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The Hong Kong film industry has been in the cold winter in the haze of the epidemic in the past few years.Unexpectedly, Hong Kong films appeared in the summer vacation last year. Many Hong Kong -made movies box office reported the Glory after the millennium. Many people believe that this year's poisonous tongue -like large and super god scripture cases are reported by the New Year's Eve, marking that Hong Kong movies are recovering.
The first New Year holiday of the lunar calendar after the three -year epidemic, many Hong Kong people went to travel to the New Year, but many people stayed in Hong Kong for consumption.Zhang Guoqiong, a lecturer in Hong Kong college, went to the cinema to watch the Chinese New Year's poisonous tongue with his family on the night of the second night of the year.
Zhang Guiqiong is a full film enthusiast. She would go to the cinema for the first time when she was released in the past, but in the past three years, she reduced to the cinema because of the epidemic.Essence
However, Zhang Guiqiong said in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that there was an atmosphere of watching movies or going to the cinema. After all, the family or three or five confidants went into the court and looked at the big screen to enjoy the same good show.The computer is completely different.
According to Zhang Guoqiong's observation, the popularity of Hong Kong production in recent years has shown signs of recovery.Taking the big -sized tongue of the New Year's film in this time as an example, when she bought tickets online, the nearly half -show tickets of the movie theaters near her home had been sold out early in the morning.When she entered the venue on the same day, she also saw a lot of audiences at the scene, which shows that this movie is very popular with local fans.
Hong Kong ’s movie this year’ s film New Year has been released in total, namely the poisonous tongue starring Huang Zihua and Wang Dani, under the super god robbery of Zhang Jingxuan and Wang Yizhi, and the Tianlong Babu of Tianlong Dan Dan Dan DanQiao Fengzhuan.
The poisonous tongue has been highly praised since it was released. Many Hong Kong people and Hong Kong public opinion praised it to make the flavor of Hong Kong production that has been lost for a long time.The signature review article published on January 15th said: "Once a show (a poisonous tongue) satisfy the audience several desires. Many years ago, Hong Kong production films were the best."
The big box office of poisonous tongue is like breaking bamboo, and it continues to break the box office record.As of February 1, the film has exceeded 60 million (HK $ 103 million) box office in just 12 days, setting a record in Hong Kong's film history to reach the fastest box office of HK $ 60 million.
In addition to the large -scale box office harvest of poisonous tongue, the box office trend under the ultra -nerve robbery is also quite good. As of January 30, it has exceeded HK $ 15 million, ranking second in the box office list.
As for the Qiao Fengzhuan of the Tianlong Babu in China and Hong Kong, the market response is average. The accumulated box office has not yet reached 10 million Hong Kong dollars.
Tomorrow War will live up to the highest Chinese movie in the box office of Hong Kong history
Tracing, the New Year's film originated from Hong Kong. It is released from the end of the year to the New Year. The purpose of the New Year is a unique type of film in Hong Kong.Once upon a time, the years in Hong Kong's production films were very popular, and the New Year films were also very popular.The most glorious era can be traced back to the 1980s and 1990s. The best partners such as wealthy and wealthy and so on.
The New Year's Eve film film was also swept overseas. During the Lunar New Year, I went to the cinema to watch the New Year film of Hong Kong.
But after 1997, Hong Kong production films and New Year films have declined.Many people believe that this year's poisonous tongue is large and the supernatural robberies are reported to the New Year films, which marks that Hong Kong movies are going to a comprehensive recovery.
In fact, the Hong Kong film industry has been in the cold winter under the haze of the epidemic in the past few years.In the first half of last year, the Hong Kong Theater was close to four months because the epidemic was closed. After the reopening, Hong Kong films faced the challenges of Hollywood films such as Lone Ranger and Jurassic World.Fleeing Jailfish 3 in the box office 3.The lament of "Hong Kong film is dead" sounded again.
