In the blink of an eye, 2021 is about to pass the halfway mark.
Throughout the first half of 2021, "Hello, Lee Huan Ying" topped the global film box office with $822 million (about 5.4 billion yuan), followed by "Detective Chinatown 3" ($686 million) and "Godzilla vs King Kong" ($442 million). According to the box office data of Maoyan Films, the total box office of mainland films in 2021 has exceeded 27 billion yuan so far, and the global film box office champion of this year has been locked in advance.
"Hello, Lee Huan Ying"
In the face of the double impact of the epidemic and streaming media, North American theaters are still depressed. According to Box Office Mojo, the North American box office so far in 2021 is around $890 million. Currently, only "A Quiet Place 2" and "Godzilla vs. King Kong" have grossed more than $100 million in North America.
The thriller "A Quiet Place 2" inherited the "dark horse" physique of the first film, and was the top box office in North America at the weekend when it was first released, with a total box office in North America that has exceeded $127 million so far, becoming the first film in North America to break 100 million yuan during the new crown epidemic.
A Quiet Place 2
Many blockbusters originally scheduled to be released in the first half of the year have been postponed to the second half of the year, not only the Marvel superhero movies "Black Widow", "Spider-Man: Heroes Without Return" and DC Comics adaptation of "X Task Force: Full Assembled", but also "007: No Time to Die", "Top Gun 2: Lone Ranger", "Ghostbusters: The Afterlife" and "The Matrix 4" and many blockbuster film sequels.
At the same time, the highly anticipated Chinese films in the second half of the year include zhang Yimou's film "Sniper" directed by Zhang Yimou, director Chen Musheng's posthumous work "Anger and Serious Cases", and the centennial gift film "My Father and My Father".
So it seems that the second half of the year is about to enter a blockbuster outbreak period! Hurry up Mark up!
01
sniper
Director: Zhang Yimou / Zhang Mo
Starring: Chen Yongsheng / Zhang Yu / Zhang Yi / Liu Yitie / Huang Yan
Release: 2021-07-30
The film is the first film on the theme of resisting US aggression and aiding Korea co-directed by Zhang Yimou and Zhang Mo's father and daughter.
During the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, Zhang Da, a sniper of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army, excelled in his marksmanship. The U.S. military is desperate to eliminate it. In the face of the enemy's net, Zhang Da bow was not afraid of danger, and began to maneuver with the enemy, and finally turned the tide of the war and successfully defeated the opponent.
Movie character archetype: Zhang Taofang, sniper of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea
Set against the background of the "Cold Gun and Cold Artillery Movement" in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the film shows the heroic deeds and singable dedication of volunteer soldiers on the Korean battlefield through a deadly duel between the Chinese Volunteer Army sniper squad and the US sniper team.
02
Anger and serious cases
Director: Chen Musheng
Starring: Donnie Yen / Nicholas Tse / Qin Lan / Tan Yaowen / Huang Debin
Qiu Gang'ao (played by Nicholas Tse)
The film was the last film directed by Chen Musheng, the "king of police action movies", before his death.
Police laid out a net to round up drug lords. In a flash, a group of masked mysterious bandits "black eat black" were killed, not only robbing drugs, but also slaughtering the policemen present! Inspector Zhang Qibang of the Serious Crimes Unit came one step late, and he saw the corpses strewn across the field, full of sorrow and indignation.
Zhang Qibang (played by Zhen Zidan)
After an overnight investigation, he found surprising news that the killer behind the transnational drug trafficking syndicate was actually qiu Gang'ao, a former comrade-in-arms. It turned out that Qiu Gang'ao had been the rising star of the police force, and the person who pushed him into the abyss of evil was Zhang Qibang. Fate is merciless, fate is entangled again; all grievances, it is time to make a judgment...
03
Me and my parents
Director: Wu Jing / Zhang Ziyi / Xu Zheng / Shen Teng
Starring: Wu Jing / Zhang Ziyi / Xu Zheng / Shen Teng / Zhou Dongyu
Release: 2021-10-01
The film is the third "Me and My" series of works after "My Motherland and Me" and "My Hometown and Me", and it is also a tribute film for the centenary of the founding of the Party, telling the struggle process of different historical periods and representative class groups not forgetting their original intentions and forging ahead, taking family relations as the carrier to reflect the changes of the times and the inheritance and continuation of the national spirit.
