Today is the first day of 2024, and the film market continues to be hot. Many exciting films have been released on New Year's Day, making a good start for the new year. Looking back on 2023, the film industry, which is one of the highlights of the mainland entertainment industry, especially the Spring Festival and summer seasons, is booming, which makes people marvel that "playing is heart-pounding."
Here is a movie version of the 2023 internal entertainment product manual from the editorial department of "Red Star New Entertainment x Talk", please check it out.
In 2023, the box office in January exceeded 10 billion, including 129 million moviegoers and 6.758 billion box office in the seven-day Spring Festival period; from June to August, the box office was 20.619 billion, creating the "strongest summer season in history", the highest during the period Records such as box office, highest attendance, and total number of screenings were set one by one.
This year, no Hollywood blockbuster ranked among the top ten in China's annual box office list. This was the first time since split blockbusters were introduced to China in 1994.
Represented by "The Wandering Earth 2", the hard power of China's heavy film industry has been recognized; represented by "Chang'an 30,000 Miles", Chinese romantic feelings resonate; and "Fengshen Part 1" has restored the domestic film industry star-making ability.
Entering the new year, branch distribution, AI creation, horizontal stores turning into vertical stores... Screens will continue to compete with mobile phones for user time, and movie theaters have transformed from incremental to stock markets... All innovations and challenges have made every industry practitioner The reader can only continue to scroll, but confidence, like the light from the big screen, appears on everyone's face.
01.
annual awakening film
"All or Nothing"
"All or Nothing" is adapted from multiple real events. Through dramatic narratives, it reveals all aspects of the entire industry chain of online fraud in a comprehensive and three-dimensional way, supplemented by a large number of explicit scenes. The details of crimes, such as concentration camps, factories, stun guns, ear tearing, nail prying and other violent abuse phenomena, can achieve the effect of "edutainment" invisibly: understand the dangers of fraud, understand preventive measures, and resolutely resist fraud.
Spectacular images refresh the audience; social expressions refresh the audience. What the audience gave back to the movie was a box office hit.
"The Disappearance of Her"
The core concept comes from the suspense movie "The Disappearance of Her", which is about "the Thai insurance fraud case and the murder of the wife". It uses narrative magic: perspective switching, trap design, game within a game, a game within a game, and thrillers. Colorful urban legends, metaphorical tropical animals and Van Gogh's paintings strangely echo the plot, tearing open a social wound where "talking about a tiger becomes a shame", revealing to the audience the shuddering abyss of human nature. Although
movies are entertainment products, they are warning us to keep our eyes open, the devil may be lurking around us.
"Crossing the Angry Sea"
A revenge story full of violence and madness, involving thought-provoking entanglements between two generations.
The screen characters of Huang Bo and Zhou Xun seem to be enemies with a deep hatred; in fact, both of them are parents full of flaws, and behind their deep love for protecting their calves, there is terrible neglect and doting. The
film exhibits and reveals the mask of parent-child relationship and family of origin, warning us of the decay hidden in traditions, habits, and history: any love, whether misplaced, insufficient, or excessive, will become a disaster.
02.
Annual Qi Replenishing Film
"Chang'an 30,000 Miles"
It seems that there has never been a film that uses such a romantic style of writing and wanton imagination to present the group portraits of poets in the prosperous Tang Dynasty and the relegated immortal Li Bai who compares himself to Dapeng.
"Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an" uses 48 poems and a 168-minute plot to lead us back to that era of dazzling literary talent and magnificent events.
When the poets we have known and recited since childhood turned into laughter and melancholy lamentations on the screen, when the dream of the Yellow Crane Tower and the prosperity of Yangzhou reappeared before our eyes, it seemed that it was not just the memories that were resurrected, but us. Youth and the Tang Dynasty that have lasted for thousands of years.
"The Wandering Earth 2"
"The Wandering Earth" opened the door to domestic science fiction, and "The Wandering Earth 2" raised the height of domestic science fiction movies to the top of the world.
