Three films including “Student Dad” released
The summer vacation is very hot, Huang Bo is very busy
Huang Bo’s current Weibo profile picture is his recently handed over “homework” – this summer, “Fengshen Part I: Chaoge Fengyun” (hereinafter referred to as “Fengshen Part I”), “Enthusiasm” and “Learning” The three movies “Dad” were released, and the three cartoon images on Weibo are the three roles he played. The three films shot at different times happened to be released this summer, Huang Bo said with a smile: “There is a lot of pressure and motivation.”
“Fengshen Part One”
Challenge the oldest role in an actor’s career
Because Huang Bo and Wu Ershan had collaborated in “Looking for the Dragon”, when Wu Ershan approached him and said that he wanted to make “Fengshen Trilogy”, Huang Bo happily joined. Jiang Ziya is the oldest character he plays; the process of filming “Feng Shen No. 1” gave Huang Bo a deep understanding of film industrialization. These two points are undoubtedly new and interesting to Huang Bo.
Huang Bo believes that Jiang Ziya in the movie is full of wisdom and good at strategizing on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is also a depressed city boy. Therefore, in “The First Part of Conferred Gods”, Jiang Ziya played by him not only has to take on the role of threading the needle, leading the audience into the “World of Conferred Gods”, but also needs to be “grounded” to add interest to the serious story.
Playing the role of Jiang Ziya, for Huang Bo, the most impressive thing is the makeup, “It took eight and a half hours for the first makeup trial. Before, I thought makeup was a test of the face, but it turned out that it was a test of the butt. I can’t sit still.” The Fuhua Group created a special silica gel for Jiang Ziya, highlighting the image of the elderly Jiang Ziya from details such as muscles, textures, and wrinkles. The hair, eyebrows, and beard have to be connected one by one by hand. It takes four or five hours to put on makeup every time. In order not to affect the shooting progress, Huang Bo always gets up at three or four o’clock to put on makeup.
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“Ding Lei” is most likely to resonate with Huang Bo
“Enthusiasm” tells the story of Ding Lei (played by Huang Bo), the head of the dance troupe, who invites Chen Shuo (played by Wang Yibo) to join his dance troupe. Chen Shuo worked hard with the dancers and moved towards a bigger stage. But everyone found that this journey of chasing dreams was not as easy as imagined.
Ding Lei in “Hot” is obviously the most resonant character for Huang Bo: when he was young, Huang Bo was once the “Qingdao Dance King”. But he never lost his confidence and love for life and ideals. What the movie conveys is not only blood and passion, but also joy and friendship, as well as a positive heart under adversity. Director Dapeng revealed that he first found Huang Bo and Wang Yibo and told them the outline of the story. After getting the approval of the two actors, we started to write the script, “We wrote the story of “Heat” with these two faces in front of us.”
Huang Bo said that Ding Lei used to be a passionate dancer, and he has persisted in pursuing his dream until now. Although there are also shortcomings, he has always had that unyielding energy in his heart. Recalling the past of dancing, Huang Bo proudly described himself as “an old truck from twenty years ago”. Even though he is no longer young, the fire in his heart is still burning.
“School Dad”
Re-examine the relationship between father and son
“Learning Dad” describes four groups of families facing the plight of education, laughing and crying, and has a lot of social topics. It is a work of Huang Bo’s “HB+U” new director assistance plan. As the producer and lead actor, Huang Bo said that when he first saw the script, he thought it was a very good realistic story, which was related to every family and everyone.
When the film premiered in Shanghai a few days ago, the promotional song “Pinyin” MV written for his father was played, in which there were many images and photos of Huang Bo and his father. During the filming period, Huang Bo hoped to create such a song dedicated to his father suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, but it was a pity that when the song was recorded later, his father was no longer there. Recalling the scenes of getting along with his father when he was a child, and the joy when his singing career was recognized by his father for the first time, Huang Bo couldn’t help crying. In the movie, Lei Dali nodded and bowed in front of others in order to let his son Lei Xiaomi go to a good school. In reality, Huang Bo’s father did the same thing for him back then. This time because he wanted to play the role of father, Huang Bo also re-examined the relationship between father and son: “When making this movie, I have to recall my father. You will feel their hardships and difficulties at that time again.”
