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Chapter 800 [The New King of Comedy]’s reputation plummets
1 month 14 day.

After being released for more than a month, "The Unknown" has a cumulative box office of 7.94 million yuan, almost reaching the box office threshold of million yuan.

Although the box office did not break the one billion yuan mark.

But [The Nameless One] is under the attack of [Venom: Deadly Guardian] in front, and [Pirates of the Caribbean 7], [Aquaman], [Bumblebee] and [Big Shot] in the back.

Moreover, the cast lineup of "The Unknown Man" is also quite average. It is already quite good to have such box office results.

Then, in the mainland film market, there are only "Bumblebee" with average response, "Big Shot" with moderate popularity but average box office, and the tepid animated film "White Snake: Origin". These three movies are not good at all. , talking about whether the projects are strong or not are pecking at each other.

Fortunately, this situation did not last long.

1 month 18 day.

Zhou Xingxing is here with his latest directorial work - [The New King of Comedy].

It has successively experienced "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "The Mermaid", which together were a great success with a box office of nearly 5 billion yuan.

Just talking about the limelight, it seems to be the same as it was at the peak of Xiangjiang.

Of course.

Longbow Film and Television did not participate in this wave of investment in [The King of Comedy].

Coupled with the situation of Zhou Xingxing at this time.

This interpretation makes some sense, but is not entirely correct.

only……

If you want to get rid of the investment from Longbow Film and Television, you can go out and do it alone.

Without it.

In fact Zhou Xingxing succeeded.

The reason why Zhou Xingxing remade this time is "The King of Comedy".

This "New King of Comedy" is just like the "King of Comedy" in 1999 that gave Zhou Xingxing the title of King of Comedy in 1999. It is going to put a new comedy on Zhou Xingxing's head at this time. The name of the king.

"The Lunar New Year stall is good, but the Spring Festival stall is a bit too risky." Zhou Xingxing muttered calmly.

Originally, Zhou Xingxing wanted to put "The New King of Comedy" on the Spring Festival schedule.

But directly rejecting Longbow Film and Television’s investment would have a somewhat negative impact.

Not to mention that this wave of Zhou Xingxing's filming is still his own old IP that fits his nickname very well - "King of Comedy".

Yes.

Zhou Xingxing was a little moved.

So Zhou Xingxing came up with the idea of ​​a low-cost remake of his own old IP, and indirectly rejected the investment from Longbow Films on the grounds that the copyright was his own and the investment was small.

At this time, Zhou Xingxing's box office appeal in the mainland film market has reached its peak.

After just a little promotion for the movie, it immediately aroused huge expectations from mainland audiences. The level was so high that it made Zhou Xingxing regret that he had moved "The New King of Comedy" to the Lunar New Year slot.

The main reason is that "Journey to the West: Conquering Demons", "Mermaid", and even "Journey to the West: Conquering Demons", even with Mr. Xu relying on his reputation, have cut the box office of more than one billion yuan with "Journey to the West: Conquering Demons".

Although [The Wandering Earth 2] has not yet started promoting it, it has been confirmed to be released on February 2, the first day of the Lunar New Year, during the Spring Festival.

After turning on the movie, I was so frightened that I pointed at Ning's "Crazy Alien" and Hanhan's "Flying Life" released during the Spring Festival. After hearing the news, I immediately changed my tune and hurriedly changed gears.

Zhou Xingxing didn't think he could handle it alone.

Then after the end of January 1th.

[The New King of Comedy] reported a single-day box office result of 2.73 million yuan, which directly shocked the attention of many mainland film and television practitioners.

It also truly proves how much box office appeal Zhou Xingxing has after experiencing "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Mermaid".

However, when the revenue of "The New King of Comedy" exploded to nearly 300 million yuan at the box office, currently developed online social media was also bursting with crazy comments about the quality of "The New King of Comedy". In fact, the quality of "The New King of Comedy" can be said to be passable. It cannot be said to be a bad movie. At least the story is smooth.

It's just that the past "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "Mermaid" have set too high a high profile for Zhou Xingxing.

Moreover, the audience's expectations for "The New King of Comedy" are mostly because they want to watch a movie similar to "The King of Comedy", which tells the story of Zhou Xingxing's autobiographical experiences in recent years.

What was suddenly served was a film about an unknown female artist’s journey to fame. The contrast was a bit too great, and I couldn’t accept it for a while.

Of course.

If you really want to talk about it, when Zhou Xingxing was filming "The New King of Comedy", people were a little distracted.

This can be seen from the story of [The New King of Comedy].

Two protagonists.

The male protagonist is a down-and-out superstar who has had great success, and the female protagonist is an extra performer at the lowest level.

It looks like one is high and one is low, there is contrast and contrast.

But the heroine's plot is completely unrealistic.

It is both raising a boyfriend and going for plastic surgery. Compared with Yin Tianqiu in "The King of Comedy" where he gave a performance to the lady and rehearsed the drama "Thunderstorm", it was a lot more superficial.

In addition, in "The New King of Comedy", there are no special effects scenes similar to those in "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "The Mermaid" to attract audiences to watch the movie in the cinema.

So on January 1, the day after it was released, the single-day box office of "The New King of Comedy" plummeted by 19 million yuan, and it only reported a box office of 1.7 million yuan, which was barely over 1.08 million yuan.

When the third day of release ended on January 1, the single-day box office of "The New King of Comedy" had dropped to 20 million yuan.

In the end, [The New King of Comedy] ended with a box office of 3.5 million yuan in its first three days.

But everyone can see that with the box office trend of "The New King of Comedy", the subsequent box office of "The New King of Comedy" may not be able to replicate the success of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" and "The Mermaid" .

This "New King of Comedy" will probably become another Waterloo masterpiece for Zhou Xingxing after "Yangtze River No. 7".

……

Burna Films.

The filming of "Flying Life" started in mid-October. After more than two months of filming, the filming was completed in December.

And this is even if the protagonist Hao Jian goes to play in "Crazy Alien", otherwise it would be faster.

Originally, Bernard Pictures planned to schedule "Flying Life" for the Spring Festival.

but now……

“You definitely can’t go during the Spring Festival.”

"With Director Zhang's [The Wandering Earth 2], even last year's Spring Festival movie market had reached a scale of tens of billions of yuan."

“But Director Zhang’s [The Wandering Earth 1] had a box office record of 2 billion yuan before, and now [The Wandering Earth ] might even surpass the box office record of or billion yuan. We here Once the film is released, it’s probably just cannon fodder.”

“Originally, I planned to give [Flying Life] a try in July and August. After all, in July and August last year, [I’m Not the God of Medicine] with a box office of 31 billion yuan and [West Coast] with a box office of more than billion yuan were released. The richest man in Hong City].

"But now that Zhou Xingxing's [New King of Comedy] has stretched his hips, I think it's an opportunity."

President Yu Dong was discussing with Hanhan about the schedule of [Flying Life], and a series of logical and rigorous words convinced Hanhan.

Especially when Yu Dong mentioned the [richest man in Xihong City] who had a box office of more than 2 billion yuan in July and August.

Hanhan nodded slightly.

Because the reason why he chose Hao Jianlai as the starring role this time was because he saw the huge gap between [the richest man in Xihong City] and [Li Cha's aunt].

When he learned that "The Wandering Earth 2" was scheduled to be released during the Spring Festival, his subconscious thought was to postpone the release to July and August to see if he could replicate the success of "The Richest Man in Xihong City".

(End of this chapter)