One of Tornadore's 1988 "Time and Space Trilogy", Cinema Paradiso, has been released in Chinese mainland for more than two months since its release on June 11, and the box office has reached 19.88 million. "Cinema Paradiso" is the last of the two-year re-screening wave of "re-screenings" that have been in full swing – although in fact it is the premiere Chinese mainland.
In the past, when a movie was re-screened, there would be at least a 4K, 3D, director's cut version or the ultimate version of the gimmick, or a feeling of "owing a movie ticket to the star" like "Journey to the West", of course, there are also the two years of the epidemic period to pull out the good word-of-mouth high-grossing movies to support the field. And with "Paradise Cinema" as the end of this year's re-screening wave, it has become very emotional,
Objectively speaking, the high-profile movies since 2021 are basically from re-screenings. It's not really who you owe a movie ticket to, it's that you miss an opportunity to meet a real "movie" in a movie theater, and "Cinema Paradiso" is undoubtedly a love letter to a movie made by Tornadore, even if it is to re-watch a really good movie, like reviewing a person, a relationship, or even reviewing yourself.
The re-screening of the hot national film is inferior to the word "feelings"
In the current top ten films in the domestic film and television box office list, in addition to the "Tang Detective" series and "Hello, Li Huanying", which has just rushed to the runner-up throne this year, taking into account the fact that the food phase was not re-screened in the "epidemic period", most of the head films of that year have been launched into the water to catch fish, after all, earning a little is a little, but from the data point of view, there are not many movies that really have the appeal to attract repeat customers. "Wolf Warrior 2", which ranks first in the domestic film and television box office list, has an inspiring sentence of "although it will be cursed from afar", but the re-screening box office of China's lonely hero is only 9.3 million, while the re-screening of the third-place national comic light "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending" is 22 million, which is quite a bright achievement. The re-screening results of the fourth and seventh places of "The Wandering Earth" and "Red Sea Action" are pitiful 138,000 and 580,000, one is still fresh, the second is that the box office data has shown that the audience coverage rate that entered the theater that year has been relatively wide, and the third may also be the lack of room for re-tasting, and the eternity is not enough.
The 2016 Star Ye's movie "Mermaid" is currently the ninth place in the mainland film and television box office, and the re-screening box office performance is 4.92 million, which is not bright enough, especially when you compare this result with Stephen Chow's 1995 classic "Journey to the West" series - "Moonlight Treasure Box" and "The Great Saint Marry" were re-released in 2014 and 2017 with a restored version and a director's extended version, playing the sentiment card of "We owe Star Ye a movie ticket", which won the support of many hardcore fans. And many have obviously departed from or exceeded the interpretation of the film itself, gilding the "Journey to the West" series again, of course, all this is also related to the super reputation that Star Ye has established along the way after becoming a director from "The King of Comedy", the re-screening results of the two films are 5.52 million and 184 million, and the operation of "pineapple jackfruit" has added up to 190 million.
The first round of the remake of the Indian god's work "Manslaughter" broke through 1 billion at the box office, and the results were good, especially the word of mouth was quite strong, and the re-screening score was added to 126 million, highlighting the strong influence of quality and word of mouth on the box office trend of the film. It can also be proved that in 2020, the domestic secret room spy war peak work "The Sound of the Wind", which was re-released 11 years after its release, still received 11.94 million box office, and the "Generation Grandmaster" released in 2013 also harvested 20.8 million box office when it was re-released in 2015, and the appeal of director Wong Kar-wai, whose literary and artistic momentum was greatly reduced, was indeed much worse than before, in fact, in 2009 before the re-release of "Generation Grandmaster", Wong Kar-wai's "East Evil West Poison: Ultimate Edition" was also re-screened. At that time, this film, which was regarded as the "Bible of Literature and Art" by literary and artistic youth, only received 25.8 million at the box office, and considering the year of 2009 alone, this achievement is actually quite gratifying. In fact, before the "Hulu Brothers" and "Black Cat Sheriff" have been pieced together in the movie version, but the story is too water market reverse, this is back to the feelings, when you consume feelings, you still have to have a little sincerity, the "Big Haunting Tiangong 3D" re-released in January 2012, although the 3D is very gimmicky, this 1965 Chinese animation classic, won the amazing record of 42.66 million.
Cameron is indeed a god
In the 1998 Chinese film market, still waiting for the reform of the cinema system after many years, almost all the audiences who watched "Titanic" became the tap water of the movie, became the volunteer propagandists of Hollywood movies, at least three singers sang different versions of the Chinese version of "My Heart Is Eternal", and even Zhao Lirong showed a original English song on the Spring Festival Gala stage. "Titanic" was once the global film and television box office champion, and even in the devastated Chinese film market in 1998, "Titanic" also received 359 million box office, I don't remember the movie ticket price of that meeting, but there are digital records of Chinese film history box office again appeared more than 359 million box office, is the 2009 total box office of 420 million "The Great Cause of the Founding of the People's Republic". Coupled with the box office of the re-release of Titanic 3D in April 2012, Cameron's divine work reached a total box office of 1.3 billion in Chinese mainland. In other words, the film's re-release box office is 946 million, which is probably an unprecedented number in the "re-release" sequence.
