For a long time, the domestic theater box office has exploded into three major periods: Spring Festival file, summer file, and National Day file.
The Spring Festival and National Day stalls are relatively short, and the impact of these 3 years is not obvious, but the impact of the summer stall is relatively much greater.
Since June 23, we can also clearly feel that the attraction of the theater line is gradually expanding:
Sky City (re-screening), Transformers, Spider-Man, The Flash, Chow Yun-fat (I am not the God of Medicine), Chen Sicheng Zhu Yilong (disappeared her), diverse genres, diverse gimmicks, full of seduction.
Among them, "Disappearing Her" has successively won at the box office, and it has a tendency to become a big hit.
In fact, it can be felt that the confidence of filmmakers in the market is gradually recovering.
The greater charm of the theater line lies in the upcoming summer season, and it will begin to break out in July.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Qingshi will talk to you about the July movie guide, what movies are worth looking forward to? What movie should pay attention to lightning protection? It's all here.
There are as many as 15 new theatrical films in July, and here we mainly pick out the 8 blockbusters that have attracted much attention:
1. Indiana Jones 5: Wheel of Destiny
Release time: June 30
As a classic action movie, "Indiana Jones" has been released for 42 years since its first release in 1981.
42 years is so long that many people have no impression of him, but if you talk about one of its famous scenes, then you can immediately wake up to that era.
It is said that the birth of this famous scene was completely an accident, and the director's plan that day was that the two staged a wonderful knife and whip battle, but the male protagonist had diarrhea, so he temporarily took out and grabbed it, but he didn't expect that the opposite actor immediately cooperated and fell directly.
The short confrontation of hot and cold weapons has become a good story in film history.
"Indiana Jones" is actually a 3-part series, the fourth part is 19 years after the end of the third part, and it was filmed four times to reap the feelings, and the result was ridiculed by a bunch of people to receive a golden plum award.
Unexpectedly, another 15 years later, "Indiana Jones 5" is here again.
This time, the male protagonist was originally retired, but he didn't expect to be pulled back by his goddaughter to dig for treasure.
Judging from the trailer, it is still a familiar action movie style, and this time I played it again on land, sea and air.
Flying in the sky, running on the ground, even running horses in subway tunnels, diving to the bottom of the sea to dig for treasure, everything is in line with all the elements of a Hollywood blockbuster.
It is worth mentioning that this time also pays tribute to the famous scene at the beginning.
It's just that this time the one who took the cold weapon was replaced by himself.
In addition, Harrison Ford, who plays the male protagonist, is 81 years old this year.
81 years old, still acting in action movies, Lao Ha is really fierce.
2, anti-drug 3: people in the end of the world
Starring: Gu Tianle, Liu Qingyun, Guo Fucheng, Yang Caiyu, etc
Release time: July 6
When "Anti-Drugs" was released that year, it was known as the "master" of Hong Kong police and bandit films, and it made fans addicted with its hot scenes and heart-wrenching plot.
Then called Andy Lau and Miao Qiaowei to shoot "Drug Sweep 2", but because of the justice duel and the entanglement of love and righteousness, it was too blunt, and the reputation was not ideal.
If there is any connection between anti-drug 1 and anti-drug 2, it is that there are Gu Tianle in the starring actors;
If there is anything to do with the first two films, it is that there is a nail household named "Gu Tianle" in the starring role.
Therefore, watching this movie, you don't have to worry about not understanding it because you haven't seen the first 2.
This time, Liu Qingyun played the drug lord, Gu Tianle played the anti-drug captain, and it was Kwok Fucheng who played the two-face man (undercover and drug lord brother).
The three became good brothers in tribulation because of an accident, and later the drug lord ran to the Golden Triangle to develop, but he didn't expect to be in trouble, and finally he realized the existence of undercover...
Therefore, the general meaning is still the same story, brotherhood, justice entanglement and life and death duel are staged again.
With director Qiu Litao present, the film has further upgraded the scene, drag racing, delta shootout, open ground tearing, black eating black, everything.
It can be exploded wherever you go, and it feels like an explosive shell possessed.
In addition, the film side seems to be very confident in this piece.
It was originally scheduled for July 8, but after seeing that Baoqiang's new film was scheduled for July 6, it was also advanced to the 6th, and the two pieces were torn on the front.
