A total of 13 new films were released in the mainland film market last weekend.
It is the week with the most new films in this year's Lunar New Year, and what is embarrassing is that the box office situation is quite average, and not even a new film has exceeded 100 million at the box office in the first weekend, but it has made the screened "The Three Teams" win a high box office with low-ranking films, especially Zhang Jiahui's "Breaking Point" directly collapsed at the box office, making Hong Kong films in 2023 even worse!
The loss is more than 1700 million, the box office of "Breaking Point" collapsed, and I have mixed feelings: Hong Kong films are really outdated
Although there were new films with big IP all-star lineups such as "Lighting Store" and "Hiding from the Sea" last weekend, many fans are most concerned about "Breaking Point", and the reason is very simple, "Breaking Point" is definitely the largest domestic film this year, and there is no one!
Due to the precise control of director Lin Chaoxian, "Breaking Point" was released in the mainland without cutting it.
You must know that this film is set as a ** film in the Hong Kong market, that is, only audiences over 18 years old are allowed to watch the movie, but in the mainland market, all ages can watch the movie, which is a rare operation in film history, and I can only sigh that Lin Chaoxian's main theme blockbuster has not been shot in vain in these years.
The two major male advocates of the film, Jiahui and William Chan, happen to be a combination of actor and traffic, and the mainland market has proven the success of this combination in recent years.
But the box office of "Breaking Point" collapsed.
As of December 10th, the box office of the first weekend of the film in the mainland was only 57.52 million, not to mention the new films in the same period, even Wu Jing's cameo "Goodbye, Li Kele" has not been played, according to the current trend, whether the final box office of the film can break 90 million is a problem, the film cost 200 million to produce, and the loss may exceed 1700 million, which is one of the largest box office ** for this year's Chinese New Year.
The film is jointly produced by Bona and Emperor, two major film giants in mainland China and Hong Kong, and the promotional activities began half a year ago, and the various violent action scenes in the film made fans shout that it is impossible to be released in the mainland.
I didn't expect the movie to meet mainland audiences without being cut for a second.
The film is 138 minutes long and is played almost from beginning to end.
I believe that many mainland viewers are the first time to see a severed limb on the big screen, and see the police give an emergency to the undercover agent**, and they are forced to stuff the tourniquet into the bullet hole with their thumbs.
In mainland productions, we rarely see a complete police squad being wiped out by the villains, or the kind of burning alive with Molotov cocktails.
And the camera is not evasive at all, we can see that the flames cover the human body, and in the end turn into black charcoal.
There are also various uncomfortable pictures and plots, the *** villain played by Zhang Jiahui in the film threatened, and finally his son was kidnapped by the villain, which is placed in many domestic films, and it must be all kinds of rescues The son was saved at the last moment.
But in "Breaking Point", the villain burned directly without saying a word!Without any hesitation, this may be the villain in reality.
Of course, the reason why the movie can be so large-scale is that on the one hand, it is the operation of Lin Chaoxian and Bona, and on the other hand, this kind of anti-drug police film is also the main theme to a certain extent, and it can get official support.
The most regrettable thing is that "Breaking Point" did not solve the problem of Hong Kong films.
In recent years, it has received the support of the mainland market, and Hong Kong films have also begun to shoot large-scale productions frequently, and in 2022, Louis Koo will begin to challenge the sci-fi blockbuster "Tomorrow's War", compared with the previous Hong Kong films, these big-scale action scenes are on par with Hollywood blockbusters, and this year's "Anti-Drug 3" even dispatched fighter jets, but these movies are essentially the same old style of Hong Kong films.
Undercover police and bandits, brotherhood, etc., these are all tricks of Hong Kong films in the last century.
Even science fiction films like "Tomorrow's War" Louis Koo can be acted into a police film, which shows the vision of the team behind the scenes of Hong Kong films, although the scene of "Breaking Point" is larger and the scale is larger, there is almost no plot at all, all the story is driven by kidnapping, and the more you watch it, the more bloody it is.
Looking at the super hits in the mainland in recent years, "Wolf Warrior 2", "Changjin Lake", "Hello!".Li Huanying" and even "Nezha's Demon Boy Descended" have a unique style or feelings of Chinese, and the direction of Hong Kong films has always been Hollywood, which is doomed to Hong Kong films and Hollywood in the mainland market is getting worse and worse, as the feelings of mainland audiences, I really have mixed feelings: Hong Kong films are really outdated.
It's useless to ask the first director in film history?This gold-lettered signboard is smashed.
"Breaking Point" dared to invest 200 million yuan in production, largely because of Lin Chaoxian.
In recent years, Hong Kong film directors John Woo, Er Dongsheng, Chen Kexin, To Qifeng, Wang Jing, and even Stephen Chow's mainland box office has begun to decline, but Lin Chaoxian has become more and more courageous.
Operation Mekong", "Operation Red Sea" and "Changjin Lake" jumped at the box office.
The box office of the "Changjin Lake" series is approaching 10 billion, breaking the record of domestic films, and Lin Chaoxian has naturally become the director with the first box office of a single film in film history, becoming a golden signboard.
But what is embarrassing is that this gold-lettered signboard seems to limit the main theme, or mainland actors.
Zhang Hanyu of "Operation Mekong", "Operation Red Sea" and "Changjin Lake", Zhang Yi and Wu Jingjing are mainland actors, Lin Chaoxian's "Emergency Rescue" starring Peng Yuyan in recent years, and "Breaking Point" is Zhang Jiahui and William Chan.
Although they all have the main theme bonus, Hong Kong films can smash this golden signboard.
It's a bit weird indeed. William Chan is part of Lam's boom