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The total box office of the summer file will hit 20 billion
According to data from the Beacon Professional Edition, as of 18:00 yesterday, the total box office of movies in 2023 exceeded 40.4 billion, and the summer box office exceeded 18.3 billion, continuing to refresh the highest box office record in Chinese film history in summer. Chen Jin, a data analyst of Beacon Professional Edition, said that there are still more than ten days before the end of the summer file, which also includes the Qixi Festival file. “We predict that it will eventually hit 20 billion, and the box office capacity of the summer file will be raised to a new height.”
This year’s summer file has already had four films with a box office of more than 2 billion, the largest number in history, namely “The Disappearing She”, “Desperate”, “In the Octagonal Cage”, “The First Part of Fengshen”, and the fifth place “Three Thousand Miles of Chang’an” The box office also exceeded 1.7 billion. The combined box office of these five films accounts for about 2/3 of the total box office of the summer, and they are all domestic films. It can be said that the top domestic films have supported this year’s summer market.
It can achieve such a good box office performance, first of all because of the excellent quality of the film. According to the data analysis of the Beacon Professional Edition, whether it is the ratings of the audience buying tickets for Taobao Tickets or the ratings of Douban fans, the overall performance of the summer movies has been significantly improved compared with previous years. Secondly, the themes of these films are highly topical, highly marketable, and have obvious circle-breaking effects. Third, the overall process of this year’s summer vacation is very smooth. In previous years, the peak box office of the summer season generally appeared after late July. This year, because “The Missing She” broke out after the Dragon Boat Festival, it ignited the popularity of the summer season ahead of schedule and made a good start. Since then, successive blockbuster movies have supported the continuous growth of the market. Maintaining a high position, the box office of Sunday has surpassed that of Saturday for 5 consecutive days, which is unprecedented.
After entering August, the market did not usher in a recession due to the premature outbreak. The realistic-themed “All or Nothing” continued its summer popularity in early August, and is expected to compete with “The Missing Her” for this year’s summer box office champion.
Chen Jin said that the overall performance of this year’s summer vacation is gratifying, and there are many bright spots in the details. The first is “a large number of audiences have been recalled”. As many as 52.7% of the audience have entered the cinema for the first time this year. At the same time, the proportion of senior movie fans who have watched movies more than 5 times a year has also increased significantly. This shows that on the one hand, the viewing habits of low-frequency users are being re-cultivated, and on the other hand, the basic market of core high-frequency viewers in the market has also been consolidated, and the film market is steadily and healthily recovering. The second is the prominent proportion of female audiences. Films such as “She Who Disappeared” and “Barbie” are deeply loved by female audiences. This year’s summer file accounted for more than 60% of female audiences, supporting “half the sky” of the movie market. Furthermore, the proportion of family and parent-child audiences who watch movies with their families and children in groups has increased. For example, 43.8% of the audience who bought tickets for “Three Thousand Miles in Chang’an” were 35 years old and above, and the proportion of watching movies with three or more people was also very prominent.
Articles in this group/Reporter Xiao Yang Coordinator/Liu Jianghua
(Beijing Youth Daily)
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Which stars dominate the cinema screen?
With the normalization of social life, a batch of films that have been backlogged during the three-year period of the epidemic have appeared one after another, and familiar faces are often encountered in theater viewing. According to the incomplete statistics of the Beijing Youth Daily reporter, in addition to the release of Huang Bo’s three films in theaters, according to the information that has been released and scheduled, there are still many “screen” stars who will be released in multiple movie theaters this year.
■Wang Yibo (3 parts)
“No Name”, “King of the Sky”, “Enthusiasm”
■Wang Xun (3 parts)
“Keep You Safe” “In the Octagonal Cage”
“School Dad”
■Zhang Zixian (2 parts)
“Enthusiasm” and “Learning Dad”
■Sun Yang (2 parts)
“All or Nothing” “The Eighth Suspect”
■Qixi (2 parts)
“Hot” “The Eighth Suspect”
■Roc (3 parts)
“Hot” (director)
“Keep You Safe” (director and starring role)
“The Eighth Suspect”
■Louis Koo (2 parts)
“Sweeping Drugs 3: The End of the World”
“Assassination Storm”
■Wang Chuanjun (2 parts)
“No Name” “All or Nothing”
■Shen Teng (2 parts)
“Man Jianghong” “Super Family”
The top five summer box office charts
1 “She Who Disappeared” 3.5 billion
2 “All or Nothing” 2.5 billion
3 “Fengshen Part I” 2.2 billion
4 “In the Octagonal Cage” 2.19 billion
5 “Three Thousand Miles of Chang’an” 1.75 billion
