Jimu News Reporter Rong Yu
On December 31, 2023, Chinese audiences used a "super generous" to draw a perfect end to the Chinese film market in 2023. On that day, the single-day box office of Chinese films reached 730 million yuan, the second highest number after January 2023. After the 28th, it was the first time in 336 days that the "single-day box office exceeded 700 million".
Thanks to this last day's sprint, China's movie box office finally reached 54.915 billion yuan in 2023, of which domestic movies accounted for 83.77%. A total of 73 movies exceeded 100 million in box office throughout the year, and domestic movies accounted for 50 seats.
Statistics from the National Film Specialty Office show that Hubei Province ranks 9th in the country with a box office of 2.375 billion yuan, while Wuhan ranks 8th in the country with a box office of 1.174 billion yuan. Big data shows that the top three movies that Wuhan audiences will support most in 2023 are "All or Nothing", "The Wandering Earth 2" and "The Vanishing Her".
They and they deserve heavy awards
2023 Chinese films have produced beautiful report cards. Which films and filmmakers do the "Military Medal" belong to?
The famous director Zhang Yimou may be ranked first.
On the 2023 Chinese movie box office list, Zhang Yimou's costume suspense film "Man Jiang Hong" won the championship with a box office of 4.544 billion yuan. His other work "Solid as a Rock" also had a box office of 1.351 billion yuan, ranking second No. 9 on the list. With two seats in the top 10 list for the whole year, director Zhang Yimou should be able to say "Who else?"
Also making important contributions to 2023 Chinese movies is last year's summer hit movie "All or Nothing".
The film ranked third in the 2023 Chinese movie box office list with a box office performance of 3.848 billion yuan. At the same time, the film is also the film with the most viewers, the highest box office, and the most single-day box office wins in 2023. It is worth mentioning that although "All or Nothing" ranked third on the national box office list last year, it was the champion of Wuhan's 2023 film market. The film sold 1.98 million movie tickets in Wuhan theaters, and its popularity exceeded industry expectations. .
In addition, the domestic science fiction movie "The Wandering Earth 2" also set a new record for Chinese movies in 2023. On January 22, 2023, the first day of the Lunar New Year, the box office of "The Wandering Earth 2" on its premiere day was close to 480 million yuan, becoming the highest-grossing movie in a single day last year.
In addition to these "top" movies and filmmakers, there are two major movie schedules that deserve special recognition.
First of all, it is the Spring Festival period. The 2023 Spring Festival period has a box office performance of more than 6.7 billion yuan, becoming the second highest Spring Festival period in Chinese film history. The two key films of this period, "Man Jiang Hong" and "The Wandering Earth 2", have also joined hands to enter the "4 billion +" box office club, becoming the box office champion and runner-up for the whole year.
followed by the summer season. The 2023 summer box office reached an unprecedented 20.611 billion yuan, setting a new high in Chinese film history. This period contributed nearly 40% of the box office for the whole year, and produced many movies with high reputation, high box office, and high topics such as "All or Nothing", "The Vanishing Her", "Fengshen Part 1", "The Octagonal Cage", and "30,000 Miles from Chang'an". degree film, known as "the strongest summer movie in history."
The average ticket price in Wuhan last year was 39.25 yuan
Statistics from the National Film Funding Office show that compared with 2022, all data for Chinese movies in 2023 are gratifying: the total box office increased by 83.4% year-on-year, and the total number of moviegoers increased year-on-year. 82.7%, a significant increase; the average ticket price that audiences are more concerned about has increased moderately from 42 yuan in 2022 to 42.2 yuan.
In the 2023 national city box office rankings, Wuhan, the long-established "box office town", ranked 8th, with 29.9 million moviegoers throughout the year. As in previous years, Wuhan's average ticket price is still the lowest among the top 15 box office cities in the country, at about 39.25 yuan. The industry's inherent impression that "watching movies in Wuhan is relatively cheap" has not changed in 2023.
In terms of theater data, in the ranking of national theater attendance in 2023, Wuhan Wushang Moore International Cinema ranked first in the country with 961,000 people. This is also the third consecutive year that the theater has won this honor.
On January 1, 2024, Jimu News reporters learned a set of interesting survey results from the professional film research institution "Maoyan Research Institute".Big data shows that the first movie ticket sold in the Chinese film market in 2023 is the comedy movie "Desperate Househusbands" starring Chang Yuan; last year, the movie with the highest proportion of female audiences was "Barbie" and the movie with the highest proportion of male audiences was "Dragon Ball Super: Super Android"; last year, the movie with the highest average ticket price was "Unknown" at 52.4 yuan, the longest movie was "Oppenheimer" at 181 minutes, and the movie with the highest box office at midnight was "Slam Dunk" Master".
data shows that in 2023, the most popular movie among the "post-70s" generation is "Man Jiang Hong", the most popular movie among the "post-80s generation" is "Slam Dunk", and the most popular movie among the "post-90s generation" is "The Ex 4: "Marry Young", the most popular movie among "post-00s" is "Twinkle, Twinkle Shining Star"; and the most searched movie on the Internet is the summer hit movie "Fengshen Part 1". Have these interesting data awakened your memory of watching movies in 2023?
2023 Good news comes frequently, and 2024 is worth looking forward to.
Wang Jinzhan, Secretary General of the Youth Film Working Committee of the Hubei Provincial Film Association, said in an interview with Jimu News reporters that 2023 is a year of frequent good news for Chinese films. Movies such as "God's First Part", "Man Jiang Hong" and "Chang'an 30,000 Miles" are based on cultural classics, innovate audio-visual language, and tell Chinese stories, and there are also "I Love You!" "The Octagonal Cage" and "Keep You Safe" are based on the current era, focusing on the portraits of the lower class of society and rich in humanistic care. There are also works such as "All or Nothing", "The Vanishing Her" and "The Ex 4" that focus on social hot spots and innovate publicity models. , works that create emotional resonance, and there are also works such as "The Wandering Earth 2" and "Universe Exploration Editorial Department" that appeal to science fiction futures, outwardly exploring the community of human destiny, and inwardly exploring the meaning of individuals, as well as "Unknown" and "Walking Through the Angry People". "Sea", "Solid as a Rock", "Three Brigades" and other mature works that achieve a balance between artistic expression and commercial types.
Looking back at the Chinese film market in 2023, Wang Jinzhan believes that the expansion of diversified themes has provided audiences with more movie-watching choices. The integration and exploration of genres are a good trend for Chinese films to develop towards industrialization and scale, and for the current situation "The vitality and vitality of the film market in the past year make the future of Chinese films more worth looking forward to."
Top 10 Chinese movie box office in 2023:
1. "Man Jiang Hong" "(4.544 billion)
2. "The Wandering Earth 2" (4.029 billion)
3. "Desperate" (3.848 billion)
4. "She Disappeared" (3.523 billion)
5. "Fengshen Part 1" (2.634 billion)
6 ."In the Octagonal Cage" (2.207 billion)
7. "Thirty Thousand Miles from Chang'an" (1.824 billion)
8. "Bear Infested: Accompany Me "Bear Core"" (1.495 billion)
9. "Solid as a Rock" (1.351 billion)
10. "Unfamiliar Life" (1.184 billion)
(Picture source: public information from the film company)
(Source: Jimu News)
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