September 25th.

"Hong Kong Embarrassment" was grandly released, and the box office at midnight exceeded 10.86 million, surpassing the previous record for the midnight performance of mainland 2D films set by "Mission Impossible 5".

The box office on the first day was 198 million (excluding zero-point games), which also broke the record of 170 million (excluding zero-point games) set on the first day of release of "Monster Hunt", and topped the box office champion of domestic films on the first day of release.

At the same time, this achievement also successfully surpassed the first-day box office of 195 million created by "Avengers 2: Age of Ultron" in the mainland, making "Hong Kong" the runner-up in the mainland first-day box office after "Fast and Furious 7" (346 million on the first day).

In addition, "Hong Kong" accounted for nearly 60% of the country's first-day screening, becoming the second mainland film to have more than 90,000 screenings in a single day after "Fast and Furious 7".

According to the repeated comparison of these figures, "Hong Kong Embarrassment" was able to break more than a dozen records on the first day, in short, the first day performance of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" was very good.

In addition, since the IMAX version of "Hong Kong" officially landed in more than 200 IMAX theaters across the country on September 25, the box office has exploded in just two days.

Meanwhile, Sony Animation's sequel, Hotel Elf 2, was released in 43 markets in North America, grossing $76.7 million in its opening weekend.

However, this result, although good, was not enough to propel the film to the top of the global weekend box office.

Because of this award, it was won by another sequel, the Chinese comedy blockbuster "Hong Kong".

Directed by Xu Zheng, "Hong Kong" won the double championship trophy at the global and international weekend box office with its explosive start in the mainland market.

With its excellent performance in the first week, "Hong Kong Embarrassment" pulled down "Monster Hunt", which had just taken away the Chinese box office champion from "Detective Chinatown" - the box office of 676 million in the first week successfully surpassed the 670 million results of "Monster Hunt" in the same period, setting a new record for the highest box office of a domestic film in the first week.

Moreover, after "Hong Kong" was officially released in mainland theaters, the number of films scheduled in a single day in the first weekend was as high as an unprecedented nearly 100,000.

Of course, the "unprecedented" here refers not only to the mainland market, but also to any market in the world; even top Hollywood blockbusters such as "Jurassic World" have a scale of film scheduling in the North American market compared to "Hong Kong" in the mainland.

Last week, the box office of the mainland film market reported 962 million, an increase of 69% over the previous week.

From Monday to Thursday, under the leadership of "Nine-Story Demon Tower" and "Rescue Mr. Wu", the mainland film market showed an unprecedented decline, and the mainland market closed at 140 million in 4 days, accounting for only 14.6% of the total box office last week, and there was no single day box office exceeding 40 million, but it almost fell below 30 million.

"Nine-Story Demon Tower" became the only movie in these 4 days with a single-day box office barely exceeding 10 million, if you don't count the more than 10 million that "Hong Kong" earned at midnight on the 25th.

Regarding such a good result, Xu Zheng responded modestly in an interview: "I believe that there are many fans who have extended their love for the previous film to this one, thank you for your love." He also said, "The box office does not represent the whole of the film, and I will privately read more about everyone's evaluation of the content of the film." ”

But the audience's evaluation gave Xu Zheng a headache, because according to the score of Douban.com, the score of "Hong Kong Embarrassment" directed by him was only 6.2 points, far lower than the 7.6 points of "Thai Embarrassment" directed by Lin Xiaoguang.

Some fans bluntly said: "Xu Zheng's talent can't keep up with his ambitions, and he is committed to creating a black humor atmosphere, but he is always disappointing." ”

"The greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, Xu Zheng and Lin Xiaoguang's directing level is really a little far behind!"

"Isn't this nonsense? Director Xiaoguang is the most successful commercial director in the history of China, how could he have made so many acclaimed and acclaimed classic movies if he really didn't have any ability?"

"Alas, I don't know what to say, I'm a little depressed, Director Lin's "People in Embarrassment" and "Thai Embarrassment" are so classic and funny, a good super big IP, just messed up by Xu Guangtou!

"Don't worry upstairs, didn't Director Lin say that he was preparing to shoot "Detective Chinatown 2"? ”

"I can't say that there are no laughs at all, but after watching it, I really just want to smash Bao Bell's head against the wall to smithereens, which really refreshes the bottom line of the annoyance of comedy characters I have seen in my life. ”

"That's right, it's annoying to Bao Bell, I really want to kill him, in comparison, Huang Baoqiang is simply not too cute, I used to think that Huang Baoqiang pretended to be stupid and disgusting, until today, under the disgusting background of Bao Bell, I fully realized how good Baoqiang's acting skills are!"