There are two crises in the film: the space elevator and the moon fall, and two concepts: the Digital Life Plan and the Mountain-Moving Plan. When they collide with each other, they not only show the production level that the Chinese film industry can achieve and achieve, but also highlight that only The spirit of "The Foolish Old Man Moves Mountains" is something that only Chinese people can deeply understand.
Two thousand years ago, Qu Yuan asked the question of heaven; two thousand years later, "The Wandering Earth 2" answered with a community of destiny.
"Man Jiang Hong"
uses comic tunes to compose tragic songs, uses suspenseful mazes to reverse the pen of history, and uses humble characters to graft the soul of the nation. Even in his seventies, Zhang Yimou is still innovating.
In a deep house and compound, with high narrow alleys, a group of little people use a chain strategy to fight against authority and defend memory. An indelible memory forged with blood, words and truth - Yue Fei's "Man Jiang Hong".
This is not only a passionate display of family and country feelings, but also emphasizes that words have the power to transcend history, good and evil, life and death, and are worthy of our defense at all costs.
03.
The hematopoietic film of the year
"Feng Shen Part 1: Chaoge Fengyun"
emerged from the darkest moment at the beginning of its release and became a highly anticipated fantasy blockbuster. The counterattack of "Feng Shen Part 1" not only made the film itself , and have the pleasure of “renovating internal entertainment”.
A young actor who broke out from the "Fengshen Proton Camp" finally achieved an astonishing transformation after undergoing various cruel body shaping, martial arts training, literary and artistic knowledge and other extreme challenges and pressure. They (she) are powerful, wild and talented, refreshing the audience. The Chinese film and television industry is also like a new blood, with a group of new forces.
The face of internal entertainment has changed since then.
"Space Exploration Editorial Department"
Kong Dashan and Wang Yitong are the two screenwriters of the film, as well as the director and starring respectively. They are young, not well-known, have limited budgets, rough images, low-cost production, but have a wilderness temperament. His poetic nature and his courage to pursue the meaning of life.
Under the shadow of commercial blockbusters, they used their extremely talented and spiritual talents to create a film worthy of being recorded in film history.
This is a breakthrough of poetry and philosophy, and a brave and successful attempt to advocate ideas over technology. Kong and King are worth remembering.
04.
annual heartfelt film
"The Mistake by the River"
The original work of the film was written by Yu Hua during the avant-garde literature period. He created an absurd drama that satirized the unspeakable absurdity of an era amid confusion, chaos and madness.
director Wei Shujun planted a complex and foggy storyline on this absurd soil, with character states that are difficult to distinguish between reality and reality, and used surreal techniques such as dreams, hallucinations, and auditory hallucinations to complete a heart-warming writing: How a rational person gradually degenerates into a madman.
When "crazy" becomes a common mood of the times, "The Mistake by the River" is its best spokesperson.
"The Light of the White Tower"
Director Zhang Lu poetically turns a city into the nostalgia of middle-aged people.
This nostalgia is composed of the famous "broken voice" in Bei Dao's "Visitor from Poland" and a melancholy and lost version of "Beijing Welcomes You". It almost cruelly writes about those who live in the corners of the city. People who lose their shadow in the ups and downs and the tide of the times. "The Light of the White Tower" is too close to our daily lives, and therefore reaches a searing reality.
We wander, we cry, we dance, and we hope to find our own light under the white tower.
《I love you! 》
In a mortal body, seeking the possibility of love - director Han Yan's vision is unique.
He used Chang Weijie who was extremely energetic, Xie Dingshan who was extremely sad, and Mei Ruoxian who was extremely sad to depict the situation of the elderly and think about their relationship with the young world, thereby creating a panoramic view of the elderly. In this picture, every viewer can find his or her right place and be inspired.
People who are worried about "aging, getting sick, and dying" still have a prescription, and that is "love." This vulgar answer is extremely precious. Han Yan was willing to reiterate it over and over again.
Red Star New Entertainment x Discussion Planning and Production Editor Jiang Qing
