Although the annual summer schedule does not attract as much attention as the Spring Festival schedule and the National Day schedule, after all, the timeline is long, so many films will still be released in the summer schedule.
More than half of the 2024 summer season has passed, but this year’s summer season feels tepid. Although many new films have been released, there are very few films that have achieved both word-of-mouth and box office success.
Judging from the box office alone, the best box office performance this summer is the movie " Catch a Baby ", starring Shen Teng and Ma Li, and produced by Happy Mahua. As of now, the film has been in theaters for 23 days. The box office reached 2.77 billion, with a predicted box office of 3.477 billion. There is no doubt that this movie has secured the summer box office championship in advance.
ranked second is " " starring Wang Chuanjun and Zhang Junning. So far, the film's cumulative box office has exceeded 1.31 billion in 36 days of release.
The above two movies are the only two movies in the summer season that have a box office of more than 1 billion. The box office of other films has not reached double digits. Comparing the box office results of the summer season in 2023, the huge gap is shocking.
" Desperate All " 3.848 billion, " The Vanishing Her " 3.523 billion, " Conferred Gods Part 1 " 2.634 billion, " Octagonal Cage " 2.207 billion, " Chang'an Thirty Thousand Miles " 18.24 100 million, the above movies are all released in the summer of 2023, and the box office gap is clear at a glance.
But the movie that will disappoint audiences the most in the 2024 summer season is undoubtedly " " directed by Wu Ershan!
In 2023, Wu Ershan made a strong comeback with his new work "Fengshen Part 1", which finally achieved a good box office of 2.634 billion. Although he failed to wait for the second part this summer, he waited for another blockbuster movie by Wu Ershan The work "Under the Stranger".
This film is adapted from a popular Chinese comic, starring Hu Xianxu and Li Wanda. It also stars Feng Shaofeng, Qiao Zhenyu, Naran and many other actors familiar to the audience. Judging from the cast, it is still very strong, plus it is directed by Wu Ershan. , people are looking forward to this fantasy masterpiece.
Audiences expected "Under the Stranger" to bring us a refreshing feeling like "Feng Shen". However, after the film was released, people were shocked. Not only did it fail at the box office, but its reputation was even worse.
As of now, the cumulative box office of "Under the Stranger" in the 13 days since its release is only 116 million, and the single-day box office is less than one million, which is disappointing.
But what is even more unexpected is that "Under the Stranger" received numerous negative reviews after its release. As a comic book movie, the audience had very high expectations for "Under the Stranger" at first, but the final effect of the movie was not. As expected.
It may be due to the limited film time. The film changed all aspects of the original work very simply, and the characters were made very flat, and then all the iconic things were acted out to show the degree of restoration, and the special effects that it is proud of are also full of cheap The wind is unbearable.
Coupled with the overwhelming marketing promotion before the film was released, it even played the "emotional card" of Liu Chunyan, the scarab beetle. However, after watching it, it was discovered that "the product was not the right version", which ultimately led to the film's reputation getting worse and worse, and the box office performance was naturally not good. Where to go!
It is reported that the investment cost of "Under the Stranger" is as high as 250 million. It was originally regarded as a mid-to-high-blockbuster work in the summer season. Wu Ershan even wanted to make the series bigger and stronger, just like the "Fengshen" series. But now it seems that "Under the Strangers" got off to a bad start. The first part failed miserably, and the sequel is probably far away!
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