January is an unpopular month every year.
At this time, the Spring Festival blockbusters are basically scheduled, and the publicity momentum is getting stronger and stronger. Faced with super large productions joined by superstars, the audience will naturally not be interested in other productions, and will most likely be watching. The film needs to be arranged in the Spring Festival period.
Therefore, the January schedule has always been bleak. Except for the New Year's Day schedule, which is somewhat interesting, the rest of the time is to compete with who is worse.
Due to the backlog in previous years, many new films were released in January 2024. Unfortunately, it did not drive the market to become hot. Instead, just after January 2024, domestic films had five major box office tragedies.
Today we will take stock of four domestic films that premiered in January 2024 and failed miserably at the box office.
Korean Chinese language professional is not working? package bell sounded the alarm for remake movies.
"What's in the zoo", premiering on January 12th.
This new film starring many Northeastern comedy stars such as Bao Bei'er and Song Xiaofeng has a cumulative box office of less than 70 million in the 13 days since its release on January 24. The production cost of the film exceeded 100 million, which was mainly used to purchase copyrights and star remuneration. .
According to the accounting rule that the photo party takes about 37% of the box office, the movie's loss is about 70 million.
The box office failure of "What's in the Zoo" is undoubtedly the audience's counterattack against entertainment stars' unscrupulous remakes of foreign classics.
With the box office success of "Big Shot", Bao Beier became obsessed with remakes, especially Korean movies. In just two or three years, he remade five or six Korean movies such as "When Men Fall in Love" and "Secret Zoo". Of course, this does not mean that remakes of movies are bad, but Bao Beier's remakes basically remove the essence and adopt the dross.
For example, this movie "What's in the Zoo" simply borrows the setting of people pretending to be animals.
Then let the Northeast comedy stars pretend to be crazy and act silly.
From "What's in the Zoo", we can see that the road to remake movies is not easy, especially those sketch-style comedy stars. In the past, they liked this form of remakes, and the audience has become a little tired of it. The Spring Festival release of " "Hot and piping hot" I'm afraid you have to be careful.
The famous actor lost 150 million when he directed and acted. Bao Beier's second loss-making film is here.
"Extreme Rescue" will premiere on January 12th.
"Extreme Aid", which was released on the same day as "What's in the Zoo", also stars Bao Beier.
In other words, among the four major box office tragedies in January 2024, Bao Beier alone accounted for two, which shows the difference in his current audience popularity.
"Extreme Aid" is directed and acted by Xuecun, the singer who became popular all over the country with the song "Northeasterners Are All Living Thunder Feng". In the past few years, domestic films have created a trend of adapting classic songs into movies. What? "Gardenia Blossoms", "You at the Same Table", "Later", "Writing Poems for You" and so on.
Xuecun also followed this trend and produced the version of "Northeastern People Are All Living Lei Feng".
It’s a pity that we have to wait for the movie to be released. This kind of subject has become synonymous with bad movies, so the movie was changed to the inexplicable title "Extreme Rescue". The movie focuses on the avalanche rescue scene, with Huang Shengyi, Wei Chen, Wang Qianyuan, Lin Yongjian, Twenty or thirty stars including Bao Beier, Cheng Ye, Xiu Rui, and Du Haitao star in the film, and the film is said to have cost over 150 million.
As of January 24, the cumulative box office in the 13 days since the movie was released was only 69,000, with a cost of 150 million, making it the biggest box office tragedy so far in 2024.
20 stars, 4 years of production, "花千 Bone" failed miserably at the box office, and was criticized by CCTV as the No. 1 bad movie in 2024!
The 2023 New Year's Eve film "Twinkle Twinkle Star" has a box office of nearly 700 million.
has also made two big drama movies, "A Thousand Bones of Flowers" and "Family with Children, a Goddess Dog," quickly scheduled, hoping to cash in on the popularity.
"A Thousand Bones of Flowers" will premiere on January 20th.
is known as the No. 1 IP of Xianxia, with huge book fans and fans of the drama version. Zhao Liying and Huo Jianhua both gained high national popularity and excellent audience popularity through the drama version of "A Thousand Bones of Flowers". As a result, the movie ended on January 24th. The box office after 5 days of release was just over 5 million, and the final box office of the movie is predicted to be around 8 million. The production cost of
1 billion was almost a loss of 95 million.
"A Thousand Bones of Flowers" is purely a fan-oriented movie. Maybe it is thought that fans of the original work and the drama version have no problem, so the movie invited a large number of popular stars such as Chen Duling, Li Chengbin, Mao Zijun, Lai Meiyun, Zhang Zining and so on. , the total number of fans of these celebrities alone is almost over 100 million.
The behind-the-scenes lineup of the movie is also extremely luxurious.
producer Li Jinwen has produced "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" and "Kung Fu". The screenwriter Zhou Zhiyong's masterpieces are "Crazy Racing" and "Chinese Partner", and the director is Zhang Wenbao. His masterpieces are "My Motherland and Me" and "The Fuse" ", producer Tang Lijun produced the drama version of "A Thousand Bones of Flowers" that became popular all over the country!
As a result, the movie was inexplicably shot with an Internet quality.
The movie is only 97 minutes long. The famous scenes that a large number of fans have been looking forward to are missing, the character portrayal is gone, and the special effects of the movie are comparable to web games. Even the CCTV movie channel criticized "A Thousand Bones" as the first bad movie in 2024. piece!
The production cannot bear the ambition, and the Chinese audience of "Family with Children, Goddess Dog Head" did not buy it.
"Family with Children and Goddess Dog as Head" will premiere on January 20th.
playing a good hand of cards is undoubtedly used to describe "Family with Children, Goddess Dog Headed".
The influence of " A Family with Children " is really too high, so when "A Family with Children: Goddess Dog Headed" had a cumulative box office of only 280,000 as of January 24, so many viewers were surprised.
The biggest problem with the movie is that it is divorced from the Chinese audience and instead tries to please the North American market.
"Family with Children, Goddess and Dog Head" is a domestic film, but it was produced by a Hollywood team and even invited top Hollywood actresses like Megan Fox. The plot is also mainly American characters, with Chinese actors and characters. It is embellished and even has some negative settings.
I really can’t figure out the purpose of the film crew doing this. Do they think that Chinese and American audiences have the same childhood?
Both Chinese and American children grew up watching "Family with Children".
As a result, the investment of 150 million was lost, and the North American market did not even get a chance to be released. Only then did they expect the Chinese audience to be the savior. Even after the premiere of the movie, they even filmed "Family with Children" starring the original cast. .
What have you been doing so long ago?