At one time, the only person who could compete with Cameron was director Cameron himself. Not only did he create the "miracle of the giant wheel" in the depressed Chinese film market in 1998, but 10 years later, Cameron's "Avatar" once again wrote the myth of the "first year of 3D cinema". In 2010, "Avatar" raised the box office of Chinese mainland film and television to 1 billion+ at a box office of 1.339 billion yuan, and it was not until 2014 that this record was broken by "Transformers 4", and "Avatar" really came to the Chinese film market a famous scene that year - unable to buy 3D movie tickets, and crazy fans actually began a cross-city journey to the nearest city to see an IMAX-3D version of "Avatar". Obviously, the hardware configuration of the Chinese film market, which was not prepared at the beginning, did not keep up, which laid the groundwork for the re-screening of "Avatar" this year, in fact, more people walked into the theater to re-watch "Avatar" this year, and a large proportion of them chose the IMAX cinema hall that blossomed everywhere, contributing most of the 375 million re-screening box office with the attitude of technical flow.
The stories of these Camerons and his films are indeed full of feelings, in fact, in today's booming Chinese film market, too new Hollywood movies are re-released, and no matter how high the ratings, it is not easy to get the favor of fans - such as "Dream Quest" and "Zootopia" have also joined the re-screening army during the epidemic, with a single box office of only 11.71 million and 4.19 million respectively. After being baptized for so many years, the fast-selling nature of popcorn movies is very obvious. Most of the re-screening films that have really won the favor of fans are the deceased who did not meet fans in the best time in the Chinese film market, such as Spielberg's "Jurassic Park 3D" filmed in 1993 and finally re-released in 2013, which received 349 million at the box office, the world-class phenomenon "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" only grossed 55.68 million when it premiered in the mainland in 2002, while last year's re-release box office hit 192 million, and Nolan's 2014 sci-fi masterpiece "Interstellar" Last year's re-release box office also easily broke through 100 million, reaching 121 million.
Even if it is too literary, it may not be without drama
Speaking of literary films, let's talk about the Japanese echelon. The first to test the waters was the sudden airborne re-release of "Totoro" at the end of 2018, Miyazaki is indeed very appealing in China, quietly selling 173 million, and the distribution company that tasted the sweetness soon put Miyazaki's more prestigious "Spirited Away" on the agenda, and at the beginning of 2019, "Spirited Away" was on the Chinese film market, which won the 75th Academy Award for Best Animation Record and the Golden Bear Award at the 52nd Berlin Film Festival. It was released at the box office in Chinese mainland 488 million. Spirited Away is a 2001 film, while Totoro is a 1988 film. How to say it, it seems that watching a movie on a mobile phone or computer is indeed a little different from watching a movie in a movie theater. Although Japanese movies are very cattle, but there are not many old film masterpieces that can really be introduced to the domestic big screen, shunji Iwai's 1995 classic work "Love Letter" that can be called "Wong Kar-wai of Japan" painstakingly chose to be re-screened on May 20, 2021, objectively speaking, it has set off a small wave in the hearts of literary and artistic youth, especially the middle-aged people in literature and art, although the 64.86 million box office does not sound very cool, but this is indeed a small love movie that requires patience.
I don't know if anyone would object if I listed the "Lord of the Rings" series as a literary blockbuster, but I think if you think that "Game of Thrones" is a profound literary drama, then I should have no problem defining the "Lord of the Rings trilogy" in this way. As the biggest "trilogy" of this year's re-screening, the results of "The Messenger of the Ring" (60.8 million), "The Two Towers" (50.54 million) and "The Invincible King" (33.74 million) are really a bit of a surprise, plus the re-screening box office, the total box office of the trilogy's Chinese mainland is only 117 million, 74.54 million and 120 million, respectively, which is a bit bleak and bleak.
I personally feel that in the films released in the domestic film market in the first half of this year, the overall quality of the re-screening film is quite high-standard, and it may be the "Lord of the Rings Trilogy" that is too classical, especially the first two slightly long story preparations, which may reject many female audiences, and now a film is not easy to reject female audiences.
The last thing to mention is the origin of this article, Director Tornadore's serious love letter to the film "Cinema Paradiso". In fact, in the "Time and Space Trilogy" that won Tornadore a world-class reputation, "The Pianist of the Sea" was first released in Chinese mainland on November 15, 2019, and won an excellent result of 143 million at the box office, but the "Beautiful Legend of Sicily", which was paid tribute to "Sunny Days", because some of the scales of the film may affect the introduction, so the "Time and Space Trilogy" is afraid that the moon will eventually be cloudy and sunny.
In fact, there is also an Italian film "Beautiful Life", which is a classic with high ratings in film history, this fairy tale in the brutal Nazi concentration camp that swept the major awards in 1997 was first released in mainland theaters in January 2020, and my personal analysis is that because the subject matter is too sad, it has only won 59.78 million at the box office. But as an Italian national treasure actor, the story in this concentration camp is indeed world-class, and in my heart I can be on a par with Chaplin.
Xin'an Evening News Anhui Network Dawan News reporter Jiang Nannan
Edit: Tao Na