The most regrettable thing to say about the Spring Festival in 2024 is the absence of Jackie Chan.
As the most golden season of the year, the Spring Festival is supposed to blossom, but for various reasons, the Spring Festival in 2024 has become a special show for comedies.
Action, fantasy and other types of films are missing.
In particular, the Legend, which has been preparing for the release of the Spring Festival, has been silent, and Jackie Chan has been absent from the Spring Festival for five years in a row.
69-year-old Jackie Chan is giving way? Xie Miao brought two new action films in one breath during the Spring Festival.
You should know that the eldest brother is the one who opened the Spring Festival in the mainland.
Jackie Chan's "Red Fan District" was released during the Spring Festival holiday in 1995, which introduced the concept of Spring Festival to the mainland film market. since then, Jackie Chan has released new films during the Spring Festival almost every year, and in 2017, Jackie Chan won 1.7 billion yuan at the box office with "Kung Fu Yoga." won the Spring Festival championship in one fell swoop.
This is Jackie Chan's brightest moment in the mainland market.
Unfortunately, it never recovered. "Detective Pu Songling" grossed less than 200 million at the box office, "Vanguard" withdrew from the Spring Festival to National Day, and "Dragon Horse Spirit" in 2023 earned just over 200 million at the box office in Wujing. "Fury Sandstorm," which cost 570 million yuan, did not make it to the mainland market.
All this makes the Legend hesitate to face up to the box office king like Shen Teng and Jia Ling.
In my opinion, this year's Spring Festival is a good opportunity for Jackie Chan."Flying Life 2" is a little suspected of fried cold rice."Hot and Hot" marketing is excessive. Zhang Yimou needs to be observed because of the reputation of "Manjianghong." The top three Spring Festival files have shortcomings. In addition, they are all comedy themes. The audience will definitely be aesthetic fatigue. At this time, the main special effect "Legend" may be a black horse.
But at this time Xie Miao came forward. Xie Miao will bring two new action films "defiant 2" and "Anti-evil" during the Spring Festival this year.
Although it is an online premiere, but "defiant 2" is scheduled for the first day of the Lunar New year, and "hunting evil" is released on the third day of the Lunar New year, which is completely head-to-head with the cinema's Spring Festival blockbuster. This boldness naturally comes from confidence in the quality of the works.
Is Xie Miao coming out? An Zhijie is willing to be a green leaf, and the online Spring Festival box office champion has been decided.
2024 is undoubtedly a crucial year for Xie Miao.
Although "defiant 2" can not afford the high cost of cinema distribution, it has returned to NetUniversity.
However, the online Spring Festival is not worse than the cinema schedule, if the "defiant 2" can hit 100 million at the box office, it will be the online movie "Wolf Warriors 2". Judging from the current situation, "defiant 2" is expected to complete this feat.
"defiant" in 2022 is just a small production with a cost of 8 million.
Unexpectedly, he won an excellent reputation after its release, with a Douban score of 7.1. for a big online action movie, this score is very high, and the film's box office has exceeded 26 million, which has been supported by many people in the industry.
Therefore, Defiant 2 greatly increased the cost to 30 million.
Once ready to hit the cinema market in 2023, it was Xie Miao's first male blockbuster in 28 years, but as we all know later, "defiant 2" was put off until 2024 to return to the original place.
This time Xie Miao plays the knife catcher who becomes blind and will act with an orphan girl who has been wiped out. Uncle Lori's setting is extremely classic. I believe it can make up for the deficiency in the first plot. From the trailer, Xie Miao's action play is still the biggest selling point of the film.
A listening knife! A pair of wrong hands! One move, Loulan chopping!
"defiant 2" is the only film that dares to set the New year's Day online this year, and it is also the number one seed of this year's online Spring Festival champion!
But unexpectedly, Xie Miao also wanted to contract for the Spring Festival, and there was another online premiere of "fighting evil" on February 12.
The biggest selling point of this piece is undoubtedly the duel between Xie Miao and an Zhijie.
As the two major signboards of online action movies in recent years, Xie Miao and an Zhijie have never worked together. interestingly, both Hong Kong films are regarded as the successors of Jet Li, and they both rise after the transformation, and their life circumstances are quite similar.
In the film, Xie Miao plays the No. 1 male anti-drug policeman Huang Mingjin, who is tracking down the city's underground drug king, while Wei Yunzhou, the mysterious man played by an Zhijie, repeatedly stops them, and the two men fight in turn, but the mysterious man's target also seems to be the underground drug king. Judging from the trailer, "fighting evil" is not only the peak showdown between Xie Miao and an Zhijie, but also two people cooperate against the enemy.
The action play is clean and clean, and the two work together very tacitly. It is definitely an action movie that can't be missed during the Spring Festival this year.