As of 10:44 a.m. on April 25, 2024, the movie "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" starring Wang Yibo has a pre-sale box office of 12.23 million, and the movie "There is No Thing That Can't Be Solved by a Hot Pot" starring Yang Mi has a pre-sale box office of 5.75 million. The latter is less than half of the former, and it is also a top-notch starring movie, why is the gap so big?
Wu Qinggong, a non-famous entertainment critic, pointed out: The domestic films released on May Day this year have different themes and are wonderful, among which "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" and "There is No Thing That Can't Be Solved by a Hot Pot" have attracted much attention, because their starring roles are top-notch. "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" has attracted a lot of attention from netizens with its unique military theme and real peacekeeping background, while "There is nothing that can't be solved by a hot pot" has won a lot of attention with its light-hearted, humorous, dark and suspenseful style.
Based on the real events of Chinese peacekeepers on duty overseas, "Formed Police Units" focuses on the loyalty and sacrifice of peacekeepers, showing the ironclad strength of Chinese soldiers and the peace responsibility of the motherland. Such military-themed films not only fully demonstrate the heroic image of the Chinese peacekeeping police, but also give the audience a more intuitive and profound understanding of peacekeeping operations. Today, when the international situation is becoming more and more complicated, the launch of "Peacekeeping and Anti-riot Team" has undoubtedly given the audience a patriotic education and spiritual baptism.
In stark contrast to the serious military theme of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", "There is nothing that can't be solved by a hot pot" provides the audience with a different audio-visual feast in a light-hearted comedy style. The film tells the story of four people who don't know each other in the backstage warehouse of the theater to share the spoils, and they are accidentally involved in a murder case, a hot hot pot rolls over endless suspense, greed and deception cause a series of reversals, and finally, the special identities of the four gradually surface, and the mysterious truth is about to come out.
It stands to reason that comedy films have a wider audience and are more likely to impact the pre-sale box office, why is the pre-sale box office of "No Thing That Can't Be Solved by a Hot Pot" not high? Because Yang Mi is difficult to support alone, in addition to her, only one Yu Qian is a well-known actor in the film. Although Yu Qian has a high national popularity, the traffic is not high, he has no die-hard fans, and the audience will not buy tickets in advance for him. In addition to Wang Yibo, there are also well-known young actors such as Huang Jingyu, Zhong Chuxi, and Ou Hao in "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", and their fans will also buy tickets in advance.
Wang Yibo's traffic is already higher than Yang Mi's, and Wang Yibo's helpers are more than Yang Mi's, so the pre-sale box office of the two movies will be so much worse. In short, it is difficult for a top female to transform into a movie, as strong as Zhao Liying, and she only acted three times in the movie "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou. In the movie "Sauce Garden Lane" directed by Chen Kexin, Yang Mi and Zhao Liying both participated, but they were not the same. And Yi Yang Qianxi, Zhang Yixing, Zhu Yilong, Wang Yibo and other top male players all have movies with a high box office.
When Wang Yibo filmed "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team", he had not yet filmed "No Name", "King of the Sky" and "Warm", if the filmmakers of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" knew that the box office of these three movies would be so high in the future, Wang Yibo would definitely be in charge. Huang Jingyu has participated in the same type of movie "Operation Red Sea", so the filmmaker trusts him very much. In short, I predict that "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" will become the box office champion of May Day, and "There is no thing that can't be solved by a hot pot", may be the third or fourth.