The box office broke 10 billion, which is just a start! Zhang Yimou and Chen Sicheng are about to set off a new wave of climax

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2024-06-24 17:06Published in Jiangsu film creators

The recent Chinese film market is a bit of a "fire and ice" meaning.

First, the Dragon Boat Festival stall encountered "extreme cold".

More than 10 movies entered the battle, with many first-line stars, large-scale anti-crime films, Hong Kong films, and Hollywood movies.

As a result, only 378 million box office was generated in 3 days, which was almost "the worst in the past decade".

What's even more worrying is that the Dragon Boat Festival is often the stepping stone for the summer file, and all signs indicate that the prospects for this summer are not optimistic.

Just when the market was still immersed in an atmosphere of compassion, a series of sudden bursts of good news made Chinese films ignite a soaring flame.

At the Shanghai International Film Festival held not long ago, many heavyweight filmmakers appeared and officially announced their new works one after another.

Among them, there are not only top actors such as Shen Teng, Huang Bo, Xu Zheng, Ge You, and Deng Chao, but also popular directors such as Zhang Yimou, Chen Sicheng, and Feng Xiaogang.

Many of these works are directly anchored, the upcoming summer file.

The succession of good news directly pushed the audience's craze to the top of the nine skies.

Today, Brother Pi will take everyone to find out, and according to the expectations, these movies will be dismantled one by one.

Part 1: "A Man and a Woman" (Expectation: ★★★ ☆☆)

Director: Guan Hu

Starring: Huang Bo, Ni Ni

In the past few years, Guan Hu's "Eight Hundred" and "King Kong River" achieved huge box office successes, which also pushed him to the forefront of public opinion.

After that, Guan Hu was silent until recently, when his new work "Dog Formation" was released.

"Dog Formation" was filmed to the extreme.

He found Peng Yuyan, but he hardly let him say a line;

He found Jia Zhangke and wanted to shoot the small county town in Jia Zhangke's movie, but he refused to give up his stylized things;

This movie is his gift for Father's Day, but it is particularly screwed, wanting to express love, but being ashamed to say it too bluntly.

In the end, it is obscure and chaotic.

This is the current Guan Hu, when a director begins to struggle, that literary style comes out.

His latest work, A Man and a Woman, is one such product.

Writer Liu Zhenyun is the chief planner of this film, which shows that Guan Hu intends to make his works closer to literature.

The story of the film is familiar.

Huang Bo and Ni Ni play the male and female protagonists, flying from the mainland to Hong Kong and meeting in a hotel.

Two strangers talk to each other in a brief intersection, and finally find a brief rest in their hearts.

Is this Sweet Honey or Lost in Translation? In short, this must be a babbling movie.

Huang Bo and Ni Ni have both encountered performance bottlenecks before, and each opened up a new situation with a new movie last summer.

This time the two get together in Guan Hu's literary film, and there will definitely be different sparks.

Part 2: "Sunshine Club" (Expectation: ★★★ ☆☆)

Director: Wei Shujun

Starring: Huang Xiaoming, Lu Xiaofen, Zu Feng, Yang Caiyu, Jia Zhangke, Liao Fan, Zhang Shaogang

How long has it been since Brother Xiaoming had a good work?

The last impressive film was "Heroes of Fire" 5 years ago, and he won the Golden Rooster Award for the second time with this film, and he also suffered a lot of doubts.

In the past 5 years, he has made concerted efforts in film and television, but the only thing that can stabilize seems to be his character.

An actor has encountered a bottleneck, and the way to find a breakthrough is to act in a literary film.

Haiqing and Ma Yili came like this before, and Brother Xiaoming also squeezed into this track this time.

He collaborated with young director Wei Shujun on this new work "Sunshine Club".

The film tells the story of an old child.

Although the protagonist played by Huang Xiaoming is no longer confused, his IQ level is still stuck in the childhood stage.

He joins a Sunshine Club, and his life changes dramatically.

