One Cool Group’s Again To The Previous, starring Louis Koo and Raymond Lam, introduced some much-needed cheer to the Hong Kong field workplace on New Yr’s Eve, grossing a record-breaking $1.48m (HK$11.54m) on its opening day.
The robust opening positioned the movie at quantity seven within the year-end chart of Hong Kong movies, in response to native trade physique Hong Kong Field Workplace, simply on the energy of a single day’s launch (December 31).
The movie went on to gross $5.4m (HK$42.36m) over its opening weekend, which might have made it the most important native movie of 2025 if the Hong Kong Field Workplace chart included income from 2026. It additionally grossed $24m (RMB78.6m) on its opening weekend in mainland China, in response to Artisan Gateway figures.
Persevering with the story from a top-rating 2001 TV sequence, the movie follows a modern-day cop (Koo) who’s pulled again to the Qin Dynasty to assist the Emperor (Lam) defeat one other time-travelling usurper.
The movie is directed by Ng Yuen-fai and Jack Lai with VFX carried out by the identical crew that labored on 2022 sci-fi hit Warriors Of Future, additionally directed by Ng and starring Koo.
Hong Kong Field Workplace reported that the movie scored the most important opening day of all time for a Hong Kong movie, forward of The Final Dance ($958,000) and Chilly Struggle 2 ($700,000). It was additionally the most important opening day for a Chinese language-language movie, forward of The Final Dance ($958,000) and Ne Zha 2 ($856,000). It additionally scored the best opening day in 2025 amongst each native and overseas motion pictures.
The movie introduced a protracted overdue increase to the Hong Kong and Macau field workplace, which was down 15% in 2025 to $155m (HK$1.21bn) after a slide of 6% the earlier 12 months, in response to Hong Kong Field Workplace figures. Japanese anime Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Film was the highest-grossing movie general final 12 months, pulling in $13.94m, adopted by F1: The Film and Zootopia 2. The discharge of Avatar: Hearth And Ash has been postponed in Hong Kong because of the Tai Po fireplace tragedy.
Taking a look at figures between January 1 to December 31, 2025, native animation One other World was the best grossing native movie with field workplace of $1.97m (HK$15.36m). By comparability, native movie The Final Dance was the highest-grossing movie general in 2024, grossing greater than $18m.
