On July 1st, the North American Film Market’s summer season ushered in a blockbuster new film, “Minions: The Rise of Gru.” Since the summer season, it has been the main battlefield for animated films, but this year the two major film markets in China and the United States are sti

On July 1st, the North American Film Market’s summer season ushered in a blockbuster new film "Minions: The Rise of Gru"

Since the summer season, it has been the main battlefield for animated films, but this year the two major film markets in China and the United States have There has not yet been a blockbuster animation, and this "Minions: The Rise of Gru" has filled this gap.

The North American box office of the movie exceeded 48.75 million US dollars, or 320 million yuan, on the first day of its release. North American box office champion, performing very vigorously

This first-day result ranks fifth at the North American box office this year, far surpassing the recently released animated film " Lightyear: ", setting a record as the best animated film in the North American film market since 2020 The first-day box office results, even in North American film history, the only animated films that can achieve higher than this result are " The Incredibles 2" and "Finding Dory 2". According to the current trend, "Minions: The Rise of Gru" is extremely May replicate the box office success of its predecessor

and become the second blockbuster to hit $1 billion at the global box office this year

Hollywood has made a new Chinese-style film, and the opening theme of "Minions: The Rise of Gru" is a Chinese song

The filming experience of "Minions: The Rise of Gru" was very twists and turns. The previous film " Minions: The Rise of Gru" was released in 2015, with a global box office of US$1.1 billion, of which the Chinese mainland market contributed US$68 million. It is the third-largest movie ticket holder

Such a hit movie has been in production for a long time

But unexpected things always happen, and it was finally scheduled to be released in the summer of 2020. However, because the overseas film market was bleak that year, the film production was not completed. , as a result, it was delayed for two years, and it was not released until 2022.

The biggest change of this sequel is the use of a large number of Chinese elements

Minions In "Minions with Big Eyes and Cuteness: The Rise of Gru", Chinatown , Chinese Spring Festival culture, lion dance and lanterns, and even a big scene of the 12 zodiac signs fighting, the minions learning Tietou Kungfu are also hilarious, and the action design is also full of Jackie Chan -style comedy style

Even the opening song of the movie is the Chinese song "bang bang" sung by Deng Ziqi . Mainland audiences can understand it without any pressure.

However, the plot of the movie is still a bit old-fashioned. Simply put, it is about the minions learning Chinese kung fu . Defeat the villain who turned into a big monster. Of course, this kind of movie is easy and enjoyable. The movie has a lot of laughs. It can make the audience burst into laughter in basically 5 minutes.

Surprisingly, this kind of family-friendly cartoon was not introduced immediately this time. The unreliable speculation about the mainland release

may be that there is a plot in the movie where the Minions fly a plane randomly, causing it to fall vertically. In order to avoid association , the movie may have to wait for a while before it can be seen by Chinese audiences, or it may even have to wait. The movie is now available for streaming in North America

"The Legend of Lightyear" is a box office hit, and Minion proves that family fun is the standard for popular cartoons

In fact, the most blockbuster animated film in the North American summer this year should be "The True Story of Lightyear" ", as a derivative work of the North American audience's favorite animated IP "Toy Story", "The Story of Lightyear" cost 200 million US dollars in production cost

In order to be good at the box office, it even abandoned the protagonist Buzz Lightyear Recently 20 years of voice acting, let Captain America Chris Evans top

can be regarded as a cartoon that focuses on family fun, but Disney insists on making zzzq, and despite the outcry, does not delete the controversial scenes, resulting in More than 10 markets have boycotted the movie. Even if it can be released in many markets, they have changed "The Legend of Lightyear" to a restricted version. Anyone who hopes that

"Minions with Big Eyes: The Rise of Gru" will not engage in these vain things, but instead achieve excellent box office success

Speaking of which, Chinese style is quite strong in Hollywood this year, "" starring Michelle Yeoh "Instant Universe ", the current North American box office has reached 65.1 million U.S. dollars. You must know that this is a small production with a cost of only 15 million U.S. dollars. The movie also has a lot of Chinese elements, and even 30% of the dialogue is in Chinese. The male protagonist is simply It is a one-to-one copycat of Jackie Chan

The big hit of "The World" has also led to Michelle Yeoh's film appointments, such as "Minions: The Rise of Gru" where Michelle Yeoh is the voice actor

Of course, it is a Chinese-style movie made by Hollywood, or Chinese culture in their eyes, domestic films need to work hard to tell the world stories that truly belong to us Chinese