It can be seen from the brief introduction of the story that this play will be a performance show for Huang Xiaoming, for which he specially gained weight to interpret this role.

Although Wei Shujun was born in literary films, the biggest feature of his literary films is that they are easy to understand.

The previous "Wild Horse Mane", "Yong'an Town Story Collection" and last year's "Mistake by the River" are all popular and literary genres.

Huang Xiaoming may be able to find a new path for his performance by starring in this film, which further proves the gold content of the double gold actor.

Part 3: "Hedgehog" (Expectation: ★★★ ☆☆)

Director: Gu Changwei

Starring: Ge You, Wang Junkai, Li Ping, Liu Weiwei, Geng Le, Zhang Benyu

Director Gu Changwei, the grandfather and grandson combination of Uncle Ge + Wang Junkai, whether this movie is good or not is another matter, the topic is full.

Looking at the plot again, it's even more interesting.

Uncle Ge plays a strange old man who is crazy but sees through the world.

Such a role is easy to come by.

Wang Junkai plays an autistic and unsociable anti-bone teenager, and this role requires extremely high acting skills from actors.

Old and young match, forget the year, we can almost make up the rest of the story in our brains:

The boy and the strange old man became friends, and with the help of the old man, he got out of the spiritual predicament and gained a new life.

As China's No. 1 photographer, Gu Changwei's films often have simple stories and simple and beautiful characters.

Judging from the 17-second trailer of "The Hedgehog", it is true, the combination of old and young may make tired urban people find long-lost peace in their hearts.

Part 4: "The Summer of Little Monsters: Once upon a time there was a wave mountain" (Expectation: ★★★ ☆☆)

Last year, a "Chinese Strange Tan" made people see new hope for domestic animation, and Douban's 8.7 score is the best proof.

This collection of short films consists of 8 stories.

Among them, "Summer of Little Monsters" tells the story of a nobody.

The unbridled imagination and sincere emotions have made many migrant workers empathize with them.

This year, Shanghai Film Studio made this short film into a big movie.

The protagonist is still from the perspective of a "working pig" in the demon world, because he wants to see the world outside Langlang Mountain, he starts a fantasy journey.

As we get closer and closer to the target, a series of accidents ensue.

With the endorsement of "Chinese Strange Tan", the reputation of this cartoon must be guaranteed, and this cartoon may become a box office dark horse like "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an".

This film has been approved and is expected to be released in the summer of next year, so let's wait with peace of mind.

Part 5: "Catching Spies" (Expectation: ★★★ ☆☆)

Director: Feng Xiaogang

Starring: Lei Jiayin, Hu Ge

Feng Xiaogang's sense of existence has been extremely low over the years.

Last year's starring "Loyal Dog Hachiko", directed "If You Are Honest Do Not Disturb 3" and "Echo", all fluttered quietly.

Feng's cannon, which used to be terrifying, seemed to be completely dumbfounded.

This year, Feng Xiaogang intends to shoot the spy war theme "Catching Spies".

As can be seen from the title, he is now in a particularly peaceful state of mind and has given a particularly dark humorous name.

It seems to be a new film, but it is actually an old drama.

This film is adapted from the novel "No Regrets Tracking", which tells the story of two people who have been tracking for 40 years.

was made into a drama in 1995, starring Wang Zhiwen and Liu Peiqi, with a Douban score of 9.4 points.

30 years later, Feng Xiaogang made it into a movie, and the story is still the same story, and the protagonists have become Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge.

Feng Xiaogang is particularly good at filming this kind of story with a sense of age, "Fanghua", "Tangshan Earthquake" and "Assembly Number" are all like this.

In recent years, he has stepped out of his comfort zone and made a lot of works, and the market feedback is not good.

Now that he is back in his comfort zone and filming the genre he is best at, I hope he will find his original intention, and the Chinese film industry still needs a director like him.

