Chapter 909: Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong Island, the Spring of Hong Kong Island Art Films?
The schedule is not that important to "Thieves of Time" and "Sister Tao".
As for whether the two movies being released at the same time will affect each other's box office?
There is really no need to worry about this, because these two movies, neither Li Yi nor Mu Qing, nor the Xuanfa company Fanhai Pictures, actually have high expectations at the box office.
However, so I decided to give it a try this time.
Bundle the two movies "The Thief of Time" and "Sister Peach" for release.
It even directly promoted the banners of "The Great Male and Female Director" and "Lianliankan of the Past in Hong Kong Island".
20% off for two movie packages, 20% off for couples, and other promotional packages.
As a result, the effect was unexpectedly good.
However, the feedback from movie fans is particularly interesting.
"As expected of you, you are a dog director. Damn it, I was so blind that I actually bought a package ticket. I ended up crying after the first part and then continued to cry in the second part. A dog director is really not a human being!"
"I watched the two movies together, and then I almost stopped watching Autism. I kept thinking in my mind, will I look like Sister Tao when I get older?"
"Time is the biggest thief. Woo hoo hoo. "The Thief of Time" stole love and loved ones. It made me think of my parents. It turns out that the dog director is really not a son of a man.
I came to take over "Sister Tao" again, and then I thought of my parents in the front, and my grandparents in the back, and I almost cried my eyes out!
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"Fortunately, I didn't buy a package ticket. I only watched "Thieves of Time". A breeze blew by and a chill came over me. After realizing it in hindsight, I couldn't help but sigh, why people are always the ones who "bear" their fate. Watching this
Everything that happens can only be accepted silently. Whenever I look at the white hair on both sides of my parents' temples, I wonder where the time has gone. I feel that time is slipping away quietly in front of our eyes, and the years are also quietly stealing away. They are changing.
In our life, time is the biggest thief. The autumn wind rings at night, cherish everything in front of you."
"I just watched "Sister Tao" and it reminded me of my grandma. When I was a child, my grandma loved me the most and made me all kinds of delicious food every time. But I didn't even see her for the last time, woo woo woo!"
"It is true that everyone has a Sister Tao by their side. I think of my grandma. She is very much like Sister Tao. She is always duplicitous and always has a lot of demands. Grandma took the initiative to ask to go to the nursing home. Every time I asked her to go
Looking at her, she said no, no, no, but every time I go there, she always smiles from ear to ear and introduces me to other people in the nursing home, she is always like that!"
“I remember the rice cakes my grandma made, but I can’t eat them anymore!”
"One tear-jerker was enough, but Director Gou came twice. This couple is really a husband and a wife. Director Gou loves to see the audience cry. As Director Gou's wife, Director Mu Qing has also begun to learn bad habits!"
For a time, movie fans were talking a lot.
However, after all, it is not a commercial movie, although many people have recommended it, saying that these two movies are worthy of sitting there quietly and watching them all night.
However, the film schedule is still not high, but the attendance rate is very good.
In Hong Kong, "Thieves of Time" and "Sister Peach" are almost as good as any commercial movie.
The box office of "Thieves of Time" on Hong Kong Island reached 2.8 million on its first day.
"Sister Peach" also took in 2.6 million at the box office on its first day in Hong Kong.
The two literary films ranked among the top two box office hits in the Hong Kong Island market during the same period.
In the Mainland, the box office has also exceeded people's expectations. As we all know, unless it is a literary film like "The Truman Show", it has obvious selling points and rhythm points to achieve a certain balance between business and art.
Movies, otherwise, it is usually difficult for literary and artistic movies to achieve high box office.
However, "Thieves of Time" and "Sister Peach" were bundled for promotion and release, and achieved very good box office results.
However, the box office of the two movies in the Mainland was opposite to that in Hong Kong. "Sister Tao" was higher, with a first-day box office of 13 million, while "Thieves of Time" was slightly lower, with a box office of 11 million!
As word-of-mouth grew, the media even called these two films the best Hong Kong literary films in the past decade.
On the Popular Film Critics website, the ratings of both films are very good. "Thieves of Time" is as high as 8.9 points, while "Sister Peach" also has 8.6 points. Although this is only the early stage of release, and the subsequent ratings will drop, they can already be considered high.
It is a well-received and well-received literary film.
in the following time.
The box office of "Thieves of Time" and "Sister Peach" have been fermented by word-of-mouth. They were released on Hong Kong Island for one week, and achieved results of 14 million and 11.5 million respectively. For the local box office of Hong Kong Island, this is already a very good result.
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On the mainland, "The Thief of Time" and "Sister Peach" were also released one week later, and achieved good results of 62 million and 54 million respectively.
On Hong Kong Island, influenced by "Thieves of Time", Wing Lee Street, the only remaining old street that maintained the style of the 1960s on Hong Kong Island and was originally scheduled to be demolished, has also successfully become popular on the Hong Kong Island network.
Many Hong Kong netizens have petitioned the government to preserve this remaining old street.
This has also attracted the attention of social conservationists on Hong Kong Island. Some social conservationists have begun to publicly speak out that old streets like Wing Lee Street, which is rich in cultural characteristics and historical heritage of Hong Kong Island, should be preserved.
Soon, more and more people petitioned, and the Hong Kong government began to pay attention.
This also indirectly contributed to the popularity of "Thieves of Time", and the box office continued to soar, and it immediately distanced itself from "Sister Peach".
One month after its release, "Thieves of Time" had a box office of over 30 million in Hong Kong Island. Although "Sister Peach" was a little lower than "Thieves of Time", it also received over 20 million.
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The two movies directly entered the top five box office in Hong Kong in the same year!
Of course, this is nothing, but the problem is that both films are art films.
In the Mainland, "Sister Peach" and "The Thief" both exceeded 100 million in the third week, with the former taking 20 million more than the latter.
Although the box office of more than 100 million is really nothing compared to Li Yi's brilliant achievements in the past, you must know that these two movies are completely literary and artistic.
It can be said that your commercial film may have a box office of over 1 billion or 2 billion to be considered a success, but for a literary film, let alone over 100 million, generally speaking, a box office of more than 50 million is considered successful.
That's a very good result.
However, what many Hong Kong filmmakers and investors were worried about did not happen. When they first invested in the Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong series, they were worried about whether the theatrical films with a Hong Kong background would entertain audiences when released in the mainland.
A sense of alienation and strangeness?
However, the box office results of "The Thief of Time" and "Sister Peach" dispelled their doubts.
Let's not talk about "Thieves of Time" for now. After all, Li Yi's own halo blessing is too obvious, but what about "Sister Tao"?
Although Mu Qing, the director of "Sister Tao", is Li Yi's daughter-in-law, this movie was not directed by Li Yi after all. Compared to Li Yilai, Mu Qing's appeal is obviously much lower, but she still received such an award.
With good results, the Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong series of movies suddenly became popular.
ps: I'm a little stuck. I sat in front of the computer and couldn't write much for a long time.