Every summer is a concentrated explosion of Hollywood films. As Fast & Furious 7 ends with nearly 2.4 billion yuan at the box office, the upcoming "Avengers: Age of Ultron," which will be released tomorrow, will be the first hit of Hollywood blockbusters this summer, and a large number of Hollywood films will be concentrated. Among them, there are both well-known sequels to the film series and the release of new Hollywood movies. There are both shocking sci-fi blockbusters and thought-provoking realism themes. How many films will meet Chinese audiences on the big screen? Will they continue the box office glory of Fast and Furious 7 and continue to create myths in the Chinese film market? Let's look forward to it!
Carry the sequel through to the end
Blockbuster sequels have always been Hollywood's gold-sucking magic weapon, and Hollywood films imported Chinese mainland every year, and blockbuster sequels have always occupied half of the country. This year's Hollywood films will also continue to carry out sequels to the end, some of which are also full of new elements.
Avengers 2 poster
Avengers 2
Release date: May 12
According to real-time box office network data, the national scheduling volume of "Avengers 2" on the first day of release was as high as 89.56%, ranking first in the number of films.
This episode is still about superheroes saving the planet. In the previous episode, there was infighting between Thor and Iron Man and Captain America, and in this episode, the director will directly tell you how the entire "Avengers" team fell apart.
In addition to hulk, Captain America, Iron Man, and Thor, the siblings "Quicksilver" and "Scarlet Witch" will make their debut in this episode. In addition, the villain boss of this episode will be "Ultron".
The "Avengers" will no longer be limited to "fighting and killing" in the United States, they will rush out of the United States and integrate the cultures of different countries into the story, it is reported that Seoul in South Korea, Johannesburg in South Africa, and Aosta Valley in northern Italy will all be present in this episode of the story.
Stills from Mission Impossible 5
Mission Impossible 5
Release Date: July 2015 (To be confirmed)
Following the previous episode of climbing the Burj Khalifa with his bare hands, Tom Cruise, who is over 50 years old, will once again challenge the limits of human physiology this time, personally staged a freehand pickpocket plane, grabbed the hatch and followed the plane to take off at a speed of 400 kilometers per hour, the scene is very thrilling.
In terms of cast, Chinese actress Zhang Jingchu will appear in this episode.
Terminator: Genesis
It is reported that "Genesis" is not a sequel to the "Terminator" trilogy, and the filmmaker Paramount intends to shoot three in a row after restarting the "Terminator" series, as the first "Genesis", but the content is closely related to the old version of "Terminator" in 1984. In terms of cast, in addition to starring Jason Clark and Emilia Clark, the audience's familiar Arnold Schwarzenegger will also play the "Terminator" t800 in the play.
Jurassic World poster
Jurassic World
Date: June 10, 2015
As the fourth film in the Jurassic Park series, Jurassic World will be released on June 10 in Chinese mainland, which also means that Chinese audiences will see the film two days earlier than American audiences.
It is reported that "Jurassic World" is produced by Stephen Spielberg, set in the plot of "Jurassic Park" 22 years later, in the theme park "Jurassic World", a variety of giant dinosaurs are fiercely attacked, among them, the newly emerged hybrid d-rex predator dinosaurs are more powerful than the dinosaurs in "Jurassic Park".
Fantastic Four 2015 poster
Fantastic Four 2015
Release Date: August 2015 (To be determined)
On the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the release of "Fantastic Four" in 2005, the rebooted "Fantastic Four" will meet the audience with a new lineup: Miles Teller, the male protagonist of this year's Oscar hit "Burst Drummer", will play "Mr. Fantastic" in the play, the Actress Kate Mara of the American drama "House of Cards" challenges the "Invisible Woman", michael b. Jordan, the black actor of "Super Out of Control" starring in "Thunderbolt Fire", and the British young student Jamie Bell in "The Adventures of Tintin" starring in "Stone Man" with motion capture technology.
Mad Max 4: Fury Road
Release Date: June 2015 (To be determined)
The film tells the story of Queen Friosa leading a group of people to flee in a large war transport, encountering Max while crossing a barren land, and then experiencing a series of road battles.
Divergent 2: Rebels
Screening date: June 13, 2015
The new episode continues the adventures of the heroine Trish and the male protagonist "Four", who evade the pursuit and continue to explore the history and truth of the world in which they live.
Disaster films pile up
In addition to blockbuster sequels, huge investment and visually stunning disaster films have also been widely loved by audiences. However, compared to blockbuster sequels based on the sci-fi world, there are not many Hollywood blockbusters with disaster themes. Fortunately, this summer Chinese mainland viewers are also expected to see a lot of Hollywood disasters on the big screen.
