With the release of "Decryption", the biggest suspense of this year's summer file will also be revealed.
Although the two super blockbusters "Fengshen 2" and "Nezha 2" failed to catch up with the summer file, the gathering of the three box office kings of Shen Teng, Xu Zheng, and Chen Sicheng also made the battle for the summer file champion suspenseful, not to mention that the new films of the three are the themes they are best at.
Unexpectedly, the box office battle that the audience was looking forward to turned into a crushing game for Shen Teng alone.
Loss of more than 300 million? Chen Sicheng's new film is out, and Shen Teng's summer champion opponent is Xu Zheng!
"Decryption" premiered on August 3.
Before its release, Chen Sicheng's blockbuster was regarded as a strong contender for the box office championship this summer and Shen Teng's biggest opponent.
According to reports, the production cost of the film is as high as 500 million, and the famous director superstar, all kinds of top special effects teams and shooting equipment have been pulled over by Chen Sicheng, and he is bound to fight a battle of word-of-mouth box office, after all, Chen Sicheng's last directorial work "Mozart in Outer Space" lost too badly.
Unexpectedly, "Decryption" failed on the premiere day.
The box office on the first day was only 40.86 million, and Shen Teng's "Catching the Doll" was released for 19 days, and the single-day box office was only 80 million, almost doubling "Decryption", even if the screening results of the previous week were added, the cumulative box office of "Decryption" was only 133 million, and the cumulative box office of "Catching the Doll" on the first day of release has rushed to 650 million.
Before its release, the media generally predicted that the final box office of "Decryption" would be around 3 billion.
But with the current trend, it is a question whether the final box office of "Decryption" can break 500 million, not to mention the summer champion, whether Chen Sicheng can recover the original this time has become a question, even if the final box office of the movie breaks through 500 million, according to the calculation of 37% of the box office taken by the filmmaker, aside from the publicity and marketing expenses, the loss of "Decryption" has exceeded 300 million, and Jackie Chan's "Legend" has become the worst blockbuster in this summer's loss.
Although it has just been released, Chen Sicheng has already been out of the summer championship competition.
In addition, Nicholas Tse's "Customs Front", Jackie Chan's "Legend", Marvel's "Deadpool and Wolverine" and other blockbuster new films are not as expected.
Shen Teng's opponent for the summer champion may only be Xu Zheng's "Retrograde Life".
Will it be a dark horse? The word-of-mouth of "Retrograde Life" is polarized, and Shen Teng's summer champion is stable?
After the box office setback of "Decryption", the blockbusters that have not yet been released in this summer are "White Snake: Floating Life" and "Retrograde Life".
Limited by the animation theme and story "White Snake: Floating Life", the box office ceiling is actually not high, the box office of "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", which has the best performance in the producer's chasing light animation, is 1.824 billion, and the box office of the second part of the "White Snake" series is 580 million, and the reputation of "White Snake: Floating Life" is also average, and it is likely that the series is supported by fans, and the box office is predicted to be about 400 million.
"Retrograde Life" is an adventure for Xu Zheng.
After "Embarrassing Mother", Xu Zheng no longer has a hit, due to the great impact of the transfer from theaters to online premieres, Xu Zheng has not had a real directorial work for 4 years, and the box office fiasco of the last production and production of "My Heart is Flying" made the film company lose confidence.
This time, Xu Zheng of "Retrograde Life" paid out of his own pocket, wrote, directed and acted by himself!
Due to Xu Zheng's last realistic comedy "I Am Not the God of Medicine", "Retrograde Life" naturally gained super high attention.
But to admit the success of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", Xu Zheng's acting skills are one reason, but the most important thing is Wen Muye's director and Ning Hao's producer, whether Xu Zheng can make a work comparable to "I am not the God of Medicine" still has to be marked with a question mark.
The movie has been screened on August 3.
From the current word-of-mouth is a bit polarized, "Retrograde Life" does discuss a lot of social issues, and also cares for the low-level people such as delivery riders, but the middle-aged unemployment crisis, the rebellion of children, the pressure of mortgages, forced to make a living to run takeaways, and then saw the warmth and coldness of the world, and finally found the so-called meaning of life, happy funerals, and persuasion of goodness.
"Retrograde Life" looks like a realistic movie, but it is actually a sketch-style movie of the Spring Festival Gala.
It is difficult for the film and television industry to grasp the degree between depicting suffering and consumption suffering.
If the reputation is not good after the release, "Retrograde Life" will most likely be carried away, but as long as there is half the quality of "I Am Not the God of Medicine", Xu Zheng may be the big dark horse in this year's summer file, and in 2018, Xu Zheng's "I Am Not the God of Medicine" defeated Shen Teng's "The Richest Man in Xihong City" to win the summer file.
Now Xu Zheng and Shen Teng are fighting for the second time in the summer file, and at present, Shen Teng's chances of winning are a little bigger!