It is clear that the success of "Tomorrow's War" in the Hong Kong film market in China has given Koo Tianle a kind of courage
This year, Koo Tianle spent 450 million yuan to produce "Tomorrow's War" was released, the gap between the box office performance of the mainland and Hong Kong is really a bit big, and the mainland market is of course far better than the Hong Kong market in terms of box office figures, but compared with the market and box office, plus film history results
This time "Tomorrow's War" is obviously better at the Hong Kong box office
"Tomorrow's War" reached 80 million Hong Kong dollars at the Hong Kong box office, breaking the record of Chinese films in Hong Kong film history
Up to now, "Tomorrow's War" is still being released in the mainland and Hong Kong markets
The cumulative box office in the mainland market in 98 days is 679 million, and the cumulative box office in the Hong Kong market in 75 days is 79.7 million Hong Kong dollars, breaking 80 million Hong Kong dollars is no longer suspenseful, and there is even hope to break through 90 million Hong Kong dollars
It can be seen that the mainland box office of "Tomorrow's War" is nearly 7 times that of Hong Kong, but you must know that Hong Kong's population is less than 8 million
"Tomorrow's War" broke all the records of Chinese films in the Hong Kong market, and also gave Hong Kong films hope to catch up with Hollywood
In 1993, "Jurassic Park" broke 61.89 million Hong Kong dollars at the Hong Kong box office, which was the first blockbuster in Hong Kong film history to break 60 million Hong Kong dollars, far surpassing the box office of 40.17 million Hong Kong dollars of Chinese film champion star "Tang Bohu Points Autumn Fragrance", which marked that the Hong Kong market was fully conquered by Hollywood
After that, the Hollywood blockbuster Hong Kong box office repeatedly exceeded 100 million, the current Hong Kong film history box office champion "Avengers 4" box office as high as 200 million Hong Kong dollars, is a Hong Kong film unbelievable achievement, and now there is finally a "Tomorrow's War", which can reach half of the box office of "Avengers 4", which is already a huge progress for Hong Kong films
Spending 350 million yuan to produce, after three years of filming, this vivid new film of Gu Tianle has finally arrived
In addition to "Tomorrow's War", this year's Hong Kong films also have Huang Zihua's "Rice Drama Attacking the Heart" Hong Kong box office exceeded 74 million Hong Kong dollars, "Superstar Cultivation" box office exceeded 40 million Hong Kong dollars, and "Justice Corridor" premiered last weekend has an excellent reputation, and it is likely to be a 30 million Hong Kong dollar hit
It can be said that Hong Kong films have really been fully revived this year
This undoubtedly gave Gu Tianle the courage to finally bring "Looking for Qin" up
According to recent news, the Hong Kong market for the film version of "Looking for Qin" has been set for November 18, but there is no news from the mainland market
The film version of "Looking for Qin" was completed in 2019, but I didn't expect such a super IP, which was hidden in the snow for three years after filming, and has not been able to get the opportunity to be released, mainly because the theme of the movie is crossing, involving a lot of historical stories, and it is more difficult to release it in the mainland market
We can see that in recent years, there have been very few time-travel film and television dramas produced in the mainland, and even if there are, they must be draped in the air, or the characters in the play write novels and tell stories. Pure time-travel works like "Looking for Qin" are difficult to change, and there is a high probability that fans are unhappy to change them
The film version of "Looking for Qin" cost 350 million to produce
Originally wanted to use the big director Du Qifeng to direct, but unexpectedly the big director has no schedule, and then changed to Chen Musheng, but due to physical reasons, he eventually became Wu Xuanhui, that is, the director of "Tomorrow's War", and Gu Tianle personally served as the executive producer
In fact, the movie is produced by Gu Tianle, and Wu Xuanhui's strength is actually special effects
The action director of the movie is Sammo Hung, plus Lin Feng, Xuan Xuan and other original cast starring, this "Looking for Qin" is definitely one of the most anticipated Hong Kong films in the future
The future of Hong Kong films is still the mainland film market
In fact, in my opinion, the release of "Looking for Qin" in Hong Kong this time is likely to be just a stop loss
In recent years, the only hope for Hong Kong film productions to return to their original costs is the mainland market, and even if "Tomorrow's War" breaks the record of Hong Kong Chinese-language films, it cannot return to the original without the mainland's nearly 700 million box office, let alone make prequels and sequels now
In the case that overseas markets cannot compete with Hollywood, the main market for Hong Kong films in the future is still the mainland
The film version of "Looking for Qin" has been delayed for too long, and there is no hope for it to be released in a short time due to the theme problem, so it is indeed good to take advantage of the east wind of "Tomorrow's War" to be released in Hong Kong first, but will this give up the mainland market?
You must know that the cost of the film is 350 million, and it is impossible to rely on the Hong Kong market to return the cost