Althought the box office of "Seven Swords" came
last among that of Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou for the three major
cities, it did out performed that of another title showing around the same
period - "Initial D".
The box office of "Seven Swords" scored 2.72 million Yuan on its first
three days. Comparing to the first three-day box office of "Initial D" at
2.68 million Yuan, "Seven" established a surprisingly good grade.
In fact, its box office came very close to that of "Star Wars : Episode
III - Revenge of the Sith". According to the Promotion Manager of Shanghai
United Cinema Network, Wu He-hu, Although "Seven Swords" experienced
uncertainty a few days before its official release because of some
not-so-good words of mouth,
however, I personally don't think those should be accounted for.
Afterall, the veiwpoints can only come from a small group of reporters
from the media who have the chance to screen the title before its official
release. And these words of month is inproportional to the size of the
market." Wu He-hu is actually very optimistic about "Seven Swords" and
believes that the title has the possibility of hinting the 100million
mark. He further points out that "Seven Swords" is not only equipped with
the elements of a big hit title, but it is also released at a very good
time.
Unlike "Initial D" that ran into "Batman Begins" and "Mr & Mrs
Smith" and thus ended up doing not as expected in the box office result, "Seven Swords" occupies a good 20
days' solo and is forecasted to have enough strength to sail on
and perform well in Shanghai.
(hkfilmart) |