[The Epoch Times, 21 Giblean, 2024](Reported by Epoch Times reporter Tong Yijia) Release of the film “Beyond the Mountains” starring Sima Nan, known as the “anti-American fighter” and a major figure in the Chinese Communist Party on the 20th, but the box office is very difficult. According to statistics from “Maoyan”, at 9 o’clock that night, the film’s box office on the first day was only 499,000 yuan (RMB, the same thing below). “Maoyan” also predicts that if this trend continues, the total box office of the film will not exceed 2.35 million yuan in the end.
According to public information, “Beyond the Mountains” is set in the early 20th century. It tells the story of Tang Xiaolin, a young man from a poor mountain village who was cheated of his tuition fees when he went to the village to study at. university, and began a wandering life in the city. Since Sima Nan has long considered herself a “spokesman for the underclass”, the relevant press release introduced Sima Nan’s role in the film as follows: “Dad (on played by Sima Nan) opposite white hair tells about the impermanence of the years.
On April 20, several mainland media reported, “Amidst controversy, the film “Beyond the Mountains,” starring leftist celebrity V Sima Nan, was officially launched in theaters across the country today are completely unique.
The report said, “Although there are many people who dislike Sima Nan online, on paper, his number of followers is not very large on Weibo, Toutiao and other platforms.
What is the real box office? The above article changed the subject and said that according to statistics from the app “Maoyan”, as of 9 pm on the 20th, the box office of “Beyond the Mountain” on the first day of release was 499,000 yuan. “Maoyan” also estimates that the total box office of the film will be around 2.357 million yuan.
In fact, the blogger “Toutiao” revealed today “Quanquanquanquan” on March 30, after the release of “Beyond the Mountains” on March 23 this year, the box office for a few days was only 200,000; only 200,000 yuan. The film was played less than 200 times on Bilibili.
On April 8, Sima Nan made a video for promotion: “I made a film “Beyond the Mountains. ” It was initially said that the film would be released in theaters in March for everyone to see. In other words, this movie has not been released yet, not even a single scene has been shown, but a group of people on the Internet have come out to spread rumors and angrily accuse Sima Nan of he is a bad person.” He accused “people who spread rumors haven’t seen one scene” and complained: “I think. There are short essays and short videos in every h -place, but I’m used to it, but there are so many people in this drama, is it acceptable for you to have trouble with a cast?”
On April 20, a filmgoer posted a movie review that mocked him: “Sima Nan’s acting skills in “Beyond the Mountains” can be said to be excellent. The poor people he plays are just like real people .is a person who owns property in the United States.
Because “Beyond the Mountains” includes key words such as disease, poverty, tragedy, struggle, human strangulation, blood and tears, climbing, etc., it reminds me that Sima Nan had asked who decided about the work of Nobel Prize winner, Mo Yan, “We will not even sing this hymn again.” , what has become of this literature and art?” Some small pinks also protested: “We dear people will firmly not agree to this film which is highly suspected of smearing and harming our motherland and giving knives to hostile forces over there over!”
Public information shows that Sima Nan’s real name is “Yu Li. Going to the United States is life.” Some compare Sima Nan to Hu Xijin, Kong Qingdong, and Wu Fatian listed as the “Big Four Five” of the Chinese Communist Party.
As early as January 20, 2012, Sima Nan wrote on Weibo: “The United States is the enemy of people all over the world. It exploits every country in the world. It is like a big tumor. It will people around the world question the After he posted the article, he posted it on the I on board a flight to the United States and preparing to celebrate the New Year with my relatives who lived there. Suddenly, he had an accident at an airport in the United States.
In 2022, after the outbreak of the epidemic in China, some netizens broke the news that Sima Nan’s wife bought a house in Fremont, California, U.S. After we checked the American Real Estate Network, we learned that Yu Jia, the son of Sima Nan, is the owner of this house He and his wife Liu Songli bought it in 2010, and the price at the time of the transaction was US$ 583,700 The market value in 2022 is double to a million yuan.
Despite the news, Sima Nan, who had vehemently denied owning property overseas, publicly admitted on Weibo that he had bought properties in the United States, but the situation with the outside world was greatly reduced. He said, “In 2010, my family bought a small house in the United States for a total of US$257,000.” He also said that many netizens at that time criticized him for lining up with enemies and showing his readiness to defect he also accused him of being a “two-faced man.”
There are reports that after Bo Xilai, the former secretary of the Communist Party of China in Chongqing, was dismissed from his post in March 2012, Hubei TV reporter and host “Sina” confirmed Bai Shui and revealed that Sima Nan’s wife and son immigrated to the group. The United States through Bo Xilai.
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