A few days ago, the AFM special issue of the American "Hollywood Reporter" carried out a large-scale report on the two Hong Kong films "Goldfinger" and "Customs Front", which are the key projects of fluorescent in 2023 and the two ace blockbusters of Hong Kong Emperor Film Company.
It is reported that "Goldfinger" is a financial crime film produced by Zhuang Wenqiang, written and directed, starring Tony Leung and Andy Lau, Zhuang Wenqiang, Andy Lau and Tony Leung are the classic combination of "Infernal Affairs", with an investment scale of up to 400 million Hong Kong dollars. According to Tony Leung at the Busan Film Festival in South Korea, his acting career began on television, and now his acting career has reached the final stage, he wants to apply all the experience and skills he has learned to practice, and will shoot American dramas in the future, so this film is also the last time Tony Leung and Andy Lau cooperated.
For a film with an investment scale of up to 400 million Hong Kong dollars, the box office reaches 1.2 billion to ensure that the cost is recovered, and the only schedules that can support the box office of more than 1 billion in the mainland market are the Spring Festival, Summer Festival, National Day and Lunar New Year files. The Spring Festival file is a battlefield for mainland capital competition, the distributor of that film is strong, giving priority to that film more screenings and better golden screenings, if the distributor's strength is not good, there are fewer films, and the number of screenings is either early in the morning or in the middle of the night, Andy Lau's "Crowds" and Zhang Yimou's "Sniper" have been treated in this way.
The National Day file is the battlefield of the main theme theme, if it is not the main theme of the film arrangement will also be suppressed, only the competition between the summer file and the Lunar New Year file can be relatively fair, so the schedule that "Goldfinger" can choose is only the summer file and the New Year file. The mainland box office champion of Hong Kong films "Bomb Disposal Expert 2" last year came from the Lunar New Year file, last year's mainland box office champion of Hong Kong films "Anger Heavy Case" came from the summer file, and this year's mainland box office champion "Detective Wars" and the runner-up "Tomorrow's War" are all from the summer file.
"Goldfinger" has been produced so it is most likely to be released in the summer of 2023. If Chinese mainland is released in the summer of 2023, the box office is expected to suddenly break the box office record of "Rage, Heavy Case", and even raise the box office of Hong Kong films to a height of 2 billion. As for the Hong Kong market can be released simultaneously with the mainland, it can also be released later, in short, it cannot be earlier than the mainland market, because once it is released earlier than the mainland market, there will be a large number of pirated resources affecting the box office, the Hong Kong market as long as the film is powerful in any schedule can give birth to box office blockbusters, with the strength of the trio of Chuang Wenqiang, Tony Leung and Andy Lau, the Hong Kong box office breaking the record of "Infernal Affairs" is not a problem, and it is even expected to challenge the box office height of Koo Tianle's "Tomorrow's War".
"Customs Front" is directed by Yau Litao, Nicholas Tse as the action director, Jacky Cheung and Nicholas Tse starring in the action film, is also the first customs-themed film in Hong Kong, and Nicholas Tse and Jacky Cheung are suitable for more than 10 years to work together again, with an investment scale of up to 300 million Hong Kong dollars. This film was shot later than "Goldfinger" and is currently in the post-production stage, considering the main theme nature of the film, so this film is most likely to be placed in the 2023 National Day file. Emperor Company is also quite experienced in releasing main theme movies, and in recent years has released main theme films such as "On the Cliff" and "Changjin Lake" series. If this film is released on National Day, the mainland box office can reach 1.2 billion, and the box office in Hong Kong, China is expected to exceed 15 million Hong Kong dollars.
It is worth mentioning that I don't know if the AFM special issue of "The Hollywood Reporter" can't distinguish between the two films, or if it deliberately reversed the posters of "Goldfinger" and "Customs Front"! It seems that the "Hollywood Reporter" AFM special issue is not professional when introducing Hong Kong films, and it would be better if I or any Hong Kong film fan were hired as a consultant! Are you looking forward to these two Hong Kong films? Welcome to leave a message in the comment area to discuss...