So that the audience, before the movie has seen it, feels that it has already seen the play.
3. In the octagonal cage
Director/Starring: Wang Baoqiang
Release time: July 6
That's right, Baoqiang is a director again.
After being awarded the Golden Broom Award for his directorial debut "Big Trouble" in 17 years, Wang Baoqiang has launched his second directorial work "In the Octagon Cage" 6 years later.
The title of the film, named after the boxing ring "Octagon", has revealed the distinct theme of the film.
The story is adapted from a true story, telling the story of a group of poor orphans in the mountains who rely on martial arts to escape their fate of poverty.
In the film, Wang Baoqiang, who directed and acted himself, plays the coach who trains this group of children to embark on the road of martial arts.
But he used harsh means to motivate his children, but he was suspected by the Internet of "child abuse".
Whether this fighting performance is a well-intentioned act to satisfy a child's dreams or a bad marketing for businessmen to make a profit has also sparked discussion.
Looking at the trailer, the whole movie exudes a full rough atmosphere.
All kinds of dirty character modeling and sets make people intuitively feel the embarrassment of poor mountainous areas, and also feel the determination of children to change their fate.
The training scene with a very graphic impact gives people an intuitive understanding of the hardship behind combat sports.
I have to say that compared with "Big Trouble" with an unclear theme, the realistic tone of "In the Octagon Cage" this time is very deep.
Wang Baoqiang, who comes from the bottom of the grassroots, looks extremely real in his portrayal of the little people at the bottom.
The tone of the characters struggling to survive and warm each other under the cruel fate is in line with the realistic plot, and even faintly reminds people of "I Am Not the God of Medicine".
Perhaps Baoqiang is very confident in the film, "In the Octagon Cage" opened a nationwide screening as early as the end of June, and the current box office has exceeded 100 million.
Judging from the word of mouth, everyone still encourages his secondary directing results as a whole.
Golden Broom founder Cheng Qingsong was also full of praise for the film at the screening and gave praise for the best domestic film of the year.
This time, we can also believe in Wang Baoqiang again, maybe "In the Octagon" will become a dark horse in theaters.
4. Chang'an 30,000 li
Chasing light animation
Release time: July 8
"Chang'an 30,000 Li" is a production of chasing light animation, or a work of chasing light for 10 years.
This animation company, which has been working hard towards "Chinese Pixar", is indeed not going well on the road of dreams.
The two works of the New Legend series "White Snake" and "Green Snake" and the New God List series "Nezha Rebirth" and "Yang Jian" have not achieved particularly outstanding results at the box office.
Looking at these animations, the advantages are very obvious, and the graphics and special effects are absolutely first-class.
In particular, the two animations of the New God List series are even more amazing than one in terms of picture effects!
But at the same time, chasing light animation also has a weakness - the script.
Whether it is "White Snake" or "Yang Jian", chasing light animation works can not escape the fate of being spit on the plot, and are also called by many netizens:
Do special effects with your heart and write scripts with your feet.
However, chasing light animation did not stop doing animation, but spread the game bigger and bigger.
This time, the "Chang'an 30,000 Li" it brought is a brand new series - a new culture series.
At the end of last summer's "Yang Jian", there was a small Easter egg of "Chang'an 30,000 Li", which is just a picture that makes us look forward to it.
The posters and trailers released little by little this year interpret the three words "new culture" quite well.
The almost book-style character modeling outlines a poetic picture of "when the stars of the Tang Dynasty are shining".
The prosperous era of the Tang Dynasty, or magnificent atmosphere, or ancient rhyme;
With the help of top-notch animation technology, this animated film with the history of the Tang Dynasty as the background, restores the grand scenery of many places in the Tang Dynasty, and it must be stunning on the big screen.
Of course, the picture has never been the part we were worried about.
Fortunately, the chasing script this time does not seem to have dropped the chain.
Executive producer Yu Zhou compared the movie "30,000 Li of Chang'an" to "an ode to the Tang Dynasty, and also a family letter to today's people".
The film tells the story of a few years after the outbreak of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tubo army attacked the southwest.
The Great Tang Festival made Gao Shi unfavorable for the war, and Chang'an was in danger. Gao Shi, who was trapped in the lonely city, recalled to the eunuchs of the superintendent army the past of his life with Li Bai.
