Hollywood News announced on its official Weibo account on Oct 19 that the Chinese comedy "Hello, Li Huanying" will be remade in English. Later, the official Weibo account of SONY Pictures confirmed the news, saying that SONY Pictures will remake "Hello, Li Huanying", the original director Jia Ling as the executive producer. In fact, domestic film and television productions have received a number of olive branches from overseas this year. Not long ago, Netflix announced the purchase of "The Long Season" broadcast rights, October 5 online. In the view of practitioners, with the recovery and recovery of the film and television industry, the overseas distribution channels of domestic films are restored, and the number of domestic and foreign film cooperation and exchanges will continue to increase.
On October 19, the topic of "Hollywood remake Hello Li Huanying" hit the hot search list on Weibo, and SONY Pictures announced through its official Weibo that it would remake the English version of Hello Li Huanying. It is reported that this will be the first domestic comedy to be remade by Hollywood.
According to the Lighthouse professional edition, "Hello, Li Huanying" was released in the Spring Festival of 2021, and ranked third in the box office of China's film history with a box office of 5.413 billion yuan.
In addition, public information shows that after the 2023 Spring Festival film "Wandering Earth 2" was released in dozens of countries and regions, the overseas box office exceeded 100 million yuan; The science fiction drama "The Three-Body Problem" has been broadcast on overseas platforms on five continents; After "The Long Season" became a hit, Netflix bought the rights to the series and began airing it on October 5.
The reputation and market appeal of domestic films have been tested and proved in the summer holiday soon after the end. Data from the State Film Administration showed that the total box office of films during the summer holiday (June 1 to August 31) totaled 20.619 billion yuan, setting a new record for the same period in history.
As domestic film and television began to look for new possibilities overseas, challenges came one after another. "Factors such as viewing habits and language are one of the difficulties for domestic films to accumulate audiences overseas. In addition, whether we can win more slots in the already competitive overseas film market directly affects the overseas box office." Huang Can, who is engaged in film distribution, pointed out.
According to public data, as of 2023, the overseas box office champion of domestic films is the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon directed by director Ang Lee in 2000, and the top list is the works directed by directors such as Jackie Chan and Zhang Yimou who have accumulated a high reputation overseas.
Investment analyst Gao Jia pointed out that enriching the subject types of film and television works, enhancing the global radiation ability of domestic films, and cultivating more international buyers are becoming the new goal of the industry. The construction of the global expression of Chinese stories and the Chinese narrative system will help domestic films to further emerge from the circle after "going to sea".
"With the recovery and recovery of the film and television industry, the pace of domestic and foreign film and television cooperation and domestic film and television 'going out' will continue to accelerate." Goga said.
