Yangcheng Evening News (Reporter Hu Guangxin) Looking back on 2020, the Chinese film market is advancing amidst difficulties. According to data from the National Film Administration, the annual box office of Chinese films in 2020 is 20.3 billion yuan. Although the box office output is only 30% of 2019, the recovery rate is much faster than that of the world. The mainland film market has surpassed North America to become the world’s first box office market in 2020. .
The Chinese film market, facing the difficulties, finally ushered in a good start on New Year’s Day in 2021: During the New Year’s Day holiday from January 1 to January 3, the total box office of movies in Mainland China reached 1.298 billion yuan, 2.5 times that of the same period in 2020, a record A new box office record for the New Year’s Day schedule. Standing at the beginning of 2021, reporters from Yangcheng Evening News combined data from multiple platforms to review the past and look forward to the future.
Looking ahead to 2021
Many works on New Year’s Day have a good box office
In the three days of the New Year’s Day holiday in 2021, the mainland film market received a total of 1.298 billion yuan in box office, of which the box office on New Year’s Day exceeded 600 million yuan.
“Send You A Little Red Flower”, released on December 31, 2020, is a “linkage of past and future” for the film market. The film ranks first in the total pre-sale box office list in 2020, and the pre-sale box office one day before the release has exceeded 200 million yuan; the film is also the first “popular” movie in 2021, with a combined box office of 250 million on New Year’s Day. Yuan, the highest single-day record for a single film on New Year’s Day. In the three days of the New Year’s Day holiday, “Send You A Little Red Flower” received a total of 760 million yuan in box office.
The New Year’s Day holiday stimulated the audience’s enthusiasm for movie watching, and many films came out with good news: the comedy “Warm Hug”, which was released on the same day as “Send You A Little Red Flower”, exceeded 300 million yuan in the box office on the afternoon of January 1. The total box office of the New Year’s Day holiday reached 522 million yuan; the box office of “The Bomb Disposal Expert 2” released on December 24, 2020 exceeded 800 million yuan on January 3; the Pixar animation “Spirit of the Soul” with a Douban score of 8.9 A counterattack was achieved during the New Year’s Day holiday, and the box office was close to 170 million yuan, which has surpassed the final result of Pixar’s similar work “Brain Agents” in the Mainland.
More new movies this year are worth looking forward to
The “2020 China Film Annual Survey Report” jointly released by 1905 Film Network and Film Channel Media Center shows that in 2020, more than 113 films have been announced and 1,431 films have been put on record. With the addition of a batch of “stocks” waiting to be released, there will be many movies worth looking forward to in 2021.
The report selects the “Best Films Expected in 2021” Film Critics List and Audience List respectively. Among them, “Detective Chinatown 3”, “Assassination of Novelists” and “Hello, Li Huanying” three 2021 Spring Festival films are on the two lists. Both are on the list. In addition, reality-themed movies are still one of the highly anticipated film types in 2021. At the same time, “Changjin Lake”, which has also been listed on the film critics list and the audience list of the “2021 Expected Best Movies”, is co-directed by Chen Kaige, Tsui Hark, and Lin Chaoxian. The story originated from the Battle of Changjin Lake during the War of Resistance Against America and Aid Korea. “Chinese Doctor”, which appeared on the audience list, was created by the “Chinese Captain” team. The film is adapted from the real events of the 2020 new crown pneumonia epidemic prevention and control struggle.
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