Through the perspective of the memories of Gao Shi, who experienced Sheng Tang, the audience then dreamed back to the Tang Dynasty and traveled to Chang'an with Li Bai Dufu, which sounds very beautiful.
Although there are not many plots that can be spied on in the trailer, with real history as the background and historical figures as the prototype, this "Chang'an 30,000 Li" is likely to fight a turnaround battle!
Finally, the length of this movie is 168 minutes, which is a very bold length in a live-action movie, compared to chasing the light this time is really full of confidence.
This national comic is worth looking forward to!
5, Mission Impossible 7: Fatal Reckoning (Part I)
Starring: Tom Cruise
Release time: July 14
Hollywood movies landed in the mainland this year, and this time it was Tom's turn to lead the team.
In mid-July, "Mission Impossible 7" starring Tom Cruise will be released in domestic theaters.
As a Hollywood IP that has been launched for 25 years, the Mission Impossible series has always attracted the audience with various extreme scenes and exciting spy war plots.
In the previous 6 works, the protagonist Ethan played by Tom climbed over the Dubai Tower and "blew up" the New York Bridge, and the various extreme operations were unforgettable.
According to foreign media, this year's Mission Impossible 7 and Mission Impossible 8, which is linked to the plot, are expected to be the last two parts of the IP.
25 years of IP is coming to an end, and the starring Tom also played the final madness.
In the trailer of the seventh part, the 61-year-old "handsome old man" came to a new round of extreme parkour.
There are scenes of speeding cars in the streets of Rome, and scenes of extreme drift on snowy mountain peaks.
Judging from these visually striking pictures, this is definitely at the level of the top popcorn blockbusters in Europe and the United States.
It is worth mentioning that these actions are basically Tom himself.
According to the film, he also completed more than 500 skydives and 13,000 cross-country motorcycle jumping training before and after filming.
Over sixty years old, he still dares to fight and fight, and Tom is also really brave!
Mission Impossible's last work was released in China in 2018, when Mission Impossible 6 achieved a box office of more than 1.2 billion, and the data response was good.
However, with the vigorous development of domestic films, Hollywood blockbusters have clearly "not satisfied" in the mainland market.
In the past two years, top European and American IPs, including 007 and the Furious series, have suffered box office failures after landing in mainland theaters.
Although Qingshi is looking forward to Tom's work, in such a context, I can only have reservations about the IP box office.
6. The first part of Fengshen God
Starring: Fei Xiang, Li Xuejian, Huang Bo, Yuan Quan, Xia Yu, etc
Release time: July 20
After waiting for four years, the Fengshen trilogy finally came.
This mythical IP movie, which cost 3 billion yuan and invited many big names in the film industry, was officially announced in 2019.
However, due to various reasons, the film will not be released until now, 4 years later.
The 4-year lag in release also made the outside world doubt the texture of the film.
And this trailer released after 4 years also gives people an unexplained look.
Some people think it's okay, but there are people who always feel that something is wrong.
In terms of casting, the audience still affirms most of the casting of director Wu Ershan.
Among the veteran actors, the appearances of Fei Xiang, Li Xuejian, Chen Kun, Yuan Quan, Wang Luoyong and other big coffees have received certain praise.
Their assembled appearance also gives people a sense of star-studded.
In terms of new actors, Wuershan's operation of using newcomer actor Naran to play Daji can be described as quite bold.
And the appearance of this Chinese-Russian hybrid actor in the trailer is also quite suitable for the role.
But at the same time, the hidden dangers of the work are also intuitive.
In the trailer, the rough special effects visible to the naked eye make people faintly have a sense of online game sight.
Under the overall good casting, Huang Bo's version of Jiang Ziya also made many netizens complain too abruptly.
Compared with the Blue Sky Ye version of Jiang Ziya's "Xianfeng Dao Bone", the Huang Bo version is considered to act like a land gong.
In general, this work, which claims to create a "Chinese version of the Lord of the Rings", has a lot of hidden dangers.
Crazy smashed 3 billion, dispatched the behind-the-scenes team of Hollywood configuration, even young actors have to spend more than 1 year of special training, if such a big production box office reputation did not keep up, then it can only be said that the cowhide of the film side really blows up...
