In the middle of 2023, six major box office tragedies were born in domestic films, and Deng Chao's new film lost 320 million and ranked first
Halfway through 2023.
According to box office website statistics, the box office of the mainland film market in the first half of the year was 26.2 billion, a surge of 52.8% compared with the same period in 2022, which is naturally good, but the cruel thing is that the market is increasingly showing a winner-take-all situation.
In the first half of the year, nearly 200 new films were released, but only 30 exceeded 100 million at the box office, and the three films "Manjiang Hong", "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Disappearing Her" accounted for 10.7 billion at the 26.2 billion box office! At the same time, there are only 5 movies that break 1 billion, and more than half of the movies have a box office of less than one million.
According to the information, the lowest-grossing film in the first half of 2023 is "Qunying Club: Borrowing the East Wind", with a cumulative box office of only 23 yuan, only 1 audience, and the 23 yuan will also be distributed to the cinema and pay taxes. In the end, it returned to the producer, and it was 7 yuan. It's ridiculous. However, this kind of film production cost is low, even if it loses too much.
Next, we will take stock of the six blockbusters with the most serious losses in the first half of 2023, which are absolutely bloodless.
This list only counts domestic films, after all, Hollywood blockbusters in 2023 are really a bit miserable, and there is no need to inventory them at all, because they are basically losing!
Brother Fa reappeared, and the new film "Don't Call Me a God of Gamblers" lost 80 million!
Double Monday Cheng is a representative superstar at the height of Hong Kong films, these three almost monopolized Hong Kong's annual box office champions, and interestingly, Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat in the first half of the loss list were all on the list.
"Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" was released on June 21 and has only been released for 12 days, but the box office of the film has been fixed at about 40 million, because the film's scheduling and daily box office have dropped to single digits, and there is not much room for box office growth.
Looking at the title, you know that Brother Fa reappeared after 5 years after "Matchless", and the main focus is feelings.
It's a pity that the movie is the title of the film rubbing a handful of feelings, essentially a parent-child movie, the network reports that the production cost of the film is 100 million, with the salary of the brother, this cost is reliable! According to the producer's 38% box office, even if "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers" breaks through 50 million, the producer can only get about 20 million, and the film loss is 80 million.
It was useless to invite Wu Jing, and Jackie Chan's new film "Dragon Horse Spirit" pounced again.
After talking about Brother Fa, it is naturally Jackie Chan's turn, and "Dragon Horse Spirit" was finally released on April 7 for almost half a year, and the biggest gimmick of the movie is undoubtedly the first cooperation between Jackie Chan and Wu Jing, the two kings of old and new kung fu. Although the two previously starred in two blockbusters "New Shaolin Temple" and "Climber", the two did not have any rivalry scenes.
This time "Ryoma Spirit" is finally in the same frame.
Wu Jing does not have many scenes, but the film party is crazy to publicize, making it seem that Wu Jing is the male protagonist, but unfortunately the audience is not easy to deceive now, the final box office of the movie is 210 million, for Jackie Chan fans, the movie is actually no problem, "Dragon Horse Spirit" itself is a semi-autobiographical movie of Jackie Chan, there are many Easter eggs of Jackie Chan classics, but if you are not a Jackie Chan fan, the fun of watching movies is much less.
The cost of film production is 200 million, according to the box office website, the producer got 37.3% of the box office, that is, 71.35 million, plus the overseas market has about 6 million US dollars, or 43 million yuan box office, the film loss is about 110 million to 120 million.
Jackie Chan also has a new film "Furious Sandstorm" overseas has been set, but the mainland market has been delayed, it is estimated that it is yellow, fans are still looking forward to the premiere of the online disk.
Let tens of billions of actors become a joke, Du Jiang's new film "Shocking Rescue" lost 130 million!
"Shocking Rescue" was released on May 1st this year, the movie is an imitation version of Huang Xiaoming's "Heroes of Fire", seeing that people won 1.7 billion box office, almost reproduced in the lineup and story, all directed by Hong Kong directors, all invited a large number of stars to make cameos. Even actors such as Du Jiang and Yin Xiaotian are also the starring actors of "Heroes of Fire".
I have to say Du Jiang's vision.
The blockbuster department who played a supporting role sold well at the box office, and when it was his turn to play the male protagonist, the box office of "Shocking Rescue" was only 42.03 million. At present, Du Jiang's personal box office is as high as 11.8 billion, and the box office of the recently starred "Disappearing Her" is no problem, then Du Jiang's personal box office will be as high as 14.8 billion, and there is even hope to surpass Andy Lau and enter the top ten of the Chinese actor's personal box office list.
But this appeal is simply too great.
According to network reports, the production cost of "Shocking Rescue" is 150 million, and the movie stars gather and a large number of disaster special effects, the cost is indeed not low. The box office website shows that the producer got 37.5% of the box office, that is, 14.42 million, and the film lost more than 130 million!
"When the Wind Rises Again" and "Broken Network" pounced twice, and Kwok Fucheng turned over and relied on "Drug Sweep 3".
The most surprising thing in this list is that Kwok Fucheng alone accounts for two.
The production cost of "Broken Network" is 200 million, the box office is only 64.87 million, the production cost of "When the Wind Rises" is also 200 million, the box office is 49.04 million, and the loss of both films is about 180 million, of course, Hong Kong film publicity has always liked to exaggerate the cost, and the real situation of these two films should not be so much.
Plus "Don't Call Me God of Gamblers", Hong Kong films account for 3 of the seven worst movies, it can be seen that Hong Kong films are the same as Hollywood blockbusters, and the current mainland audience is also a little aesthetically fatigued, after all, in addition to selling feelings in Hong Kong films over the years, the actors will always be these, either Andy Lau with Koo Tianle, or Koo Tianle with Liu Qingyun, next time let Liu Qingyun match Andy Lau.
This group of actors with an average age of more than 60 years old may not be able to last too long for Hong Kong films. Kwok Fucheng also has a "Drug Sweep 3" released this summer, partnering Gu Tianle and Liu Qingyun, facing Wang Baoqiang's "In the Octagonal Cage", if the box office this time is not good, I am afraid it is really not good.
With a loss of more than 320 million, Deng Chao's "Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back" became the biggest box office tragedy of the year!
Compared with "Chinese Table Tennis Jedi Strikes Back", which ranked first on the list, the above five movies are simply small and small.
As a Spring Festival blockbuster in 2023, "China Table Tennis" cost more than 350 million, but chose the strange schedule of the third day of the Lunar New Year to be released, and finally withdrew after its release, which is rare in the Spring Festival file, after all, the previous Spring Festival file was regarded as lying down to earn money!
But "Chinese Ping-Pong" breaks that convention.
The movie was finally withdrawn to February 17, and in the case of only one Hollywood movie "Ant-Man 3" in the same period, it was beaten by "Manjiang Red" and "The Wandering Earth 2", which were released for almost a month, and the movie was not dead after that, postponed to May 16, released for 3 months, and finally only won 100 million box office.
According to the box office website, the producer got 37% of the box office, or 34.94 million. The movie lost around 320 million!
In addition to the box office hit the street in the summer file of "Fengshen Part 1", there should be no new film in 2023 that can surpass the loss of "Chinese Table Tennis".