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January 23, 2006
SHOPAHOLICS OPENS LIGHTLY
The latest film from Johnnie To's Milkyway Image, SHOPAHOLICS, has opened to lightweight reviews and lightweight business. Starring Jordan Chan, Cecilia Cheung and Lau Ching-wan it's about people with shopping addictions and even the nicest reviews call it a lightweight, disposable entertainer.
It opened in the lull before Chinese New Year and pulled in HK$2.2 million over the weekend. On the plus side, that HK$2.2 million is almost exactly half of what MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA has made in 11 days, which doesn't speak highly for GEISHA. It's also a heck of a lot more than Herman Yau's COCKTAIL which pulled in just HK$170,000 in its first 4 days.
But cheer up, HK moviegoers, Chinese New Year is just around the corner and with it will come Jet Li's new, sleek FEARLESS, and MCDULL: THE ALUMNI.
January 23, 2006 at 07:39 AM in News | Permalink
Comments
That kinda sucks. Poor Lau Ching Wan. He pretty much made Milkyway what it is now. While Tony Leung Kai Fei is enjoying a rennaissance and Nick Cheung is now Johnnie To's new proteje, LCW is stuck doing bad comedies with Wai Ka Fai.
C'mon Derek Yee, put him in one of your movies again dammit!!!
Posted by: fishcado | Jan 24, 2006 1:54:46 PM
IMO, Shopaholics is one of the best HK comedies coming out these couple of years. The plot is cleverly written and it also contains a very strong imprint of WKF's sense of social irony against the HK people themselves. Hollywood should pick up this one by remaking its own version.
Posted by: Sebastian | Feb 3, 2006 2:35:31 PM
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