Andy Lau lost to Shen Teng, Jackie Chan Stephen Chow's new film will not be released, and the Hong Kong film in the Spring Festival in 2024 will lose miserably

2023 will undoubtedly be the Waterloo for Hong Kong films in the mainland market.

Whether it is a superstar like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat, or a Mesozoic celebrity like Louis Koo and Aaron Kwok, whether it is a police movie, an action movie or a comedy, mainland audiences will not buy it, which will undoubtedly lead to the further decline of Hong Kong films, after all, the mainland is now the largest box office for Hong Kong films, if mainland audiences are unwilling to support Hong Kong films.

So Hong Kong films may no longer have the opportunity to shoot big productions in the future! Therefore, 2024 is regarded as a critical year by Hong Kong film fans.

Especially during this year's Spring Festival, the file was counting on Hong Kong films to launch a Jedi counterattack, but Hong Kong films didn't even have the courage to fight.

Andy Lau lost to Shen Teng, Jackie Chan and Stephen Chow ran away hand in hand, and Hong Kong films lost miserably in the Spring Festival in 2024.

The 2024 Spring Festival file is actually an excellent opportunity for Hong Kong films, Wu Jing's "Volunteer Army 2" was not released, and the top seed player "Nezha 2" was not completed in the later stage, and there was no major production focusing on special effects or action in the entire schedule.

And what Hong Kong films are best at is this kind of highly entertaining genre film.

When the new films for the Spring Festival in 2024 are finalized, fans are looking forward to Jackie Chan's "Legend", Stephen Chow's "Mermaid 2", Tsui Hark's "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero" is finalized, and Shen Teng's "Flying Life 2", Jia Ling's "Hot and Hot" The mainland all-comedy lineup. In fact, it can be seen that the winning side of Hong Kong films is very large.

After all, the 8 new films in this year's Spring Festival file are almost all family comedies, and the audience will definitely be aesthetically fatigued.

didn't expect "The Legend of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero" to be directly invisible, and "Legend" and "Mermaid 2" were warmed up for a while, and they didn't dare to release it during the Spring Festival.

You must know that "Legend" will be completed in July 2023, and the trailer was exposed early, and the original gimmick was that Jackie Chan returned to the Spring Festival file after many years, but in recent years, Big Brother has changed from a box office guarantee to the king of bad movies.

Starting from "Jedi Escape" in 2016, "Railway Flying Tiger", "Kung Fu Yoga", "Blood of the Machine", "Detective Pu Songling", "Pioneer", and then to "Dragon Horse Spirit" in 2023, most of the works of the eldest brother have failed in recent years, and it is even more extravagant to break 6 points on Douban.

The box office has also fallen from 1.7 billion in "Kung Fu Yoga" at its peak to 200 million in "Dragon Horse Spirit".

In today's era when the mainland market breaks 3 billion to be considered a hit, it is indeed difficult for the eldest brother to have the confidence to go toe-to-toe with Shen Teng Jia Ling's new film.

But in my opinion, "Legend" still has the power to fight.

The sequel to Jackie Chan's classic movie "Myth", the return of core creators such as Tang Jili and Kim Hee-sun, plus Zhang Yixing, Guli Nazha, Li Chen, Peng Xiaoran, Dou Xiao and other popular stars, "Legend" is attractive in the lineup.

In addition, fantasy adventure films are scarce during this year's Spring Festival, and audiences who don't like to watch sketch comedies will definitely choose Jackie Chan.

"Mermaid 2" shows Stephen Chow's helplessness.

This sequel, which was once the box office champion in Chinese film history, has not been seen by the audience for six years, and after the completion of "Mermaid 2" in 2018, "Mermaid 2" entered the post-production stage, but due to various reasons, there are not many opportunities for the movie to be released.

In the past two years, Stephen Chow has actually been very active, supervising the production of "The Monkey King", helping many new films to promote, and even producing online short dramas, and the new film "Shaolin Women's Football" has also begun to prepare, saying that the focus of the star's work has long been no longer in "Mermaid 2", and this movie has not been released during the Spring Festival this year, I am afraid it is really far away.

Of course, even if "Mermaid 2" can be released, the king of comedy may not be able to compete against Shen Teng Jia Ling, the king of comedy box office.

This year's Spring Festival file Andy Lau has become the only seedling of Hong Kong film actors.

"Mr. Red Carpet" is definitely not a Hong Kong film, but the movie has Andy Lau , Leung Ka-fai , Miriam Yeung , Wang Jing and many other Hong Kong actors starring, plus the plot is completely alluding to the Hong Kong entertainment industry, "Mr. Red Carpet" is also half a Hong Kong film.

If "Mr. Red Carpet" does well at the box office, it may prove that the audience is still interested in Hong Kong films.

It's a pity that the dismal pre-sale of "Mr. Red Carpet" is distressing.

As of 12 o'clock on February 8th, the total pre-sale box office of Shen Teng's "Flying Life 2" has exceeded 100 million, while "Mr. Red Carpet" is only 24 million, which has been opened by Shen Teng by nearly 5 times, and even "Bear Infested" has not been played, which is similar to "Let's Shake the Sun Together" starring young actors like Peng Yuchang. You must know that the production cost of "Mr. Red Carpet" is 260 million.

It is one of the most expensive new films in this year's Spring Festival.

The setback in the pre-sale of "Mr. Red Carpet" may be the epitome of the fact that young mainland audiences are now completely indifferent to the Hong Kong entertainment industry.

It's useless for Stephen Chow to break the record, the Hong Kong film that fried cold rice and sold feelings finally lost the Spring Festival file!

The encounter of Hong Kong films in the 2024 Spring Festival is undoubtedly a landmark event.

The mainland Spring Festival file itself is the hope of the revival of Hong Kong films.

Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West" announced that it would be released on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2013, officially opening the Spring Festival stalls in the mainland, and the final box office exceeded 1.246 billion, and since then the Spring Festival stalls have become a must for film companies.

At that time, Hong Kong films were simply booming, and they once regained the glory of double Monday.

In the Spring Festival in 2014, Chow Yun-fat brought "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" and "Macau Vice", one of which broke 1 billion at the box office and the other won 500 million.

In the 2015 Jackie Chan Chow Yun-fat Spring Festival showdown, "The Heroes of Heaven" vs. "Macau Fengyun 2", as a result, Hong Kong films won the first and second places at the box office.

In 2016, Stephen Chow's "Mermaid" swept all records, and the box office exceeded 3.3 billion, which is also a super hit now. directly broke the record of Chinese film history, this is Stephen Chow's moment of being a god in the true sense. It proves the invincible appeal of Xing Ye in the mainland market.

What's even more surprising is that Chow Yun-fat's "Macau Fengyun 3" and Aaron Kwok's "Journey to the West: Three Dozen White Bone Spirits" were released at the same time, and the box office also exceeded 1 billion!

It can be seen that at that time, the dominance of Hong Kong films for the Spring Festival stalls could not be matched by mainland productions at all.

But the unenterprising nature of Hong Kong films has also begun to appear, and the productions of "Kung Fu Yoga", "Journey to the West", "The King of New Comedy" and other fried cold rice and sentimental productions have been brought up, and they don't care about the viewing experience of mainland audiences at all, resulting in mainland productions beginning to overtake after 2017, and finally by 2024, Hong Kong films will be completely swept out of the Spring Festival file.

The revival of Hong Kong films has also become a joke!