Beijing tops the city box office rankings
News from our newspaper (Reporter Yuan Yuner) The Lighthouse Research Institute recently released “Moving Forward, Birth to the Sun-Annual Inventory Report on the Chinese Film Market in 2022”, which shows that domestic films will account for 84.85% of the box office in 2022, and Beijing will become the city with the highest box office throughout the year.
In 2022, the total box office of films domestically will be 30.067 billion yuan, of which domestic films will have a box office of 25.511 billion yuan, accounting for 84.85% of the total box office, and the number of admissions in theaters urban throughout the year will be 712 million. From 2020 to 2022, domestic films accounted for more than 80% of the market’s box office share for three consecutive years; in 2022, three domestic films “Changjin Lake Water Gate Bridge”, “Lonely Walking on the Moon” and “This Killer Is Not So Calm” accounted for the annual single film box office The top three on the list jointly contributed nearly 10 billion yuan at the box office, accounting for about one-third of the annual box office.
In 2022, per capita viewing frequency will be 2.0 times, and nearly 40% of the audience will watch the film more than once, and there is still plenty of room for audience activity to grow; the average number of tickets purchased is 1.9, and more than 70% of the audience prefer two or more people to watch movies, the social attribute of watching movies in theaters is still strong.
In 2022, Beijing will top the city box office list with a box office of 1.42 billion yuan, which is one place higher than last year, followed by Shanghai and Guangzhou. The Heshenghui branch of Huanying Cinemas in Beijing topped the annual film box office list with a box office of 27.115 million yuan.
On the film side, both the share of high-reputation films and the share of box office hits have increased: compared to 2021, the share of high-reputation films rated 9.0 and above will increase by 13.6% in 2022 and the box office percentage will increase by 14.0%. Comedy and science fiction are the hottest topics in the last two years.
“Beijing Daily” January 5, 2023, page 11
