IP.
And even more coincidentally, on the first day of the new year in 2020, Xu Zheng's new "囧 series" "囧 Mom", directed and performed by Xu Zheng, will be officially "did" (VS)-directed by Chen Sicheng, starring Wang Baoqiang and Liu Haoran The third "Detective Tang Dynasty Series" is "Detective Chinatown 3".
really has to sigh: After 8 years after "Thailand", Xu Zheng and Wang Baoqiang will inevitably usher in a "head-to-head confrontation" about the box office after all.
Although Xu Zheng's "囧 series", the IP value is not inferior to Wang Baoqiang's "Detective Case Series", but the serious decline in the reputation of the predecessor "Hong Kong囧" (Douban 5.7), it is also the new work "囧 Ma" The box office outlook brings some variables.
Fortunately, Xu Zheng has passed last year’s real-themed conscience masterpiece "I am not the God of Medicine", and this year's National Day file directed by "Me and My Motherland" to win the championship, accumulating a lot of word-of-mouth, which warms up the topic of his new work. , Of course it is of great benefit.
Besides, this time in "囧Mom", there is also the surprise of the funny expert Shen Teng joining, which adds a solid guarantee to the film's box office prospects.
but the same period of "Tang Tan3", also has obvious advantages!
The box office of "Detective Chinatown 2" has skyrocketed before, which has shown us the huge potential of "Tang Detective IP". The amazing performance of the third film this time has also made many fans full of expectations.
It is also worth mentioning that Sinuo, played by Zhang Zifeng, a popular character in the first part, will definitely return to the third part this time, which has brought a lot of help to the popularity of "Tang Detective 3".
However, it is worth noting that the 2020 Spring Festival file is not only the competition between "囧 Ma" and "Tang Detective 3". Other new films such as Lin Chaoxian's "Emergency Rescue", the sequel of Fengshen Universe "Jiang Ziya", "Chinese Women's Volleyball" directed by Chen Kexin, Jackie Chan's "Vanguard"... are also promising "powerful opponents".
In short, the annual Spring Festival file is inevitably a "difficult" film selection process, especially on the first day of the new year in 2020. However, more choices also mean a higher probability of great works, so let's keep looking forward to it.
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