We all know that 1992 is known as the "Year of Zhou Xingchi". This year, 7 movies were released in Hong Kong, and 5 of them entered the top five of the annual box office list, which can be said to be very "scary". However, the miracle created by Xingye on the Hong Kong film box office list was not only in 1992, but throughout the 1990s, so he was able to fight Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat was called the "double weekly" of the 1990s (note: this statement is only based on the Hong Kong local box office). So what kind of miracle was the "box office miracle" created by The Star Ye movie at that time? Let's take a look.
1990: "Gamble Saint" set a new Hong Kong box office record for HK$41 million
In 1990, Jackie Chan and Fa Ge, the most box-office appeals in the local market of Hong Kong films, did not have a movie released, and Xingye soared to the sky with "Gamble Saint", with a box office performance of 41 million Hong Kong dollars, and also set a new record for the local box office of Hong Kong films. You know, before that, no Hong Kong film could break through the 40 million mark at the box office. In the same year, "The Gambler", which starred in cooperation with Andy Lau, ranked second in the annual box office list with a box office of 40.3 million Hong Kong dollars. The previous generation of "King of Comedy" Xu Guanwen's "New Half Pound Eight Two" only ranked third in the annual box office list, and the box office difference between the second place "Gambler" was nearly 14 million Hong Kong dollars, which is not difficult to see how strong the box office appeal of Star Ye at this time is.
1991: "Truant Veyron" set a new peak at the box office of Hong Kong films
In 1991, the "return" of Jackie Chan and Fa Ge made the box office competition of Hong Kong films more intense. The former won the second place in the box office list of the same year with "The Flying Eagle Project" (39 million Hong Kong dollars), and the latter's "Across the World" ranked fourth with a box office of 34 million Hong Kong dollars, but neither film exceeded 40 million Hong Kong dollars. And Xingye's "Truant Weilong" once again topped the annual box office list with a box office performance of 44 million Hong Kong dollars, and also once again refreshed the local box office record set by "Gamble Saint". This year, Star Ye also had 5 "divine works" that entered the top 20 of the annual box office list, namely "Trick Expert", "Shanghai Beach Gambling Saint", "New Jingwu Gate", "Dragon's Descendant" and "Love Saint". Even the worst-grossing final film has 17 million Hong Kong dollars, and this box office dominance of Star Ye this year can really be described as "bursting".
1992: "Tough" box office dominance achieves "Chow Sing Chi Year"
However, the real embodiment of the dominance of the star box office is still in 1992. The box office performance of his films in this year is simply "tough to the extreme": the box office champion in the same year was "The Inquisitor" with 49.88 million Hong Kong dollars, and the runner-up was "Happy Family Affair", 48 million Hong Kong dollars; The third runner-up was "Deer Ding Ji" with 41 million Hong Kong dollars, while "Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qi'er" ranked fourth with 37.5 million Hong Kong dollars, "Deer Ding Ji 2 Divine Dragon Sect" ranked fifth with 36.5 million Hong Kong dollars, and "Truant Weilong 2", which was not in the top ten of the box office, also won 32 million Hong Kong dollars, and "Comic Wei Long" also sold 23 million Hong Kong dollars. The highest-grossing "Boy When Self-Improvement" in the Huang Feihong series and Xu Ke's classic martial arts "New Dragon Gate Inn" are only 30.5 million and 21.5 million respectively.
1993: The most "gold content" box office champion - "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang"
We all know that in 1993, the Hong Kong film box office ushered in a big explosion, and countless classic Hong Kong films were released in this year, so the year that can become the box office champion is a very gold-bearing film. This year, Xingye is still "as stable as Taishan", and "Tang Bohu Dian Qiu Xiang", which he and Li Li held, once again occupied the top of the annual box office list with a box office of 40 million Hong Kong dollars, which was nearly 5 million Hong Kong dollars more than the second-ranked Star New Year film "Flower Field Happy Event", and also had a box office of 10 million Hong Kong dollars more than "City Hunter" jointly joined by Jackie Chan Wang Jing and Jet Li's "Zhengdong" entrepreneurial work "Fang Shiyu". And his "Truant Veyron 3" also ranked eighth in the annual box office list with a box office performance of 26 million Hong Kong dollars, to know that this film is not too brilliant in the sequence of Xingye's works, but it can reach the top ten in 1993, but also thanks to Xingye's strong box office appeal.
1994: Although the "monopoly" situation is over, the "miracle" continues
In 1994, Fa Ge's "God of Gamblers 2" won the box office list of the same year with a riding posture of 52.5 million Hong Kong dollars, and also broke the monopoly of Star Ye Film on the top of the Hong Kong film box office for four consecutive years. This year, Jackie Chan is not to be outdone, and his "Drunken Fist 2" ranks second in the annual box office list with a box office performance of 41 million Hong Kong dollars. Despite this, but the "miracle" of Xingye is still continuing, in the same year, the three divine works he starred in all entered the top ten of the annual box office list, and the box office exceeded 30 million Hong Kong dollars, they are "Domestic Lingling Paint", "King of Destruction" and "Nine Pin Sesame Officer", of which "Domestic Lingling Paint" also ranked third in the annual box office list.
After 94 years, Xingye began to transform, in addition to acting, he also began to develop to the screenwriter and director in many ways, and slowly shifted more energy from the front of the stage to the backstage, so the number of Xingye's works began to decrease sharply in the past few years. Although it was not until 1999 that "The King of Comedy" won the annual box office championship again, in these four or five years, Xingye's works still ranked in the top ten of the annual box office list every year, and in 1995: "Hundred Variable Star Jun", "Journey to the West" And "Night of the Soul" four films entered the top ten of the annual box office list, of which "Hundred Variable Star King" ranked third in the annual box office list;
In 1996, "God Eater" and "Big Inner Secret Agent Zero Zero Hair" ranked second and third in the annual box office list; in 1997, "97 Happy Things" and "Counting Dead Grass" ranked second and fourth in the annual box office list; in 1998, "A Dragon of Luck" was praised by Ge Minhui, but also because of the performance of Xingye, it still won 27.7 million Hong Kong dollars at the box office, ranking third in the annual box office list. And "King of a Thousand Kings 2000", which was released in the same year as "The King of Comedy", is also to focus on Zhang Jiahui, but the joining of Xingye also made the film successfully enter the top five of the box office list.
Throughout the Hong Kong film industry in the 1990s, although countless excellent films and filmmakers emerged in this decade, and the competition was fierce, the performance of Xingye's works in the film market was indeed incredible: not only did it dominate the box office for 4 consecutive years, 5 movies a year dominated the top five of the annual box office, but also for ten consecutive years, there were works that could rank in the top three or top five of the annual box office every year, and these box office miracles have not been surpassed so far.
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