Recently, there seems to be a movie craze in the online world. The reason is that the sci-fi movie “Tomorrow’s War”, which is supervised and starred by Louis Koo and invested more than HK$450 million, is regarding to be released. Immediately check the ticket sales of the priority theaters of major theaters. Unfortunately, the fact is that it is not as popular as I imagined. If you choose to go to this Sunday, there are actually many theaters with the number of seats displayed in green.
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The question is, why do netizens suddenly launch the action to support Gu Tianle? Even before the official release in Hong Kong, it attracted many artists and KOLs to post support one following another? It happened that “The Battle of Tomorrow” was first released in the mainland as early as August 5, but it was accused of a box office failure. There were even rumors that Gu Tianle was suspected of crying during the promotion period. Curiosity drove me to compare “The Battle of Tomorrow” with other existing Compare the Hong Kong movies released in the mainland.
Outperforming “Anita Mui” a few streets
According to Maoyan’s box office statistics, “Tomorrow’s War” was released for 13 days (as of Wednesday), and the mainland box office was regarding 400 million yuan; as for Gu Tianle’s starring role in the last set of Hong Kong movies that were also released in the mainland, it should be “G Storm” , the mainland box office totaled 620 million yuan. I feel that the two are not too far apart. After all, “Tomorrow’s War” will be broadcast for a while; and “Anita Mui”, which was the second highest-grossing Chinese film in Hong Kong last year, turned out to be the mainland box office. It’s only 113 million yuan. “Tomorrow’s War” can be said to outperform several streets. After all, the tastes of the audiences in the two places are different. But to sum up, I don’t quite agree with the statement that the mainland box office of “Tomorrow’s War” is described as “poor”, plus the latest rumors of “stolen box office” broke out.
Having said that, I am still very happy to participate in this support action. I believe that everyone has a little knowledge of the good people and good things regarding Gu Tianle’s past through social media recently, and I, who had a brief interview with him many years ago, also I deeply felt his kind and friendly attitude towards others. Since “Anita Mui”, which has a box office of more than 60 million in Hong Kong, is a movie with memories for Hong Kong people, I hope Hong Kong’s first large-scale science fiction movie can also make a box office of 30 million, right?
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