Jimu News reporter Rong Yu
Watched the Spring Festival Gala on New Year's Eve and went to the theater on New Year's Day. Driven by this "new folk custom", as of 18:00 on February 9, the pre-sale box office of new films in the 2024 Spring Festival has exceeded the 600 million mark. "Life 2" temporarily topped the pre-sale box office list with a slight advantage.
However, on the most important day of the Lunar New Year, February 10, Jia Ling 's second directorial work " Hot and Spicy " is the "boss" in pre-sales, and "Flying Life 2" is temporarily following thereafter. It is worth mentioning that the third place in the pre-sale box office on the first day of the Lunar New Year was not director Zhang Yimou's new film " Article 20 ", but "Bear Infested", which often "makes a fortune silently" during the Spring Festival. "The new work in the series, the animated film "Bear Infested: Reverse Time and Space".
Judging from the current statistics, there is not much difference in the pre-sale box office and film schedule data between "Hot" and "Flying Life 2". The former is temporarily the "king" of pre-sales on New Year's Day, while the latter is The “first brother” for pre-sale of the entire Spring Festival stalls. If these two films are not too "ugly" in the first wave of word-of-mouth after they are officially released on February 10, they will be the most powerful contenders for the 2024 Spring Festival box office championship.
Judging from the data on the first day of the Lunar New Year, among the major "box office cities" in the country, the pre-sale box office champions in cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, Wuhan, Hangzhou, and Nanjing are all "Hot and Spicy", and Guangzhou audiences It even supported "Flying Life 2" directed by Han Han, and in Chongqing, "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou led the New Year's Day film market with a large advantage. However, starting from the second day of the Lunar New Year, the national pre-sale box office of "Flying Life 2" has shown an "overwhelming victory", easily surpassing "Hot".
Big data shows that Wuhan audiences are very supportive of Hubei fellow Jia Ling. "Hot and Spicy" won the pre-sale box office championship in Wuhan from the first to the third day of the Lunar New Year. According to Jimu News reporters, on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, Jia Ling will return to Xiangyang, Hubei Province with the main actors of "Hot and Spicy", leaving the opportunity for close interaction to her hometown elders.
What has become of Jia Ling who lost 100 pounds? What were the joys and sorrows of her second career as a director? What did audiences think of her second directorial effort? The answers to these questions will become hot search materials during the 2024 Spring Festival.
As one of Jia Ling's most important rivals, "Flying Life 2" directed by Han Han also has an advantage that makes new films of the same period very envious. On the evening of February 9, the film's leading actor Shen Teng will once again appear on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage to show the "humorous cells" of the "comedy brother" to the national audience. Those viewers who were amused by Shen Teng on New Year's Eve may contribute some more box office to Shen Teng during the Spring Festival. In the same way, "Article 20" directed by Zhang Yimou may also be able to collect more box office due to the performance of the heroine Ma Li in the Spring Festival Gala.
During this Spring Festival holiday, who will you donate your first movie ticket to?
Top 5 new film box office for the 2024 Spring Festival (February 10-February 17) (as of 7 pm on February 9):
1, "Flying Life 2" (163 million)
2, "Hot and Spicy" (160 million)
3, "Bear Bears Reverse Time and Space" (125 million)
4, "Article 20" (112 million)
5, "Mr. Red Carpet" (31.5 million)
Top 5 new film box office on New Year's Day (February 10, 2024) (As of 7 p.m. on February 9):
1, "Hot and Spicy" (139 million)
2, "Flying Life 2" (138 million)
3, "Bear Infested: Reverse Time and Space" (107 million)
4, "No. "Twenty Articles" (93 million)
5, "Mr. Red Carpet" (27.3 million)
(Picture source: public information from the film company, Maoyan Professional Edition information)
(Source: Jimu News)
