According to a one-week box office performance reported by the Hong Kong Theatre Chamber of Commerce on May 8, the box office champion during this period was "True Three Kingdoms Matchless" starring Gu Tianle, Wang Kai, Han Geng and others, and won the daily box office championship for 8 consecutive days, with a cumulative box office of 4 million Hong Kong dollars, about 3.3 million yuan.
Hong Kong netizens under the comments of this report feel incredible, for the release of "True Three Kingdoms" in the mainland they are also menqing, this movie has just been released in theaters for a week and then became "big", the online platform is directly online, the platform score is only 4.3, which can be described as a box office word-of-mouth double flutter street.
Such a film is actually the Hong Kong weekly box office champion, and even won the 8-day crown, who has seen it and not said that the Hong Kong film market is too miserable?
What is even more tragic is that the directors and screenwriters of "True Three Kingdoms" are also filmmakers trained by Hong Kong themselves, and the two have cooperated in shooting many Hong Kong films, such as "The Great Hunt" starring Zhang Jiahui (Zhang Jiahui nominated the golden horse male protagonist with this film), "Crime and Punishment" starring Aaron Kwok (Aaron Kwok nominated the golden male protagonist with this film), from these achievements, the combination of male directors and female screenwriters can also be regarded as a well-known husband and wife file in Hong Kong.
Director Zhou Xianyang was also nominated for the Academy Award twice, and even won the award of the new director in 2013, just to the team, "True Three Kingdoms" is really not a bad film made in the cognition of mainland audiences just for the sake of money, from the crew to New Zealand live-action shooting can also be felt.
But from another point of view, it is more sad, and now the situation has become not that Hong Kong filmmakers do not work hard, but no matter how hard they try, they can only get here, and this matter has once again let us see the decline of Hong Kong films.
Some time ago, the TVB drama "Absurd Theater Company" had a plot quite out of the circle, in which the characters counted the number of Hong Kong films released in recent years, 61 films were released in 2016, 53 in 2018, and 46 in 2019... Finally, he said: "Hong Kong movies will soon disappear", this plot gradually corresponds to the actual situation, summed up is no money, no one, no market.
Hong Kong director Zheng Baorui said these three things very bluntly in an interview, and the big truth is more than a sentence, in his view, "Hong Kong films have not made progress is a fact", "who still watches (Hong Kong films) today", "The Hong Kong film market is indeed small, there is no business to do", and the most cruel sentence is this sentence: Hong Kong films should have stopped five years ago.
In Zheng Baorui's view, the current miserable situation of Hong Kong films is essentially self-inflicted evil, and they have not done well before, and when they want to do it well, it may not be so easy.
To know that Hong Kong is even the cinema line has closed, and netizens have long begun to question, the film market still needs to have the category of Hong Kong films, here is a sentence that is very difficult to hear, but it is also very reasonable, just ask Hong Kong's latest Hong Kong film box office champions have been "True Three Kingdoms Matchless", "What is the use of shooting is not good to keep?" ”
Including like the former Hong Kong directors and Hong Kong actors, similar themes and similar angles to shoot over and over again, is it not too much to say that it is outdated? This typical Hong Kong film "Chasing the Tiger and Catching the Dragon" of the May 1st file has been completely counterattacked by the mainland niche theme film "Sweeping The Black".
By the way, "Chasing the Tiger and Catching the Dragon" is still the runner-up in the Hong Kong market box office last week, directed by Wang Jing, with a rating of only 5.5.
Some people may want to say, not to no, Hong Kong films also broke the box office record some time ago, "Bomb Disposal 2" box office 1.3 billion! Then let's take a look at the follow-up work of Qiu Litao, director of "Bomb Disposal 2".
Qiu Litao is going to work for the mainland platform, making a movie called "Jedi Pursuit", starring Ou Hao, Gu Jiacheng and Yu Haoming, and must admit that there are still many good filmmakers in Hong Kong, but their future is obviously impossible to only make Hong Kong films.
A few years ago, when talking about the decline of Hong Kong films, many people will sigh, and now that they have seen it, some people have begun to think that Hong Kong films should abdicate and return to their own position. I don't know if I will wait another two years, or five years, and when Gu Tianle and Andy Lau, the Hong Kong stars, really can't move, what will everyone think?
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