7. Super family
Starring: Allen, Shen Teng, etc
Release time: July 21
Summer regulars are happy twist, and they are not absent this year!
As a twist work with Shen Teng in the starring list, the question that the outside world is most concerned about "Super Family" is clear: Is the content high?
After all, after experiencing many movies under the banner of Shen Teng such as "The Sun Never Sets Hotel" and "Li Cha's Aunt" but "inconsistent with the real thing", the outside world has developed antibodies to the four words "Shen Teng starred".
And this time "Super Family" should no longer have an operation similar to "hanging a sheep's head and selling dog meat".
On the publicity poster and fan position, Shen Teng was put in the position of the male second, second only to the male protagonist Allen.
Judging from the trailer, he who plays the villain Beggarkov also has a high appearance rate, and in the clips where he appears, the comedy effect is also barbaric.
The content is guaranteed, let's take a look at the main creator.
The director of this film is comedian Song Yang.
That's right, this face in Xihong City in the parallel world is Charlotte's brother, which can also be said to be Charlotte's father.
As a senior member of Twist, Song Yang, who fits the team's comedy concept, also directed the comedy "Iron Fist of Shame".
This time with Allen and Shen Teng after "Iron Fist" to cooperate again, and he who is also the screenwriter, should be able to ensure a certain comedy content.
Of course, having said all this, the problem of this movie is also "visible to the naked eye".
Like Fengsheng, this is also a "repeater" in theaters.
The film, which was originally scheduled to be released in 2022, chose to withdraw it with lightning, and did not meet us until 1 and a half years later.
The delay of one and a half years also made the outside world inertia guess the quality of the film.
Judging from the trailer, the style texture of this movie is indeed average, and the character modeling is not pleasant.
In the plot, the portrayal of the protagonist's family with "superpowers" is also a little pompous in style.
Against the background of many strong films in theaters in July, the competitiveness of "Super Family" is only a little suspended.
8. Enthusiastic
Starring: Huang Bo, Wang Yibo, Liu Mintao, Yue Yunpeng, Song Zuer, etc
Release time: July 28
The last theatrical masterpiece this month is the movie "Warm" starring Huang Bo and Wang Yibo and directed by Dapeng.
From the perspective of the starring composition, this is a typical movie of "acting veteran + traffic student".
Huang Bo and other acting schools are responsible for the performance of the work, while Wang Yibo and other traffic factions drive the market heat to a certain extent, such a model has repeatedly appeared in domestic theaters in recent years.
The film takes street dance elements as the theme and tells a story of "meeting friends with dance".
The veteran of street dance played by Huang Bo and the literary youth played by Wang Yibo bonded because of dance, and joined forces to form a team to chase their dream of street dance.
Judging from the witty painting style and dream chasing theme, the film is similar to director Dapeng's previous work "Sewing Machine Band".
"Sewing Machine Band" tells the dream of a rock musician in a comedy style, while "Heat", which tells the dream of street dance, is in some ways a companion to the former.
In the trailer, what catches the eye is those dazzling street dances.
Wang Yibo, who was originally a street dance champion, found the right script this time, and the dazzling street dance is indeed very skillful.
And what attracted Qingshi's attention was the embarrassing dance of 48-year-old Huang Bo, who was also looking forward to his dance in the feature film "Chat about teenage madness".
Compared with other movies in the same period in July, this "Heat" also has a natural disadvantage in terms of theme.
The relatively niche theme of street dance also determines the relative seclusion of the subject matter of the work.
How to attract a wider audience to flood into the theater, director Dapeng can take a lot of effort.
These are the 8 movies that will land in theaters in July.
The emergence of these strong films is destined to make cinemas lively in the coming month.
There are both refreshing Hollywood popcorn blockbusters, old Hong Kong films with pure taste, and long-lost twist comedies, and there are many kinds that are eye-catching.
It seems that I have to live in a cinema this July, where Wang Baoqiang, Huang Bo, Shen Teng, Gu Tianle, Guo Fucheng, Tom and other blockbuster filmmakers have new films released, bombing in turn, so it is not lively
So in the first month of the summer season, who is in charge of ups and downs? Who can be the next big hit?
We'll see!
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