Chinese ticketing agency, Maoyan calculates that the Lunar New Year or Chinese New Year holiday period brought in record box revenue of RMB8.02 billion or $1.11 billion, an 18% increase on 2023. Box office takings were up by about 18.5 per cent compared to the 2023 new year period, which lasted seven days, and viewership had increased by more than a quarter, the China Film Administration In total, Chinese New Year releases earned $350m in two days. In 2023, The Zone Of Interest topped the French box office last week, beating fellow new release Argylle, with a five-day $1.6m The Chinese film market has kick-started the new year on a high note, with box office revenue for 2024 totaling 6.4 billion yuan ($890 million) as of Monday, surpassing that of North America, according to film tracking site Maoyan. The figure places China as the world's largest movie market in 2024 for the time being. As of 10:47 a.m. Sunday, the box office sales of the season had reached nearly 2.57 billion yuan. Domestic feature film "Her Story," action film "The Prosecutor" and "Big World" currently occupy the top three spots on the cumulative box office chart of the season. Many Chinese people go to the cinema to celebrate the New Year's Day. After three long years of pandemic drift and deterioration, China’s movie box office was back in booming form over the weeklong Lunar New Year holiday. Total ticket sales over the six-day Notably, on Dec. 31, 2023, the single-day box office totaled a staggering 733 million yuan, breaking the record for single-day earnings in the Chinese film market during the New Year's Holiday season. China's box office kicked off 2024 with a record-high revenue of approximately 1.53 billion yuan ($216 million) during the three-day New Year's Day holiday that ended on Monday. The Japanese animated film "Crayon Shin-chan the Movie: Our Dinosaur Diary" takes the second spot, contributing approximately 122 million yuan to the box office of the year-end season. It is followed by the American animated comedy "Moana 2," which was staged on the Chinese mainland's silver screens on Nov. 29 and has pocketed over 95 million Last year, the first day of the Lunar New Year netted 1.45 billion yuan, compared to nearly 1.67 billion yuan for first-day box office revenue in 2021. 01:18 Chinese cinemas reopen after weeks of Owing to the opening of several titles for Lunar New Year (see below), Avatar 2 had a 56% drop in China, however it has reached $229.7M there and stands as the highest grossing studio film of the Four Chinese films dominated the global box office charts over the weekend, with combined takings of $350 million earned over just two days.. And, as North America watched the Super Bowl instead The Chinese New Year box office achieved yet another milestone Wednesday, with grosses for the holiday period growing to an estimated RMB 7.78 billion ($1.2 billion). This beats the previous all Topping the list, "Legends of the Condor Heroes: The Great Hero" has already achieved box office revenues of 280 million yuan as of Monday. A retelling of historic events based on the novel of the same name by renowned Chinese martial art novelist Louis Cha Leung-yung (1924-2018). Eight Chinese-language films release simultaneously this weekend in mainland China and will vie for a slice of the Lunar New Year holiday box office business.. The week-long nationwide holiday The nation’s box-office during the Chinese New Year (CNY) holiday was led by the chart-topping domestic comedy-drama Yolo, starring actress Jia Ling as a meek woman who improves herself through The international box office was generally muted this weekend, save for in China which ushered in the Year of the Dragon on Saturday, and with it the lucrative Chinese New Year moviegoing period The total box office revenue for the 2025 Spring Festival season is projected to surpass last year's record of approximately 8 billion yuan. U.S. investment bank Morgan Stanley predicts that strong releases and robust market demand could drive total revenue to a new high of 8.8 billion yuan, a nine percent increase year-on-year. The Chinese New Year box office delivered 12.3%. China box office 2023. Full River Red $637.24m (RMB4.54b) The Wandering Earth 2 $564.64m (RMB4.03b) No More Bets $539.27m (RMB3.85b) Eight Chinese-language films release simultaneously this weekend in mainland China and will vie for a slice of the Lunar New Year holiday box office business.. The week-long nationwide holiday
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