Part 6: "Retrograde Life" (Expectation: ★★★★ ☆)

Director/screenwriter: Xu Zheng

Starring: Xu Zheng, Xin Zhilei, Wang Xiao, Jia Bing, Feng Bing

During the Shanghai Film Festival, Xu Zheng officially announced that his self-directed and self-starred realistic work "Retrograde Life" will be released on August 9.

It has been 3 years since his last literary film "The Myth of Love".

It has been a full 6 years since the god-sealed "I Am Not the God of Medicine".

This time Xu Zheng feels both familiar and unfamiliar.

The familiarity lies in the fact that this is another typical "midlife crisis movie".

The high-spirited male protagonist, because of a wrong decision, returned to the pre-liberation overnight.

In desperation, he became a delivery boy, and the essence of retrograde life is that he is a delivery boy's version of "people are embarrassed".

In addition to Xu Zheng, several actors also include Xin Zhilei, who became popular because of "Flowers", Jia Bing and Feng Bing, who became popular because of "Hurricane", all of whom are hot actors.

It can be said that from the title, to the story, to the director, it is a typical "Xu Zheng-style movie".

The strangeness is that this is the most down-to-earth movie shot by Xu Zheng.

His previous works, whether it is the "Embarrassment" series, or "I Am Not the God of Medicine" and "The Myth of Love".

Although they all focus on small people, although the styles are different, they have obvious "hunting" attributes, which you can't see in daily life.

This time, "Retrograde Life" is a movie that is really stained with fireworks.

In order to film the life of a delivery man, Xu Zheng took several main actors to experience the life of a delivery person.

He ran for 5 hours a day and delivered a total of 12 orders, apologizing to the seller the whole time.

At the moment when the general environment is in a recession, such a movie that is low to the dust may resonate with everyone.

The only concern is that Xu Zheng's previous creativity in making movies often can't support the whole movie.

Often the front is very brilliant, but in the later stage, there is weakness, and you can only rely on sensationalism and preaching to make up.

I hope that this time he can break through the bottleneck and surprise the audience.

Part 7: "Operation Jiaolong" (Expectation: ★★★★ ☆)

Director: Lin Chaoxian

Starring: Huang Xuan, Yu Shi, Du Jiang, Jiang Luxia, Wang Yanlin, Han Dongjun, Li Jiuxiao, Duan Yihong, Zhang Hanyu, Li Chen, Wang Junkai

In the 2018 Spring Festival, Lin Chaoxian's "Operation Red Sea" sold 3.6 billion and won the championship of the Spring Festival file.

6 years later, the sequel "Operation Jiaolong" ("Operation Red Sea 2") is also ready to fly.

The former is adapted from a real evacuation story, while the latter sets the timeline in the "near future".

This means that the story of the new film will have a strong reflection with the real international situation.

This concept of time background is also reflected in weapons and equipment.

For example, helmets.

The appearance is similar to the helmet of the continental special forces FAST, but the material is a new composite material based on carbon fiber.

Another example is the sights on a rifle.

It not only has the function of traditional optical sight, night vision, but also has a laser guidance system, which can be used with guided bullets to achieve ultra-long-range killing of special forces.

After 6 years of evolution, "Explosive Forest" will bring new surprises to the audience in the scenes, explosion scenes and war scenes this time.

The joining of Huang Xuan, Yu Shi, Duan Yihong, Zhang Hanyu, Li Chen, Wang Junkai and others also makes this film both acting and topical.

The only pity is that this film will not be able to meet the audience until next year.

Blind guess a wave it will be set for next year's Spring Festival, we look forward to it.

Part 8: "The Gate of the Sand Sea" (Expectation: ★★★★ ☆)

Director/Screenwriter: Wu Youyin

Starring: Deng Chao, Rong Zishan, Yang Zishan, Huang Xiaolei, Gao Weiguang

Last year, Deng Chao's self-directed and self-starred "Chinese Ping Pong" staged a farce of withdrawal and re-release due to various factors, and finally failed miserably at the box office.

For more than a year, his presence has not been high.

