With Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" released on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2013, our Spring Festival box office era has officially begun! The concept of Spring Festival movies to match the New Year atmosphere actually comes from Hong Kong.

With the release of Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2013, our Spring Festival box office era has officially begun!

The concept of Spring Festival movies to match the New Year atmosphere actually comes from Hong Kong. After experiencing the era of Feng-style Lunar New Year films that were outstanding, after ten years of development, the Spring Festival movie has become the most competitive period of the year!

In 2013, "Journey to the West: Conquer the Demons" directed by Stephen Chow and starring Huang Bo and Shu Qi became the box office champion of the 2013 Spring Festival with a box office of 1.246 billion, and also won the box office champion of the whole year of 2013!

"Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons" broke many records. The most memorable one is that the box office in a single month was 1.2 billion, breaking the record of "Avatar" of 1.1 billion in a single month.

With the great success of "Journey to the West: Conquering the Demons", it triggered a trend of follow-up filming of Journey to the West movies. In the next two years, 5 Journey to the West movies were filmed one after another!

In 2014, "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" directed by Hong Kong director Paul Cheng and starring Donnie Yen, Chow Yun-fat and Aaron Kwok became the box office champion of the 2014 Spring Festival with a box office of 1.044 billion!

The production of this movie, from photography to costumes and sets to post-production visual effects, all used a first-class Hollywood team. "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" also made a box office of 125 million on the first day of its release on New Year's Day. It directly broke the first-day and single-day box office records for the movie. However, the movie's plot was too Western and was criticized by many viewers that year.

However, it is worth mentioning that the movies in the same period are "Where Are We Going, Dad" and Wang Jing's "Macau", and everyone is evenly matched.

" Macau Storm 2" directed by Wang Jing in 2015 and starring Chow Yun-fat, Nick Cheung and Carina Lau became the 2015 Spring Festival box office champion with a box office of 972 million!

is the sequel to the 2014 Spring Festival film "Macau" and has a certain audience base. It narrowly beat Jackie Chan's "Lion" and "Wolf Totem" at the box office.

"Mermaid", directed by Stephen Chow in 2016 and starring Deng Chao and Zhang Yuqi, became the 2016 Spring Festival box office champion with a box office of 3.386 billion!

"Mermaid" broke the highest box office record for a movie and was also the box office champion in 2016!

In fact, competition in the 2016 Spring Festival is very fierce. In addition to this "Mermaid", there is also the sequel to the 2014 Spring Festival box office champion "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", "Journey to the West: Monkey King Three Fights the Bone Demon", and 2015 "Macau 3" is the sequel to the Spring Festival box office champion "Macau 2".

In the end, the success of "Mermaid" was inseparable from Stephen Chow himself. Back then, he said "I owe him a movie ticket", so everyone went to the cinema to support him.

"Kung Fu Yoga" directed by Tang Jili in 2017 and starring Jackie Chan became the box office champion of the 2017 Spring Festival with a box office of 1.748 billion!

The box office of the same period was followed by "Riding the Wind and Waves", the second film directed by Han Han, and "Havoc in Tianzhu", the first film directed and starring Wang Baoqiang .

It is worth mentioning that although Wang Baoqiang's "Havoc in Tianzhu" far exceeded expectations with a box office of 756 million, its reputation collapsed. In that year, Wang Baoqiang was nominated for the Golden Broom Award for the Worst Chinese Film.

Wang Baoqiang dressed up to receive the award and apologized to the audience. After 6 years of hard work, he finally won everyone's recognition with his movie "The Octagon" in 2023!

In 2018, "Operation Red Sea " directed by Lin Chaoxian and starring Zhang Yi and Huang Jingyu became the box office champion of the 2018 Spring Festival with a box office of 3.65 billion!

Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown 2" ranked second with a box office of 3.397 billion, and "Monster Hunt 2" ranked third with 2.237 billion.

The Spring Festival stall that year was very interesting.

In fact, at the beginning of its release, the box office of "Operation Red Sea" was not as good as Tang Dynasty 2 and Monster Hunter 2. It was not until the end of the Spring Festival holiday that "Operation Red Sea" began to make a strong counterattack, and eventually became the 2018 movie box office champion, second only to Wu Jing 's "Wolf Warrior 2" became the runner-up in box office in total film history.

In 2019, " The Wandering Earth " directed by Guo Fan, produced by Liu Cixin, and starring Wu Jing became the box office champion of the 2019 Spring Festival with a box office of 4.681 billion!

The competition for the 2019 Spring Festival is equally fierce. Ning Hao's latest film in the crazy series "Crazy Aliens" and Han Han's masterpiece "Flying Life" are the two most promising movies for this Spring Festival at the beginning.

Moreover, on the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday, the film schedule of "The Wandering Earth" was only 11.4%. However, as word of mouth fermented, "The Wandering Earth" finally completed its counterattack and topped the Japanese charts on its third day of release! After the Spring Festival holiday, the total box office of the movie exceeded 2 billion, and the final box office for the whole year was 4.681 billion, second only to the 5.694 billion of Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2" on the all-time box office list.

However, the annual box office champion in 2019 was not Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth". The summer dumpling "Nezha: The Devil Boy Comes into the World" turned out to win the championship with 5.035 billion.

In 2021, "Hello, Li Huanying" directed and starring Jia Ling became the box office champion of the 2021 Spring Festival with a box office of 5.413 billion!

History is surprisingly similar. The most promising movie in the 2021 Spring Festival is undoubtedly "Detective Chinatown 3" which has been postponed for a whole year and whetted the audience's appetite.

However, as the reputation of the movie reversed, "Hello, Li Huanying" suddenly emerged and successfully surpassed Tang Detective 3.

Jia Ling also became the highest-grossing female director in the world with this movie, and this record remained until the appearance of "Barbie".

The interaction between Li Huanying and Wandering Earth later became a good story.

Half a month after its release, the box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" surpassed that of "The Wandering Earth". Director Guo Fan forwarded the official blog: Welcome to the new box office record of the Spring Festival. The little broken ball will help you! Jia Ling responded: Thank you Director Guo, let’s cheer for Chinese movies together!

"Changjin Lake Shuimen Bridge" directed by Tsui Hark in 2022 and starring Wu Jing and Yi Yang Qianxi became the 2022 Spring Festival box office champion with a box office of 4.067 billion!

"Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake" is the sequel of " Changjin Lake " in 2021. It is adapted from the Battle of Changjin Lake during the Korean War.

This happy Spring Festival comedy movie "The Killer Is Not So Calm" ranked second with a box office of 2.627 billion.

"Changjin Lake: Shuimen Bridge" is far ahead at the box office. It can be seen that after many years of development during the Spring Festival, Spring Festival movies are no longer limited to funny and festive movies. Movies with any theme can achieve extraordinary results as long as the audience buys them.

And it is worth mentioning that when it comes to film industrialization, many people will think of the Wandering Earth series and the Fengshen Trilogy, but take a closer look at the production cycle of "Changjin Lake: Shuimen Bridge".

"Changjin Lake" and "Changjin Lake: Shuimen Bridge" will be shot back to back in early 2021. The eleventh "Changjin Lake" will be released in 2021, and the sequel will be released in early 2022 during the Spring Festival!

These are two war-themed movies. A large number of personnel were deployed in the war scenes, coupled with post-production, this is a perfect demonstration of the industrialization of movies!

" Jianghong " directed by Zhang Yimou in 2023 and starring Shen Teng and Yi Yang Qianxi became the box office champion of the 2023 Spring Festival with a box office of 4.544 billion!