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His hairstyle changed. I agree he looked like a different actor, but no only his hair style changed when he went ashore.

Possible explanations might be he wanted to disguise himself and don't want to be known as the old Tang San from the Douluo continent...

Look at the title of this YT video... it's too funy!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkXKbHGLq1A

Xiao Zhan’s Jin Yong Jinx: Another Flop, Another Ticket Wasted!

For the record, I have just downloaded the 60fps 4K movie 6GB total (it's currently being circulated on sharing networks). BUT never plan on watching it.

I think it's more shameful if you bring the horse to the lake side, but it doesn't drink the water... (more shameful if someone has the actual movie but doesn't even give it a quick glance). NOT that I'm a horse by any means!

Same with that flop of a movie Under One Person. I have it on my HDD in 4K. It was released back in Summer last year. I haven't bothered to watch it...

Left and right, various news channels and media praised some works released during the CNY '25!

https://www.globaltimes.cn/Portals/0/attachment/2025/2025-03-06/f93d0516-0b69-41ed-a0d6-ef6911c78855.jpeg

Which news outlet sang their praise for LoCH?

Answer: NONE!!

My last post on this topic. At this point LoCH performance at the box office had gotten so boring, it's not even worth my attn anymore!

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

Saturday, Mar 1 @ midnight (Beijing time):

#3 Boonie Bears:Future Reborn +$0.95M -> $106.53M (cumulative)

#8 Legend of the Condor Heroes +$0.26M -> $91.49M (cumulative)


See how it's a weekend number and LoCH still stuck in the low +~$0.3M!!

Tencent is making their own live action adaptation.

Here is the page: https://kisskh.at/778878-i-am-nobody

Lately, I stopped caring for Tencent live action productions. They all follow the same stale formula, which is why I've moved onto Youku/iQiyi drama.

I think Tencent will attempt something bold with this one and try to outdo Youku! Either this, or I gonna stop watching another Tencent drama, except for maybe 3Body S2/S3!

Look on the bright side, after paying the movie theaters a cut of the box office, movie seems to have broken even...

#1. Idiot investors think JY is EZ cash
#2. Idiot director think he's BIGGER than Ne Zha just becoz he did Battle of Lake Changjin. Should have pushed LoCH back to spring/summer release instead of head-butting against and being wholly owned left and right by Ne Zha 2!
#3. Idiot caster XZ is not a box office puller. Should have gotten someone like Liu Haoran to star as GJ instead!

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

Feb 28 (midnight Beijing time):

#8 Boonie Bears:Future Reborn +$0.17M -> $106.05M (cumulative)
#9 Legend of the Condor Heroes +$0.13M -> $91.64M (cumulative)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legends_of_the_Condor_Heroes%3A_The_Gallants
Budget ¥500 million (US$68-69 million)
Box office US$90+ million

Figures are now very boring. Seems to be nearing the end of its screening.

Don't feel too badly. My dad and me watched Ne Zha 2. Afterwards, he told me he fell asleep a few times...

"The film is extremely awkward. The drama is close to 0 points, and I yawned all the time. But the martial arts scenes are instantly lively, and Tsui Hark's cult style is still pleasing to the eye. It's not that Hua Zheng is a particularly outstanding character, but she is the only character in the film that can be developed."


This poor Hua Zheng actress. LoCH didn't provide her with the career break-out role she had hoped for! Nobody gonna rave on her in the industry on a movie that only scored 5.3/10 on Douban!

The day when a crappy American Hollywood movie outdoes LoCH daily box office in China:

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/ (Feb 22, 2025 @ midnight Beijing time)

#3 Boonie Bears:Future Reborn +$1.56M -> $104.10M (cumulative)

#7 Captain America: Brave New World +$0.56M -> $13.10M (cumulative)

#8 Legend of the Condor Heroes +$0.37M -> $90.56M (cumulative)

How the mighty Hark Tsui/XZ had fallen!


