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2021 is really coming, and there is a lot of news in the Chinese film and television circles.
On January 2, such a movie was officially launched.
That is the disaster film "Infinite Depth" directed by Li Jun, Zhu Yilong, Huang Zhizhong, Jiao Junyan, Chen Shu and so on.
Of course, Zhu Yilong is not the first time to act in a movie, but this movie is Zhu Yilong's first starring in a commercial blockbuster since "Town Soul" and "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Skinny" to become a popular xiaosheng.
And no matter from which point of view, Zhu Yilong is the absolute male protagonist of this movie.
This film is very important for the development of Zhu Yilong's film field.
If the film is successful, it will also have a great impact on Zhu Yilong.
<h1>The first commercial blockbuster starring Zhu Yilong</h1>
As mentioned earlier, this movie is the first commercial blockbuster starring Zhu Yilong.
Remember: This is not referring to the first film starring Zhu Yilong.
According to the data, the first film in which Zhu Yilong participated was "Regeneration Edge" in 2009.
This movie is a small budget film, starring in addition to Zhu Yilong.
Other actors include Meng Xia, He Dujuan, Liu Li, Jiang Yijia, Xiao Haoran and so on.
Bo Guangjun believes that the vast majority of people have never heard the names of these actors.
(Female number two He Dujuan Some netizens may have heard of it, because she later developed OK).)
This involves the development stage of Zhu Yilong's actor career.
1. The development stage of Zhu Yilong's TV drama field
Before graduating from the Beijing Film Academy in 2010, it should be through the relationship between the school to take over small-cost films such as "Regeneration Edge".
Others like the suspenseful digital movies "Blood Deep House" and "Blood Jade Curse" are the same.
Later, Zhu Yilong participated in the TV series while acting in many small-budget movies.
Until "New Xiao Eleven", this is the first stage of Zhu Yilong's actor development.
Graduated from a famous film and television academy in China, began to participate in a large number of supporting roles and small roles before and after graduation, and began to accumulate acting experience and resources.
In addition to the current "traffic star" system, the vast majority of domestic actors in the early days came this way.
2016's "New Xiao Eleven", followed by "New Frontier City Prodigal Son" and other film and television dramas.
This is the second stage of Zhu Yilong's TV series development career.
In this period, martial arts dramas have long declined, and Zhu Yilong has participated in several martial arts dramas and costume dramas, with excellent images and good acting skills.
Although it was not popular, it left a deep impression on the audience.
However, in the Chinese film and television circle, it is still a leading role in small-cost TV series; large-scale investment TV dramas can only play supporting roles, or important supporting roles.
2018's "Town Soul", 2019's "Do You Know If It Should Be Green Fat Red Skinny" and so on.
This is the third stage of the development of Zhu Yilong's TV series.
From the original new generation of potential students, it has become a new generation of popular students.
Originally playing supporting roles or important supporting roles in large-scale TV series, these two TV series have been successful and upgraded to play absolute male protagonists.
2020's "Reboot of the Extreme Sea Listening to Thunder" and "Dear Myself" are the best proof.
2. The development stage of Zhu Yilong's film field.
Zhu Yilong's current development in the field of film is probably in the third stage.
In the first stage, Zhu Yilong starred and participated in a large number of small-budget films.
Except for "Regeneration" before and after graduation, it was the same until "Secret War".
After the release of "Secret War" in 2017, the development of Zhu Yilong's film field is the second stage.
The film has a medium level of investment in China, starring Aaron Kwok, hong Kong's "four kings", Zhao Liying, Ren Dahua and Zhang Han.
Looking at the cast of zhu Yilong's films before and after "Secret War", it can be described as a sharp contrast.
After this, Zhu Yilong's films also included "My Motherland and Me".
In one of the units, a supporting role was played, and the same flag raiser was Du Jiang.
However, because Du Jiang has made great achievements in the field of supporting roles in Chinese commercial blockbusters, Zhu Yilong's role is slightly inferior to Du Jiang.
Then there is "Infinite Depth", which has just started, with Zhu Yilong as the male protagonist.
This is not the first commercial blockbuster starring Zhu Yilong.
The creative lineup of Infinite Depth
<h1>Before a film and television drama is released and broadcast, any prediction is actually unreliable. </h1>
But we can make a rough prediction by the actors, especially the yield rate of the director's screenwriting and the main creative team's previous works.
The director and screenwriter of "Infinite Depth" and the main creative team can only be said to be in a middle-to-upper position in the domestic film field
(You can look forward to it, but don't expect it too high).
Director Li Jun, a famous Chinese TV drama director, is not very accomplished in the field of film.
TV dramas include "Chinese-style Divorce", "Landing, Please Open the Mobile Phone", "Beishang Guang does not believe in tears", "Bei Shang Guang does not believe in tears", "Peace Hotel" and so on.
In the field of film, the director can only be said to be medium.
His works include "Earth-shattering Reversal" in 2016 and "Chang'an Road" in 2019.
The former is ok, but the quality of "Chang'an Dao" is not very high.
Screenwriter Sha Song, the works of TV series and movies are all there, the level can only be said to be there.
But compared with China's top screenwriters, there is still a long gap.
In addition to Zhu Yilong, the female protagonist is Jiao Junyan.