"Apocalypse Collapse"
Screening date: June 2, 2015
In "Doomsday Collapse," which will be released on June 2, a major earthquake stretches from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Dwayne Johnson plays a pilot in the Fire Department's Air Force Squadron who must fly an airplane to try to find and rescue his daughter.
As can be seen from the trailer that has been exposed, the film will vividly show a sudden super earthquake, while there will be floods destroying the dam and other big scenes, and the two major cities will be in the water, like the "end".
Tomorrowland poster
《Tomorrow World》
Screening date: May 26, 2015
Audiences who love to watch movies that cross into the future must not miss the sci-fi blockbuster "Tomorrowland" starring George Clooney. The film invested $190 million to create a world of the future. George Clooney and newcomer actress Brittney Robertson will create a cute combination of Uncle and Lori, and "Uncle House" Hugh Laurie, who is well known to Chinese audiences for "House Doctor", also appears in the play.
Cartoons are a bit weak
Hollywood animation has always led the global animation film market, and has also seized most of the domestic animation film market. Last year, "Despicable Me 2" won the love of many audiences, and this year there will be Hollywood high-quality animated films intended to seize more Chinese mainland market.
Stills from Minions
The Minion
In 2014, the release of "Despicable Me 2" won a full house of color, and also made many domestic audiences love the protagonist "Minion" in the film. The upcoming animated film "Minions", which will be released in July, will show the past and present lives of this group of cute and funny "Minions".
It is reported that the story of "Minions" takes place before the story of the first episode of "Despicable Me", which will go back to the 60s of the last century, and the background will involve several big cities such as London and New York. While "Minions" is the absolute protagonist, another character familiar to the audience, Gru, will not be absent, and the story will tell the "black history" before he met the three little girls.
The Mind Task Force
The animated film "Mind Agents" is directed by Peter Doug, who has directed Pixar classic animations such as "The Flying House" and "Monster Power Company". The film will take children to understand the rich face of the human brain. Judging from the trailer, the style of "Mind Agent" is very cute and dreamy, and I believe it will attract many female audiences. (Reporter Huang An)
Conquer the box office, really special effects are king?
"Fast and Furious 7" has moved towards the 2.5 billion yuan level, and has also won the crown of the May Day box office champion. It proves once again that action and special effects blockbusters are still one of the magic weapons to attract audiences, which is not, "Avengers 2" has sharpened its knife and intends to take the class of "Fast and Furious 7".
In the face of these "big bulls" who often dominate the box office for a month, where do domestic films go to hide? It seems that the previous set of methods of avoiding luck and choosing another slot period did not work, and it was impossible to avoid the crushing of the "big bull" at any time. In addition, last year's "Breakup Master" can also dig up 600 million box office from the "Transformers 4" released at the same time, but this year's "Everything Grows" has not gotten a bargain from "Fast and Furious 7", and the "hard-hitting" head-to-head combat method does not work.
Perhaps inspired by the box office sales of more than 1 billion yuan in "Journey to the West and Descending Demons" and "Haunting the Heavenly Palace", domestic blockbusters began to tap the gold mine of "the combination of magic special effects scenes and action".
In addition to Xu Chengyi's "Catch the Demon" and Zhou Xingchi's "Mermaid", even the older generation of directors, including Zhang Yimou and Chen Kaige, have begun to play this set. For example, Zhang Yimou's first magic giant "The Great Wall" is about the decisive battle between human troops and monsters, and action scenes and special effects scenes have become the main focus of the film; for example, the legendary Chen Kaige spent 60 million yuan to make special effects scenes in "Taoist Down the Mountain". Most of these films have a characteristic, that is, they are combined with Chinese traditions, not to mention special effects films such as "The Nine-Story Demon Tower of the Ghost Blowing Lantern" and "Dragon Quest", which are absolutely not imitated by Hollywood.
Even if Hollywood can copy the plot of China's demon hunting and exorcism, they do not have the Chinese face that the whole people like to see, do they have Deng Chao, who is known to the whole people? Is there a cute Wang Baoqiang? Can you make the funny and terrifying effect of Teacher Fan Wei and Teacher Lin Chiling acting in an intimate scene? They're just going to keep making sequels, right? Zhang Yimou's "The Great Wall" can use Matt Damon as the protagonist, but Hollywood should not poach Deng Chao and Wang Baoqiang. cause? My guess is that their English is not good enough, and digging is useless.
Of course, compared with Hollywood, domestic films are still slightly inferior in ideas and details, such as "Pixel Wars", aliens incarnated as classic arcade game characters invaded the earth, which evoked the childhood memories of many men? The trailer has already surpassed the number of clicks on The Amazing Spider-Man. Why can't China make such a fun and novel film? It seems that just having money to do special effects is not a matter of "winning or losing in one move". (Wang Zhenguo)