said that the current Hong Kong movies have "completely declined", and some even said that the current Hong Kong movies are "dead". This seems to be the case. Hong Kong films released in mainland China theaters in recent years have failed to achieve relatively impressive box office results. Some films starring superstar actors only had a total box office of tens of millions of yuan.
However, in the Chinese mainland market, the movies that have "been in decline" or even "dead" are not only Hong Kong films, but also Hollywood blockbusters that have always dominated the box office in mainland China's film history.
Hollywood blockbusters in the past were very popular in the Chinese mainland market. Many of them have won the annual box office championship in mainland China, and many have broken the highest box office record in China's film history. James Cameron's "Avatar", Michael Bay's "Transformers 4", and Vin Diesel's "Fast and Furious 7" have all topped the box office in Chinese film history.
Moreover, five years ago, Marvel's superhero movies also made a splash in the Chinese mainland market. "Avengers 4" earned a high box office of over 4.2 billion yuan, directly breaking the record for Chinese imported movies. box office record.
However, now, Hollywood blockbusters are no longer brilliant in mainland China. It can even be said that "Hollywood blockbusters are dead."
On March 8 this year, the Hollywood science fiction adventure blockbuster " Dune 2", co-starring famous Hollywood actors Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, began to be officially released in mainland theaters.
"Dune 2" is the sequel to " Dune " created by the original team three years ago. Its predecessor "Dune" received unanimous praise from the audience in mainland China, with more than 600,000 viewers on Douban. It scored a high score of 7.7, but its box office was not very satisfactory, only 260 million yuan.
Now this sequel, which has just been released, has a better overall quality and even better reputation among the audience than its predecessor. Its Douban score has reached a high score of 8.3, with more than 120,000 comments.
Unfortunately, although "Dune 2" has a good reputation, its box office performance is not very good.
On the first day of its release, "Dune 2" only earned more than 42 million yuan, losing to the Taiwanese film "", which had been released for more than a week, and failed to win the daily box office championship. On the second day, although the daily box office performance of "Dune 2" had risen to more than 56 million, it still lost to "The Three Evils" and still failed to win the championship.
It was previously said that the global box office of "Dune 2" must reach at least 500 million US dollars (3.6 billion yuan) to ensure that it does not lose money. For such a large-scale movie, coupled with the high reputation of the audience, the single-day box office in the mainland is only With tens of millions of RMB, the final total box office is predicted to be only 270 million RMB. It seems to have proved that "Hollywood blockbusters are dead."
Hollywood blockbusters have had a bad start, and I really don’t know if they will have a chance to turn around in the future.
