On January 1, 2024, the National Film Administration announced important indicators for the Chinese film industry in 2023: the annual movie box office was 54.915 billion yuan, of which domestic film box office was 46.005 billion yuan, accounting for 83.77%; the number of moviegoers in urban theaters was 1.299 billion. There were 73 films with a box office of over 100 million yuan throughout the year, including 50 domestic films, and the top 10 box office rankings were all domestic films.
produced a total of 792 feature films throughout the year, with a total film output of 971. Throughout the year, the number of screens in urban theaters increased by 2,312, bringing the total number of screens to 86,310. There are 262 rural digital cinema lines nationwide that carry out public welfare screenings of movies, with 42,000 screening teams. Throughout the year, 8.24 million film screenings were held for charity, including 5.39 million screenings of story films and 2.79 million screenings of science and education films; approximately 450 million people watched the movies.
In addition, Maoyan Professional Edition data shows that the national movie box office in 2023 will increase by more than 80% compared with the previous year, and the market is recovering well.
The box office champion of the year is the Spring Festival film "Man Jiang Hong", with a total box office of 4.544 billion; the second place is also the Spring Festival film "The Wandering Earth 2", with a total box office of 4.029 billion; the third place is the summer film "All or Nothing", with a total box office of 38.48 100 million. Among the top 20 films at the box office, 17 were domestic films (including co-productions), accounting for 85%.
It is worth mentioning that data from the National Film Funding Platform shows that from January 1 to December 31, 2023, Jiangsu Province achieved a box office of 5.168 billion yuan, with more than 120 million moviegoers, which has returned to China’s pre-epidemic box office The highest level was 86.14% in the same period of 2019. Higher than the national recovery level (85.61% nationwide). Among them, the box office of domestic films was 4.354 billion yuan, accounting for 84.24%. There were three Soviet-produced films that exceeded 100 million yuan this year: "Fengshen Part 1", "The Octagonal Cage" and "The Eighth Suspect".
Modern Express + Reporters Zheng Wenjing, Li Ming, Zhang Wenying
(Source: Modern Express All Media)
