On October 15, 9 new films such as "Turandot: The Origin of the Spell" and "Lyceum Grand Theatre" were newly released, of which "Turandot" is the largest investment in costume magic giant, according to the data, the investment exceeded 300 million yuan, and as of press time, the box office was less than 20 million, which is definitely a failure in failure.
After all, the latest masterpiece of Zheng Xiaolong, director of "The Biography of Zhen Huan" and "Meritorious Service", has Guan Xiaotong, Dylan Spero, Jiang Wen, Hu Jun, Wrinkle Zhaolong, Sophie Marceau, Vincent Perez and other Chinese and foreign celebrities to join, and it is too humiliating to achieve this result!
"Turandot" is actually not bad on the first day of the film, or can reach 20.9% of the schedule, second only to "Chosin Lake", but the average number of people per game is only 3. The market reacted quickly, and the proportion of the film on October 16 dropped sharply to 9.9%.
The box office revenue on the first day was 7 million yuan, and the box office income on the next day was 5 million yuan, which is basically decreasing day by day, completely hitting the street.
At present, the online reputation of "Turandot" is full of insults, and netizens have talked about "Luhan Shanghai Fortress, Guan Xiaotong Turandot, one person and one masterpiece!" "Jiang Wenhujun is really good at acting in court dramas, Dylan Sparks is acting in "Game of Thrones", Zou Zhaolong is acting in martial arts films, Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez are acting in "Days on the Clouds", and Guan Xiaotong is showing his talents in "Ace to Ace"! ”
Some people actually wrote "Zheng Xiaolong, that year the apricot blossoms were lightly raining, and all the beauty brought to me by "The Biography of Zhen Huan" has now been paid off, and from then on, you and I do not owe each other." Another seems to have been written by an art school student that "the negative genre of yesterday's script analysis class is not as good as its type", and one directly ridiculed "'Turandot' and 'Shanghai Fortress' once again made me suffer from 'Sweet Critical Hit'"
The Chinese-Western co-production fantasy blockbuster "Turandot" only scored 3.8 points, with a one-star bad rating of 43%, while a two-star bad review was about 29%, which also refreshed the worst record of Zheng Xiaolong's directorial work. The film has also become a "protracted bad film" comparable to "Three Kingdoms Matchless", "Fuchun Mountain Jutu", "Zhong Kui Voldemort", "Wuji" and so on!
Built in the Mongolian capital on the mountain, the terrible makeup of the princess green eyeshadow purple lipstick and the "X-ray perspective eyes", Jiang Wen's Yuan Dynasty Khan pigtail style is too thunderous, including the "national girl" Guan Xiaotong to play the role of the world's most beautiful person to choose the role failure, in fact, as early as the "Turandot" trailer There is no end to the class, but the positive film is even more terrible!
"National Girl" Guan Xiaotong Since the "One Servant two lords" and "Mr. Good" have been on fire, most of the bad films and thunder dramas she has performed in recent years, just like "Phoenix Prisoner" and "Half Of Alice in the Moon" have failed miserably, of which "Half a Month Alice" has only more than 20 million at the box office, and everyone has no interest in buying tickets for the movies she starred in.
But no one expected the current box office trend of "Turandot", I am afraid that even "Half of the Month Alice" is not as good, sitting on Guan Xiaotong's name of "box office poison" and "queen of bad films", which is definitely not a good thing for her future development.
At that time, "The Biography of Zhen Huan" was popular all over the country, and LeTV simply acquired Hua'er Film and Television, and the two sides signed a betting agreement. The exclusive exclusive agreement between Zheng Xiaolong and Hua'er Film and Television requires that Zheng Xiaolong need to shoot at least five works in the six years from 2014 to 2019 to help Hua'er Film and Television complete the performance of the bet.
At the beginning of 2018, "Turandot" announced the start-up, directed by Zheng Xiaolong, and written by his wife Wang Xiaoping, which was successfully completed that year, and then silent. Until the end of August this year, the trailer finally appeared, showing a smell of thunder.
In recent years, costume fantasy blockbusters have long been not the audience's fragrant food, except for the "Catch the Demon" series "Journey to the West" to make a lot of money, the rest are in a mess.
