There are 14 new films premiering this week. Among them, Andy Lau's "Burning the City" is the annual finale of Hong Kong films. "Venom 3" has stabilized its position and won the Japanese crown with an absolute advantage. However, Andy Lau's new film is facing the dilemma of poor

There are 14 new films premiering this week.

Among them, Andy Lau 's "The Burning City" is the annual finale of Hong Kong films. However, " Venom 3" has stabilized its position and won the Japanese crown with an absolute advantage. However, Andy Lau's new film is facing the dilemma of poor box office in the first weekend and no hope of making a return.

Can the four best actors not beat "Venom 3"? Andy Lau's new film suffered a setback at the box office and cost 200 million!

As of 21:00 on November 2, the single-day box office champion and runner-up in the mainland are "Venom 3" and "Burning City" respectively.

The single-day box office of "Venom 3" exceeded 47.5 million, accounting for 23.6% of the scheduled films and 35.2% of the box office. It has been in the absolute leading position for 11 days since its release. The cumulative box office has also exceeded 470 million. In this period, With almost all of Zhou Xin's films being wiped out, it is predicted that the lead of "Venom 3" can be maintained until Deng Chao " Winner" is released, and the final box office may hit the 700 million mark.

"Venom 3" is undoubtedly the dark horse at the end of 2024.

Before the release of "Venom 3", the overseas reputation of "Venom 3" had collapsed, and Rotten Tomatoes in North America was even lower than 38%. Although the 2018 "Venom" had a box office of 1.8 billion in the mainland, "Venom 2" was not released in the mainland in 2021. Therefore, The mainland box office of "Venom 3" is not optimistic, but the film studio is betting on mainland audiences, and the premiere and promotion are better than those in North America.

Facts have proved that this kind of special effects blockbuster with comedy elements is really popular with mainland audiences.

With the North American box office plummeting, "Venom 3" is considered excellent both in terms of box office and word-of-mouth in the mainland market. In addition, the production cost of US$120 million is not too high. With the strong support of mainland Chinese audiences, the movie has returned Ben had no problem making money.

"Burning City" was not so lucky. The single-day box office of the

movie was 28 million, and the film schedule accounted for 18.5%, which was a decrease from 21.1% on the first day. The main reason was that the movie attendance rate was not high, which led to the theater chain directly cutting the number of film schedules. This debut blockbuster is not even as good as "Venom 3", a movie that has been released for nearly two weeks. Currently, "The City" has a cumulative box office of 59 million in its two days of release.

It is worth noting that a large part of the 59 million box office came from the screenings in the previous week.

It can be seen that the box office of the movie is really bleak. The final box office is predicted to be around 200 million, and the production cost of the movie is as high as 200 million. It almost has the strongest lineup of Hong Kong film actors. Among the actors of movie king level are Andy Lau, Xie Junhao , Zheng Zeshi, Lin Baoyi, and Mo Wenwei, Huang Debin, He Qihua, Wu Yanshu and other acting talents.

According to the announcement of the Spring Festival blockbuster "Mr. Red Carpet ", Andy Lau's salary is around 60 million.

"Burning City" is another disaster movie with special effects. It can be seen that the cost of the movie should not be significant. If the movie box office really stops at 200 million, calculating based on the 37% box office share based on the photo, it means that the movie will lose more than 130 million.

The only hope for movies now is that word-of-mouth will drive a counterattack at the box office!

word-of-mouth counterattack! Will the box office exceed 300 million? Andy Lau wants to carve out a way for Hong Kong films again!

Word of mouth is currently the biggest reliance of "Burning City".

The movie currently has a rating of 7.6 from 21,000 people on Douban, which is considered outstanding among domestic commercial films released this year.

Among them, "Burning City" had been hidden for many years before its release. In addition, science fiction disaster movies are a subject rarely covered in Hong Kong movies. The audience did not have much confidence in the quality of "Burning City". Unexpectedly, the reputation of "Burning City" counterattacked. The

movie is not an overwhelmingly positive one either.

"Burning City" is a rare Hong Kong film in recent years that emphasizes both literary drama and action drama. The top management is fighting for status and power, and the firefighters below are desperately trying to save Hong Kong. The two lines of the movie are intertwined. It is indeed " Chills " 》That smell.

The negative reviews of the movie mainly focus on the most criticized pattern of Hong Kong movies in recent years.

"Burning City" can be regarded as a disaster film with some science fiction elements. The title also states that the story is purely fictional, but the world view takes place in Hong Kong, China. This has caused many mainland audiences to be surprised. In the perception of mainland audiences, When will a disaster of this level turn to the head of a region to take charge, and Hong Kong is close to Shenzhen. If such a thing really happens, the central government will definitely intervene.

As a result, there is no mainland perspective in the whole film. It talks about how we are in Hong Kong.

Of course, I am not saying that the film is not good, and the landscape of Hong Kong filmmakers should not be too small. Adding some mainland elements can resonate with mainland audiences, which will definitely help the box office results.

Unlike now, even if the movie's reputation explodes, it's just Hong Kong film fans who are cheering and praising it.

Judging from the situation of Hong Kong films this year, even if "Burning City" counterattacks with the support of word-of-mouth, the final box office will only grow to about 300 million. However, "Burning City" can be regarded as a way for Hong Kong films, except In addition to police and gangster films, we discovered that Hong Kong films can also be used to make disaster films.

As long as we polish the script and explore the movie-watching tastes of mainland audiences, Hong Kong films may have a future in this field.