China News Agency, Beijing, May 5th (Reporter Gao Kai) According to the data of the Lighthouse Professional Edition, as of 21:30 on May 4th, the 2022 May 1st file (April 30th to May 4th) The total number of theaters in mainland China The box office (including pre-sale) was 295 million yuan (RMB, the same below).

　　The top three films on the schedule are: "I Really Hate Long-distance Relationships" (87.499 million yuan), "Bad Guys" (71.118 million yuan), and "Fantastic Beasts: Dumbledore's Mystery" (32.874 million yuan).

　　Affected by the epidemic, the film market in mainland China continued to experience a downturn. The "May 1st" holiday theater chain once again encountered the withdrawal of many blockbuster films. In addition, theaters in Beijing, Shanghai and other places were temporarily closed. According to statistics, the operating rate of theaters nationwide is less than 70%. .

In this case, the final box office of nearly 300 million yuan in the schedule is considered to be better than expected.

　　There are only three new films released on May 1st this year, "I Really Hate Long-distance Relationships", "Bad Guys" and "Fight, Mom", which is different from the 13 new films released in the same period in 2021.

　　In terms of word of mouth, "Bad Guys" has a score of 8.8 points on the Taopiao Piao platform, which is the highest score among the three films. Zhang Rongdi, an industry analyst at the Lighthouse Research Institute, said that "funny" and "an endless stream of accidents" are users' evaluations of this film. The main reason for the higher score; "I Really Hate Long-Distance Relationships" scored 7.8 points on the TaopiaoPiao platform. Compared with the same type of romance films in the same period in the past, it was the same as "Your Wedding" (May 1st, 2021) and "Your Wedding" (May 1st, 2021). The "Later Us" (May 1, 2018) scored the same.

　　According to Beacon Professional Edition, the top three cities in May 1st box office performance this year are Shenzhen, Chengdu and Chongqing. Affected by the epidemic, the two largest ticket warehouses in the first-tier cities, Beijing and Shanghai, are not on the list.

Zhang Rongdi pointed out that the second-tier cities in the Pearl River Delta and Sichuan-Chongqing regions have become the main box office, which is quite different from the Qingming file a month ago. At that time, the top three cities at the box office were Beijing, Guangzhou and Chengdu.

In addition to the city's box office level being related to the local box office market, the current epidemic is the biggest influencing factor.

Almost all cinemas in Beijing and Shanghai have been closed, and no box office has been released.

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