Among them, it lasted 6 years, invested 750 million "Asura", released only 3 days, it was hastily withdrawn, only won less than 50 million box office, Douban score is only 3.0 points, creating a domestic loss fiasco record.
The "Journey" adapted from the online game IP has Chen Desen, the director of "October Siege", who did not dare to be released in theaters, and then turned to iQiyi for release, with a Douban score of only 5.1 points. It is said that the revenue of the film party reached 40 million in only 72 hours on the line, and then there was no more, after all, the numbers behind it are too ugly!
After Guo Jingming's director "Traces" lost money, the second part directly transferred to the network, the Douban score was only 3.8 points, his other "Qingya Collection" although the box office exceeded 300 million, it is still a state of loss, the second episode of "Taki Nocturne" was banned because of his "plagiarism crime", and it could not be released for a long time!
2015's "The Great Wall" is a Sino-foreign co-production made by LeTV, bringing together Matt Damon, Andy Lau, Jing Tian, Zhang Hanyu, Lu Han, Huang Xuan, Lin Xinxin and other star celebrities, investing 150 million US dollars, and finally the global box office was 330 million US dollars, with a loss of 74.5 million US dollars.
Even Matt Damon has publicly stated that he knew as early as the filming of "The Great Wall" that the finished film would not be ideal. Because the moment Hollywood investment pressured Zhang Yimou to abandon his original idea, Matt Damon knew that the film was doomed to failure.
Including Liu Yifei, Zhen Zidan, Gong Li, Jet Li starring in the Disney blockbuster "Mulan", positioned to cater to the Chinese market, the result of Mulan living in Fujian Tulou, the elaboration of "qi", the story of the unbelievable sloppy twist, all let the film fail a mess, last year became a model of failure.
Back to "Turandot", Zheng Xiaolong's last big-screen work dates back to "Gua Sha" 20 years ago, and the script of this piece integrates the novel "Tricolor Bracelet" written by Mrs. Wang Xiaoping, adding many oriental elements such as swordplay, textiles, fireworks, gunpowder and so on.
Princess Turandot was demonized by a bloodthirsty spell because she mistakenly wore a tricolor bracelet from an exotic land, so changing the original book was doomed to be inferior! But why is it so made up, the problem inside must be very complicated!
Just like the demon king in "Zhong Kui Voldemort" said to Zhong Kui, "Why are we so alike?" He decided to pass on his life's work to Zhong Kui, and the audience in the theater was mad by Lei, to which the producer An Xiaofen responded, "We want to show a thought of adulthood and a thought into a demon, as for the audience laughing crazy, it shows that our performance level is too poor, everyone does not accept!" ”
And a script director of "Zhong Kui Voldemort" revealed that he read the script and felt very bad, but he said no, "Ann is always the chief producer, producer, she said it does not count!" ”
An Xiaofen revealed that after the special effects were given to the Korean team, because of the tight production time, they were contracted to the outsourcing team, resulting in many special effects not doing as expected in the end, which was also a huge lesson for her.
Another famous director talked about the various Thunder Man Bridge lines in "Journey to the West: The Great Haunting of the Heavenly Palace", he said, "Director Zheng Baorui and Huang Baiming's son screenwriter are not fools, how can we allow these to appear, proving that many things in it are uncontrollable, and it is easy to implement it!" ”
Although the top few domestic blockbusters focus on patriotic wars, action, comedy and other themes, in recent years, there have been "Nezha's Devil Boy Descending", "White Snake: Origins" and other costume fantasy animations have made a lot of money, although it is a 3D animation mode, but the script is not thunderous, and the big scene fight is still very shocking. It shows that if you want to do a good job in costume fantasy blockbusters, you must come up with new ideas and sincerity.
Director Zheng Xiaolong with the "Biography of Zhen Huan" sold well, has been degenerate for several years, in recent years, in addition to the praise of "Meritorious", "Mi Yue Biography" and "New Editorial Story" are all a mess, which has laid the groundwork for his failure today! The box office and word-of-mouth fiasco of his and his wife's cooperation "Turandot" are even more worthy of vigilance in the industry.
At present, the film version of "In Search of Qin", Lin Feng's version of "Yitian Slaughtering Dragon", and Urshan's version of "Fengshen Shen" have not been released, and I hope that these films will not achieve the same box office and word-of-mouth fiasco as "Turandot"!