{"id":389009,"date":"2026-01-05T11:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389009\/"},"modified":"2026-01-05T11:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T11:20:08","slug":"louis-koos-back-to-the-past-scores-record-breaking-hk-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/389009\/","title":{"rendered":"Louis Koo’s \u2018Back To The Past\u2019 Scores Record-Breaking HK Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tOne Cool Group\u2019s Back To The Past<\/a>, starring Louis Koo<\/a> and Raymond Lam, brought some much-needed cheer to the Hong Kong box office on New Year\u2019s Eve, grossing a record-breaking $1.48m (HK$11.54m) on its opening day.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe strong opening placed the film at number seven in the year-end chart of Hong Kong films, according to local industry body Hong Kong Box Office, just on the strength of a single day\u2019s release (December 31). <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film went on to gross $5.4m (HK$42.36m) over its opening weekend, which would have made it the biggest local film of 2025 if the Hong Kong Box Office chart included revenue from 2026. It also grossed $24m (RMB78.6m) on its opening weekend in mainland China, according to Artisan Gateway figures.<\/p>\n

\n\tContinuing the story from a top-rating 2001 TV series, the film follows a modern-day cop (Koo) who is pulled back to the Qin Dynasty to help the Emperor (Lam) defeat another time-travelling usurper. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film is directed\u00a0by Ng Yuen-fai and Jack Lai with VFX carried out by the same team that worked on 2022 sci-fi hit Warriors Of Future, also directed by Ng and starring Koo.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tHong Kong Box Office reported that the film scored the biggest opening day of all time for a Hong Kong film, ahead of The Last Dance ($958,000) and Cold War 2 ($700,000). It was also the biggest opening day for a Chinese-language film, ahead of The Last Dance ($958,000) and Ne Zha 2 ($856,000). It also scored the highest opening day in 2025 amongst both local and foreign movies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe film brought a long overdue boost to the Hong Kong and Macau box office, which was down 15% in 2025 to\u00a0$155m (HK$1.21bn) after a slide of 6% the previous year, according to Hong Kong Box Office figures. Japanese anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie was the highest-grossing film overall last year, pulling in\u00a0$13.94m, followed by F1: The Movie and Zootopia 2.\u00a0The release of Avatar: Fire And Ash has been postponed in Hong Kong due to the Tai Po fire tragedy.<\/p>\n

\n\tLooking at figures between January 1 to December 31, 2025, local animation Another World was the highest grossing local film with box office of\u00a0$1.97m (HK$15.36m).\u00a0By comparison, local film The Last Dance was the highest-grossing film overall in 2024, grossing more than $18m.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One Cool Group\u2019s Back To The Past, starring Louis Koo and Raymond Lam, brought some much-needed cheer to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[188980,88,188981,206],"class_list":{"0":"post-389009","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-back-to-the-past","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-louis-koo","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}