On March 1, according to the data of Lighthouse professional edition, the overall box office of China’s film market in February reached 10.357 billion yuan (including service fees), and the number of film viewers reached 215 million. Among them, the top three at the box office were “shuimen bridge of Changjin Lake” with 3.859 billion yuan, “this killer is not too calm” with 2.482 billion yuan and “miracle stupid child” with 1.293 billion yuan. It is worth noting that “Changjin Lake”, the former film of “shuimen bridge of Changjin Lake”, surpassed “warwolf 2” in November last year and won the top box office in Chinese film history. At present, the box office of the two films has reached 9.644 billion yuan.
Wu Jing, the leading actor, once revealed that “shuimen bridge of Changjin Lake” had experienced four months of snow shooting. The director and actors worked hard day and night in the severe cold weather of more than minus 20 degrees. Not only their faces were frozen stiff, but even fell asleep in the snow. Some film critics pointed out that “shuimen bridge of Changjin Lake” has realized the organic combination of mainstream values and genre creation methods, reflected the new aesthetic characteristics of the main melody film, intensively reflected the industrial level of China Film Co.Ltd(600977) and opened up a new realm of domestic war films.
“Shuimen bridge of Changjin Lake” has become the most anticipated film in this year’s Spring Festival. The film shines brightly in the Spring Festival and is firmly in the “top place” at the box office. So far, “shuimen bridge of Changjin Lake” has broken 26 film history records, including the cumulative box office records of war films in Chinese film history during the Spring Festival. The box office of the film ranks eighth in Chinese film history. The previous work “Changjin Lake” is known as the “ceiling” of Chinese war films, breaking 32 film history records, including the box office champion of film history, and the final ticket room reached 5.775 billion yuan. At present, the cumulative box office of “Changjin Lake” series films has reached 9.644 billion yuan, and the cumulative number of film viewers has exceeded 200 million.
Statistics show that bona film is the main accuser of the “Changjin Lake” series of films. In fact, the enthusiasm for watching the two films is not surprising to people in the industry. The production of acclaimed and popular theme films has become the sign of Bona film industry. Bona pictures has previously launched the “China pride Trilogy” (“heroes of fire”, “decisive moment”, “captain of China”) and “trilogy of mountains, rivers and seas” (“outwit Tiger Mountain”, “Mekong River operation” and “red sea operation”).
Yu Dong, chairman of Bona film, said in an interview with China Securities News that the coordinate significance of “Changjin Lake” lies not only in pushing the industrialization specification of China Film Co.Ltd(600977) to a new level, but also in being able to calmly face the large-scale production and investment of Hollywood.
