"The Claw" with Tuan Tran has suffered heavy losses, cannot sell tickets, and will soon leave theaters

According to data from Box Office Vietnam, the film Claw to date, the total revenue only stops at 3.8 billion VND. With the current situation, Claw will likely have to leave theaters soon and suffer heavy losses

As of noon on June 24, Claws had not sold any more tickets that day even though theaters were still arranging screenings. Even while waiting for the weekend, the project's ticket sales ability is not positive, only earning more than 15 million VND even though it has only entered its third week in theaters.

The Claw is the first Vietnamese film to hit theaters this June. The work belongs to the monster survival genre, a topic exploited by many developed cinema industries but has not yet appeared in Vietnam. The Claw content revolves around a group of 7 friends lost in the deep forest, unfortunately attacked by a bear named Mat. The group must find a way to survive, trying to survive when encountering this special villain.

The project is expected to create a new breeze for the box office when it gathers a cast of young stars familiar to the audience such as Tuan Tran, Nguyen Lam Thao Tam, Rocker Nguyen, Hong Thanh... Among them, the male lead Tuan Tran has won many awards. who has been considered a "box office guarantee" in recent years, continuously starring in movies that break Vietnamese cinema's revenue records. Before hitting theaters, director Le Thanh Son was very confident about his brainchild, expecting to surpass the 300 billion VND milestone.

However, after its release, The Claw did not create the expected effect at the box office. The work did not even surpass the daily sales of Face Off 7: One Wish - a project released more than a month earlier. Many viewers praised the film's investment in visuals and techniques, but were not too impressed. Meanwhile, the script was criticized for being too old, stereotypical and with many illogical details.

Claws continues to follow in the footsteps of a series of Vietnamese films released since the beginning of this year such as Tra (1.6 billion), Bright Lights (3.4 billion), Lady Heirs 2 (6.4 billion), B4S - Before Love (3.8 billion), Murder on the 4th Floor (1.9 billion). Among them, the most tragic failure must be the Fragile Flower directed by Mai Thu Huyen with a revenue of only 430 million VND.

Meanwhile, the paradox is that survival horror movies are one of the most popular movie series on Netflix. Many series are continuously produced and rank at the top of views in Vietnam. Foreign actors rose to fame. With those movies, Vietnamese audiences are very interested and know each character well, but they have no need to watch Vietnamese movies of the same genre.

Vietnamese cinema has other genres such as zombie films and ghost films that also have similar motifs but are not included in the survival film genre. Because survival movies emphasize humans' struggle with nature and real phenomena instead of fiction. In this genre of film, one or more characters strive for physical survival.

The film series explores people's will to live - which will rise up strongly when their lives are threatened. The film exposes deep emotions, personal motives and desires because when faced with death, people cannot hide those things.

More broadly, survival films bring reflections on personal values, friendship, love and the meaning of life and death. If the script is profound, this film will not stop at a B-grade film that is strong in drama, entertainment, and sensationalism for the audience, but will also achieve high artistic quality.

The common point of survival movies is that the actors have to be very diligent and effortful. The setting is often in nature, mountains, forests; The script has many scary scenes, characters are physically attacked, mentally threatened, chased, suppressed, have to scream, and suffer pain.

And in Vietnam, Claws is also among the most expensive Vietnamese films. The indifference of the audience - not only shown in revenue but also shown in the few comments about Claws on social networks - is a sad reality for producers and for the diversity of cinema. Vietnamese.

Phim của Hoài Linh lao dốc ngoài rạp, doanh thu bết bát sau 3 tuần công chiếu Phúc Sen17:01:07 17/09/2024Ở tuần thứ ba trụ rạp, phim Làm giàu với ma có Hoài Linh, Tuấn Trần đóng chính vẫn đứng đầu bảng xếp hạng doanh thu của Box Office Vietnam (đơn vị quan sát phòng vé độc lập).