Andy Lau's new film " Mr. Red Carpet " has exceeded 90 million at the box office. This result is too shabby for both director Ning Hao and starring Andy Lau, and is obviously not in line with their "coffee status".
What is even more unacceptable is that this "Mr. Red Carpet" was originally released during the Spring Festival, but in the face of Jia Ling 's " Hot and Spicy " and Han Han's " Speeding Life 2" it still Zhang Yimou's " Article 20 " "Three Mountains" could not beat the box office performance, so the distributor made an unexpected decision-withdrawing from the Spring Festival release.
Actually, this is not the first time that "Mr. Red Carpet" has been withdrawn. As early as October 13 last year, the film had already confirmed its initial schedule - November 17. At that time, I remember when the schedule was announced, because it was Ning. Hao and Andy Lau collaborated for the first time since "Crazy Stone", and the film received a lot of attention.
But more than 20 days later, the film studio announced that "Mr. Red Carpet" will be released during the Spring Festival. The
movie has a total of three schedules, and the first one scheduled on November 17th should be the best. Although the market was deserted at that time, the competition pressure was also small. The combination of Ning Hao + Andy Lau has its own topicality and freshness. powerful.
This time the film was rescheduled for release on March 15th, which was basically a "naked publicity". Not many new materials were released, and there were no additional marketing topics. Many people had almost forgotten that the movie was going to be re-released. Under such circumstances, trying to achieve good box office results is tantamount to wishful thinking. The
results also prove this. When the movie was released on March 15, various theaters were very generous. 11.6% of the movie schedule was not small, but the attendance rate of only 1.3% was a slap in the face to the film studio.
March 16th and 17th were weekends, and the box office was still not ideal. The combined box office for the two days was less than 4 million. It was released for 6 days, and it didn't even reach 10 million.
I remember that during the Spring Festival, when the movie was announced to be withdrawn, it was questioned by many outsiders. CCTV directly criticized this "run if you can't fight" behavior. To put it bluntly, it was a bit ridiculous and casual.
It can be said that the withdrawal of "Mr. Red Carpet" has lost both face and dignity.
In fact, if we insist on not canceling the show during the Spring Festival and choose to continue to release it, I think the box office will never be what it is now. According to the current daily data, it is difficult to say that the final box office can exceed 100 million.
Many netizens also expressed their disappointment with the movie and its starring role, Andy Lau. Everyone felt that the movie's box office performance was so poor because Andy was old and had no charisma, and young people didn't buy it.
Writer Wang Bo, who had criticized Jia Ling before, also published an article criticizing Andy Lau, saying bluntly "Andy Lau is already poisonous at the box office." In his opinion, Andy Lau's ability to fight against the box office is really not good. He is getting older and old fans have started families and started businesses. I don't have the time or energy to support him.
He believes that Andy Lau cannot stand alone in movies now. He also suggested that in the future it would be better to serve as the second leading actor to accompany the popular newcomers, which will do well at the box office.
The implication is that Andy Lau is old and is no longer suitable to be a starring role. He should be a green leaf for young people. In this way, the box office results will be very good and he will be able to live up to his reputation.
Wang Bo’s words have aroused heated discussions as soon as they were released. Fans who like Andy Lau think that he is just trying to gain popularity. Some netizens think that although what he said is not very pleasant, it is very reasonable. Andy Lau has been popular for decades. Maybe if you continue to be popular, you have to accept your old age, and you should give more opportunities to newcomers in the entertainment industry.
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