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The box office of "The Return of the King" continues to rise and has exceeded 2 billion so far.

"Taiwan" was even more miserable. It only earned 128 million after one week of release.

Because the contrast between the two at the box office was so great, the media and audiences were shocked.

There are gradually more and more analytical articles comparing the two.

Some media joked that "The Wheel" has packaged itself as a disaster movie from beginning to end. Unfortunately, the film's market and critical reception was a disaster.

As for the reason for its failure, some media believe that its failure was already doomed when the director decided to divide the film into two parts and compare it to "Titanic".

Because it is divided into two parts, it seems completely unnecessary.

In the 118-minute plot of the second part, there are too many repetitions of the previous part.

What’s even more funny is that the plots in the upper and lower parts are of little significance to the shipwreck, which makes them seem a bit disconnected.

The so-called "shipwreck" is more like the background board of three love stories.

Director Wu Yusen's "ambition" is too great. He wants to make "The Wheel" into an epic movie to show that great era, as well as the lives and destinies that were ravaged by that great era.

It's a pity that the film eventually got out of control. History is not like history, and poetry is not poetic enough.

In addition, because mainland audiences have watched too many special effects blockbusters in recent years, the so-called "shipwreck scene" is not as shocking as imagined.

Failure at the box office has become a matter of course.

"Old Wu is just too naughty. He is obviously making a commercial blockbuster, but he insists on making it 'epic' and 'heavy'. If he had been honest and honest, the film would never have turned out like this!"

At the celebration banquet for "The Legend of the Dragon Slayer: The Return of the King", Wang Jing, who drank a little too much, couldn't help but complain.

Because he is a very purely commercial film director, he will never sacrifice the box office prospects of his films for the sake of so-called artistry.

Therefore, among the well-known directors in Hong Kong, although his works are very popular, his status is always lower.

Nowadays, the box office of the works he directed has exceeded 2 billion, which is somewhat inflated, and his words are not as cautious as before.

Du Huan was more direct, put down his wine glass and sneered, "Not only him, but Director Chen is also like this. The films he makes are not artistic, nor are they commercial!"

Yu Dong glanced at Jiang Heng and chuckled: "How can I say that Director Jiang can become a great international director? In terms of pragmatism alone, they can't compare!"

Jiang Heng chuckled and said, "Celebrate the victory and don't say anything else. Otherwise, if some words get out, it will feel like we are using our power to overwhelm others!"

Everyone laughed and said that Director Jiang was right.

The mainland box office of "The Return of the King" is estimated to be around 2.6 billion, and the divisible revenue received is more than 800 million.

Adding in the markets of Hong Kong, Baodao, Japan, South Korea, Southeast Asia, North America, and Europe, it is certain to make a lot of money, but it is just not as high as Jiang Heng's previous works.

After all, martial arts films, a genre unique to the Chinese film market, have a very limited audience in the global film market.

It can be said that except for "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" which was a box office hit, the rest of the box office results were not very high, including "Hero".

The reason why these two films have achieved certain results in the global market is that the content of the films caters to Western audiences' imaginations about China and Kung Fu to a certain extent.

This is not the case with "The Legend of the Dragon Slayer: The Return of the King." This is a film purely for domestic audiences. Most of the stars appearing in the film are unfamiliar to Western audiences.

If it weren't for the starring role of Jiang Heng, the current results would not be possible.

Among them, the North American market has exceeded 160 million US dollars, and the market estimate is that it will not exceed 200 million US dollars.

As for the entire overseas film market, it is approximately US$300 million.

Including the domestic film market, it is almost 700 million US dollars.

The production, publicity and distribution costs of the film were less than 300 million, and it made a solid profit!

As for "Taiping Wheel", it is really going to suffer miserably.

Time flies to mid-August, the day when "The Secret of the Dragon" and "Legend of the Gods" are to be released.

Speaking of the film "The Secret of the Dragon", it was produced by Aiyouteng Pictures, supervised by Jiang Heng, directed by Guo Fan, and starring Han Tong, Liu Yifei, Huang Bo and others.

Coupled with the blessing of the original work of "Ghost Blowing the Lamp", it has been highly anticipated by movie fans even before it was released.

After the feature film was played in the premiere promotion, it was also well received by the media and the audience.

On August 16, the film was officially released.

The film schedule of "The Secret of the Dragon" on that day was as high as 46.89%, and the box office reached 178 million yuan.

Although it failed to break through the 200 million mark, it was still a pretty good result.

It should be noted that "The Wheel" has only exceeded 180 million since its release!

However, "The Secret of the Dragon" has achieved both box office and word-of-mouth success, with a rating of 7.9 on Douban.com, which is pretty good!

Netizens commented on this film, "This is the authentic gold-touching model!"

“Aiyouteng’s products must be high-quality!”

"Director Jiang has made a fortune again this year!"

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The performance of "Legend of the Gods", which was released on the same day, was a bit miserable.

On the first day of release, 33.7% of the films were scheduled, but the box office was only 80 million, less than half of "The Secret of the Dragon".

What's even worse is that the film's reputation collapsed on the first day.

As a special effects blockbuster starring stars such as Jet Li, Liang Jiahui, Gu Tianle, Huang Xiaoming, and Yang Tianbao, the Douban score of "Legend of the Gods" is only 3 points, which is really too exaggerated!

The Xiang couple were dumbfounded after hearing the box office and word-of-mouth feedback of the film.

When the film was finished, they also felt that it was a little worse and could not be compared with Jiang Heng's works at all.

But they never expected that it would be so bad in the eyes of the audience.

That would lose money!

In addition to "The Crossing" and "Legend of the Gods", "One Step Away", which was released in early August, also collapsed in both box office and word-of-mouth.

Of course, director Jiang Wen's works are still worth watching.

At least the plot at the beginning of the movie is still quite bluffing.

Because of this, "One Step Away" has a Douban score of 6.7. Although it was complained by many viewers, there are also many supporters.

The box office results are not particularly bad, with 101 million on the first day of release.

It's just that due to word of mouth, the single-day box office fell sharply, and it's impossible to surpass "Let the Bullets Fly".

Some media counted the films in the 2013 summer season and gave the summary of "disaster films". The first one is naturally "The Crossing", followed by "Legend of the Gods", and "One Step Away" directed by Jiang Wen was also included.

Because many viewers said they couldn't understand it and didn't know what director Jiang Wen wanted to express.

In comparison, the films directed by Jiang Heng and iQiyi Films are better, with simple and clear plots and outstanding visual effects.

The only drawback is that the output is too low.

Now that "The King's Avatar 2" has been filmed, it's not clear what Director Jiang's next work will be! (End of this chapter)