Chinanews Client Beijing, February 27th (Ren Siyu) On February 27th, the Chinese New Year film "Detective Chinatown 3" directed by Chen Sicheng had a gross box office of over 4.25 billion, surpassing "Avengers 4: Endgame." Ranked fifth in the box office list of Chinese film history.
So far, the top five Chinese movie box office lists have been swept by domestic films: "Wolf Warrior 2", "Nezha's Devil Boy", "Wandering Earth", "Hello, Li Huanying", and "Chinatown Detective 3".
The top five in the total box office of Chinese movies.
The top five in the box office list are rearranged?
The box office of 7.822 billion yuan, 160 million movie viewers... This year's Spring Festival file not only set a number of world records in Chinese film history, such as the cumulative box office of the Spring Festival file, and the single-day box office of the global single market. The two head films are also constantly setting new records in film history.
As of 12:00 on February 27th, "Detective Chinatown 3" had a cumulative box office leading "Avengers 4: Endgame" and became the top five box office list in Chinese film history. At the same time, "Hello, Li Huanying" also had a cumulative box office It has exceeded 4.6 billion, and the gap with the third place "Wandering Earth" (4.686 billion) is getting smaller and smaller.
This is also the transcript of the two films on the 16th day of their release. It is foreseeable that not only the top five Chinese film history box office lists will be won by domestic films, but the order of the five films will also usher in a new combination.
Source: Maoyan Professional Edition.
As a "legacy player" from the Spring Festival last year, "Detective Chinatown 3" had filled the audience's expectations before the screening, leading all the way during the pre-sale period, and reached a box office of 1 billion 11 hours after its release.
But this year's Spring Festival, "Hello, Li Huanying" directed by Jia Ling performed even more prominently. The Douban score remained above 8 points, and the box office counterattacked all the way while lagging behind.
On February 21, "Hello, Li Huanying" overtook "Detective Chinatown 3" with a box office of 4.025 billion.
On the 23rd, the cumulative box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" surpassed "Avengers 4: Endgame" and became the fourth largest box office in Chinese film history.
As Jia Ling's directorial debut, "Hello, Li Huanying" not only brought Zhang Xiaofei to the spotlight, but also boosted Shen Teng's leading role in the box office to a higher level, and also made Jia Ling the highest box office female director in Chinese film history.
Some people even said that if "Hello, Li Huanying" eventually exceeds 5.3 billion in box office, Jia Ling will surpass "Wonder Woman" director Patty Jenkins to become the world's highest box office female director.
In this star-studded Spring Festival schedule, "Hello, Li Huanying" is not a big production, but under the atmosphere of Spring Festival reunion and family fun, the image of mother and warm affection created by the film hit the national sentiment and finally relied on strong empathy Ability "opens up" all the way.
Stills from the movie "Hello, Li Huanying".
Why can this Spring Festival stall create miracles?
Observing the current top five Chinese movie box office charts, "Wolf Warrior 2", "Nezha's Devil Child" was born in the summer file, "Wandering Earth", "Hello, Li Huanying", and "Chinatown Detective 3" are all from the Spring Festival file ; And in the top ten box office charts, there are a total of six popular films for the Spring Festival.
The short but explosive Spring Festival stalls have gradually become the cradle of explosive models.
Watching movies has now become one of the New Year customs for people to celebrate the Spring Festival. This year’s Spring Festival stalls are even more special. The suspension of the Spring Festival stalls in 2020 has doubled the enthusiasm of the audience. Under the initiative of "Chinese New Year in situ", going into theaters has also become People's first choice for entertainment.
Data map: 2021 Spring Festival video poster.
Photo by Mei Yitaki
Many factors have superimposed on this year's Spring Festival stalls.
According to the lighthouse data, the overall attendance rate of the Spring Festival stalls in 2021 is around 46%. The Dean of the Lighthouse Research Institute Mu Chen analyzed that this ratio is higher than the 35.5% attendance rate of the Spring Festival stalls in 2019, plus this year's Spring Festival stalls box office and movie viewers. A "double record" in Chinese film history has been set, and the vitality of the film market has gradually recovered.
From "Mermaid" in 2016, "Operation Red Sea" in 2018, "Wandering Earth" in 2019 to "Detective Chinatown 3" in 2021, from comedy movies to today's multi-genre movies of different styles, the Spring Festival file Changes reflect the changes in the Chinese film industry, but also reflect the gradual upgrading of the narrative and technical expression of domestic films.
For example, during the Spring Festival this year, the movie "Detective Chinatown 3" not only has many domestic and foreign movie stars joining, it is also the world's fourth commercial film shot using ALEXA IMAX cameras in its entirety. In "Assassination of Novelists", 100% of the main creators are The domestic team, for the first time, integrated motion capture, facial capture, virtual shooting, and the combination of virtual and real special effects in a domestic movie.
With the blessing of the popular Spring Festival stalls, on February 26, the total box office (including pre-sales) of the Chinese film market for 2021 has exceeded 15 billion yuan, reaching more than 70% of the total box office of Chinese movies last year.
The absence of Hollywood, the rise of domestic films
Looking back at 2020, under the premise of effective anti-epidemic measures, the Chinese film industry resumed work in an orderly manner. The total annual box office reached 20.417 billion, surpassing North America to become the world's largest box office market.
Among them, the box office of domestic films was 17.093 billion yuan, accounting for 83.72%, supporting the hope of the Chinese film market.
In addition, the top ten Chinese movie box office lists in 2020 will also be dominated by domestic films for the first time. "Eight Hundred", "My Hometown and Me" and "Jiang Ziya" ranked the top three with 3.110 billion, 2.829 billion and 1.602 billion box office results respectively. Famous, "Yao Bai" also won the 2020 global movie box office champion.
Source: Chinese movie box office.
In terms of imported films, Nolan's "Creed" has a total box office of 456 million yuan, and the once high hopes of "Mulan" and "Wonder Woman 1984" finally received only 278 million yuan and 162 million yuan.
It can be seen that at a time when Hollywood blockbusters were absent due to the impact of the epidemic, domestic films have become the main force in the box office of Chinese movies, and have successfully ignited the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies. Since the resumption of theaters in July 2020, the National Day file , New Year's Day and Spring Festival files have set new records in film history many times.
The box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" and "Detective Chinatown 3" continues to rise. Behind the top five in the box office list, the market space for domestic films is still huge. At the same time, as the word-of-mouth effect is becoming more and more obvious, audiences The quality requirements will become higher and higher.
There are not many new films scheduled after the Spring Festival. For example, the new film "Cat and Mouse" was released on February 26, but the single-day box office was still far from "Hello, Li Huanying".
In the upcoming March, the Spring Festival films are still likely to continue to support the film market, and the combination of the top five box office in Chinese film history will see new changes.
Although the Spring Festival holiday of 2021 has come to an end, the box office miracle opened by this Spring Festival stall is still continuing.
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