Throughout the decades of brilliance of Chinese-language films, Hong Kong films have always supported the market. The influence of mainland films and Taiwan films is limited to the local area, while overseas influence is carried by Hong Kong films. The development of mainland movies was relatively late. In the early years, they were dominated by Hong Kong stars, such as Jackie Chan, Jet Li, Stephen Chow, Chow Yun-fat, Andy Lau, Louis Koo, etc. These superstars in the mainland market are all killing all sides. At the beginning, mainland film stars were still in the "blank" stage. Chen Kun and Huang Xiaoming were just small stars, and Wang Baoqiang, Xu Zheng and Huang Bo were not influential.
With the continuous rise of the mainland market, mainland stars have ushered in opportunities. For example, the box office explosion of "Tai囧" made comedy stars rise strongly, and Xu Zheng, Huang Bo, Wang Baoqiang and others became popular. Mainland celebrities have yet to solve their "shortcomings", that is, the market outside the mainland cannot receive the box office. Although the overseas box office is not even a fraction of the current mainland market, it is also necessary to increase the influence of domestic films and go abroad. necessary.
The famous Hong Kong director Wang Jing pointedly said in an interview: In the past, investors in Hong Kong had not dared to use mainland actors as the leading male performers, because being overseas is equivalent to giving up the overseas market. Many people are not familiar with the Chinese-language film market. Before 2010, Chinese-language films relied on the global market to collect the box office. At that time, the mainland market was not as hot as it is now. At that time, the only Hong Kong superstars who could hold the box office in the mainland were those who were able to hold the box office. Almost none of the mainland stars have appeal.
When the mainland box office cannot guarantee the box office sales, you naturally need overseas markets to ease the box office pressure. This is why Hong Kong investors dare not use mainland male stars to take the lead, because overseas markets cannot sell money. Of course, the capacity of the mainland movie market is large enough now that mainland filmmakers at the box office in overseas markets still look down on it, but the "shortcomings" of mainland stars are still there. Who can justify the mainland movie scene?
Now the mainland market has risen. Compared with the insignificant box office in the overseas market, many Hong Kong directors choose to abandon the overseas market, but this is not how powerful the mainland stars are. The box office influence of the established Hong Kong superstars is still there. In the past two years, Hong Kong films have exploded at the box office in the Mainland, while the box office of Mainland films in Hong Kong has been terrible. This contrast makes Mainland filmmakers more embarrassed.
Many superstars in the mainland movie world dominate, they are just mainland superstars, Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang, Shen Teng and others can not go out of the mainland, but Wu Jingcheng's mainland movie fig leaf. Movies such as "Chinatown 2", "I'm Not the God of Medicine", "The Richest Man in Xihong City" are very popular, but if you look closely at the box office, you will find that 99.99% are contributed by the mainland, which means that the overseas influence is almost zero.
Wu Jing's "Wolf Warriors 2" and "Wandering Earth" are not only selling in the mainland, they have set a record of first and second place in history, but also have eye-catching performance in overseas markets. What makes people unexpected is that many people in the mainland are not satisfied with Wu Jing's call for influence, and they all complain that he has become the only fig leaf of mainland celebrities by brushing the "patriotic card", but he is still ridiculed by some people for no reason!
Wang Jing said: Using a mainland actor as the number one male cannot sell money overseas. Do you agree with this view? Judging from the overseas box office of domestic films in recent years, Wu Jing is indeed a fig leaf for the local film industry.
