"Terminator: Dark Fate"
Schwarzenegger "Lian quite young", Cameron high-profile return, but even this golden combination failed to save the box office of "Terminator: Dark Fate". As the latest chapter of Cameron’s famous "Terminator" series, the highly anticipated "Terminator: Dark Fate" before its release has shown a daily decline in film platoons after its release. At the same time, the single-day box office has been released for 10 consecutive days. "Young You" overtook. The market performance was not as good as expected, so this "terminator" born in 1984 seemed to see its end.
has been overtaken continuously
On November 1, "Terminator: Dark Destiny" appeared on the big screens of major domestic theaters, and the film’s first day of release accounted for 38.9% of the film, which not only ranked first in all films, but also more Other films are at least 12% higher than the schedule, which shows the market's expectations for the film. However, high expectations have failed to make the film achieve high box office.
According to the Maoyan Professional Edition, despite nearly 40% of the assists from the lineup, the first day of "Terminator: Dark Destiny" closed the curtain with only 63,184,900 yuan in the box office, which is the same as the previous "Terminator: Genesis". Compared with the domestic box office of 154 million yuan on the first day, it fell by nearly 60%, ranking second in the single-day box office rankings, and lost to the "Young You", which has been released for more than a week. The latter accounted for 24.1% of the rankings on the same day. In comparison, it achieved a single-day box office of 71,295,200 yuan, surpassing "Terminator: Dark Fate".
In the following two days, the domestic ranking of "Terminator: Dark Fate" declined day by day, from 38.9% to 27.9%, and then to 25.7%. At the same time, the single-day box office did not show a significant increase. Among them, on November 2nd, "Terminator: Dark Fate", which was still ranked second in the single-day box office rankings, reported a box office of 73,948,700 yuan, an increase of only about 10 million yuan from the previous day. ", the single-day box office reported 134 million yuan, an increase of more than 60 million yuan from the previous day. In addition, the third-ranked single-day box office "Weather Child" also increased its single-day box office by about 20 million yuan from the previous day. As of 16:30 on November 3, the single-day box office of "Terminator: Dark Fate" temporarily stood at 34,346,600 yuan, which was only half of "The Young You".
is not only the poor domestic box office, the North American market performance of "Terminator: Dark Fate" also fell short of expectations. According to data, "Terminator: Dark Fate" achieved a first-day box office of US$10.6 million on the day it opened in North America. Although it is ahead of other competitors, according to industry estimates, the local box office is expected to be less than US$27 million in the first weekend of the film, which is no match. The first weekend score of the previous work "Terminator: Genesis".
gold combination
refers to the "terminator", it is necessary to mention the golden combination of Cameron and Schwarzenegger. The current market performance of "Terminator: Dark Destiny" is in sharp contrast with the high expectations on the eve of its release. While it has attracted the attention of the industry, it has also surprised the industry that even the "golden combination" is launched again. Let "Terminator: Dark Fate" make a good start.
Public information shows that the birth of the "Terminator" series actually originated from a nightmare by the well-known director Cameron. Then Cameron wrote and directed the nightmare into a movie, and found a film that was just emerging at the time. Starring Schwarzenegger. In 1984, the first "Terminator" was officially released and won 36 million US dollars at the box office with a cost of 6.5 million US dollars. This not only caused Cameron to gain widespread attention, but also made Schwarzenegger quickly become popular. Since then, a number of "Terminator" series of films have appeared one after another, and have won many Saturn Awards and Oscar Awards and nominations. Although most of Cameron no longer serves as a director, he is still one of the screenwriters of the work. The starring Schwarzenegger has also become more and more impressive.
and in this "Terminator: Dark Fate"In ", the figure of the golden combination also reappeared. Not only did Cameron take the role of screenwriter and producer, but also worked with his old partner Schwarzenegger to create the movie. At the same time, another veteran actor in the series, Linda · Hamilton also starred in the film, plus the director of "Terminator: Dark Fate" Tim Miller, who has directed "Deadpool", "Love, Death and Robots" and other works, it can be seen that the film is the cost of the creative team A lot of effort.
"The reason why the'Terminator' series was initially recognized by a large audience was inseparable from Cameron. To a certain extent, Cameron can be said to be the soul of the'Terminator' series. Therefore, we can find that with Cameron's "Terminator" in the previous sequels faded out, and many fans made a sound that was not an orthodox sequel, but it is not an easy task for an IP to maintain high heat and vitality", film review Liu He said.
Lian Po is old
From the current market feedback, it can be seen that although "Terminator: Dark Fate" is considered by many fans to be the orthodox "Terminator" series sequel, it scored 7.2 points on Douban Movies, surpassing " Terminator: Genesis and other sequels, but at the same time, there are also voices of doubt.
fan Wang Qiang said that the plot of "Terminator: Dark Fate" is connected to "Terminator 2", and the special effects of the film also achieve a more eye-catching performance, which is very enjoyable, but from the perspective of the plot, although there will be many Feeling stubborn, making audiences familiar with the film feel familiar feelings and mobilize past memories, but relatively few new ideas have an impact on the overall viewing experience, perhaps the higher the expectation, so the feeling after watching it will be more For obvious.
In the eyes of practitioners, "Terminator: Dark Destiny" also reflects the common situation faced by a series of sequel films in the current market. It not only needs to break the standards of other films, but more importantly, it is to break through itself and succeed in a On the basis of the work, the plot and film effects are once again improved, bringing a higher viewing experience to the audience, which is also the core of bringing new vitality to IP.
At the same time, regarding the current domestic box office loss of "Terminator: Dark Fate" to "Young You", Rao Shuguang, president of the Chinese Film Critics Society, commented that this does not mean that "Young You" is definitely better than The artistic quality and artistic value of "Terminator: Dark Fate" are higher, which actually proves that domestic films have a natural closeness, affinity, intimacy, and intimacy with local audiences, and it is easier to establish emotions, thoughts, and values. "Community Aesthetics".
