The Hong Kong field workplace took $3.9m (HK$30.6m) over 5 days from January 28-February 1, down 37.1% on the identical five-day Lunar New 12 months interval in 2024 and 59.3% down on pre-Covid 2019.
The Hong Kong Field Workplace, which launched the information, mentioned that the outcomes have been disappointing and hoped that extra individuals would go to the cinemas to help Chinese language New 12 months releases.
Two Hong Kong comedies took the highest two locations. Hit N Enjoyable topped the chart with $959,715 (HK$7.47m) from Tuesday to Saturday, whereas My Greatest Wager ranked second with $744,693 (HK$5.8m).
Hit N Enjoyable follows a boxing coach who helps an promoting govt struggle her boyfriend’s boxing champion mistress within the ring and a washed-up actress put together for a comeback position in an motion movie. The ensemble solid contains Gigi Leung, Louise Wong, Chrissie Chau together with Louis Koo, Tony Wu and German Cheung. It’s directed by Albert Mak, whose Rob N Roll was a Chinese language New 12 months hit final 12 months and just lately gained the very best screenplay award from the Hong Kong Movie Critics Society.
My Greatest Wager centres on a compulsive gambler and her gambling-hater husband because the couple manoeuvre the twists and turns of their whirlwind marriage. Charlene Choi and Louis Cheung star within the comedy together with Stanley Yau from boy band Mirror and Jeannie Ng. It marks a departure for director Andy Lo whose earlier movies, Happiness and As soon as In A Blue Moon, are each dramas.
Hit N Enjoyable and My Greatest Wager opened on Chinese language New 12 months’s Eve (January 28), whereas the following 4 movies on the chart opened on the next day (January 29) and their takings have been for 4 days solely.
Wuershan’s live-action fantasy epic The Creation Of The Gods II: Demon Pressure from mainland China landed in third place with $537,381 (HK$4.18m). This second instalment of a trilogy tailored from classical fantasy novel Fengshen Yanyi took $124.3 (RMB895m) as of February 2 in mainland China.
It was adopted by Paddington In Peru, the third movie within the household journey franchise, with $350,117 (HK$2.726m); Tsui Hark’s interval martial arts movie Legends Of The Condor Heroes: The Gallants from mainland China ($328,090/HK$2.55m), which made $75.4 (RMB543m) in mainland China as of February 2; and Hong Kong festive comedy Queen Of Mahjong ($275,066/HK$2.14m), directed by Wong Jing and Patrick Kong.
9 cinemas have been reportedly shut down in Hong Kong final 12 months, reflecting the unsure future and ongoing challenges of the native movie trade.
