On November 3, the movie "Terminator: Dark Fate" was released for 3 days. The box office in the Mainland was only 160 million, and the predicted box office was only 415 million, which was far from the results expected by the audience.
On the same day, the movie "Young You" was released for 10 days, with a box office exceeding 1.1 billion and a predicted box office of 1.579 billion, making it the 72nd film in Chinese film history to exceed 1 billion.
At the same time, the movie "Crime Scene" was released for 23 days, and the mainland box office was only 252 million, and the same predicted box office of 252 million, plus 0.2% of the filming ratio, can only show that the film is about to go offline.
Seeing this, some people may be at a loss. What is the comparison between the three films with different release dates, different themes, and different casts? Of course,
is comparable, and it is very simple. If you can describe it in one sentence, it is that the old CP can no longer carry the box office, and the young CP has begun to take over the era.
Let’s talk about "Crime Scene" first, this well-deserved Hong Kong-produced film, the biggest selling point is Louis Koo and Xuan Xuan, the CP combination that will come together after 18 years. Back then, the film "Xun Qin Ji" contributed to the friendship between Gu Tianle and Xuan Xuan for so many years. Now he is nearly 50 years old, one is unmarried and the other is unmarried. How can the audience let go of this gimmick. However, the emperor was not in a hurry. The parties still talked and happily attended the road show, and even agreed to cooperate for another 18 years, but they kept silent about any emotional issues.
However, CP's gimmicks are used to engage in gossip, to get some information, and to play with feelings. It is okay to put it in a movie, but it may not have a miraculous effect.
This year, Louis Koo has starred in 6 movies, except for "Home and Everything Surprised", the other 5 are all males. From the box office perspective, "Anti-Corruption Storm 4" is 790 million, "Chasing Dragon 2" is 306 million, "Sweeping Drugs 2" is 1.29 billion, "Apostle Walker 2" is 698 million, and "Crime Scene" is 252 million. These data show that the model worker Louis Koo’s acting skills are becoming more and more mature, but his partner Andy Lau, Liang Jiahui and other male stars have achieved more box office than He Xuan Xuan’s CP. Perhaps as I said before, the old CP can only attract the audience with feelings.
Let’s talk about "Terminator: Dark Fate" again. This global IP film did not look to the future in publicity. Instead, it played a memory killing and directly erased the timeline of the 3, 4, and 5 parts. The two began to continue the plot, and also threw Linda Hamilton's emotional card, so that she and Schwarzenegger will reunite after 28 years.
However, 72-year-old Arnold Schwarzenegger and 63-year-old Linda Hamilton are obviously more disadvantaged in their age than the nearly 50-year-old Gu Tianle and Xuan Xuan’s CP combination, and they have to perform popular science fiction. In action movies, the audience's chances of skipping the show are very high, and perhaps the box office has said everything.
That is to say, whether it is Louis Koo and Xuan Xuan reuniting after 18 years, or Arnold Schwarzenegger and Linda Hamilton reuniting after 28 years, their age disadvantage makes them lose their former style and remember. Killing can't really increase the box office, perhaps the old CP reorganization gimmick has been unable to attract the audience.
finally said "You are a young man". On the one hand, the success of the film is the attractiveness of the theme. On the other hand, it is the starring Yi Qianxi and Zhou Dongyu. The two people’s image acting skills fit with Xiao Bei Chen Nian in the film. Very high, which is very similar to the previous two pairs of CP combinations, which may indicate that the new generation of CP combinations has begun to take over the film market.