Unexpectedly, Hong Kong films appeared in the summer vacation.With the stability of the Hong Kong epidemic in the second half of last year, the entertainment career also fully recovered.From the spicy family in mid -July to the uninterrupted release of the Justice Corridor at the end of October, more than half of the movie theater for three consecutive months has been shown in Hong Kong production films, and many Hong Kong -made movies box office reports. It is rare to become a millennium.See the glory.
Among them, tomorrow, which is known as "Hong Kong's most large -scale science fiction giant system", tomorrow is the most powerful.This film is the director and starring of Gu Tianle, starring Liu Qingyun, Carina Lau, and Zhang Jiahui, to sell the selling points with science fiction and multiple heavyweight actors, attracting a large number of audiences to watch.
Tomorrow's Books live up to expectations, set more than 81 million yuan of local box office results, break the record of the cold war II about 66 million yuan box office, becomes the highest box office revenue in Hong Kong's history, and became the first one in Hong Kong that broke 80 million yuan in box office in Hong Kong.Asian movies.
As for Chen Yongzheng, Huang Zihua, Deng Lixin, Zhang Jicong, Wang Yanzhi, and Lin Mingzheng starred in the movie meal play. Last year, it also collected 77 million yuan box office, ranking second in Hong Kong's Chinese films, and became the highest in Hong Kong film history in the history of Hong Kong film history.Box office comedy movie.
Another Hong Kong -made Pillar Corridor, which was adapted from the case of the murder of Dato Tsui in Hong Kong in 2013, rely on word of mouth to create a local box office myth. Last year, the box office reached nearly 40 million yuan, and it was awarded the third -level film produced in the history of Hong Kong.The box office champion has surpassed the 3D meat futon Bliss Book of the first 12 years.
Check the box office information of Hong Kong. In the last year, there were Hong Kong -made films with a maximum box office of more than 40 million in the same year, far in 1992.The explosive films that year were the first trial officer (50.21 million yuan) at the box office, the second incident (48.99 million yuan) and the third deer (40.86 million yuan).Last year, Hong Kong once again reached 40 million yuan in box office in one year.
At the same time, Hong Kong production films in the second half of last year have also become a topic of enthusiastic discussion in Hong Kong netizens.According to the data released on December 28 last year, among the top ten hot search movies in 2022, six are Hong Kong production films, including the second waiting of the Ranged Battle of the Range Battle of the Battle of Tomorrow.
The Hong Kong Government vigorously supports the emergence of emerging directors
Hong Kong Film Distribution Agency -Lin Yunhua, general manager of Southern Film Co., Ltd., pointed out in an interview with Lianhe Morning Post that the box office income of Hong Kong production films last year has repeatedly set a record of Chinese Chinese films.Planting the soil is related to the policy of cultivating the new power of Hong Kong's film industry.
Data show that in the mid -to -late 1990s, due to the emergence of Hollywood special effects blockbusters, pirated videos, video dishes flooding, and a large number of filmmakers went north after the return of Hong Kong in 1997, the Hong Kong film industry began to decline from prosperity, and the output decreased year after year in succession.Essence
Later, the Hong Kong Government vigorously supported the Hong Kong film industry, including capital injection film development funds, and provided some financing for low -cost film production; and cooperated with the industry to select rookies through film creation and production plan competitions, and the funding for funding won.New director and his work.
Since the beginning of the new century, especially in recent years, as a number of new directors have gradually matured, many movies are like trees, such as trees and winds.Dawn.
Lin Yunhua took last year as an example that most of the top 10 Hong Kong production films in Hong Kong last year were the works of the new director.Tomorrow's Director Wu Xuanhui has been engaged in stunt design in the industry for many years. This time he was directed by him. As for Chen Yongzheng, who was attacked by meals, he was only the second time.
Lin Yunhua pointed out that in the past 20 years, many senior film workers in Hong Kong have developed in the Mainland to develop, which has given new directors more opportunities to play. The Hong Kong production films they shoot are often not large production.Willing to invest.If the script content is good, you can break out and get a good box office income.
