The movies that will be released in January 2024 are in a really embarrassing situation - the New Year's Eve movies that set a new record in front are still rushing at the box office, and there are major new films in the Spring Festival stalls in the back.
For example, the movie "What's in the Zoo?" starring Bao Bell, Song Xiaofeng, Pan Binlong and others tells the story of a group of migrant workers who coincidentally took over a zoo on the verge of bankruptcy, and opened a pre-sale a week before the release, with a box office of 200,000 on the first day and a box office of 50,000 on the second day, adding up to barely 250,000.
Even more dismal than the advance box office is the word-of-mouth of "What's in the Zoo?"
Some people may want to ask, it hasn't been released or not, and no one has seen the whole film, why is word of mouth not good.
- Because "What's in the Zoo?" is another remake, a remake of the Korean movie "The Secret Zoo" released in 2020, the original score is only 6.6, and then a Bao Bell-style remake, you can predict, how high is the probability of this "What's in the Zoo?" turning decay into magic?
Some netizens unceremoniously said that the whole movie can be called the "Lightning Protector Alliance", and it can be said that there are thunder points everywhere from the remake to the starring role.
- I'm scared when I see Chang Yuan, and I don't need to watch a movie with Bao Bell, although the views of netizens are not absolutely correct, but judging from the past performance of the main creator of "What's in the Zoo?", there is a reason why everyone has avoided lightning in advance.
First of all, it is the two "artifacts" of starring Bao Bell and remaking Korean movies, even film critics can't praise it, and he watched the movie cautiously early, and broke the news that although Bao Bell is not the director this time, the whole project is his main promotion, and after so many years, he still hasn't given up doing comedy......
Reminiscent of the last time Bao Bell remade a Korean comedy movie, it was "Sunshine Sisters", he "borrowed" the original version one-to-one, and even the storyboard was reproduced as it was, and he was stunned to restore the original film with a score of 8.8 to a score of 4.4.
Secondly, there is a series of supporting characters in "What's in the Zoo?", Jia Bing, Wei Xiang, Chang Yuan, Wang Qianyuan...... To put it bluntly, they are all regulars of low shards in recent years.
- The last time Wei Xiang and Chang Yuan acted together in a comedy was "Super Family", with Shen Teng's participation and the release of the popular summer vacation, the box office and word-of-mouth hit the street.
- Jia Bing will participate in nearly 10 movies in 2023, but if he is stained with a little comedy element, the score hovers around 4 points, of which "Northeast Beasts" with a score of 4.2 is also suspected of plagiarizing "Secret Zoo".
- That's right, a 6-point Korean movie at the level of the Internet University has been plagiarized and remade, and a number of domestic comedians participated, no wonder netizens expressed that they didn't want to watch it.
There have been many domestic comedy movies that have been found to be not original scripts, including Happy Twist, which can be called a big remake, and even the new film "Hot and Hot", which has recently sparked heated discussions because of Jia Ling's slimming photos, is a remake of Japanese movies.
Or rather, more than just comedy movies.
A total of 11 remakes will be released in 2023, the highest in recent years, and at the beginning of 2024, at least 3 remakes are planned to be released, in addition to two comedies, there is also a remake of the self-drama version of "Flower Thousand Bone" The film of the same name, starring Chen Duling, is not optimistic at present.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with remakes of movies themselves, but once remakes are flooded, they are destined to affect the industry's original ability, which is the most worrying.
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