Emperor Motion Pictures COO Cecil Yow Talks ‘The Last Dance’ Success And Future Production Strategy
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: While Hong Kong’s film industry has not had the easiest ride since the pandemic, it continues to defy expectations by throwing up locally produced films that have been breaking records at the local box office.
The most recent of these, Emperor Motion Pictures’ The Last Dance, released in November 2024, has become the highest-grossing Hong Kong film of all time – indeed the highest-grossing Chinese-language film ever at the Hong Kong box office – grossing more than $20M (HK$161M).
The film has also performed strongly on its international release – taking more than $800,000 (GBP620,000) in the UK, where it’s the third highest grossing Hong Kong film of all time behind Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle and Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love.
It has also done well in other territories, including North America, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia, grossing $4M (RM18M) in the latter, a market that usually only watches action movies from Hong Kong.
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