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Zhang Guoqiong taught the culture of university.She believes that last year, Hong Kong production films were collected. On the one hand, the objective factors of society were caused. Hong Kong Cinema had previously suspended business during the epidemic, and the citizens had a desire for entertainment.On the other hand, some Hong Kong production films are based on collective memories, legendary figures, or grass -roots life. During the epidemic, they are mostly shot in the local area.
Zhang Guoqiong also pointed out that the appeal of young idols cannot be ignored nowadays, and the movies they participated in can attract supporters to watch.For example, Hong Kong's popular men's group Mirror participated in four Hong Kong -made movies last year: Xingjia spicy Ama has the second outdated, festivals and suddenly heartbeat.In addition to sudden heartbeat, the other three box office income exceeded HK $ 10 million.
Hong Kong films began in the early 20th century. During the heyday, the annual output exceeded 300 films. It won the reputation of "Eastern Hollywood" for Hong Kong, but it has been in a trough in the past 20 years.With the great harvest in 2022, many Hong Kong fans are looking forward to the performance of Hong Kong production films this year.
Lin Yunhua, who has been engaged in film distribution in Hong Kong for 2030 years, pointed out that she has not thought that "Hong Kong movies are dead", but Hong Kong films have changed differently at different stages.She believes that with the emergence of more and more new directors, she will inject new thinking into Hong Kong movies, and the prospects of Hong Kong production films are still optimistic.
To recover the glory of the past, you must face up to the green and yellow
Zhang Guiqiong reminded that Hong Kong production films have made great achievements last year, and the poisonous tongue has made a good start this year, but referring to the list of movie lists in 2023, it seems that these themes are all continuing.fatigue.
In fact, in order to cooperate with the government's epidemic prevention policies, Hong Kong Cinema stopped from January 7 to April 20 last year and closed for 104 on the two major golden strokes of the Lunar New Year and Easter.According to the statistics of Hong Kong Box Office Co., Ltd., the total revenue of Hong Kong ’s box office last year was only over 1.1 billion yuan, a decrease of 5.38%compared with the previous year’ s more than 1.2 billion yuan, which fell 40%larger than the 1.9 billion in 2019 before the epidemic.It can be seen that the challenges facing Hong Kong's film industry are still very severe.
Zhang Guoqiong believes that there are many familiar faces of local actors who have participated in Hong Kong production films in recent years, reflecting the problems of those in the industry, especially the entertainers, and the entertainers.Hong Kong production films must return to the glory of the past, and we must pay attention to and solve this problem. "Zhou Xingchi made a famous hall when he was young, but now most actors who are the protagonists of Hong Kong production films are still old faces. The industry needs to support more.Newcomer. "
Zhang Guiqiong also pointed out that the Hong Kong film industry likes to shoot movies of the same theme in the Hong Kong film industry. In the past, zombie films were sold, and everyone rushed to make ritual films. Later, there were a lot of related movies.She said: "Film workers should pay more attention to the operation of film stories, especially more local movies, which can resonate with the audience and have a sense of transmission."
Lin Yunhua believes that Hong Kong production films must maintain a high level, and the government must give a loose creative space.Only in this way can Hong Kong films be based on Hong Kong, tell the story of Hong Kong, and better tell the Chinese story.
It is worth noting that the number of movie theaters in Hong Kong in the early years continued to decrease, from 119 in 1993 to 45 in 2013.However, the number of cinemas has continued to increase in recent years.According to the information of Hong Kong Box Office Co., Ltd., the number of Hong Kong cinemas has increased from 45 at the end of 2013 to 63 in October 2021.
But Lin Yunhua pointed out that the number of theater in Hong Kong is still half less compared with the previous peak period, and the industry is still facing the problem of insufficient screening venues.She said: "In the past, there were few entertainment in Hong Kong society, only movies. Now there are more entertainment methods for audiences. The streaming platforms led by Netflix have risen rapidly in the past few years, bringing a negative impact on theaters.Only Hong Kong production films can further develop. "
