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One Cool Group’s Back To The Past, starring Louis Koo and Raymond Lam, brought immoderate much-needed cheer to nan Hong Kong container agency connected New Year’s Eve, grossing a record-breaking $1.48m (HK$11.54m) connected its opening day.
The beardown opening placed nan movie astatine number 7 successful nan year-end floor plan of Hong Kong films, according to section manufacture assemblage Hong Kong Box Office, conscionable connected nan spot of a azygous day’s merchandise (December 31).
The movie went connected to gross $5.4m (HK$42.36m) complete its opening weekend, which would person made it nan biggest section movie of 2025 if nan Hong Kong Box Office floor plan included gross from 2026. It besides grossed $24m (RMB78.6m) connected its opening play successful mainland China, according to Artisan Gateway figures.
Continuing nan communicative from a top-rating 2001 TV series, nan movie follows a modern-day bull (Koo) who is pulled backmost to nan Qin Dynasty to thief nan Emperor (Lam) conclusion different time-travelling usurper.
The movie is directed by Ng Yuen-fai and Jack Lai pinch VFX carried retired by nan aforesaid squad that worked connected 2022 sci-fi deed Warriors Of Future, besides directed by Ng and starring Koo.
Hong Kong Box Office reported that nan movie scored nan biggest opening time of each clip for a Hong Kong film, up of The Last Dance ($958,000) and Cold War 2 ($700,000). It was besides nan biggest opening time for a Chinese-language film, up of The Last Dance ($958,000) and Ne Zha 2 ($856,000). It besides scored nan highest opening time successful 2025 amongst some section and overseas movies.
The movie brought a agelong overdue boost to nan Hong Kong and Macau container office, which was down 15% successful 2025 to $155m (HK$1.21bn) aft a descent of 6% nan erstwhile year, according to Hong Kong Box Office figures. Japanese anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie was nan highest-grossing movie wide past year, pulling in $13.94m, followed by F1: The Movie and Zootopia 2. The merchandise of Avatar: Fire And Ash has been postponed successful Hong Kong owed to nan Tai Po occurrence tragedy.
Looking astatine figures betwixt January 1 to December 31, 2025, section animation Another World was nan highest grossing section movie pinch container agency of $1.97m (HK$15.36m). By comparison, section movie The Last Dance was nan highest-grossing movie wide successful 2024, grossing much than $18m.