In fact, Deng Chao is not idle, he has two movies in stock this year, and these two new works have made new progress recently.

One of the most watched is "The Gate of the Sand Sea".

In short, this is another version of "Big Soldiers" or "No One in My Eyes 2".

Zhang San, a deserter played by Deng Chao, met the down-and-out emperor Li Si played by Rong Zishan.

One big and one small, one expensive and one cheap, the two relied on each other in the once-in-a-century desert and experienced the test of life and death together.

Obviously, this is a costume drama, Deng Chao's acting skills are online, and the quality of the film can be guaranteed.

Another new film is "Winning in Hand".

In short, this is the sequel to Rise to Fame.

Director Liu Xunzimo gathered the original cast of "Becoming Famous Immediately" to carry a sedan chair for Deng Chao.

Many people say that Deng Chao's acting skills are good, but he is very embarrassed when he acts in comedy, and with a drag oil bottle Yu Baimei, he is simply a dou that the comedy industry can't support.

But friends who have watched Running Man and Wuha know that Brother Chao is usually a very happy person, and he really likes to act in comedy.

"Rise to Fame" is not the kind of low-level comedy that piles up bad stalks on the Internet, but the kind of high-level comedy that plays with a narrative structure, which makes people smile after watching it.

Deng Chao met Liu Xunzimo, and he may be able to find a comedy performance method that suits him.

Two works, a drama, and a comedy, after this combination is beaten, Deng Chao may be able to stage a wave of kings returning.

Part 9: "Decryption" (Expectation: ★★★★★)

Director: Chen Sicheng

Starring: Liu Haoran, Chen Daoming, Wu Yanzu, Yu Feihong, Ren Luyao, Chen Yusi

Last year, Chen Sicheng's "Disappearing Her" directly detonated the summer file.

This year, he reloaded and officially announced two new works through the platform of the Shanghai Film Festival.

One is the spy war film "Declassified".

Adapted from the novel of the same name by the Mai family, it tells the story of a mathematical genius who deciphers the enemy's code.

This novel was filmed in a spy war drama back then, and Chen Xuedong played this mathematical genius, but he was complained about, and the reputation of this drama is also very bad.

This movie version is sure to make something new.

The starring role became Liu Haoran.

He has had a hard time in the past two years, left the "Tang Detective" series, and starred in "Four Seas" hit the street, and after falling in love, his popularity was challenged, and he urgently needed a good work to save him.

"Decryption" just appeared.

Liu Haoran played a reasoning genius in "Tang Detective", and it is almost difficult to play this role again this time.

The most difficult thing is that the film has a long time span, and Liu Haoran has to play a teenager, middle-aged and old age.

Judging from the trailer, his three looks have made great breakthroughs, but he still can't hide the sense of disobedience.

Whether the audience can accept his new look and whether his acting skills can hold up to this role is probably a big question mark.

"Decryption" will be released on July 31, and Jiang Ping, a secondary school girl, has recently become popular, making everyone talk about the topic of mathematical genius.

This film may be able to use this hot spot for marketing.

In addition, at the Shanghai Film Festival, Chen Sicheng's other new project "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" was also officially announced.

This is the winning work of the Mao Dun Literature Award.

The novel focuses on the injuries of the thirties of the last century, and the author presents the hidden historical events in a literary way, composing an idealistic hymn.

To put it simply, what Chen Sicheng wants to shoot is a movie version of "The Awakening Age".

In the past, the text of his films has been controversial, and the ownership of the script has caused some lawsuits.

Last year's "Three Teams" had an excellent reputation, and it also allowed Chen Sicheng to learn to borrow from literature.

This "A Thousand Miles of Rivers and Mountains" may be a new beginning for him.

makes up for the shortcomings of the text, Chen Sicheng may really be called the most successful commercial film director of this era.

