This year's New Year's Day movie "Goldfinger" is likely to be a huge failure at the box office.
In 2023, Hong Kong films seem to have experienced a serious setback, and mainland audiences seem to have lost their emotional resonance with Hong Kong films overnight. The works of Hong Kong film stars such as Jackie Chan, Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok and Louis Koo also failed to impress mainland audiences. As a result, the Hong Kong film industry launched the highly anticipated "Goldfinger" and the accompanying "Sneak" during the New Year's Day, intending to reverse the decline of Hong Kong films.
These two films unfortunately failed to achieve the desired results at the box office.
After only two days, I was overtaken!The loss has already exceeded 1600 million, "Goldfinger" can't look back on its roots, and "Stealth" is beginning to lose its leading position.
As of 4 p.m. on January 1, the New Year's Day stalls in the mainland are basically coming to an end.
Right now, "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star" and "Annual Meeting Can't Stop!".is obviously the big winner, on the contrary, the star-studded "Goldfinger", "Sneak" and "If You Are the Truth 3" have fallen into a serious loss, which has made the box office situation on New Year's Day obvious polarization. Among them, "Goldfinger" and "Sneaking", two Hong Kong films, are considered to be the most disappointing works.
"Stealth" won the box office on the first day, even surpassing "The Annual Meeting Can't Stop!".This shows that the mainland audience's expectations for Andy Lau were very high at that time.
After the release of "Stealth", although new films such as "Twinkle Twinkle Twinkle Star" appeared one after another, it quickly lost its position as the box office champion. It has been released for 4 days now, with a cumulative box office of 20.7 billion, while the single-day box office dropped to about 20 million, opening a big gap with the best-selling movies. Based on current trends, the final box office of the film will be around 400 million.
The cost of making the film has not been disclosed.
Andy Lau , Lin Jiadong , Peng Yuyan , Liu Yase , Ren Dahua , Lin Xue and Zheng Zeshi and other stars starred, coupled with a large number of action scenes in the movie, it is speculated that the production cost should be about 200 million, and it is extremely difficult for "Sneaking" to recover its original cost.
"Goldfinger" has no possibility of returning to its original cost, and "Stealth" may still have a glimmer of hope.
"Goldfinger" is known as the pinnacle of Hong Kong films, and the cost of production is as high as 3500 million, which can be called one of the most expensive production costs in the history of Hong Kong films, so double insurance actors such as Tony Leung and Andy Lau were invited, and even showed the emotional tricks of "Infernal Affairs".
Twinkle Star won the daily box office championship at the first day box office, and the movie was second only to it, breaking 66.66 million box office results, ranking second at the daily box office.
Although the mainland audience's expectations for Hong Kong films once had a faint existence, it is a pity that the film's reputation was mediocre and quickly lost the support of the market. On the second day of its release, it was "The Annual Meeting Can't Be Stopped!".Although the film can still maintain its position in the top three single-day box office, the cumulative box office in 3 days is only 18.8 billion. According to current trends, the final box office revenue of the film is likely to only reach around 500 million.
According to the movie information, the box office share ratio of the film party this time is about 37%, even if the box office of the film reaches 500 million, the film party can still only get about 1800 million in revenue, with a loss of more than 1600 million, and that's not even taking into account the cost of publicity!
Goldfinger can only say that not only did it not save the Hong Kong film, but even pressed a stone on the coffin board of the Hong Kong film!
Even though Andy Lau and Tony Leung have put in their efforts, the 41-year-old actress has become the biggest flaw!
Of course, this film has many advantages, "Goldfinger" is based on the famous Jianing case in the 80s of the last century.
Singaporean businessman Tan Chung Ching went to Hong Kong to seek development because of his difficult life. In a short period of time, he founded Jianing Company, and through the purchase of the Golden Gate Building, etc., the company** soared more than tenfold in one year in 1980. However, all this is false, and like a soap bubble, it will eventually burst. This led to a super-crash that bankrupted countless people.
The movie is almost entirely literary drama, and the action scenes only play an embellishment role.
The film's elaborate costumes and props and lavish set settings are enough to prove that the film was quite expensive to make. Excellent in terms of visuals.
Before the movie was released, the main focus was the showdown between Tony Leung and Andy Lau.
It's a pity that the real focus of the movie is actually only Tony Leung. In recent years, he has not starred in any outstanding movies or roles, but this time he played Cheng Yiyan has room to play. Tony Leung successfully interprets the character through subtle facial expressions and action details.
Unlike previous rumors, although Andy Lau has many roles in the movie, it is not very important.
In terms of storyline, Andy Lau played a supporting role in this movie, but his performance was also quite good. Overall, Andy Lau and Tony Leung have done their best. Suffice it to say, the problem with Goldfinger is not the old pair.
The problem is with the young actors, which is the crux of the movie.
Except for Tony Leung, Andy Lau and Yam Dahua, the performance of other film actors is average, especially the heroine Choi Cheuk-yan, can you really not find a more suitable actor in the Hong Kong film industry?A young and beautiful vase role is actually played by the 41-year-old Cai Zhuoyan, of course, in today's Hong Kong film industry, Cai Zhuoyan can indeed be regarded as a "young actor".
The audience disagreed.
Tony Leung plays Cheng Yiyan in the film with his ** operation, and the most critical move is to successfully defeat the king Ren Chong.
The most ironic thing about Ren Chong is that he was not interested in Cheng Yiyan at first, but Cheng Yiyan skillfully used beauty tricks to capture Cai Zhuoyan's heart. I really can't understand that a person who is the king of stocks will be fascinated by Cai Zhuoyan, what kind of woman he has seen, and he will be succumbed to Cai Zhuoyan?After meeting each other, he behaved like an innocent middle school student and had a deep affection for Cai Zhuoyan, and even betrayed his previous employer.
In the end, we also received a boxed lunch together. I doubt a few viewers would believe such a plot!
Cai Zhuoyan's beauty is unconvincing, and she can't show enough aura, which becomes the biggest failure in the whole movie.
The second half of the film is rather disappointing.
The first half of the film does a pretty good job of capturing the viewer's curiosity, but by the second half it becomes bland. Cheng Yiyan is portrayed as an international white glove, but he is actually the role of the behind-the-scenes financier to the forefront. In order to show the power of the behind-the-scenes financiers, the movie spent a lot of time filming the plots of Cheng Yiyan's men being retaliated against and destroyed one by one.
Cheng Yiyan was finally sentenced to 3 years, but why did he come out unscathed, and then lived a rich and free life?
In Hong Kong, China, it seems that there are some financiers who dare not make movies publicly, and how these international capital groups cooperate and deceive the people of their money, and who is the big boss behind the scenes, and what will happen if they are clearly said?
The market size of Hong Kong films is indeed quite limited, this is an undeniable fact!