BTW, there is no way LoCH made more than $10M internationally. It means Boonie Bears had officially beaten LoCH world wide gross several days ago...

I think give it 3-4 more days, Boonie Bears can pull ahead of LoCH combined domestic + int box office too!

Latest box office figures reveals something called "director's remorse":

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

Feb 12 (midnight Beijing time):

#3 Boonie Bears:Future Reborn +$2.38M -> $94.12M (cumulative)

#6 Legend of the Condor Heroes +$0.40M -> $87.04M (cumulative)

I know what must be going thru Hark Tsui's head ATM--

Why oh why didn't I helm a Boonie Bears movie instead?

The great JY defeated by a bunch of fuzzies on the silver screen!

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

Day 13 (Feb 10 midnight Beijing time):

#3 Boonie Bears:Future Reborn +$2.34M -> $89.40M (cumulative)
#6 Legend of the Condor Heroes +$0.45 -> $86.19M (cumulative)

Boonie Bears: Future Reborn released at the same time has overtaken LoCH.

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

Feb 9, 2025 midnight (Beijing time) tally:

#3 Boonie Bears:Future Reborn +$3.78M -> $87.00M cumulative
#6 Legend of the Condor Heroes +$1.04M -> $85.73M cumulative

The lead will widen in the coming days. In the end because of poor Douban score (5.3/10), LoCH is unlikely to pull in more than $10M internationally. Boonie Bears can easily surpass LoCH domestic + international box office in a few more days!

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

Boonie Bears closing in on LoCH. It's got a faster, more impressive growth rate than LoCH.

#3. Boonie Bears:Future Reborn +$2.92 -> $83.15
#6. Legend of the Condor Heroes +$0.74 -> $84.67

Be funny if JY was overtaken by fuzzy bears on the silver screen. Lends the impression that wuxia is dead end for lucre-chasing...

10 days in:

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

USD 84 mils -- will be lucky to break USD 150 mils at the end of Feb./lifetime gross.

https://movie.douban.com/subject/36289423/

5.3/10 -- that's DESPITE all the fake AI-generated rosy reviews written by crazed fanbois to deny real reviewers their thoughts. If we ignore these failed and feeble attempts to prop up the ratings, actual score should be 4.5/10 or in that ballpark!

It's official 5.3/10 on Douban!

https://movie.douban.com/subject/36289423/

LMAO ditched RoCH movie half way to make another steaming pile...

8 days in... USD 82 million gross.

http://english.entgroup.cn/boxoffice/cn/daily/

Insiders were predicting a lifetime gross of CNY 3 billion for LoCH movie. What a butt joke! (Plus the cheating of fudging with the presales numbers to make it rank #1.)

In this end this move will fare no better at the BO than the typical (old age) Jackie Chan movie. RoCH is my favorite story. I despise all other JY stories. Director abandoned RoCH movie half way to chase the filthy lucre with LoCH and XZ. In the end LoCH movie probably will fare no better or slightly worse at the BO than the never finished RoCH.

Typical dumb dumbs think JY is a cash cow just rehash the same sh1t as on TV dramas and the cash will flow in... Nezha 2 just shows you have to deliver a new experience on old story in order to be successful. Some smart guy should just come and be like Nezha1/2 put a Sci Fi twist to JY stories. They already did with Purple River where the anime is set in Tolkien type fantasy Middle Earth but iQiYi came along and made the plot abandoned on a distant planet trying to get back to home on Earth!

There should be fighter spaceships duking it out in JY universe NOT warriors riding on horses...

For comparison, Part I - 7.7/10:

https://movie.douban.com/subject/10604086/

6.2/10 with most scores in the middle -- meaning movie was neither good nor bad.

https://movie.douban.com/subject/30181250/

Wuershan the hack director that made Under One Person movie a flop now also ruined 2nd installment of Fengshen Trilogy!