Maybe Hong Kong movies are not "dead" yet, they are just waiting for an opportunity to prove themselves, and this opportunity has now come.
On April 19 this year, the Hong Kong drama movie " Diary of a Youth ", which was delayed for nearly half a year, failed to create a very impressive box office performance in mainland China, but it received unanimous praise from the audience.
More than 60,000 viewers gave "Diary of a Youth" a high score of 8.4 on Douban. This score has surpassed the biggest box office dark horse "", the biggest box office dark horse at the beginning of this year, and became the highest-rated Chinese film this year.
Such a well-produced Hong Kong film with a good reputation has only just exceeded 10 million yuan in total box office in the mainland. This is somewhat of a pity.
But this doesn't matter. The low box office performance of "Diary of a Youth" will be made up for by the next pure Hong Kong film.
Among the eight new films scheduled to be released on May Day this year, " Kowloon Walled City: The Siege " starring Louis Koo and others is the only Hong Kong film.
Because the pre-sale box office performance of this film was not very good at the beginning, it only earned a few hundred thousand yuan in box office in a few days. Therefore, domestic audiences generally believed that Hong Kong movies would fail again this time.
However, with the performance of this film at the box office in recent days, the audience's concept has changed 180 degrees, and they believe that it may make Hong Kong films truly rise.
During the screening period, "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" received a very good reputation from the audience. It is generally believed that this Hong Kong film is very popular. It is high-energy and has no irritation throughout. The cast is strong and the fight scenes are also very intense. This should be the most popular film in the recent five or six movies. The best Hong Kong movie of the year.
Because the audience's reputation is very good, the film's box office performance is also very good. Just on the second day, its box office performance exceeded Hayao Miyazaki's " What kind of life do you want to live " , ranked second on the daily box office list, and the film also achieved box office decline for many consecutive days.
Especially on April 27, the daily box office performance of "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" surpassed the Hollywood blockbuster " Godzilla vs. Kong 2" and successfully topped the Japanese box office.
has a good reputation and its box office performance during the screening period is also very good. It seems that "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City" will definitely create a very impressive box office performance after its official release. Maybe it will become the first Hong Kong film to achieve a box office of over 1 billion yuan in the past two years, and maybe it will also win this year’s May Day box office championship.