Part 10: "Succession Planning" (Expected value: ★★★★★)

Director: Yan Fei, Peng Damo

Starring: Shen Teng, Ma Li, Shi Pengyuan, Sarina, Zhang Zidong, Li Jiaqi, Wei Xiang, Jia Bing

Yan Fei + Peng Damo + Shen Teng + Ma Li are currently the strongest combination in the comedy film industry.

Previously, the four had only collaborated on three films.

A "Charlotte Troubles" made Shen Teng successfully enter the front line of comedy movies, and a "The Richest Man in Xihong City" sold 3 billion + at the box office, plus "Magic Brush Ma Liang" Although it is a unit short film, it is also of good quality.

After watching the trailer of this new film, Brother Pi is even more determined, and this movie will become the king of the summer file.

The film plays the best routine of Happy Twist - contrast.

The super-rich man played by Shen Teng and Ma Li, in order to cultivate the spirit of hardship and hard work for his children, concealed the huge wealth of his family and let him grow up in poverty.

As the son grew up, he felt more and more that the people and things around him were wrong.

This kind of story is the most popular online text routine in recent years, and it is a variant of the previous "pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger", which may not be advanced, but it is really top-notch.

Closing their eyes, many viewers can already make up for Shen Teng's pretending to be poor.

In the trailer, Shen Teng and Ma Li don't have a single line, just relying on a ghostly catwalk to make people laugh.

In addition to the Shenma combination, this film also gathers Jia Bing, Wei Xiang, Zhang Zidong and other golden comedy supporting actors, God knows what kind of hilarious storm the whole movie will set off.

At present, the film has been officially announced at the Shanghai Film Festival on July 18, and this comedy feast is getting closer and closer.

Part 11: "Three-Body Problem" (expectation: ★★★★★)

Director: Zhang Yimou

The most explosive information of this film festival is nothing more than this.

Zhang Yimou directed the Three-Body Movie, if it was changed 20 years ago, this is undisputed.

When a "Hero" was born, Zhang Yimou single-handedly opened the era of Chinese blockbusters, and it was logical for China's best commercial film directors to make sci-fi masterpieces.

But 20 years later, things have changed.

In 2016, Zhang Yimou made a decisive transformation after filming "The Great Wall".

After that, the production went up, but the volume of the film itself was reduced.

"On the Cliff", "Solid as a Rock", "One Second", "Man Jianghong" and "Article 20" are all works of "small but beautiful", and Lao Mouzi is also happy to do so.

But now, the largest IP of domestic sci-fi is in his hands, which makes people wonder "Lian Po is old".

On the other hand, Guo Fan has been tempered by two "The Wandering Earth" and has become the "godfather of Chinese science fiction films".

He has set up several special effects companies, "The Wandering Earth 3" has been put on the agenda, and has received the full support of several scientific research institutes of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and even XCMG is endorsing him.

It takes enough time for the film industry to accumulate, and it is worth looking forward to whether Zhang Yimou, as a "science fiction novice", can achieve a leap forward in a short period of time.

But what is gratifying is that the first part of "The Three-Body Problem" has a strong humanistic temperament, with the characteristics of scar literature in the 80s.

Zhang Yimou, who has filmed "Alive" and "Return", is the best at filming the plots of that era.

And he has filmed various blockbusters and directed the Olympic Games, so it is natural that he can shoot sci-fi scenes.

can perfectly combine humanities and big scenes, looking at the entire Chinese-speaking circle, Zhang Yimou is the only one.

When Zhang Yimou's "Three-Body Problem" and Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth 3" met on the screen, perhaps the prosperity of domestic sci-fi films has really arrived.

Well, the above are the 11 excellent domestic films exposed at the Shanghai Film Festival, each of which is worth looking forward to.

Some will soon meet the audience, and they will set off stormy waves in the summer file, and some are still in the intense shooting, and the total box office Pi Ge is conservatively estimated to start at 10 billion, or rewrite the box office ceiling of domestic films.

Seeing them, Pi Ge felt that there was still hope for Chinese films.

Let's wait and see.

Text/Pippi Film Editorial Department: A chicken

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