Dawan News: On the morning and afternoon of July 19, the box office of the currently released films "Silent Kill" and "Catch a Baby" respectively crossed the 1 billion yuan mark. Even Makoto Shinkai's "Your Name", which was re-released on the same day, also exceeded the 1 billion

Dawan News On the morning and afternoon of July 19, the box office of the currently screening movies " silently kills " and " catches the baby " respectively crossed the 1 billion yuan mark. Even Makoto Shinkai's " "Your Name" also easily earned close to 38 million at the box office. The two most popular movies next weekend, Hollywood's "Wolverine and Deadpool" and Wu Ershan's "" have already started pre-sale. After the weather turns bad on the 15th, the second half of the summer season is also quite "bad". Taste, the "summer of movies" has officially arrived.

After the Spring Festival, 1 billion + hit "two a day"

Until the second half of the summer season, the seemingly bustling film market actually faced an embarrassment: after the Spring Festival period benefits, no movie had a box office again Passed the 1 billion yuan threshold. The big monsters of " Godzilla vs. Kong 2: Rise of an Empire " released during the Spring Festival did their best, but fell on the threshold of 956 million yuan. The first blockbuster movie of the summer season, "Silent Kill", relied on its subject matter and outstanding performances. On the morning of July 19, on the 17th day of its release, it became the first movie after the Spring Festival to have a box office of more than 1 billion yuan. On the afternoon of that day, "Catch a Baby", which was officially released on its fourth day of release, easily exceeded the 1 billion yuan mark. The two films became the 117th and 118th box office "1 billion + club" members in Chinese film history. Driven by the two first movies, the box office has exceeded 100 million yuan in consecutive single days since July 12. On the 13th and 14th, the single-day box office exceeded 300 million yuan for two consecutive days.

Shen Teng and Ma Li, who have been partners on the big screen for ten years, once again joined forces to perform a hilarious comedy for the audience in "Catch a Baby". Judging from the screening results of the film, they earned 156 million yuan, 202 million yuan and 1.336 billion yuan respectively in three days. The box office revenue was nearly 500 million, with a Maoyan score of 9.5, and Douban also gave it a high score of 7.5. "Catch a Baby" is the third comedy co-directed by Yan Fei and Peng Damo after " Charlotte's Trouble " and " The Richest Man in Xihong City ". Related platforms predict that "Catch a Baby" is expected to have a final box office reached 3.7 billion yuan.

The summer season has officially begun, kicking off the "Summer of Movies"

It is reported that this year's summer film list is divided into five major themed units: the "Chinese Spirit of Light and Shadow Continues" unit includes " Decrypted " and the dance drama movie " Never Dies" Radio "; the "Light and Shadow Expression of Chinese Stories" unit includes "Retrograde Life", "There is a Shop in the Clouds" and " Laifu Hotel "; the "Chinese Aesthetics Light and Shadow Painting" unit includes the animated film " White Snake: 26", "Falling World" and "The Umbrella Girl", as well as the Cantonese opera film "The Lady of Qiao"; the "China Innovative Light and Shadow Exploration" unit brings together "Legend" and "Under the Stranger"; the "China Market Global Sharing" unit Covering works such as "Despicable Me 4", "Deadpool and Wolverine" and "Twister". It is reported that more than 80 movies of will be released in throughout the summer.

The reporter learned from the Anhui Provincial Film Bureau that as of 17:00 on July 20, the Anhui film market in the 2024 summer season has continued to produce steadily, and the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies is high. The province's box office is 213 million yuan, ranking tenth in the country . Dawan News Reporter Jiang Nannan

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