March 2nd, Lu Guoqiang is the producer, Li Meng is the screenwriter, Li Wei directs, Zhang Jin, Geng Le, Xia Meng, Jiang Luxia lead the starring roles, Liu Hua and Liu Fengchao star in friendship, Feng Lei, Zhu Shimao specially guest starred The action martial arts movie "The Stranger" will officially meet audiences in some theaters across the country through the "split distribution" model.
Since the beginning of 2024, iQiyi's "Action Master Season" has successively launched three high-quality action movies, "Stand in the Horse and Seize the Knife", "Defiant 2" and " Anti-Evil ", and released them through cloud cinema, achieving both box office and word-of-mouth success. Good harvest. This time, "Stranger Knife" will be screened in a theatrical branch distribution mode, which will allow the film's exciting action scenes and oriental martial arts aesthetics to meet the audience on the big screen in theaters, and also provide the audience with a long-awaited action movie theater experience. movie experience. At the same time, the film will be exclusively launched on iQiyi Cloud Cinema on March 8. The screening method of branch distribution in theaters and simultaneous broadcast in online cloud cinemas will also provide audiences with a more diverse choice of viewing channels. .
"Stranger Knife" is set in the troubled times of dynasty change, and tells a story where the wheel of fate cannot crush the heart of benevolence and righteousness: King Qi (played by Zhu Shimao) usurped power and secretly killed the crown prince's heir, and the charcoal seller Tian Anye (played by Zhang) Jin) was accidentally involved in this situation. In order to escort the crown prince's widow Nie Ling'er (played by Xia Meng) to leave the city safely, Tian Anye teamed up with Qin Gu (played by Jiang Luxia), an old friend and enemy of the prince, to break through. After a desperate battle, the secrets of Tian Anye and the truth about the people of Liangcheng who died in the city were also revealed one by one.
Zhang Jin has a professional martial arts background and is a national martial arts elite level martial arts athlete. He has served as a martial arts instructor in director Yuan Heping's "Yuan Family Class" all year round. He has appeared in " Grandmaster ", " Sha Po Lang 2", " Ip Man 3" "It has performed well in works such as " Pacific Rim: Uprising ". Jiang Luxia, who is also a national martial arts athlete, is also well-known to the public for her appearance in "Operation Red Sea ". Geng Le plays Zhang Xuqing, the leader of the Yi Fei Army, and will stage a fateful battle with Tian Anye, played by Zhang Jin, bringing exciting battles between good and evil and action scenes to the audience.
"Stranger Knife" not only has actors with profound kung fu skills, but the behind-the-scenes production team also has rich experience in film creation: producer Lu Guoqiang has cooperated with Feng Xiaogang , Tsui Hark and other directors to launch " Party A, Party B " "The Big Shot", "A World Without Thieves", "Taking Tiger Mountain by Wisdom" and other well-known film works. Li Wei, a talented young director, served as the first assistant director of Zhang Yimou's films "Above the Cliff", "One Second" and "Solid as a Rock", and directed the police action movie "Evil: Speeder Party". Screenwriter Li Meng is also the screenwriter of " Article 20 " directed by Zhang Yimou. As "Article 20" became popular during the Spring Festival, the story of "Stranger Knife" also gave the audience more expectations. .
Yang Xianghua, President of iQiyi Film and Overseas Business Group, said, "Action movies are a very unique type of Chinese films and unique internationally. They used to be the representative of Chinese films. However, in recent years, action films have not had high box office in theaters. Production companies rarely invest in the production of action movies, and fewer and fewer action movies are released. Audiences cannot see action movies in theaters, forming a vicious circle. However, the number of viewers of action movies is not large. Watch action movies on iQiyi The volume is very high, so iQiyi has launched many action movies in recent years, from self-produced to cooperative distribution, and invited a group of China's most representative action stars to shoot different types of action movies. It will be launched during the Spring Festival this year "The Action Master Season" of Cloud Cinema has also received a very good response."
As for the "split distribution" model of "Stranger Knife", Yang Xianghua said that iQiyi hopes to distribute "Stranger Knife" through split lines. Select some theaters to "screen" "Stranger Knife" to try to encourage audiences to go to the theater to watch the action movie. It is also hoped that through fixed-point communication with some film management companies, action movies can be scheduled to be broadcast regularly in the future, and the audience will gradually develop the habit of going to cinemas to watch action movies.Next, iQiyi will continue to try to promote more excellent action movies to be screened in theaters, and then launch iQiyi Cloud Cinema.
Text/Beijing Youth Daily reporter Xiao Yang