The film is co-created by Wu Jing, Zhang Ziyi, Xu Zheng and Shen Teng, continuing the style of the previous unit drama, and the cast is also quite surprising. From Andy Lau, the king of heaven, Duan Yihong, the emperor of the film, to a group of young actors Zhou Dongyu, Zhang Yixing, Wang Yibo, Wang Junkai, Liu Haoran, Wu Lei, Guan Xiaotong, Zhang Xueying, etc.
04
Tomorrow's Battle
Directed By: Chris McKay
Starring: Chris Palat / Yvonne Strakhovsky / J K. Simmons
Release: 2021-07-02
The film tells the story of the future of the Earth by alien attacks, humanity is facing extinction, the surviving humans must travel to the past to recruit warriors, transport them to the future to join the battle. Determined to save the world for his young daughter, high school teacher Dan Forrest teamed up with a talented scientist and estranged father.
05
Room Escape 2
Director: Adam Robbitell
Starring: Taylor Russell / Logan Miller / Thomas Conguele
Release: 2021-07-16
The escape room movie "Escape Room" has caused a global sensation and set a box office champion for imported thrillers in Chinese film history. Two years later, the game was launched again.
The film is still directed by Adam Robbitell and continues the previous plot. In order to bring the deadly "world's top escape room" organizers to justice, the two game survivors decided to join forces to go to New York to find the real culprit.
However, the duo and four other strangers are derailed on the New York subway and discover that not only are they involved in the more dangerous and deadly room game, but all of them have previously been survivors of the "world's top escape room" game.
Compared with the previous game, the film will be fully upgraded in terms of difficulty and thrilling level, gathering the world's top players, working together to unlock the ultra-high difficulty chamber and start a brutal survival battle with life on the line.
06
Aging
Director: M. Knight Shyamalan
Starring: Gayle Garcia Bernal / Vicki Kripps / Lufus Sevier
Release: 2021-07-23
Inspired by the French comic strip Sandcastle, the film is directed by thriller maestro M. Nate Shyamalan, who has directed Ghost's Eye, The Sixth Sense, and Split.
The film tells the story of a family vacationing on a beach that feels like paradise. However, this quiet place hides a killing machine: as a female corpse appears on the beach, strange events begin to unfold.
Suddenly, the children grew up and a little girl who had just turned 6 was even pregnant. Then others found themselves aging rapidly. All will live their lives in one day. What's even more terrifying is that they can't leave the beach.
What is the horrible truth behind the mysterious beach that makes people age rapidly in less than a day?
07
Stillwater City
Director: Tom McCarthy
Starring: Matt Damon / Abigail Breslin / Camille Kotan
Matt Damon travels to a foreign country to wash away his daughter's grievances in the father-daughter relationship film.
Directed by Oscar-winning Best Picture "Spotlight" director Tom McCarthy, the film tells the story of Bill, an oil driller from the United States, who travels to Marseille, France, to visit his long-unknown daughter Allison, only to find her imprisoned for murder. Allison, however, insisted that no one had been killed.
Bill (Played by Matt Damon)
Faced with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complex legal system, Bill was determined to save her daughter against all odds. Along the way, he developed a friendship with a local woman and her young daughter and embarked on a personal journey of discovery.
08
Out-of-control players
Director: Sean Levy
Starring: Ryan Reynolds / Judy Comer / Taiga Vidity / Chanin Tatum
Release: 2021-08-13
What would you do if you found yourself living in a virtual world?
This hilarious film, which combines elements of science fiction, adventure and comedy, presents the story of an ordinary man living in the game world who grows into a hero of the world.
Directed by Sean Levy, director of "Museum Night" and "Stranger Things", and created by the "Deadpool" gold medal team, the film tells the story of the bank teller Gai, who was originally just a background character in the computer game "Freetown", and lived a repetitive life of going to work, being shot and being hit by a car every day. One day, he suddenly broke this cycle and began to take the initiative in life.
Guy (Ryan Reynolds)
Guy learns that the game developers will shut down the game for two days, which means that Guy and the entire city will disappear. With Millie's help, Guy begins a race against time to save the world that is about to disappear.
