After March, looking back at this month, the major film companies have been complaining bitterly, in fact, the market has been sluggish since the beginning of the year, which is mainly caused by the impact of the epidemic. There were many movies that could have avoided box office losses, but because they insisted on releasing on schedule, they suffered a box office failure, such as "Blood Warrior" is one of them. The film was originally a box office potential film because it had a big-name superstar pressure, but the filmmakers obviously underestimated the risk, and finally caused Van Diesel's new film to set a new personal box office low in more than a decade.
Blood Warrior is not a big production but not a small film, and it invested $45 million in medium-scale productions. According to normal play, it is not difficult for a movie of this scale to charge more than 100 million US dollars at the box office, after all, Lao Fan is one of the hottest superstars at the moment, but now there is not even 30 million US dollars, and Sony studios have lost a lot. The failure of the film is not a problem of the film itself and the starring role, but the box office hit the street caused by the impact of the epidemic, only to blame the filmmakers for being too blind and confident at that time.
Blood Warrior is directed by Dave Wilson and starring Van Diesel, Sam Huehan, Toby Kebel, and Delula Riley. The film tells the story of Ray Garrison, who is accidentally killed in battle, and is revived by RST using cutting-edge nanotechnology to transform into a superhero who heals himself instantly and is comparable to a supercomputer. Awakened, he clings to the remnants of memory fragments in his mind, embarks on the road of revenge for his beloved wife, but finds that he cannot distinguish between the real and the unreal...
"Blood Warrior" is a steady film in the industry and the outside world, but because of the operation error of the filmmakers, it led to a fiasco. The film's box office is really too dismal, North America only received $10.02 million, overseas slightly better income of $19.72 million, but the global only received $29.74 million is still too low. And this box office did not recover the cost, the $45 million investment to collect $135 million to protect the capital, Sony studio executives this time is self-inflicted blame for others.
"Blood Warrior" grossed less than $30 million worldwide, one of the lowest in Van Diesel's starring career. The market in the early years was not as large as it is now, and he did not have such a big reputation at that time, and from this point of view, this new film is the lowest record of his career. Of course, this is not to say that Lao Fan's appeal is not good, his ability to carry the box office is obvious to everyone, and the new film box office is caused by the external environment.
If "Blood Warrior" does not insist on being released as scheduled, but chooses to withdraw the file and choose another day to fight, it will definitely be another box office scene. The film's reputation is average, and even a little bad, but the box office conservative receipt of more than $80 million is still guaranteed. Unfortunately, it is too late to say anything now, and now it can only rely on the subsequent disc network to fill the hole with revenue such as paid on demand. In the past, Hollywood movies could still rely on the mainland market to turn losses into profits, but now that the Chinese people no longer pursue American movies, filmmakers cannot dream of this.
"Blood Warrior" has not yet been released in China, but it is foreseeable that it will not sell even if it is released, Douban 5.6 points, imported films This score wants to collect box office is unrealistic. In fact, this film is not good in Europe, the United States and other markets, the old story plot, the director of many details have not been handled well, lines, pictures, actions, etc. are not too eye-catching places, simply rely on the fame of the old Fan is also difficult to mobilize the audience to enter. Van Diesel's new film is of average quality, and the box office is a fiasco at a loss, did you expect this ending before the screening?