On May 2, there were obvious changes in the May Day stalls in the mainland film market.
There are actually no blockbuster new films on the May Day schedule this year that will attract a lot of attention. After all, the real big domestic productions will definitely choose the summer schedule in the near future, so for a time, "Spy's Playhouse Code White" and " Howl's Moving Castle" "" two Japanese anime have the upper hand, but with the fermentation of word-of-mouth, " Kowloon Walled City: The Siege " began to exert force!
's box office exceeded 180 million, " Kowloon Walled City " counterattacked and won the third place, and " Peacekeeping Riot Squad " could no longer retain its championship.
As of 23:00 on May 2, the domestic films "Peacekeeping Riot Squad", "Doomsday Spending" and "Kowloon Walled City" have taken the top three box office positions on May 1st.
"Peacekeepers"'s single-day box office exceeded 93.69 million, and its share of scheduled films dropped to 25.1%, and its share of box office also dropped to 27.5%.
Compared with the box office that exceeded 136 million on the first day, the drop was a bit serious the day after the movie was released. Of course, this is also the norm for traffic movies. The cumulative box office of the movie has exceeded 230 million in the two days since its release, temporarily winning the May Day box office championship.
The biggest problem with "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" is that it has a poor reputation and cannot attract passers-by at all. The
movie was actually completed in 2021. However, due to a bad actor, Ouhao was remade, which delayed the movie for a long time and also deleted a large amount of the plot. The audience should be able to feel this deletion. After all, the movie is 101 minutes long, and the end credits are 13 minutes long. It is obviously too long, otherwise the 88-minute theatrical movie would be really embarrassing.
"The Last Day" has a single-day box office of over 85.81 million, with its film schedule share rising to 18.2% and box office share as high as 25.2%.
is not the first movie in terms of movie schedule, but it has the highest attendance rate. Compared with the box office of 86.44 million on the first day, "The Last Day" barely dropped the next day after its release. The cumulative box office in the two days after its release exceeded 173 million, which is considered a May Day holiday this year. After all, , Jia Bing, and have become box office poison in recent years. Finally, there is a movie that is a box office hit.
"Kowloon Walled City" counterattacked "Spy House Code White" to take the third place in the daily box office. The single-day box office of
movie exceeded 50.73 million. Compared with the 50.62 million box office on the first day, it actually dropped. The proportion of films in the schedule also increased slightly to 10.9%. The attendance rate is second only to "The Last Day", and its cumulative box office It has also exceeded 180 million. Based on the current trend, I predict that this year’s May 1st will be between "Kowloon Walled City" and "Doomsday Spending" competing for the championship.
There is a high probability that the championship of "Peacekeeping Riot Squad" will not be guaranteed.
"I won over" Stephen Chow after 20 years! Sammo Hung's appearance in "Kowloon Walled City" is a masterstroke.
"Kowloon Walled City" is definitely the biggest surprise in Hong Kong films this year.
It’s also interesting to talk about movies coming to Hong Kong. When you think Hong Kong movies are about to get their lunch box lunch, they can always produce a hit. When you think Hong Kong movies are about to rise, they always sell sentiments and make things worse. In the past two years, Hong Kong movies Films are obviously not selling well in the mainland market, and "Kowloon Walled City" is considered to be a success.
The news of the movie came out in 2018. It took 6 years to prepare and shoot, and the production cost was claimed to be 300 million. No matter how you look at it, it is the most important production on May 1st this year. Unfortunately, the pre-sale and filming of the movie The popularity has never been good. Fortunately, "Kowloon Walled City" has confidence in itself this time and started screening a week in advance, which has allowed word-of-mouth to ferment.
There's actually not much to say about the plot of the movie, it's just the same old story of gangsters' feuds and brotherly fighting among themselves.
The action scenes in the movie are really great.
movie action director Kenji Tanigaki, the only Japanese in Donnie Yen's Donnie Yen family, has an imaginative action style that can be described as unconstrained.
Especially "Kowloon Walled City" itself is an adaptation of a passionate comic book. Kenji Tanigaki directly let go of his hands and created a surreal martial arts and even fantasy world. What moved me most in the film was Sammo Hung, who is 74 years old. The villain's big boss is still strong and powerful, and for fans of Hong Kong movies, it is a miracle that "Kowloon Walled City" can invite the eldest brother Sammo Hung, who has almost retired in recent years.
What is interesting is that "Kowloon Walled City" actually has a similar theme to Stephen Chow's " Kung Fu ".
The prototype of the Pig Cage Walled City in the 2004 "Kung Fu" film is the Kowloon Walled City, which is also full of masters. Sammo Hung was originally the martial arts director of "Kung Fu". The opening scene where the three masters fight against the Ax Gang was Sammo Hung's work, but Sammo Hung hopes The action style of the movie is hard bridge and hard horse, but Star Master wanted all kinds of imaginative designs.
In the end, Sammo Hung withdrew, and Star Master found Yuen Woo-Ping to create Kung Fu wonders such as Tathagata Palm, Six Clan Guzheng Technique, and Lion's Roar Kung Fu.
html After 2020, Sammo Hung will also film "Kowloon Walled City". The action style is obviously closer to "Kung Fu". I have to say that the star's movie skills are very good. "Kowloon Walled City" will most likely break 800 million box office. The market has proved it. Stephen Chow is right, Sammo Hung can be "convinced".