“The Final Dance,” a funeral parlor-set drama movie directed by Anselm Chan, has damaged Hong Kong’s single day field workplace report.
The story depicts a former marriage ceremony planner who modifications profession and enters the funeral enterprise as a substitute. He companions up with a Taoist priest who has doubts in regards to the man’s suitability. Collectively, by way of numerous funeral rituals, the pair probe questions on life and loss of life.
The movie was launched in its residence city theaters on Nov. 9, however broke the report every week afterward Nov. 16, when it scored HK$9.18 million in Hong Kong and neighboring Macau, in response to information from Hong Kong Field Workplace Co., Ltd. (Of that, HK$8.61 million got here from Hong Kong.) The earlier single day report was 2016’s “Chilly Warfare 2,” which collected HK$7.56 million.
“As of Nov. 17, the movie’s field workplace in Hong Kong and Macau has reached HK$58.0 million, within the 9 days since its launch. And the field workplace is predicted to achieve a brand new excessive,” the info firm reported.
Selection‘s overview of the movie referred to as it: “A heartwarming story [that] facilities on completely mismatched companions within the funeral enterprise” and “a handsomely crafted third function [that] is a poignant drama about discovering which means in life from the passing of family members and the rituals of ultimate farewells.”
The Hong Kong cinema business has struggled to emerge from the shadow of COVID, throughout which period the territory’s cinemas had been closed or closely restricted on authorities order. And it has turn into ever-more hit pushed.
Within the first half of this 12 months, mixture theatrical revenues had been down 17% year-on-year at HK$640 million ($82 million), from HK$772 million ($99 million) within the first half of 2023. However each 2024 and 2024 have seen native movies break all-time data.
Final 12 months, it was courtroom drama “A Responsible Conscience” that took the title. This 12 months, the standout has been Soi Cheang’s hyper-kinetic martial arts motion movie “Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In,” which surpassed HK$105 million ($13.5 million), by the top of June, in response to Hong Kong Field Workplace Ltd. The movie was subsequently chosen as Hong Kong’s contender for one of the best worldwide function movie on the Oscars.
Dayo Wong, who appeared in “A Responsible Conscience” and 2022 hit “Desk for Six,” stars in “The Final Dance.” Considerably, he’s joined by veteran star Michael Hui, a beloved actor and comic whose early profession within the Nineteen Seventies coincided with Hong Kong cinema’s so-called Golden Period.
“The Final Dance” had its world premiere on the Hawaii Worldwide Movie Pageant on Oct. 11. It then performed because the opening title on the Hong Kong Asian Movie Pageant and within the World Focus part of final month’s Tokyo Worldwide Movie Pageant.
