On the 15th, the HKTDC's film website announced the box office rankings for the latest week (October 7-13), and the results showed that overseas films still accounted for the majority of the box office, but the proportion of Chinese-language films in the box office also increased.
The winner was the Hollywood blockbuster "Joker 2: Double Fantasy" (Hong Kong translation of "Joker: Double Madness"), which grossed HK$2.664 million last week and reached a total of HK$10.369 million in the 12 days since its release. It is worth mentioning that the film failed at the North American box office and word-of-mouth, with only 33% freshness on the film review website Rotten Tomatoes, and audiences and media in other regions also regarded it as a bad film, and the box office results were extremely dismal, but in Hong Kong, it won the weekly championship, which is rare.
The runner-up is the Hong Kong film "The Love I Talked About" starring Wu Junru, Zhang Tiantian, Teng Lixin, etc., with a box office of 1.692 million Hong Kong dollars last week and a cumulative box office of 15.522 million Hong Kong dollars in 32 days of release. This is the only Hong Kong film to break HK$15 million so far in the second half of this year, and it is no longer a problem to save capital and achieve profitability, and because its box office potential has not yet been fully released, it will remain competitive in the next two weeks, and is expected to exceed HK$18 million by the time of its release.
The third runner-up was the US-UK-France co-produced film "A Certain Substance" (Hong Kong translation of "Perfect Substance"), which was officially released last Thursday and achieved a box office of HK$1.681 million, plus the previous priority show data for a total of HK$2.422 million. Although the numbers are not impressive, under the cold winter of the Hong Kong film market, it has exceeded most of the films released in the same period.
In fourth place is the Hollywood animated film "Wilderness Robot", which grossed HK$1.524 million last week and accumulated HK$5.129 million in 13 days of release. According to this box office trend, not only is it impossible for this film to break 10 million Hong Kong dollars, but it is unknown whether it can reach 7 million Hong Kong dollars.
Ranking fifth is the Hong Kong film "Wu Ti Dao" starring Liu Junqian, Dong Wei, Wu Yunlong, Cai Siyun and others, with a box office of 1.505 million Hong Kong dollars last week, and a total of 7.653 million Hong Kong dollars in 11 days of release. As a film that has been promoted by the entertainment media and film critics in Hong Kong, this achievement can hardly be called outstanding, and the possibility of reaching 10 million Hong Kong dollars is also significantly smaller.
Ranking sixth is the mainland film "Crisis Route" starring Andy Lau, Zhang Zifeng, Qu Chuxiao and others, which was officially released last Thursday and earned 1.467 million Hong Kong dollars in 4 days, plus a total of 1.852 million Hong Kong dollars in priority screenings. To be sure, it is difficult for mainland films to do well in the Hong Kong market, and if they can break into the top 10 at the box office, they will be considered successful.
In seventh place is the Korea movie "See Panda Fubao ·Again", which grossed HK$793,000 last week and a total of HK$2.31 million in 10 days of release. This is a documentary about Grandpa Kang and the giant panda Fu Bao, of course, completely from a Korea perspective.
In eighth place is the Japan anime film "My Hero Academy Theatrical Version 4" (Hong Kong translation "My Hero Academia Theatrical Version: YOU'RE NEXT"), which grossed HK$502,000 last week and accumulated HK$2.521 million in 18 days of release.
Ranking ninth is the mainland movie "Volunteers: Survival" starring Zhu Yilong, Xin Baiqing, Zhang Zifeng, Zhu Yawen and others, with a box office of 477,000 Hong Kong dollars last week and a total of 1.153 million Hong Kong dollars in 13 days of release. To tell the truth, mainland main theme films are still in their infancy in the Hong Kong market, and it is already a good result to be in the top 10 for two consecutive weeks.
In tenth place is the Hollywood blockbuster "Transformers: Origins" (Hong Kong translation "Transformers: The Beginning"), which grossed HK$357,000 last week and accumulated HK$6.698 million in 25 days of release. For a blockbuster film with a classic IP, this achievement can only be described as dismal, and it is expected that it will not exceed 7.5 million Hong Kong dollars when it is finally released.
The editor roughly calculated that the 10 films on the list achieved a total of 10.738 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office last week, of which overseas films accounted for 5.597 million Hong Kong dollars and Chinese films accounted for 5.141 million Hong Kong dollars. The gap is not huge, and it is better than in previous weeks, which is enough to show that the situation is generally improving. But will this trend be sustained until the end of December? Personally, I'm more skeptical.