09
Reminiscences of the puzzle
Director: Lisa Joy
Starring: Hugh Jackman / Rebecca Ferguson / Wu Yanzu
Release: 2021-08-20
The 52-year-old Hugh Jackman and the 46-year-old Wu Yanzu are two male gods who not only play on the same stage, but also fall in love with the same woman!
The film, the directorial debut of Westworld co-producer Lisa Joy, tells the story of the future world of Miami, where many parts of Miami have been submerged in water due to rising sea levels due to global warming.
Nick Bannister (played by Hugh Jackman)
Nick Bannister, a "psychic detective" who lives in the sunken area of the Miami coast, has found a way to regain memories.
When a mysterious woman, May, comes to ask Nick for help, his life changes forever. Nick falls in love with May at the same time as his opponent, and Mayy suddenly disappears.
Nick strives to find the truth about May's disappearance, and a huge conspiracy that is closely related to the survival of the entire city gradually emerges. Nick must race against the clock and delve into the dark world of the past to uncover the truth behind the fog.
10
Newark Saints
Director: Alain Taylor
Starring: Vera Famiga / Joe Bornsør / Billy Magnussen
Release: 2021-09-24
A prequel film based on HBO's classic crime series The Sopranos is coming soon!
Still directed by Alan Taylor, the director of the American drama "The Sopranos", "Game of Thrones" and "Mad Men", the film tells the story of the rampant violence in Newark, New Jersey, in the United States in the 1960s, when Italians and Africans engaged in various firefights, resulting in gang conflicts.
Tony Serprano (played by Michael Gandofini)
The American drama "The Sopranos" aired for six seasons from 1999 to 2007, winning a total of 5 Golden Globe Awards and 21 Emmy Awards. James Gandolfini, who played mafia mogul Tony Serprano, died in 2013. James' son, Michael Gandofini, will play young Tony Serprano in the prequel film.
11
To Evan Hansen
Director: Stephen Zoborski
Starring: Ben Pratt / Julianne Moore / Caitlin Dever / Amy Adams
The film is adapted from the musical of the same name that swept the Tony Awards and is directed by Stephen Zhuoboski, director of "Miracle Boy" and "Wallflower Boy".
Evan Hansen (played by Ben Pratt)
The film focuses on teen suicide, mental illness and other issues, telling the story of a high school student named Evan Hansen who suffers from social phobia. After his classmate committed suicide, his classmate's family mistakenly took a letter from Hansen as a suicide note for a child, and Hansen had no intention of falling into a lie.
Excitingly, the film's soundtrack is still co-written by Benjay Pasek and Justin Paul, one of Broadway's leading songwriters who have written songs including "City of Stars" in "City of Philharmonic City" and "This is Me" in "King of the Circus".
12
The final duel
Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Ben Affleck / Matt Damon / Judy Comer / Adam Dreifer
Release: 2021-10-15
Hollywood's golden duo, "Best CP" Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are finally reunited! You know, the film is a film that follows "Mindcatcher" in 1997, and the two good friends once again wrote the script and starred together.
Mindcatcher (1997) Douban 8.9
Directed by Ridley Scott, the film is based on Eric Jaeger's novel The Last Duel: The True Story of a Crime, Scandal and Dueling Referee in Medieval France.
Set in 14th-century France, a knight returns from a battlefield to find his wife raped by a friend. However, no one believed his wife's words. So he asked the King of France. The king decided to let the two friends fight to the death. The living are the victors, and if the knight fails, his wife will be burned as punishment for her "false accusations" of her friends.
13
Jade Face Demon
Director: Gilmour del Toro
Starring: Bradley Cooper / Kate Blanchett / Rooney Mara
Release: 2021-12-03
Based on the novel of the same name, the film, directed by The Shape of Water director Gilmour del Toro, tells the story of a manipulative circus man who joins forces with a psychiatrist to defraud others of money. However, the man was toyed with by the female doctor.
The film brings together A-list actors such as "Big Devil" Kate Blanchett, "Spice Rabbit" Rooney Mara and Bradley Cooper.
Kate Blanchett and Rooney Mara have been named "Magic Rabbit CP" by the majority of netizens for their wonderful performances in "Carol", and the film will be their second collaboration.
"Carol" (2015) Douban 8.4
Most of the film's shooting team and production team are the original team members of the Oscar-winning best picture "The Shape of Water". Looking forward to the "Gyro" director to successfully rush the Olympics again!
Editors: Sherlock Holmes, Li Wei