Stephen Chow's "The King of New Comedy" has a total box office of about 620 million yuan in the mainland, which is not the lowest box office work of Stephen Chow in the mainland, nor is it a money-losing film, but it is recognized as a relatively commercial failure of Stephen Chow, and the box office of the film is even inferior to Wang Baoqiang's self-directed "Big Trouble Tianzhu" two years ago.
After Zhou Xingchi became famous, his works rarely failed at the box office, but there are also others, such as the following 7 Zhou Xingchi works, which were not ideal at the box office that year. It should be noted that we are here to "Gamble Saint" as the dividing line, the film was released on August 18, 1990, before the work, such as "Brother Brother Hits the Ghost", "Thief A Xing", "Curry Pepper", "Wind and Rain on the Same Road", etc., here is not mentioned, here is to discuss the works of Zhou Xingchi released after "Gamble Saint".
1. "Invincible Lucky Star" 18.8 million (Hong Kong box office, unit Hong Kong dollars, the same below)
1990's "Gamble Saint" was the box office champion film of that year, the film received more than 40 million box office in Hong Kong, while "Invincible Lucky Star", which was released a month later than "Gamble Saint", only had a box office of more than 18 million, the film style was similar to "Gamble Saint", but there was no former plot interesting, and there were more places of nonsense.
2, "The Last Big Guy" 5.5 million
In 1990, it seems that every month there were new films released by Zhou Xingchi, this "The Last Big Guy in the Jianghu" was two months later than "Gamble Saint", but it should have been filmed before "Gamble Saint", because this is not a comedy, but a positive drama about the later life of jianghu characters, although there is also Wu Mengda in it, but the film still suffered box office failures, which is the most tragic work at the box office after Zhou Xingchi became popular with "Gamble Saint".
3. "Love Saint" 16.5 million
1991 is also a prolific year for Stephen Chow, and this "Love Saint" is the worst box office work of the year, objectively speaking, the plot of this movie is not bad, it is a complete deception structure, Mao Shunjun contributed the most laughs in the film, and Ye Zilin, Noon Ma, Yuanhua and Zhang Yaoyang also performed well.
4, "Comic Veyron" 23 million
The film was produced in 1992, this year Zhou Xingchi had 7 movies released, the other 6 works were more than 30 million at the box office, only this "Comic Weilong" performance is the most "low-key". The film is the sequel to "New Jingwumen 1991", Zhou Xingchi, Xiao Fangfang, Zhong Zhentao and Zhang Min are actually a very good combination, but unfortunately, because the box office of this film did not meet expectations, Xiao Fangfang and Zhong Zhentao have rarely cooperated with Zhou Xingchi since then.
5. "Jigong" 21.5 million
Du Qifeng, who later became a big man in the Hong Kong film industry, completely fell out with Stephen Chow during the filming of this movie, and the two have never cooperated since. In fact, when they cooperated with "The Inquisitor", they were already full of contradictions, but the film sold well at the box office, covering up the contradictions between them. Nowadays, times have changed, and Du Qifeng still holds a negative attitude when talking about Zhou Xingchi, which shows the depth of the contradictions in those years.
6, "Night of the Soul" 16 million
In 1995, Zhou Xingchi had four works released (strictly speaking, three, because "Journey to the West" was dismantled into upper and lower episodes), in addition to "Hundred Variable Star Jun" received more than 30 million box office, "Journey to the West" and "Night of the Soul" were not ideal at the box office, but the box office of the two parts of "Journey to the West" was 45 million, which was not satisfactory, and the 1600 of "Night of the Soul" could only be regarded as a failure, but the film was a fine work in Stephen Chow's works, with dense laughter and a terrifying atmosphere. It's a movie worth watching over and over again, provided you're a daredevil.
7. "King of a Thousand Kings 2000" 19 million
Zhou Xingchi is only a supporting role in this movie, and the protagonist is the "slag slag Hui" who has not yet found a personal positioning. In fact, Zhang Jiahui can act in comedy, otherwise Wang Jing would not have looked for Zhou Xingchi to praise him, but somehow, it is not popular. Zhou Xingchi only made a one-week scene for this movie, but took away the salary of 10 million Hong Kong dollars, for this matter, Wang Jing has been grumpy for so many years, but looking back, if there is no Stephen Chow, this movie may not sell at the box office of 19 million.
Among the above 7 works of Zhou Xingchi that failed at the box office, "Night of the Soul", "Love Saint", "Comic Weilong" and even "Jigong" are not bad films, while Zhou Xingchi's mediocre works such as "Dragon Over the Year of the Rooster", "Count Dead Grass", "Luck a Dragon" and so on, the box office of that year was OK. (Written by: Niu Jinshi )