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Wolf Warrior 2 is an action-war and military film directed by Wu Jing, starring Wu Jing, Lu Jingshan , Frank Grillo and others, which has earned 5.679 billion yuan at the box office.

The film tells the story of Leng Feng, a former Wolf Warrior soldier, encountering a national rebellion in Africa.He had been able to evacuate safely, but he could not forget the duty of a soldier and return to the battlefield to launch a rescue story. It was released on mainland China on July 28,2017.

Plot synopsis
Leng Feng was sentenced by a court martial for under the impulse to kill the bully who grabbed the house of his dead comrade. While in custody, his girlfriend Long Xiaoyun went missing while on a mission in Africa. After Leng Feng was released from prison, he went to Africa to find Xiao Yun's murderer. During this period, a rebellion occurred in the country where Leng Feng stayed. China sent its navy to the mission of withdrawing overseas Chinese. When Leng learned that Dr. Chen was trapped in a hospital 55 kilometers away. And the rebels tried to capture him. At the same time, from another overseas Chinese learned that Xiao Yun's murderer is staying in the country. Unable to get naval support, Leng Feng alone broke into the battlefield of smoke and launched a war with the enemy.

Production
Wolf Warrior was Directed by Wu Jing and played by Wu Jing, Yu Nan , Scott Atkins and so on. Wolf Warrior took six years of production and was released in China in 2015.

In 2015, Lu Jianmin started the Wolf Warrior film series as a producer together with Wu Jing.

As a military lover, Lu Jianmin has dreamed of becoming a soldier since he was a child, but he failed to become a soldier because he failed to meet the physical examination. But because of his military passion, he had always wanted to make a military film. Having met Wu Jing at a party, they became friends with the same hobby and often talked about military topics. Later, Wu Jing filmed I Am a Special Forces 2 after 18 months of training in the army. During this period, the two sides have been planning to shoot a film on military themes. After making full preparations, the project Wolf Warrior was launched. Lu Jianmin likes reading online novels with military themes. He gained inspiration from the novel and contacted the authors, inviting them to become writers.

On June 19, 2016, Wolf Warrior 2 was officially started production at a film and television base in Huairou, Beijing.

Production team: Frank Griero, who plays the villain in the Captain America series, and Sam Hargrave, who is an action director of films like Captain America 3 , and Task Force X .

Tidbits
The six-minute underwater opening scene used a shot to the end, shooting the scene for six months. Actors and photographers spend nearly 10 hours in the water every day.

On August 23, 2016, filming the "Tank rolling car" scene, Wu Jing drove a tank alone, shuttling through six tanks, rolling over a truck.In just 10 seconds, the car instantly became a pile of scrap iron. This was the first time that a domestic actor personally drove a tank over a car.

During filming, nearly 100 car models, two model tanks weighing 20 tons and one aircraft model were blown up.

In the film, Wu Jing holds the national flag through the war area, which is not a fabrication.

It was the largest evacuation of overseas Chinese citizens since 1949. It was also a big rescue of the four major forces, sea, land, air and army. This is even more a huge overseas rescue operation for Chinese citizens.

On August 15, 2017, Wolf Warrior 2 was confirmed to be postponed to September 28, running for 2 months.

Wolf Warrior 2 was re-released on September 19, 2018, for a one-month run.

The film was filmed in Jinshitan (African beach part), and Zhuanghe Port (African port part) in Dalian, Liaoning, an iron factory in Xuanhua District of Zhangjiakou, Hebei (African Chinese factory part), Maasai Mara National Wildlife Sanctuary in Kenya (African grassland part), and slum of South African (African infectious disease isolation area)[10][11].

Music
Artist: Joseph Trapanese

Language:, Pure music

Record label: Groove Records

Release date: August 03,2017

Album style: Film Score

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22. <Wolf Warrior 2 Main Theme Reprise>

==== Release ====

Box office
The box office exceeded 1 billion RMB in 83 hours and exceeded 4.5 billion RMB in 23 days. The box office exceeded 100 million RMB a day for 18 consecutive days, ranking the world's top 100 box office.

With Wolf Warrior 2 revenue 5 billion yuan, Wu's company earned about 560 million yuan at the box office.

On October 26,2017, Wolf Warrior finished at 5.681 billion yuan, ranking 55th at the global box office.

Box Office in Chinese Mainland (monetary unit: RMB) Box Office in Hong Kong (monetary unit: HKD) Box Office in North American (monetary unit: USD) There are more than 100 million moviegoers for Wolf Warrior 2, and making the highest number of moviegoers. The global box office is $870 million. Chinese box office occupies 98% of total.

Marketing strategies
Wolf Warrior 2 from "import period", "growth period", "maturity period" to "recession period", it combines product strategy, price strategy, publicity strategy and channel strategy based on 4P theory.

The type of Wolf Warrior 2 is a "military action film", which fits the patriotic atmosphere of the August 1st Army Day during the release season, and forms a movie-watching boom with its relatively excellent plot content.

In the film Internet ticket purchase has occupied more than 80% of the national ticket warehouse, various ticket websites have launched preferential activities to attract audiences, such as Guevara website launched "5 RMB to watch Wolf Warrior 2, and  Tao ticket launched "10 RMB tickets at 10 PM".

Wolf Warrior 2 marketing costs 60 million RMB.

Weibo "topic （话题）marketing"

WeChat "selling point （卖点）marketing".

Douban " public praise （口碑）marketing".

Zhihu "feelings（情怀） of marketing"

==== Commentary ====

One reason for the enthusiastic response compared to the first Wolf Warrior film is its improved action scenes. The movie, which is entirely privately funded, has also been lauded for its attention to detail and reportedly features close replicas of many of the latest weapons and artillery used by the Chinese army.—BBC News

“69% of TOMATOMETER, 75% Audience Score. Wolf Warrior 2 is a gargantuan box office phenomenon that most westerners will never even hear about. And I love that part of this story. I just wish Wolf Warrior 2 were a better movie to back up that exciting box office.”- The Top Critic from Rotten Tomatoes

“The movie is a window into state propaganda — and the population’s beliefs, too.”—National Review

“The breathless pacing thankfully doesn’t allow much time for viewers to ponder the plot holes or worry about character development, although the two-hour running time (more than 30 minutes longer than the original pic) results in overkill fatigue. As with Jackie Chan’s efforts, the outtakes during the end credits indicate that the film must have been a lot of fun to make, at least when the performers weren’t getting hurt. And in case fans were worried, a post-credits sequence sets up the inevitable sequel, which, they won’t be surprised to learn, will be entitled Wolf Warrior 3.”—The Hollywood Reporter

"Wolf Warrior 2 is for anyone who wishes more modern action movies were like bad Rambo rip-offs, only minus Stallone's charms, and amplified by Michael Bay-levels of soul-dead military/gun fetishism. Jing will get your blood up, but not in a good way.” —Rogerbert

According to Stanley Rosen, a professor at the University of Southern California who studies Chinese society and cinema, Wolf Warrior 2 imitate Hollywood type to build individualistic emotion. But in China, national films promote patriotism through building collective consciousness among individuals, groups and countries. So some foreign mainstream media like BBC can not accept Chinese superheroes.

The excellent box office of Wolf Warrior 2 means that Hollywood model films are successful, and it also means that China is more mature in making films. However, we need to look at the box office results more objectively. The success of Wolf Warrior 2 is mainly a typical Chinese phenomenon, and its box office results are not reflected abroad. Wolf Warrior 2 has not achieved commercial success in overseas markets, so the Chinese film industry and building Chinese superheroes still have a long way to go.

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