The cumulative box office of "Night Walk in Black Clothes" is only 75,000 in 2 days of release, where should martial arts films go?

Chinese martial arts films were once all the rage!

In particular, Jet Li contributed classic martial arts films such as "Huang Feihong", "Fang Shiyu" and "The Legend of Relying on the Sky and Slaying the Dragon" in the golden age of Hong Kong films, which achieved great success both at the box office and word of mouth, and even made Hollywood fall for it.

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" was a hit at the North American box office, largely because Hong Kong-style martial arts films cultivated a large number of North American fans that year.

It is a pity that from the box office fiasco of Sammo Hung's "One Knife to the City" in 1993, to Tsui Hark leaving Jet Li aside, so that Zhao Wenzhuo's "Huang Feihong" series was not as expected, and then to "The Undefeated Rise of the East", "Green Snake" and "New Immortal Crane Divine Needle" have hit the street.

Hong Kong-style martial arts films have fallen into a trough. In the field of martial arts films, it seems that no one can replace the role of Jet Li.

And now in the Chinese film industry, Jet Li has basically retired, and the decline of Chinese martial arts films is not the same!

Although Donnie Yen brought "The Legend of Qiao Feng" this year, his reputation was not good. More like an experiment in transforming the network university, Zhao Wenzhuo's mind is no longer on the movie, and Wu Jing, who has the highest box office appeal, is now labeled as a positive energy spokesperson.

Martial arts films, which once represented the face of Chinese films, are now reduced to a niche. The vast majority of kung fu actors have transformed into filming networks.

There are only a handful of martial arts films released in theaters every year, and the box office is even more miserable!

The box office is less than 0.1% of "The Wandering Earth 2", and the 72-year-old kung fu superstar starring in a bad movie, the audience does not buy it!

Almost 3 months have passed in 2023, and the mainland film market has recovered a lot, with two blockbusters of 4 billion level "Manjiang Hong" and "The Wandering Earth 2", as well as box office explosions such as "Bear Haunted" and "Nameless". These include animation, science fiction, suspense and other themed movies.

But so far only one martial arts film "Night Walk in Black Clothes" has been released.

The movie premiered on March 7, and as of March 8, the cumulative box office of the movie was only 75,000 in 2 days of release, and the number of viewers was 2,240!

Among them, on March 8, the second day of release, the single-day box office dropped to 14,000, and the proportion of films was less than 0.2%, which is equivalent to being abandoned by theaters and audiences, and staged a day trip to the cinema!

As a kung fu star Wu Jing's "The Wandering Earth 2" box office has approached 4 billion, the box office of "Night Walk in Wuyi" is less than 0.1% of "The Wandering Earth 2", which is why kung fu actors have been reluctant to make martial arts films in recent years. I don't know why the audience doesn't like to watch martial arts films, and the box office always can't go up.

The most interesting thing is that since only one martial arts film "Wuyi Night Walking" was released this year, the champion of martial arts films in 2023 is "Wuyi Night Walking"! It is both the number one at the box office and the penultimate at the box office. It is enough to prove that the depression of today's martial arts films is not only that no one has watched it, but no one has filmed it yet!

"Night Walk" is actually of good quality.

At present, Douban has 28 reviews, of which 24 are four- and five-star praises, if not for the small number of scorers, the movie Douban score should be above 8 points.

The story of the movie is not complicated, it tells that the gunpowder of the imperial court department was stolen, and Yun Zheng, who was responsible for investigating the case, was also missing, so two secret agents in Wuyi Lane were ordered to thoroughly investigate the case! Unexpectedly, an old story was involved.

The movie story is complete, the rhythm is tight, and there is a reversal at the end, and the action scenes are stable and steady, which is indeed much higher quality than the current online martial arts films, no wonder the producer is unwilling to go on the online platform. Unfortunately, it was still a box office failure.

The movie stars Xu Shaoqiang, who is also a veteran kung fu superstar.

Xu Shaoqiang, 72 years old this year, debuted in Shaw's martial arts films, "One-armed Sword", "Heavenly Silkworm Transformation" and "The Sword of the Third Young Master" are quite outstanding, because he often plays a hero, and people give the nickname Xu Daxia! The most familiar character to mainland audiences should be Zao Wou-ki in Xingye's movie "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Beggar". There are also villains in "Water Moon Cave Heaven" and "Legend of the Spirit Mirror".

In recent years, the 72-year-old kung fu superstar has basically made a living by making bad movies on the Internet, and this "Night Walk in Black Clothes" is his rare theatrical movie. It's a pity that the audience still doesn't buy it!

Tsui Hark is back! Semyon kills back to the theater! 2023 martial arts films are worth looking forward to!

However, in recent years, more and more audiences have begun to miss martial arts films, and many directors and actors have been insisting on making martial arts films, and Wu Jing's "The Wandering Earth 2" also announced that he would return to action movies.

In terms of martial arts films, Xu Lao Wei is finally about to make a move!

Tsui Hark is undoubtedly one of the most important directors of Hong Kong martial arts films, after the "Smiling Rivers and Lakes" trilogy, Tsui Hark has always wanted to prepare for the filming of "The Condor Heroes", but unfortunately "The Undefeated Rise of the East" hit the street at the box office, resulting in "The Condor Heroes" dragging on for nearly 30 years to meet the audience

This time, "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero" is written and directed by Tsui Hark, and it has been filed and will be launched soon!

Another martial arts film worth looking forward to in 2023 is Semyon's "No One in Sight 2".

Kung Fu actors have transformed into filming networks, but there are not many who insist on making martial arts films, and even fewer insist on making good martial arts films, and Semyon is one of them. As a so-called passing actor, Semyon began filming the Internet University very early, but he never forgot his original intention.

Finally, in 2022, the best work of online martial arts films "No One in the Eyes" was filmed, and the "No One in the Eyes 2", which surprised fans of martial arts films, was fully upgraded and was about to be released in theaters, which is also Semyon's second starring role in a theatrical movie as the male protagonist after 28 years.

The actor has been transformed into a lot of people, but it is rare to be able to kill back to the theater! It is enough to show Semyon's confidence in "No One in Sight 2"!

The 38-year-old Xie Miao happened to be in the year of the fight, as the "son" of Jet Li, he may be able to carry the banner of Chinese martial arts films!