In recent years, Hong Kong's "superstar effect" has failed to show its magical effect in the mainland market. Even the most popular action and police movies have plummeted in popularity, leaving many film investors feeling helpless.
Some new films that have entered the pre-production stage have been forced to halt as a result, including "New Police Story 2" directed by Nicholas Tse , and "Infinite Mission" co-starred by William Chan "disappeared".
Faced with a series of "defeats", Nicholas Ting has a way to successfully save himself.
It is reported that since last year, many movies with heavy investment and large-scale casts have not performed as expected when they were released in the mainland. For example, "Goldfinger" starring Tony Leung and Andy Lau only received 574 million yuan at the box office, while Chow Yun-fat's " " Don't Call Me "The God of Gamblers" " collected 40.78 million yuan at the box office.
Stills from "Goldfinger"
Police and gangster films such as " Breaking Point " starring Nick Cheung and William Chan finally collected 100 million yuan. The recent fantasy action film " Legend " starring Jackie Chan was even more shocking, with only 79.88 million yuan. Yuan Renminbi, which was sold at the end of the summer prime time period, was described by the mainland media as "losing all your money"!
Stills of "Breaking Point"
In view of the recent failure of action police and gangster films, the mainland market, which has been described as "the last lifeline", has also disappeared. Before being able to "find the bottom", many Hong Kong-produced or co-produced action films have After "counting" and repeated research by the film producers, they reluctantly decided to call it quits.
"New Police Story 2", directed by Nicholas Tse and starring Charlene Choi, has been in preparation for a long time, and was once rumored to premiere in May this year. Unfortunately, the market atmosphere is getting worse. Recently, reliable news has claimed that it has been decided to temporarily shelve the film.
Yang Shoucheng once revealed in an interview the start date of "New Cops 2"
and Nicholas Tse's other new film "Infinite Mission" starring William Chan has also been "disappeared". I believe that the film company will only consider restarting when the environment improves. .
Although Ting Fung seems to have had a series of "unfavorable starts", he has always been able to take advantage of it. He suddenly changed his schedule to shoot the blockbuster "The Bodyguard" adapted from a mainland comic. He also plans to start a tour next year. There is no shortage of work to be busy with during the concert.
Wu Jing's appearance in "The Bodyguard"
It is understood that there are almost no Hong Kong films that have been shot recently. Even the " chill " series of movies that are currently in theaters are divided into two parts and completed in one go, in an attempt to reduce production This time, only "useful" actors such as Daniel Wu, Wu Kangren, Liu Junqian and Wei Junsheng were used to participate in the filming. All big casts were eliminated, saving a large amount of actors' fees.
Coupled with the blessing of the word "chill", some filmmakers predict that with limited investment, they will be able to successfully blaze a trail in any minute.
Hong Kong films have too many similar themes, which deters investors. On the other hand, the themes of mainland films are becoming more and more diverse. For example, the recent hit work " Catch a Baby " starring Shen Teng and Ma Li, A wealthy family uses reverse methods to raise good children, but ends up making a lot of jokes. This kind of subject is relatively rare in recent years. In addition, Shen Teng is always full of joy, making the movie a box office hit of 2.7 billion yuan!
"Catch a Baby" stills
As for directors Chen Sicheng and Liu Haoran, although they have the blockbuster " Chinatown Detective " series, they both stepped out of the box this year and made biographical films based on the autistic mathematics genius Rong Jinzhen. " Decrypted ", the film was recently released and quickly exceeded 100 million, and the box office performance was very good, which also proves that continuous exploration of new directions is the guarantee of box office.
"Decryption" stills
