On Friday, October 29, several new films were released.
"Chosin Lake", which has almost always been the single-day box office champion since its release, has temporarily been squeezed out of the single-day box office champion throne.
Of course, this may not be so important for "Chosin Lake".
"Chosin Lake" has surpassed "Hello, Li Huanying" and officially became the second place on the Chinese box office list.
"Chosin Lake" and the follow-up "Chosin Lake Watergate Bridge" are bound to be a big harvest of word-of-mouth and box office win-win.
This week's new single-day box office champion is the veteran well-known big IP007 series.
It's called "Epic Finale" because it's this 007 Daniel Craig, the last to star in the 007 series.
In "007: No Time to Die", the final ending of the male protagonist is that his lover dies generously for justice.
The score of the play is not high, and the Douban score increased from 7.0 to 7.1 points after the release;
The Cat's Eye score of 8.7 is not as good as the 9.5 of "Chosin Lake", or even the small-budget film "Uninvited Guest" (Maoyan 8.9 points) released last week.
Of course, "007: No Time to Die" has obvious advantages, such as the popularity of the IP itself, the blockbuster tradition of popcorn action blockbusters, and so on.
But at the same time, the shortcomings of the film are also obvious.
First, there are a few more unsightly emotional dramas.
Second, the rhythm of some content is weak.
Third, genre films are too genre-oriented, uniform and without characteristics, and easy to make people aesthetically tired.
It is worth noting that under the multi-faceted attack of "007: No Time to Die", "Dune" and "Chosin Lake" and the king of "old films" (old films only refer to a few weeks of release), several new films are quite bleak.
Among them, it includes "Wuhai" starring Huang Xuan and Yang Zishan.
Zhou Ziyang's directorial debut "Old Beast" sent Teacher Tu to the throne of the three gold-level film emperors in one fell swoop.
His second work, "Wuhai", is naturally also highly anticipated.
The story of "Wuhai" is quite depressing, telling the story of a loving little couple, from calm and happiness to crisis to continuous loss of control.
Yang Hua, played by Huang Xuan, is a cold boy with no long belongings; the daughter of a rich businessman loves him and wants to marry him, but after marriage, he has continuous problems.
Yang Hua wanted to make a lot of money to prove himself, borrowed usurious loans to invest and was cheated, fell into an endless abyss, and did not return his money, but was arranged to become a debt collector.
The heroine and her former classmates broke the connection.
Marriage, money, career, relationships, every dimension is wrong, crisis, electric flint.
On this falling one-way street, the male protagonist finally chose the extreme revenge of "burning the old classmate's (non-repaying) tent with a fire", which was desolate, crazy and complicated.
The film is very interesting for the discussion of human nature and marriage relationship, although the introduction of hot topics is deliberate, but as a small-cost film, the story is good and the degree of completion is not low.
Unfortunately, the Douban score of "Wuhai" is only 6.2, and the box office is only 4.3 million as of press time.
Another newly released literary film, "I Am the Guardian", only grossed 1.34 million.
This may not be blamed on "007" and "Chosin Lake" for squeezing the living space.
"Wuhai" and "I Am the Guardian" are benchmarked, and perhaps it should be works that are closer to the literary and art film genre such as "Entering the Mortuary".
"The Mortician" is well-known, and the re-screening has already had more than 10 million box office, although it is not amazing, but it is a good result compared to "Wuhai".
The films "Changjin Lake" and "My Father and I" released in the National Day file are still in the hot screening, and various imported films, literary and art films, and re-screening films have poured in, although not every family may be able to make a lot of money, but at least let the audience have a richer choice space, so that the film market is more diversified.
This may be more important than the box office.