"Mr. Red Carpet", starring Andy Lau, had a box office of only 73 million yuan in 5 days after its release, and the film schedule has dropped to 19% and attendance at 101% at the bottom.
Maoyan Professional Edition follows this trend**, the final total box office of the film does not exceed 100 million yuan, and it is destined to become the "cannon fodder" of this year's Chinese New Year movies.
"Mr. Red Carpet" is based on the film and television industry, with Andy Lau as the core, focusing on a series of absurd farces caused by his cooperation in making rural-themed movies for the actor and the director played by Ning Hao: celebrity fraud, the "unspoken rules" of film festival awards, and the intervention of management in creative ......Ning Hao and Andy Lau boldly played a "self-deprecation" together.
The most eye-catching plot is that one day Liu Weichi was questioned by the "sister-in-law of the king" as soon as he got up: "When are you going to move out, when you get married, you won't make it public, and if you divorce it, it's not public, and the big star is so self-righteous."
In fact, this plot is Andy Lau's self-deprecation and apology for hiding his marriage for many years and deceiving fans.
Although Andy Lau publicly denied that "Mr. Red Carpet" was a movie about his autobiography, the role of "Lau Weichi" played by him has a heavy idol baggage, which seems to reflect Andy Lau himself.
When Andy Lau was young in 1994, when filming "Heavenly Love", every time he took off his helmet after riding a motorcycle, he would blow his flattened hairstyle upwards with his mouth, a habit that was severely criticized by director To Qifeng on the spot.
According to the data disclosed in the financial report of the producer "Huanxi Media", the production cost of "Mr. Red Carpet" is 2600 million yuan, including 20.86 million yuan for the production fee, 24.6 million yuan for director Ning Hao, and 60.7 million yuan for the main character.
In the five days since its release on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the box office of "Mr. Red Carpet" has only been more than 7,300 yuan, and the filmmaker's share is only 25.63 million, which has caused a loss of 2343.7 billion yuan, the film's share is not enough to pay Andy Lau about 60 million yuan.
Some industry insiders pointed out that Andy Lau in this year's New Year's file is as sad as in 2021, because the movies starring Andy Lau in the New Year's file have become the biggest "cannon fodder" in the past two years.
In the New Year's file of 2021, the biggest "cannon fodder" is "The Crowd", which is co-starring Andy Lau and Xiao Yang; In this year's New Year's file, the biggest "cannon fodder" is "Mr. Red Carpet", which is starring Andy Lau, who is also the producer.
Although these two films are the "cannon fodder" of the Chinese New Year, the two are still different, at least "The Crowd" was still slightly profitable that year, but today's "Mr. Red Carpet" may cause huge losses for the filmmaker.
According to industry estimates, in addition to the salary of the director and the first leading actor, plus other expenses, the total cost of "Mr. Red Carpet" must exceed 2600 million yuan. Even if the cost is 2A film of 600 million yuan needs to harvest at least 1 billion yuan at the box office to ensure that it breaks even.
According to the current box office trend of the film, the total box office of the film will not exceed 100 million yuan.
As a result, the amount of its loss may be the largest in the year.