The competition among movies during the Spring Festival this year is extremely fierce. "Man Jianghong" topped the box office list with its various advantages; Although the other films were slightly inferior at the box office, they also proved the impressive strength of the filmmakers and production teams.
Compared to these fruitful works, the most surprising thing this year is "Chinese Ping Pong: Jedi Counterattack" directed by Deng Chao and Yu Baimei.
has been difficult to release from the very beginning, and now it may face the risk of early withdrawal due to poor box office after its release. If the results are still like this after a period of time, I am afraid it will be directly converted into a major online movie.
In fact, the development trend of the original movie is very good. Although it is definitely not as good as the first or second movie, it can at least be on par with Wang Yibo's "No Name".
Originally, the movie was originally released on the first day of the Lunar New Year, but it was later changed to the third day of the Lunar New Year knowing that he was not competitive. However, it was a wise choice to avoid the movie peak period of the first and second day of the Lunar New Year.
did not expect that just two days later, the official Weibo announced that the film would be screened on a small scale, and that it would be screened again on a large scale on February 17. The reason for the temporary withdrawal is self-evident, as it cannot compete with other films. So far, the box office has exceeded 40 million in the two days since its release, and some works have exceeded 100 million in the same period of time.
Deng Chao's influence in the entertainment industry goes without saying. Many stars in the industry have called for this work. This movie is considered to be the movie with the most public support from stars during the Spring Festival. After
withdrew the file, his good brothers Lu Han and Chen He even changed their profile pictures to promotional posters of the movie. The official microblogs of several Spring Festival movies including "Man Jianghong" posted "Looking forward to the Jedi's counterattack", although Wu Jing has works to compete with him, but he still publishes articles to promote Deng Chao.
After the normal broadcast resumed on February 17, the box office of the movie on the first day only exceeded 4 million, and the total box office was only over 60 million. However, there are many reasons why the box office is so low.
First of all, there are too few film schedules. The film screening rate is only 11.1%, and there are many times like the middle of the night when there are few people. The filming rate is high.
Many viewers echoed the two directors’ comment area to increase the film schedule. Yu Baimei’s answer to this was “It has nothing to do with the theater, because there are many good films for the Spring Festival this year, we came late and it is reasonable for the theater to arrange films according to economic benefits.”
Deng Chao said that as long as audiences who like movies share more word-of-mouth, it can be seen that income is the biggest influencing factor in film scheduling, and the directors should be very helpless.
Secondly, I didn’t choose a good release time. The film tells the history of the development of Chinese table tennis, from being underestimated to the current championship monopoly. It is a work that makes the audience look very excited and patriotic. The theme is more suitable for the National Day file rather than the Spring Festival file. Although there is nothing wrong with the release, it always feels weird. It is said that
originally planned to broadcast it on the National Day file last year, but in the end it failed to follow the original plan due to various reasons.
Chinese sports-themed movies are basically long overdue. For example, "Win the Championship" was released in 2020. At that time, it had been 4 years since the Chinese women's volleyball team won the gold medal, and the popularity was not as good as before.
And now it has been nearly two years since the Chinese table tennis team showed off their power in the Tokyo Olympics, and the popularity will definitely be affected.
In the end, Deng Chao and Yu Baimei's previous collaborations were generally evaluated. This is the fourth time the two have collaborated in a film. The first three were "The Breakup Master", "Villain Angel" and "Galaxy Tutorial". The three movies of
are at best considered to be of their own standard, and some may even be labeled as "bad movies". It can only be said that although the old partners cooperate with each other tacitly, the original combination is wrong. No one can save it.
Some people say that the works of Deng Chao and Yu Baimei have already "overdrawn their word of mouth". They made money from bad movies before, but this time the audience will no longer buy it. Deng Chao himself responded to this question at the publicity meeting and said, "Some people say that we are a persuasion group, but I hope there will be such a group."Idea audiences come and see this movie. During the
live broadcast, they all said that the director was sorry. I want to say that Baimei and I were sorry. Maybe there were some problems with our works before. We also failed as directors, so we have to say sorry. "
Many viewers didn't understand why they chose to continue when they knew they were not suitable to be a partner, and Deng Chao still didn't match his identity as a director. He should be an actor instead of a director.
It is understood that "Chinese Ping Pong: Jedi Counterattack" The total cost is the highest among the movies in the same period, and all the expenses together cost 350 million.
The current Maoyan platform estimates the total box office of the movie as 150 million. It can be said that Deng Chao suffered heavy losses this time.
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