The box office in 9 hours was only 2.05 million, and it lost to Dapeng on the first day of release, and the blockbuster that cost 690 million yuan pounced

On March 17, the mainland film market welcomed 7 new films.

Among them, the heaviest is undoubtedly "Thunder Shazam 2" and "Megan" two Hollywood blockbusters, but unfortunately mainland audiences seem to be not interested in Hollywood, Dapeng's "Keep You Safe" actually pressed these two new films and won the single-day box office champion!

8 consecutive championships! The final box office of "Keep You Safe" is expected to exceed 600 million!

As of 9 o'clock on March 17, the single-day box office of "Keep You Safe" was 2.12 million, accounting for 26.7% of the films, and the cumulative box office exceeded 225 million in 8 days of release, beating the premiere "Thunder Shazam 2" and "Megan" to win the Japanese crown, which is also the eighth consecutive time that the movie has won the daily crown.

Although "Keep You Safe" has an excellent reputation, the box office trend has been tepid.

This weekend is a good opportunity for "Keep You Safe" to counterattack, word of mouth has come up, coupled with the premiere performance of "Thunder Shazam 2" and "Megan", "Keep You Safe" is expected to achieve a box office reversal over the weekend! Until March 24, "Keep You Safe" will welcome the opponent "Journey to the Bell Bud", and the probability of breaking 600 million at the final box office is extremely high.

The box office in 9 hours was only 2.05 million, and it lost to Dapeng on the first day of release, and the blockbuster that cost 690 million yuan pounced

"Thunder Shazam 2" is undoubtedly the most anticipated blockbuster this weekend, with a box office of 290 million in the mainland of its predecessor, which is quite good. But this sequel is really disappointing, as of 9 o'clock on March 17, the box office of "Thunder Shazam 2" was only 2.05 million in 9 hours of release, accounting for 30.7% of the films, and also lost to Dapeng's "Keep You Safe", only winning the second place at the single-day box office.

"Thunder Shazam 2" is actually a children's film, and the first one was criticized for being too young.

This time still tells the story of Billy Batterson and other children after obtaining divine powers, the contrast between adult appearance and adolescent soul is still the biggest laugh point of the movie, and the final battle scene with the three goddesses of vengeance is also a little boring.

The biggest highlight of the entire movie is probably Gagadot's cameo as Wonder Woman. Unfortunately, the entire DC universe is about to be torn down and rebuilt.

The "Thunder Shazam" series itself is not deeply related to the DC Cinematic Universe, plus this time is not only the mainland box office hit the street, overseas pre-sales are also cool, the sequel is basically not expected.

The biggest problem with "Thunder Shazam 2" is that it is old-fashioned.

The story of the movie is still a superhero who is forced to the bottom and fights back, and then fights and fights, piling up special effects scenes, the key is that "Thunder Shazam" is not high in DC movies, and this sequel is only 100 million US dollars, that is, 690 million yuan, which can only be regarded as a medium cost in superhero movies, which leads to "Thunder Shazam 2" is not particularly good, and the biggest selling point is comedy elements.

Mainland audiences can't get a lot of American laughter. Just looking at this kind of old-fashioned plot, I'm afraid no one is willing to pay.

According to the current trend, whether the mainland box office of "Thunder Shazam 2" can break 100 million is a big problem.

Of course, in addition to the old-fashioned plot of the movie, whether Hollywood has a market in the mainland and whether it has a strong box office appeal is probably a question mark.

In 2023, the mainland film market has a positive attitude towards Hollywood, and even Marvel has returned to the mainland market, "Ant-Man 3", "Thunder Shazam 2", "Guardians of the Galaxy 3", "Dungeons and Dragons: Grand Theft of Glory" and other blockbuster new films are all released simultaneously in China and the United States.

But Hollywood's performance is really disappointing. Not to mention saving the desertion of the mainland market, even you can't save yourself.

"Ant-Man 3" has a box office of 272 million in the mainland, a global box office of 457 million US dollars, and a film production cost of 250 million US dollars. "Thunder Shazam 2" needless to say, it must also be a box office dud.

The plot special effects of the Hollywood assembly line and the casting of ZZZQ are becoming more and more unpopular. This situation is not only happening in Chinese mainland, this may be an opportunity for domestic films to go out!

The box office of new films is not as expected, and the recovery of the mainland market will not wait until May 1st.

In addition to "Thunder Shazam 2", the other 6 new films released on March 17 also performed average at the box office.

North American box office hit "Megan", as of March 17 at 9 o'clock in the mainland the first day of the box office is only 560,000, you must know that the theater line is still very high expectations for "Meghan", giving 11.2% of the proportion of films, although the movie was released 3 months Chinese mainland, North America also launched an online platform. But the market does lack new films with horror themes.

In terms of domestic films, "Our Years" had a box office of 105,000 on the first day!

The positive energy movie "Who Fired the Gun" was 06,000 box office.

The box office of "Xiaochu" on the first day was only 03,000.

But the worst thing is that the box office of "The Legend of the Hunter of Snow Ridge" was only 690 yuan on the first day, and there was also a "Mountain and Forest of Two People" that was not scheduled, maybe it was withdrawn. It can be seen that now domestic films still believe in the schedule, and 11 new films have been squeezed out of the May 1st file, basically the recent blockbuster new films are there, and the mainland film market may only wait until May Day.