The other two important characters are Huang Zhizhong and Chen Shu, and then to actors such as Cheng Taishen, Bai Ke and Qiao Xin.
We can't say how weak this lineup is, but the entire cast is really the development of TV dramas in China, and it is medium in the film field.
The potential and cap of Infinite Depth
At present, the quality and reputation of a domestic film has a considerable impact on the box office.
Let's assume that the film's word-of-mouth quality is good, and the medium to upper even exceed expectations.
(I personally believe that not many people think that this genre can explode into billions!) ）
This is really not a "one-on-one-step" who marketing number is coming. Rather, the subject matter of this film also belongs to the middle position in the current field of Chinese commercial blockbusters.
The introduction of "Infinite Depth" is: the film tells the story of an underground rescue beyond the limits and a shocking spiritual inheritance at the time of an unprecedented geological disaster.
This look is a disaster movie (with the main theme).
In recent years, domestic commercial blockbusters with such themes have happened to have been filmed quite a lot.
In the 2019 National Day file, Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi and Zhang Yi starred in "The Climber".
Red and specialized theme, the top domestic first-line actor, the final box office of more than 1 billion.
In 2019, Huang Xiaoming, Tan Zhuo, and Yang Zi starred in "Heroes of Fire".
Adapted to the real theme, the cast is good, the word-of-mouth quality is OK, and the final box office is 1.6 billion.
In the 2019 National Day file, Zhang Hanyu, Yuan Quan and other starred in "Captain China".
True event adaptation, red and dedicated schedule, strong reputation, the final box office as high as 2.8 billion.
All that remains is "Emergency Rescue", which is being released, directed by Lin Chaoxian and starring Peng Yuyan.
At present, the box office of this movie has not yet broken 500 million.
So, the lower box office limit of "Infinite Depth" is about 500 million of "Emergency Rescue", and the upper limit is 2.8 billion of "Captain China"?
But the reality is not that it is copied from the past to calculate.
If we analyze these Chinese disaster films in detail, we will find several phenomena.
First, films with better word-of-mouth quality, the box office is indeed easier to be higher.
"Heroes of Fire" and "Captain China" put the quality of world disaster films in general.
But in the long disaster blockbusters of the past few years, they are actually the best two.
Second, the adaptation of real events hit the pain points of Chinese audiences, and the probability of audiences buying box office will be higher.
The prototype of "Captain China" "Sichuan Airlines 3U8633 Incident" is not far from time, and the film has a good word-of-mouth quality, plus the "National Day File" schedule to support the box office.
The prototype of "Heroes of Fire" is the "7.16 Dalian Oil Pipeline Explosion Accident", and the prototype is also a pain point in Chinese society.
The film also wrapped the main theme story of the firefighters bravely fighting the fire, and the second half of the very sensational cinema was bitter, and the final box office was also good.
"The Climber" is a film in the same period as "Captain China".
Originally, because of the cast and theme, coupled with the schedule, the box office was the first in the two days before the pre-sale and release.
As a result, because the quality and reputation were not ideal, it was eventually counterattacked by the well-received "My Motherland and Me" as the first.
"Captain China", whose reputation is also better, has caught up with the third position from the third position to the second.
The third nature is the choice of schedule, and then the cast and other factors.
But this is not so important for the current Chinese commercial blockbusters, to be honest.
Let's see the national "husband" Peng Yuyan starring, "Red Sea Action" director Lin Chaoxian did not carry the box office.
The reason is that the quality of "Emergency Rescue" is relatively mediocre, there is no realistic theme to hit the audience's pain points, and then the reason why the selected schedule is relatively unpopular.
All of this, "Emergency Rescue" just happened to be in the middle.
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Infinite Depth is now an original story.
Maybe many fans don't like to hear it, but to be honest, the director of this film, the main creative lineup and the cast.
Compared to the previous disaster blockbusters, they have lost a lot (and some even more than one).
Now the film schedule is undecided, and the quality of word-of-mouth is unknown.
Even if we presuppose in advance that its word-of-mouth quality is good, we have chosen the important schedule of the "summer file" that is now advertised.
But it is an original relatively weak disaster theme, even if there is word of mouth and quality blessings, the current box office ceiling may be "Emergency Rescue" (even according to the lineup is still a lot weaker).
If you want to surpass "The Climber", "Heroes of Fire" and then "Captain China" may have the chance.
This difficulty is not generally great.
We turned our attention back to actor Zhu Yilong.
The film is important to Zhu Yilong, the first commercial blockbuster in which he plays the absolute male lead.
As long as the quality of the film's reputation is excellent, and the box office performance is not too bad (the small explosion is better), it will open the development stage of Zhu Yilong's subsequent film actors.
Step by step, take every step down-to-earth.
This is the normal development state of China's powerful young actors, right?
Although Zhu Yilong also has "traffic attributes" after the fire, he is not the road of "traffic stars" after all.
Finally, I still hope that "Infinite Depth" can be filmed well.
Although the box office of the previous disaster films has been high and low, the overall quality of word of mouth is not very strong.
Compared with the first commercial blockbuster starring Zhu Yilong.
I hope that China can make high-quality, high-reputation disaster blockbusters that contribute to this genre.