With a reputation of 5.3 points and a loss of more than 160 million, the box office collapse of "Disconnected" exposed the embarrassing status quo of Hong Kong films

Although "Broken Network" surpassed "The Wandering Earth 2" to regain the crown, the movie hit the street is already a foregone conclusion!

On March 4, the mainland box office war can be called ups and downs, "The Wandering Earth 2", which accounted for only 12.4% of the films, once pressed the new film "Broken Network", almost the whole day was a single-day box office champion, but I didn't expect that "Broken Network" eventually returned with its ranking advantages.

Word of mouth 5.3 points, loss of more than 160 million, "Broken Network" box office collapse hit whose face!

As of 23 o'clock on March 4, the single-day box office of "Disconnection" broke 17.95 million, defeating "The Wandering Earth 2" by a slight margin and winning the single-day box office championship, with 20% of the film arrangement and a cumulative box office of more than 31.67 million in 2 days of release.

In the same period, the single-day box office of "The Wandering Earth 2" was 14.45 million, accounting for only 12.4% of the films, but with the advantage of attendance, it defeated "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer", won the single-day box office runner-up, and almost won the Japanese crown in 42 days of release, such a strong box office trend is really outrageous, the current cumulative box office of the film broke 3.96 billion, and it is expected to break the 4 billion box office mark by next week at the latest.

Compared with "The Wandering Earth 2", the box office of "Disconnection" is really a bit good-looking.

The production cost of "Broken Network" is 200 million, in addition to special effects, the biggest expense is the salary of Guo Fucheng, Ren Dahua, Lin Jiadong three major actors, but unfortunately, with the current trend, the final box office of "Broken Network" is about 100 million, according to the producer's 36% box office share ratio, the film loss exceeds 160 million.

In addition to the box office collapse, the movie's reputation is also a big overturn.

Douban failed 5.3 points, the audience's biggest gimmick of the movie, using special effects to visualize hacker data warfare is not at all cold, although the special effects are fantastic, but compared with "The Wandering Earth 2" is too rough. Maybe it's putting all his energy on special effects, the plot and logic of the movie are really naïve, thinking of money laundering too simply, and shooting the police too brainless!

Finally made "Disconnected" an annual box office tragedy! The loss of "Broken Network" also made the three major actors of Guo Fucheng, Ren Dahua and Lin Jiadong faceless, and the three actors of "Broken Network" failed to save a bad film in their acting skills, and the performance cannot be said to be bad, but in the face of various green screen sheds plus sticker-like special effects, it is normal for actors to have no sense of substitution.

2 blockbusters in 30 days lost 340 million, and Kwok Fucheng ripped off the last fig leaf of Hong Kong movies!

Regarding the current situation of Hong Kong movies, fans are basically divided into two factions.

Optimists believe that the Hong Kong box office of "Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" has exceeded 100 million Hong Kong dollars, which has broken the box office record of Hong Kong films for a hundred years, Hong Kong films are reviving, and Huang Zihua deserves to be named Zihua God!

The pessimists believe that Hong Kong films still cannot stop the trend of decline.

"Poisonous Tongue Lawyer" did break the record, but it was the record of Chinese-language films, and the box office record in Hong Kong film history was still 220 million Hong Kong dollars for "Avengers 4", which is still a ceiling that Hong Kong films cannot touch. More importantly, Hong Kong films seem to be losing their most important mainland market.

Less than 3 months have passed since 2023. Hong Kong films have contributed to two major box office tragedies.

"When the Wind Rises Again" released on February 5 cost 200 million yuan, and the cumulative box office so far is only 48.98 million, with a loss of more than 180 million! Unless it appears during the period, the loss of 160 million in "Disconnection" is a certainty, and the loss of 2 blockbusters in less than 30 days is 340 million, and it is interesting that these 2 blockbusters are starring Kwok Fucheng.

This means that the last fig leaf of the Hong Kong film is gone, that is, the appeal of superstars.

The influence of Hong Kong films in the mainland film market really depends on the older generation of superstars, we can think that the Hong Kong films that have sold well at the mainland box office in recent years are basically Andy Lau, Koo Tianle, Kwok Fucheng, Chow Yun-fat, Xing Ye, Jackie Chan. Tony Leung and other superstars take turns starring.

Today Koo Tianle and Andy Lau will shoot "Drug Sweep 2", tomorrow Kwok Fucheng and Chow Yun-fat will shoot "Matchless" and so on. The summer "Drug Sweep 3" has become a partnership between Koo Tianle and Kwok Fucheng, and it can be said that these superstars are the box office guarantee of Hong Kong films.

It is also the key to Hong Kong films still getting big investment, but not necessarily now.

If Jackie Chan has collapsed at the box office in recent years and there is a reason why he can't move, then last year's Gu Tianle's "Tomorrow's War" box office was not as expected is an early warning, then this year's Kwok Fucheng swooped 2 blockbusters in a row I am afraid that he really ripped off the fig leaf.

However, I still have hope for Hong Kong films, and even think that it is a good thing to a certain extent.

The so-called not broken and not standing, in recent years, Hong Kong films are actually surviving under the maintenance of superstars, there is a huge drawback is that young actors can not come out, these superstars are basically past the age of flower armor, Huang Zihua, who has just been canonized, is 62 years old this year, how many years can he shoot? When Hong Kong films no longer superstitious about the box office appeal of superstars, maybe a new generation of young actors will rise up and lead Hong Kong films out of trouble.