"Action in the Red Sea" is like a black horse killed in the Spring Festival holiday. There is no omen and no publicity. The word-of-mouth is not good. Douban ranks 8.5 points, which can be said to be very high. Looking at the form of full field, this film is a candidate for the title.
Red Sea Action real time box office
In less than half a month, there will be a war on the film spring festival. More than ten films will be released on the first day of the new year alone, which is very lively. The types of domestic films released this Spring Festival are more diversified, not only the sequels with strong lineups, but also the literary and art love films with a slight minority. Comedies have also played new tricks, adding the most popular cute pet as the protagonist.
"Catching demons 2", "journey to the West's daughter country", "action in the Red Sea", "detective in Chinatown 2", "the 19th generation of ancestors", "the haunt of bears & middot; Metamorphosis" and other big IP and new stories have appeared. But this year, due to the limitation of ticket compensation, the market performance of the Spring Festival archives is ultimately determined by the film quality and the audience's consumption ability.
In the summer vacation of 2017, there was a movie "war wolf 2", which has directly affected the whole domestic film market since its release.
After the movie was released, "wolf 2" kept breaking all kinds of box office records. In the end, the movie was rated at the box office of 5.6 billion yuan, which immediately became a record far beyond the reach of many films. It is an insurmountable history of Chinese box office.
But this time, under the guidance of famous director Lin Chaoxian, it costs 500 million yuan. The first modern naval film "action in the Red Sea" has been put on file on the first day of the new year. Netizens said that it's not a problem that the film is going to be released professionally with box office exceeding 2 billion yuan.
Based on the real event of "Yemeni evacuation", the film tells the story that the Jiaolong commando of the Chinese navy was ordered to carry out the mission of evacuation, and the troops carried out rescue in two ways; at the same time, the leaders of terrorist organizations are plotting illegal actions, and the commando must stop the interception, which will fully show the modern navy demeanor.
It's worth mentioning that this film is another major theme masterpiece of director Lin Chaoxian after action on the Mekong River, which was created by the original team and starred by Zhang Yi's partner Du Jiang. Zhang Yi, who has served in the military service, and Du Jiang, who has always had a military complex, are very excited to play the role of navy.
In 2016, the transnational action blockbuster "Mekong action" directed by Lin Chaoxian performed extraordinarily, taking nearly 1.2 billion box office in the fierce competition of national day, and climbing to the top of the National Day box office. The production scale and story pattern of the Red Sea action will be upgraded in an all-round way, with a total investment of 500 million yuan.
Lin Chaoxian said frankly that compared with the police and bandits theme of operation Mekong, operation Red Sea, which is based on military theme, is a complete upgrade in all aspects, and faces greater difficulties: 'how to mobilize so many equipment, are facing many new difficulties. In terms of actors, the action play is very intense. From the first day of training, I was very worried about their injuries. '
Unlike other special effects blockbusters, in order to present the most realistic visual effect, director Lin Chaoxian insists on 'live shooting, refusing to shoot in the studio'. The film not only went deep into Africa for more than four months, but also weapons and equipment were real guys. The crew prepared forty or fifty kinds of real guns for the film, with more than 30000 bullets. Helicopters, tanks, Humvees and other 'big guys' were all real.
In order to present the movie scene perfectly, the crew constantly challenged themselves: in the most remote and desolate area of Morocco, the crew often had to drive three hours to get to the shooting site. After part of Morocco was killed, the crew moved to Guangdong to shoot the rest of the scene on the warship.
However, as a comprehensive upgraded version of action on the Mekong River, action on the Red Sea has also broken many records of Lin Chaoxian. On the first day of the first lunar new year, the book of catching demons 2, journey to the west, daughter country and Chinatown detective 2 are facing each other.
Although the types of four films that have been fixed are different at present, including the sequel of the box office champion, the new work of Zhao Liying, Huadan, and the alternative detective film jointly created by Chen Sicheng and Wang Baoqiang, it can be said that all flowers blossom in one hundred, and as for the contention of all schools of thought, who can laugh to the end, I think they are quite equal.
However, industry insiders predict that after "wolf 2" became China's box office champion last year, the military themed blockbuster "action in the Red Sea" will further improve the level of China's heavy industry blockbusters.
Action in the Red Sea is directed by Lin Chaoxian, supervised by Liang Fengying, starred by Zhang Yi, Huang Jingyu, Haiqing, Du Jiang, Jiang Luxia, Yin Fang, Wang Yutian, Guo Jiahao, and Mai Henri, with Zhang Hanyu in a special role. The film will be officially released on February 16, 2018. I wonder if you will go to see it?