BEIJING, Aug. 24 (Xinhua) — Crime thriller “No More Bets” saw box-office grosses of over 3 billion yuan (about 417 million U.S. dollars) last Wednesday, second only to “Warned Between”. The stars (Lost in the stars), achieving a significant revenue milestone during the 2023 summer movie season.
According to the film data platforms “Maoyan” and “Beacon”, this is the first time that the summer season box office in China has produced two blockbuster films with a value of more than 3 billion yuan.
The total revenue during the 2023 summer film season, which extends from the beginning of last June to the end of this August, reached a record high, reaching more than 19.43 billion yuan as of last Wednesday, a result that observers attributed to the rise in cultural consumption after the Covid-19 pandemic. As well as showing many high-quality films of different genres.
So far, the top six in the 2023 China Summer Season box office list are all domestic productions. Films “Meg 2: The Trench” and “Transformers: Rise of the Beasts” occupied the seventh and eighth places, with revenues of about 783 million yuan and 655 million yuan, respectively.
