1995 was the most difficult year since Zhou Xing became famous. This year, the producer released three of his films during the Spring Festival and summer vacations. It was originally expected that with its super box office appeal, it would be able to sell on sale, but Xingzai, who had never missed a hand, unexpectedly “pushed” this time. "Street", one box office is worse than one. The three movies released this year by
are: "Moonlight Treasure Box", "Journey to the West: Cinderella" and "Return to the Soul Night".
Now the media reports that they are always exaggerating how miserable the box office of "A Westward Journey" is. In the most exaggerated online article, it is said that the movie only sold 200,000. Just think about it and you will know how it is possible! If it were 200,000 at the box office, the producer and Xing Ye would have committed suicide by jumping into the river, and they would have no face to live in this world.
However, there is a claim of 200,000, but it is not the total box office of the movie, but the total box office of Beijing in 1995. The Beijing media reported that the upper and lower parts of Westward Journey sold 400,000, an average of 200,000 per episode. The argument of 200,000 box office comes from this.
In fact, after the release of "Western Journey", the response in Hong Kong was good. Moonlight Treasure Box and Cinderella received box office results of 25.09 million and 21 million, respectively, which not only recovered the production cost, but also earned the annual box office in Hong Kong. In the overall rankings, they got sixth and eighth place respectively. You know, in 1999, "The King of Comedy" won the first place in the annual box office, with only 29.48 million. It is just over 4 million lower than the King of Comedy. So the box office of the Westward Journey is really not low!
News reports have always said that the box office is low. I think there are two main reasons: First, the market outside Hong Kong is really miserable. Beijing sold 400,000. Although there is no precise figure in the whole mainland, the box office is not very satisfactory from the tone of publicity. . In addition to the mainland, the box office of China's Treasure Island is also very low, almost letting filmmakers lose the bottom of the compensation, and at one time doubted Stephen Chow's ten million box office appeal. The second reason for
is that it feels very low. Compared with Star Master's previous box office of more than 40 million yuan, this movie's score is close to half, and it is indeed a lot lower. The newly formed Color Star Company also directly went bankrupt.
Actually, the box office of "A Big Story Westward Journey" was put in the hands of other directors, and it had already been a big blow, but for Stephen Chow, it went straight to the street. It's because the name is too big to tolerate any mistakes, and the performance is slightly unsatisfactory, and it will be enlarged infinitely.
What is interesting is that at the time the box office of "Western Journey" "failed", Liu Zhenwei believed that he had let down his good friend Zhou Xingchi, so he turned around and filmed the ghost film he was familiar with when he debuted. Who knows that the box office after the release of "Return to Soul Night" is even worse than that of "Westward Journey", only 16 million Hong Kong dollars. It is almost the lowest-grossing movie since "The Gambler" and "The Gambler" became famous in 1990 until now.
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