Some netizens made an analogy vividly, "The jokes of the movie "Hong Kong Embarrassment" and the accumulation of Hong Kong songs make people feel like they are eating spicy fragrant pot, and they can eat pork belly, shrimp, tofu and other ingredients, but they get together but lose each other's unique taste. ”

For such criticism from the audience, Xu Zheng actually has a review.

In fact, from the first day of the movie's release, Xu Zheng began to read all kinds of film reviews, he read almost all the film reviews, said that the good ones were bad, and he also read almost all the reviews, bad reviews, negative reviews, and Xu Zheng, who liked the good reviews and gave the bad reviews, almost all of them.

After watching it, Xu Zheng thought about it, and there was a little bit of a problem with the movie "Hong Kong".

Xu Zheng has also been discussing with Lin Xiaoguang in the past few days, what went wrong with the movie "Hong Kong Embarrassment", and why is it such a reflection after everyone watches "Hong Kong Embarrassment"?

Therefore, Xu Zheng did not dare to "celebrate", but after the box office broke 700 million, he held a thank-you meeting for partners and the media.

Seeing that Xu Zheng was a little depressed, Lin Xiaoguang asked him with a smile: "Why don't you wait for the box office to break 1 billion before holding a celebration banquet?"

Xu Zheng sighed and said calmly: "Xiaoguang, to be honest, I have a vague feeling that I don't seem to have any merit to celebrate." ”

In front of the fiery red background wall, the opening comparison between Xu Zheng and Lin Xiaoguang was a little surprising.

"When everyone watched "Thai Embarrassment", they all told me and Xiaoguang that this movie is so funny, you guys are too good, after watching "Hong Kong" this time, everyone only said 'congratulations' when they met, and they didn't even say whether they liked it or not. ”

"Before that, Xiaoguang's "Thai Embarrassment" was a very pure comedy, and when it came to "Hong Kong Embarrassment", as a director, I very much wanted to make a little breakthrough. ”

"But at the same time, I'm also one of the producers, and I want to be able to do something commercially, so it's going to split the film. When we were filming, it also felt as if it had been made into two movies, it was a movie when I was chasing after Brother Bao Bell in Xiangjiang, and it seemed to be a youth film when I was dating Du Juan. ”

Xu Zheng concluded that the audience still likes a direct and simple comedy like "Thai Embarrassment", and at this point, "Hong Kong Embarrassment" did not satisfy them, which caused a huge controversy in the film's reputation.

He also bluntly said that he did not expect the audience's expectations for "Hong Kong" to be so high, so that the average daily box office of the movie was above 200 million in the first three days of its release, and it is reasonable that the box office of the movie has declined with word-of-mouth since then.

But Wang Changtian, the boss of the distributor, did not agree with Xu Zheng's opinion, and he fiercely denounced the pirates at the appreciation meeting: "This time it has caused us hundreds of millions of losses, otherwise the film "Hong Kong" should be about 2 billion at this moment. ”

In fact, as early as when the media watched the film, Xu Zheng once admitted that the creation of "Hong Kong" had some regrets, compared with the lively and funny scenes, in fact, he himself hoped to dig deeper into the emotional line, "If the movie is remade, I may not want the role of brother-in-law (Bao Bell), but leave more scenes to Zhao Wei, to the family, to express more details with the family." ”

In addition, the scene of reuniting with his first love Yang Yi, Xu Zheng also thinks that it has not been developed, if he can, he thinks that a scene of the two quarreling should be added to "really pierce Xu Lai", and at the same time make Xu Lai's return to the family more convincing.

In the face of the release of "Hong Kong" in the past few days, in the face of the polarization of word-of-mouth, Lin Xiaoguang actually has nothing to say, and he does not have any intention of blaming Xu Zheng, anyway, "Hong Kong" has also made a lot of money, and in addition, since Lin Xiaoguang is willing to hand over this movie to Xu Zheng to shoot, he also feels that he can't make it better.

Moreover, compared with Xu Zheng's calmness and reflection, Lin Xiaoguang seemed a little weak and melancholy because of Xiao Pink, and he always felt very sorry for Xu Zheng.