This entertainment industry is a bit strange

Chapter 392 The hero is late, Cheng Long...can't move anymore

"New Police Story" did not get any good results at the box office in the original time and space.

Only 2100 million Hong Kong dollars were won in Hong Kong, and only 4300 million Hong Kong dollars were won in the mainland market, which has already begun to make its debut.

With Cheng Long's name, this kind of achievement can't even be called a failure, but a real fiasco.

In the same year, Zhou Xingchi, who was in Chengzhong on Double Monday, swept the mainland market with "Kung Fu", directly winning a record-breaking 1.73 million box office, more than four times that of "New Police Story"!
So in the previous personal prediction, he nailed "New Police Story" to the end of the semifinals.

As a result, on the first day of the Lunar New Year in this time and space, the first day of the contest between the two turned out to be completely opposite.

The instant box office of "New Police Story" is 3.87 million, not only temporarily topping the list, it is likely to break through the [-] million mark before midnight!

And "Kung Fu" ranked last among the top four, and its immediate box office was only 2.36 million.

This single-day result was considered a very good result in last year's bone-chilling Spring Festival, but this year, it is only worthy of being the fourth child.

Ranked second is Lao Mouzi's "House of Flying Daggers", with an instant box office of 3.33 million.

No.3 is "A World Without Thieves" by Feng Pants, with an instant box office of 2.91 million.

As expected before, these four seed players almost divided up nearly 95% of the box office market on the first day, and the rest... let alone the soup, they didn't even get much bone scum.

But the box office diversion of the top four is also very serious. No single film exceeds [-] million in a single day. Except for last year's special situation, this is the worst first-day championship result in five years.

But there is also a good side to strangling the top four - the gap between the top and the fourth is only 1.5 million, and the competition is very fierce.

In terms of the current size of China's market, this gap in the early stage is nothing at all.

Once the word-of-mouth and follow-up effects roll up, the situation may be reversed in half a day.

In previous popular schedule battles, the winner on the first day was almost equal to the final winner, but this time... no one dared to draw such a conclusion.

It is still unknown who will win the deer!
On the morning of the second day of the Lunar New Year, the theater chain released the official first-day box office statistics. The data was slightly different, but the overall ranking remained unchanged. "New Police Story" won the championship on the first day.

For a while, there were dragon blows everywhere on the Internet.

The sword is not old, the return is still the king, and Xiangjiang movies are still leading the mainland... All kinds of things are strange.

After lunch, it's okay to be idle anyway, so Yang Rui simply asked Zhao Ming and others to go to the cinema with a few kids to kill time.

First of all, the first goal is "New Police Story".

He wanted to see what happened to this unexpected champion on the first day.

While waiting, he saw the trailer of "New Police Story" on the screen in the lobby, and vaguely realized some possibilities.

Regardless of the quality of the movie, this trailer is really well cut.

High-rise climbing ropes, curtain wall slides, fist-to-hand fights, bus chases, various large-scale blasting scenes...

For domestic audiences who are accustomed to watching all kinds of Wumao special effects and blower action scenes, this movie is indeed like a breath of fresh air, with a unique charm.

And the reason why Yang Rui's own "Jing Wu Heroes" broke the circle and became popular before is also due to this reason.

Even in this era of special effects, this kind of real martial arts may seem a bit thankless, but no matter what field it is in, sincerity will always be the most touching thing.

You fool the audience with five-cent special effects and facial paralysis every day, and others take risks to present you the most intuitive and exciting scenes, and the audience will naturally know who to choose.

Voting with your wallet is always better than dry brainwashing canvassing on the Internet.

Soon, Yang Rui was recognized by fans, and the scene immediately became a star chasing scene.

Not only Yang Rui himself was surrounded tightly, but even Zhao Ming was surrounded by many movie fans.

The popularity of "Jing Wu Heroes" has not yet dissipated, and Huo Tingen's popularity is still there!

The scene was too chaotic, and finally the security team was forced to come out to maintain order...

It wasn't until the opening of the movie that Yang Rui was able to escape and entered the screening hall with a few brats.

After watching the two-hour movie, he couldn't help frowning.

Compared with the original time and space version, it is slightly different, and the technology has improved a lot in all aspects, and even the handwriting in the car chase scenes and blasting scenes is much greater.

But this kind of change based on the progress of the film industry is just a little bit superficial.

The real soul part is still the same, with too many flaws.

There are obvious problems in the script part. Too much force in many plots seems embarrassing, such as the shaping of Guan Zu's growth experience... The screenwriter and director are trying hard to shape the sense of sadness and pity, but the effect is not good.

A second-generation ancestor from a wealthy family came out to be a murderer because of a little childhood shadow and took pleasure in it. No matter how you exaggerate this kind of anti-human devil behavior, it is impossible for the audience to empathize.

Too much sensational rendering will only make people disgusted.

There is also the character of Chef Xie, who is like the chosen one in a novel. He can enter and leave the police station at will without a formal establishment. It is more difficult for others to enter a higher-end public toilet than him.

A temporary worker who has no professional training, he is proficient in drag racing, fighting, shooting and jumping from buildings... If you say that the screenwriter confiscated the red envelope from Xie's family, few people would believe it.

The relationship line is neither fish nor fowl, ambiguous and ambiguous, suddenly it starts to be simple and rude...

But these are actually okay. To put it bluntly, they are all superficial problems. The biggest problem with this movie is Cheng Long himself.

Jack Cheng, who was once glorious, is visibly old to the naked eye.

The agile skills are no longer what they used to be, and the tension of those parkour moves and high-speed martial arts that were once easy to come by is obviously not as good as before.

The hero is late, which makes people feel emotional.

At this moment, Yang Rui finally understood why Cheng Long was in such a hurry to transform.

Obviously, even he himself has realized that he is about to lose his game... If he doesn't transform, he really can't continue playing.

But if you want to talk about transformation, Cheng Long's literary performance in this film is not good.

Probably because he was used to his inherent light comedy acting routines, and now he suddenly switched to a miserable policeman, the huge gap obviously made people feel a little uncomfortable.

And it's just that the heat of the play is just right, and there is obviously a gap with other powerful actors.

As the absolute core of this film, his role cannot be sustained, and the collapse of the film is inevitable.

Although relying on the triple BUFF blessing of Cheng Long's signature + "Police Story" IP + the top trailer, he successfully won the box office champion on the first day, but Yang Rui bet that it is only a matter of time before word of mouth and box office collapse.

Feelings cannot be eaten, and hard work is not a panacea. No matter how hard you work, if the things you produce are not good, others will not buy it.

After all, movie tickets cost money.

Yang Rui started to worry a little bit, was it the right decision to cast him in "Infernal Affairs"?

When the light came on, he immediately put away the disappointed expression on his face, and put on a mask to cover his face, in case someone secretly photographed him and wrote nonsense about the news...

Next stop, target "Kung Fu"!
(End of this chapter)