At the beginning of this year, the first Hong Kong film released in the Chinese mainland market was "Temporary Robbery" co-starring Kwok Fucheng, Lin Jiadong and Ren Xianqi.
They all want to get off to a good start at the beginning of the year and lay a good foundation for future performance. However, this Hong Kong film "Temporary Robbery", which gathered three major actors, failed to make a good start for the box office and word-of-mouth performance of Hong Kong films in the mainland market, not only that, but it even made mainland audiences see the decline of Hong Kong films again, and some people said that Aaron Kwok is "the terminator of Hong Kong films".
In recent years, domestic audiences have said that "Hong Kong films have declined", and some people even said that "Hong Kong films are dead". However, according to the performance of major films in the Chinese mainland market in recent years, it is not only Hong Kong films that are declining, but also Hollywood blockbusters that once dominated the box office list of mainland film history.
Now, we have bid farewell to February, when the box office of domestic films exploded, and ushered in March, when there were a large number of Hollywood blockbuster imports. Some people say that this March is the New Year for Hollywood blockbuster fans, because every week in March this year, a Hollywood blockbuster will be released.
However, the first Hollywood blockbuster of the year, which was released on the first day of March, did not get off to a good start, and not only that, it even proved that "Hollywood blockbusters are dead in the Chinese mainland market".
On the first day of March this year, we ushered in the first Hollywood blockbuster of the year with the superhero blockbuster "Madame Spider: Super Awake" released by Sony Pictures.
"Madame Spider" had already been released in overseas markets such as North America in mid-February, and the film's performance in other markets was not very optimistic at that time, first of all, its reputation was very poor, and secondly, the box office was very low. In more than half a month, its total box office in North America was less than $40 million, and the cumulative global box office just exceeded $80 million.
And such a movie, which has already failed in the North American domestic market, has performed extremely poorly at the box office after landing in Chinese mainland theaters.
On the first day of its release, "Mrs. Spider" only received more than 2 million yuan at the box office in mainland theaters. Now it is the third day, and the cumulative total box office of this film in the mainland is less than 4 million yuan.
According to the current results and daily box office trends, it is expected that the final total box office of "Lady Spider" in the mainland is likely to reach 8 million yuan. In this way, it is likely to become the first Hollywood superhero blockbuster to fail to exceed 10 million yuan at the mainland box office, and even "Blood Warrior", which has a bad reputation and is also regarded as a bad movie, has a mainland box office of more than 40 million yuan.
In addition to the superhero blockbuster "Madame Spider" produced by Sony Pictures, the biographical film "Oppenheimer" directed by the great director Christopher Nolan was also re-screened in Chinese mainland theaters, and the re-release of this film performed more dismal at the box office.
In three days, the total box office of its re-screening was less than one million yuan. Such a performance is surprising for an excellent film with a good reputation and various international awards. This can only show that Hollywood blockbusters have really declined.