Treasure Island 1992, starting from the Four Little Heavenly Kings
Chapter 494 The fierce fight in the Spring Chapter
The Spring Festival period in 2000 was not as good as in the early 90s.
But the competition is no less intense.
Although this year Jackie Chan, Stephen Chow, Jet Li and other figures with the most appeal at the Hong Kong box office have no movies released during this period.
But this schedule is also packed with hot movies.
Among them, Andy Lau is the craziest. He has three movies released during this period, namely:
"A Man and a Widow", "Ahu", "The Battle at the Forbidden City".
In addition, Tony Leung was invited by Golden Harvest to star in Golden Harvest's annual drama "Tokyo Strategy" with Ekin Cheng.
Finally, there is "Resident Evil" and "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" starring Chen Qiming, which has been scheduled for February 20th.
Relatively speaking, Chen Qiming's "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" did not have a big impact on several other movies because it was released on the 20th.
Therefore, the most intense battles during the Spring Festival this year are mainly to watch "Resident Evil", "A Man and a Widow", "Ahu", and "The Battle of the Forbidden City".
However, to ordinary viewers, this kind of fighting is just like a normal year, no different from before.
But in the eyes of the media and colleagues who are familiar with the producers of these films, this year’s Spring Festival is very interesting.
Some people even shouted, "Pacific Entertainment has dominated the Hong Kong film industry."
The main reason for this is that the most popular movie during the Spring Festival is basically related to Pacific Entertainment.
"A Man and a Widow", this film is produced by Galaxy Image and directed by Johnnie To.
Although Galaxy Image is an independent company, anyone familiar with the entertainment industry knows that it is a branch of Qiming Film and Television.
A company like Xinyibao under Polygram, although independent, belongs to the PolyGram Group.
The same is true for Galaxy Image, which belongs to Qiming Film and Television and is also a film company of Pacific Entertainment.
Then there is "Battle at the Forbidden City", the producer of this film is the best partner.
Is there anyone who doesn’t know that the best partner is a production company affiliated with Pacific Entertainment?
Half of their investment in movies every year comes from Pacific Entertainment.
Then "Resident Evil", needless to say, is one of the series of movies in the hands of Qiming Film and Television.
In addition, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" will be released on the 20th and is jointly invested by Pacific and Columbia Pictures.
Among the most popular movies during the entire Spring Festival, four are directly from the Pacific Ocean.
Only "Tokyo Raiders" belongs to Golden Harvest, while "Ahu" belongs to Hesheng's transformation company China Star.
It is obviously time for a fierce fight and collision between major companies.
Now it has turned into cannibalism in the Pacific, which I have to say is very dramatic.
However, although everyone is from the same camp.
But the fight between them is unambiguous.
As "Resident Evil" started its first run, it was released on the 3rd and earned an impressive result of 13 million Hong Kong dollars in five days.
Immediately afterwards, on the 8th, "Battle at the Forbidden City" and "Tokyo Strategy" also entered the market.
As soon as the two movies entered the market, they immediately took away a large number of rankings and markets, and the fight with "Resident Evil" was particularly bloody.
On the first day, relying on the good reputation after its early release, the box office of "Resident Evil" declined, but it remained strong, continuing to top the single-day box office list with a single-day box office of 3.7 million.
On the second day, "Battle at the Forbidden City" played by Andy Lau took the first place by relying on Andy Lau's strong popularity.
The same was true on the third day. "Battle at the Forbidden City" was out of control and continued to win. It is worth mentioning here that since Andy Lau starred in "The Lonely Agent" and achieved good results worldwide, his movie box office appeal has reached a position that cannot be ignored.
To a certain extent, his current appeal is even comparable to that of Jet Li.
When Jackie Chan, Chen Qiming, and Stephen Chow have no movies released, many Hong Kong audiences are very willing to go to the cinema and contribute a movie ticket to Andy Lau.
Because of this, "Resident Evil", which is of very good quality and has done well after being released around the world, has to avoid Andy Lau for the time being in Hong Kong.
"Battle of the Forbidden City" has the super popularity of Andy Lau, the support of Ekin Cheng, and a large number of other stars. Although the quality is average, it will not see a box office decline in the short term.
"Resident Evil" is a typical European and American blockbuster, with special effects and bullets for free, and with the help of international box office.
The two films are directly competing to death in the subsequent market. Today you are number one, and tomorrow I am number one.
Compared with these two films, "Tokyo Raiders" is much inferior.
What should I say about Tony Leung!
Anyone who watches movies must know him.
After all, his acting skills are amazing.
But the real situation is that he really doesn't resist the box office.
In addition, it was robbed of too much exposure by "Resident Evil" and "Forbidden City".
Therefore, even if Golden Harvest strongly favors Tony Leung and hires Ekin Cheng as his co-star in order to train the next successor to Jackie Chan, it will still be difficult to raise the box office of this movie.
So, there was a funny scene.
On the 8th, "Resident Evil" ranked first, "Battle of the Forbidden City" ranked second, and "Tokyo Strategy" ranked third.
On the 9th, "Battle of the Forbidden City" ranked first, "Resident Evil" ranked second, and "Tokyo Strategy" ranked third.
Third, third, third.
"Tokyo Raiders" dominated the third place, which lasted until the 14th. "Battle of the Forbidden City" lacked stamina and its box office data dropped, so it overtook it and rushed to the front.
At this time, "Resident Evil" actually had insufficient stamina.
After all, this film was released five days early. For Hong Kong, which has a short film release cycle, five days is enough time for some movies that are not of very good quality to be released and released again.
So, on the 17th, "Resident Evil" finally fell, and it fell directly from the first to the fourth position.
The top three spots are occupied by Tokyo Raiders, Love at First Sight, and another film from Oriental Films.
However, although "Resident Evil" and "The Forbidden City" were both released in Pacific theaters, their potential has been lost.
But that doesn’t mean Pacific lost.
On the 20th and 23rd, the successors of "Resident Evil" and "Battle of the Forbidden City" are here.
"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" starring Chen Qiming and "A Man and a Widow" starring Andy Lau are now available in theaters.
As soon as the two male heroes' movies were released in theaters, they immediately dominated the market and won the first and second place in the single-day box office list with an attendance rate of 80% and 65% respectively.
Subsequently, in the following week, the entire Hong Kong film market was almost completely dominated by these two films.
In one week, "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" grossed 19 million, almost 20 million, taking the whole of Hong Kong by storm.
Let everyone know about Chen Qiming's terrifying box office appeal.
(End of this chapter)
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