Jimu News Reporter Rong Yu
At about 7pm on April 3, the box office of the Hollywood monster blockbuster "Godzilla vs. Kong 2: Rise of an Empire" exceeded 400 million yuan, becoming the highest-grossing foreign language film in the Chinese film market so far in 2024. Judging from the historical box office performance of the "Godzilla" series of movies, Chinese audiences do not generally "favor" Godzilla.
10 years ago, the movie " Godzilla " met Chinese audiences on the big screen. This legendary monster finally took away 481 million box office from the pockets of Chinese audiences, verifying the IP of "Godzilla". Gold content. In 2019, "Godzilla 2" was released with a familiar "recipe". Although the plot was still a "brainless" "popcorn" routine, it still easily earned 937 million in box office.
In 2021, " Godzilla vs. King Kong ", a "fusion" of two world-famous monsters, Godzilla and King Kong, landed in Chinese theaters. Its box office performance of 1.232 billion once again proved the Chinese audience's love for monster movies, and also made " The arrival of " Godzilla vs. Kong 2" has become no suspense.
On March 29 this year, "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" was released. It was still "favored" by Chinese audiences. It won the single-day box office championship for 5 consecutive days and received a 7.0 rating on Douban. In the genre of monster movies already belongs to the "high-scoring players". On the 6th day after the film was released, the box office of "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" exceeded 400 million yuan, becoming the highest-grossing foreign language film in the Chinese movie market this year.
A relevant staff member of Hubei Provincial Cinemas told Jimu News that as a representative character in monster movies, Godzilla has always been popular in the Chinese film market. “Many young viewers just watch it for leisure purposes and do not need to think about whether it is logical or not. "It's reasonable. You don't need to study whether the script structure is advanced or not, just watch it unfold." In addition, the length of "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" is 115 minutes, which is the same period of film as " Dune 2" and " Falling Trial ". The duration is much shorter, "so theater managers like to schedule "Godzilla vs. Kong 2", and they can use a theater to schedule movies in a loop."
According to big data predictions, the total box office of "Godzilla vs. Kong 2" is expected to exceed 800 million mark, but starting from April 3, new films such as Miyazaki Hayao's new animation " What kind of life do you want to live ", Jiang Qinqin 's award-winning " Plants and Trees in the World " will be released one after another, which is bound to slow down The speed at which Godzilla "conquers cities and lands".
(Picture source: public information from the film company)
(Source: Jimu News)
