talks about the series of films, many people think of "Lord of the Rings", "Transformers", "Fast and Furious", "Mission Impossible", and "007" in the international film market. Indeed, these are all well-known works in the series. However, not only foreign films, but also representative works in Chinese films.
Whether it is "Police Story", "Huang Feihong", "God of Gamblers", "Sage of Gamblers", "Young and Dangerous" in the 1980s and 1990s, or "Infernal Affairs" in the early 21st century, their Existence is the benchmark of domestic film series, condensing the classics of a generation. After the classics are over, we turn to our current era, and naturally a batch of new works are born, just like Chen Sicheng's "Detective Cases in Chinatown".
On December 31, 2015, Chen Sicheng's self-written and directed "Chinatown Detective" was released. This suspenseful movie with coexistence of reasoning and laughter was well received by netizens; on February 16, 2018, "Chinatown Detective 2" was released. Different from the tepidness of the first film, the film became the box office champion of 2D movies and comedy movies in Chinese film history with a final box office score of 3.396 billion, and won the third place in the total box office of Chinese film history. The fire of
"Chinatown 2" has made netizens look forward to the release of the third part. As we all know, in the final part of "Chinatown 2", Tang Ren and Noda Hao both received a call from Japan, shouting that the case was too difficult, and revealed the location of the third part of the story in advance-Tokyo.
Recently, "Detective Chinatown 3" released its first 15-second trailer, with Liu Haoran and Wang Baoqiang making funny appearances. It is understood that this time "Tang Detective 3" will return some familiar faces. For example, Zhang Zifeng, who played Pan Yueming's daughter in the first film, will definitely bring new highlights to this smiling girl who left a psychological shadow on countless people.
According to director Chen Sicheng, Zhang Zifeng still continues his previous role, and works diligently to become a detective. Qin Feng, played by Liu Haoran, will return to Thailand and consult Zhang Zifeng when he encounters a difficult problem in the investigation.
Now, "Detective Chinatown 3" is still being filmed, and the movie will meet the audience during the 2020 Spring Festival. Everyone knows that "Detective Chinatown 2" also chose the Spring Festival period, when it was released at the same time as the military film "Operation Red Sea" directed by Lin Chaoxian. In the box office battle, "Chinatown 2" lost to "Operation Red Sea", losing by less than 400 million.
"Operation Red Sea" won the second place in the Chinese film history box office with a box office of 3.65 billion, which not only made Lin Chaoxian, a director from Hong Kong, famous in the Mainland, but also let the private investor Liu Liming "win both fame and fortune."
And in the 2020 Spring Festival, Lin Chaoxian's sea rescue movie "Emergency Rescue" is also selected to be released at this time.
It is understood that in order to create a more exciting and shocking setting, Lin Chaoxian spent 700 million this time to go to Mexico to film the content of the deep-sea rescue part, and cooperated with the Oscar best photography Bao Dexi-"Titanic" art director Martin Laing and other top international production teams have joined forces to make "Emergency Rescue" another benchmark for Chinese-language movies.
Compared with "Emergency Rescue", according to online news, Wanda Films’ total investment cost in "Detective Chinatown 3" movie is 438 million yuan, and the investment ratio is 34.5%. Based on this calculation, the total cost of "Detective Chinatown 3" is approximately It is 1.3 billion yuan. I have to say that Chen Sicheng has also lost his money.
The two works of Chen Sicheng and Lin Chaoxian collided again this time, and they were all produced at a high cost. It is difficult to determine who wins and who loses. We can only hope that the movies produced at such a high cost will live up to the expectations of fans.
