On December 17, the movie "Manslaughter 2" and "Lion Boy" were released, from the perspective of the proportion of the day's scheduling, these two films took away 49% of the schedule, "Antiques Bureau Central Bureau" and "Fame and Fame" went more than 30%, leaving little market space for other films, and it is worth noting that "We Who Once Loved Each Other" box office for a week has more than 33 million, but the proportion of scheduled films has fallen to 4.2%, and the total box office predicted by the mainland is 41.24 million, which is currently difficult to achieve. The film's account has just exceeded 10 million, but the cast is very strong, and it is difficult to make a profit at present.
What is interesting is that the film profile seen through Douban and other platforms is that the film director is Zhang Xiaolei, starring Chen Bailin, Guo Caijie, Xiahou Yunshan, Wei Tour, Jiang Chao, and the supporting cast is more powerful, with Actors such as Jackie Chan, Nicholas Tse, Yingda, Wu Qixian, Jin Chi, feng Lei and so on.
And in the list of actors on the Time Network, there is also the name of Fang Zuming, but the movie has been taboo throughout the promotion process, and has never mentioned Fang Zu's name, so what is the relationship between this movie and Fang Zu's name?
It also goes back to 2018. After being caught smoking prohibited items, Fang Zuming has been silent in the film and television circle, on January 30, 2018, Fang Zuming sent a photo of himself and his mother Lin Fengjiao when he was a child through social platforms, with the text "The first work is finished!" Happy Birthday Mom. "Announcing the completion of the new work, this work is the ongoing release of "We Once Loved Each Other", but the title of the film at the time was "Beijing Love Picture Book".
The original name of the film was "Beijing Evening 9 Dynasty 5", from the group news at that time, the film planned to start shooting on October 20, 2017, the production company is Beijing TusS Legend Film and Television Media Co., Ltd., the chief producer Zhang Xiaolei, that is, the current director, and the supervising producer is Zhang Lijia, the director Fang Zuming, the group news release date is August 2017, when it was still in the preparatory stage, there was no announcement of the starring lineup, only said that the main actors are first-line actors, and the special Casting team is responsible for casting.
Later, the stills of Fang Zuming on the set were also exposed, and together with other staff, Fang Zuming was very directorial behind the camera.
At the end of 2018, the "Global Network" posted an article reporting that the film was about to be released, titled "Fang Zuming's directorial debut "Beijing Evening Nine Dynasties and Five" is about to be released", and released the movie poster. But after that, the film sank into the sea and did not meet the audience as scheduled.
Then in April 2020, the title was changed to "Beijing Love Picture Book", which was set for March 12 and later changed to April 9, but unfortunately it was withdrawn in the end and could not be released normally.
It dragged on for more than a year, and finally it was released on December 10 this year, and the title was finally changed to "We Who Once Loved Each Other", Fang Zu's name was no longer named as a director, the director was replaced by a former producer Zhang Xiaolei, and even the name of Fang Zu's name could not be seen on the Douban page, only the time network was exposed. From repeated file changes to the change of the director's name, it shows that although the film was finally released, Fang Zuming still had no way to make a smooth comeback.
It is also worth noting that this is actually the debut of Fang Zuming's directorial debut, and it is obvious that word of mouth is on the street. As of the time of writing, the Douban score has still not been opened, because the popularity of the movie is not high, and there are not many audiences participating in the scoring, there are only more than 300 short reviews, but the five hot reviews on the home page have three one-star and two two-star reviews. The top hit pointed out that the movie's story line was messy and the actors' lines were terrible.
The well-known film critic Tao TaoLinlin commented that "for the first time in this movie, I feel that I am old, and the expression of the elderly people watching the mobile phone in the subway, what are they doing?" ”
In addition, some viewers pointed out that the role of the bar brother was uncomfortable, speculating that this person should be added hard in the later stage, in order to replace some "stars" who were inconvenient to broadcast, seeing the cameos of Xie Tingfeng and Jackie Chan, a certain room surname star surfaced.
In fact, in the materials originally released, it is possible to see Fang Zuming's appearance, and there are scenes with Xie Tingfeng and Zeng Zhiwei, but in the end it was handled to pieces, which once again proved that Fang Zuming's wish to come back was not fulfilled. What do you think of this result?