On December 4, the movie "The Matrix 4" was announced to be finalized in Chinese mainland and will be released on January 14, 2022.
This time coincided with the empty window period between the New Year stall and the Spring Festival stall.
As early as August this year, "The Matrix 4" was scheduled to be released in North America on December 22, but the Chinese mainland market has not been fixed for some reason.
For the big IP of "The Matrix", there is no need to introduce too much, when the first one was released 22 years ago, it caused a sensation, with a global box office of 466 million US dollars and a Chinese mainland box office of 17 million yuan.
Although the box office of 17 million yuan in the mainland is incomparable with the current one, it was already a blockbuster film 21 years ago, when Ang Lee directed and starred Zhou Runfa, Zhang Ziyi and Yang Ziqiong, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", the mainland box office was only 15 million yuan, which shows the popularity of "The Matrix".
By the time "The Matrix 2" was launched in 2003, the global box office had reached 741 million US dollars, and the cumulative box office of the mainland was 43 million yuan, and the box office and popularity of the "Matrix 2" series of movies continued to soar in the box office and popularity of Liang Chaowei, Andy Lau, Li Ming, Chen Daoming, Chen Huilin, Zeng Zhiwei, Zheng Xiuwen, Liu Jialing, Li Zixiong and Lin Jiadong, which had a box office of only 36 million yuan.
The box office of "The Matrix 3", which was released in the same year, also had a good box office performance, with a global box office of 427 million US dollars and a mainland box office of 43 million yuan, which has become the darling of the major film markets that year.
In addition to the box office, the reputation of "The Matrix" is also very good, "The Matrix 1" Douban score of 9.1 points, 710,000 people participated in the review, 1 star bad reviews accounted for only 0.1%, 5 star praise accounted for up to 61.6%, which is very rare in Hollywood blockbusters.
"The Matrix 2" Douban scored 8.6 points, 340,000 people participated in the review, 1 star bad reviews accounted for only 0.2%, 5 star praise accounted for 46%.
To "The Matrix 3", Douban word of mouth rebounded, reaching 8.8 points, 380,000 people participated in the evaluation, 1 star bad review accounted for only 0.2%, 5 star praise accounted for 53.1%.
The reputation of the three "Matrix" is above 8.6 points, and the number of entrants has exceeded 300,000, and the most important thing is that the highest one-star bad rating ratio of only 0.2% shows the high quality and popularity of the series.
Unfortunately, the momentum of the big IP of "The Matrix" came to an abrupt end after the third part, and it seems that the scenery of the trilogy ended after the end, and by the time "The Matrix 4" was announced, 18 years had passed.
It is worth mentioning that in order to continue the style of the series, "The Matrix 4" continues to invite back the original team, including director Lana Wachowski, male and female protagonists Keanu Reeves, Kerry-Ann Moss, but after 18 years, 57-year-old Keanu Reeves and 54-year-old Kerry-Ann Moss, can they still reproduce their original style?
Interestingly, the time when "The Matrix 4" was released in the mainland was not the New Year file, nor the Spring Festival file, but cleverly between these two slots.
Indeed, when "The Matrix 4" was released in the mainland, the main movies of the Lunar New Year file, "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau", "Manslaughter 2", "Flames on the Plains", "Love Myth", "Anti-Corruption Storm 5", "Embrace You Through the Cold Winter" have passed the first wave of movie-watching heat, while the Spring Festival file's highly called "Super Family", "Four Seas" and "Miracle" have not yet been released.
In fact, the schedule choice of "The Matrix 4" is also a kind of helplessness, seeing Hollywood blockbusters such as "007: No Time to Die" and "Dune" have folded under the impact of "Chosin Lake", and I want to come to "The Matrix 4" also realizes that the mainland market is changing, even if the original fame is great, but the times have changed, and it is not easy to come to the mainland to make a lot of money.