“War Wolf 2” Box Office 5.58 Billion Yuan and Chinese Film Box Office Debut 50 Billion

Quan Zhou
4 min readNov 23, 2017

[50 billion annual box office break] Until November 20, this year’s the total amount of movie box office has exceeded 50 billion yuan, breaking a new record. From 2003, when the reform of the movie industry began, the total box office turnover reached 1 billion yuan at the box office in China, which exceeded 500 million yuan at the box office in 324 days. The Chinese film only took a short period of ten years, which was never seen before in the history of cinema in the world speed. In the total amount of box office, domestic box office film was 26.2 billion yuan, accounting for 52.4%. There are 78 films with over one billion tickets at the box office, of which 39 are domestic films. The number of viewers reached 1.448 billion, an increase of 19%.

In 2010, China’s movie box office exceeded 10 billion yuan for the first time in 2012; China became the world’s second largest movie market in the world after North America in 2012; the national film year box office exceeded 40 billion yuan in 2015; and exceeded 50 billion yuan in 2017, The total number of screens ranked first in the world, the gap between the size of the Chinese movie market and the North American market narrowed.

In fact, at the beginning of this year, the movie market in Mainland China started out not as well. Despite the strong pull of the Spring Festival stalls this year, the mainland film market took 60 days and the box office exceeded 10 billion at the box office but was still 6 day. Then, the mainland movie market suffered “late spring”. From March to May this year, the performance of the box office was sluggish, even dropping to the level of the one-week box office five years ago. However, all this took place on July 28 this year after the movie “Battle Royale 2” released. “War Wolf 2” pull the box office market quickly snapped back the final film won 5.58 billion yuan at the box office, only this film accounted for 34% of summer box office box office, at the same time greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of viewers watching movies, also Enhance the audience’s confidence in domestic films. The most important three years of the year, Spring Festival stalls, summer stalls, National Day stalls are refreshing box office records this year.

Relevant data show that the top five films at this year’s box office are “War Wolf 2” “Speed ​​and Passion 8” “Shy Tekken” “Kung Fu Yoga” and “Journey to the West”. The combined total of these five films has already exceeded 13.9 billion.

In recent years, the most significant change in the Chinese movie market has been the increasing role of the audience’s reputation in promoting the movie box office. According to the “Survey of Chinese Film Spectators’ Satisfaction Survey”, audience satisfaction was maintained at 80 points or above in all the programs that ended in 2017.

Now, Lunar New Year file has not yet kicked off this year’s box office film has exceeded 50 billion mark, followed by Xu Ke screenwriter produced “Qi Men Dunjia”, Chen Kaige’s “demon cat biography” and other large domestic awaits New Year The arrival of the file. Insiders predict that this year’s box office, promising to exceed 55 billion.

Behind the box office of 500 billion yuan, you can also see that after more than 10 years of triumph in China’s movie industry, the phenomenon of unbalanced development and inadequate development is also increasingly apparent. Among the 50 billion yuan box office receipts so far in 2017, domestic box office was 26.2 billion yuan, accounting for 52.4%. This result is obtained in the absolute number of domestic films released. Amoy Ticket Pro professional software shows that in 2017 a total of 466 films released, of which more than 90% of Chinese films, Chinese movies for many years has always dominated the local film market’s dominant position. However, among the 26.2 billion domestically produced box office box-office films, the top two domestic box-office films “Zhan Wolf 2” and “Shameful Iron Fist” account for 30% of the total box office domestically produced films. .

Insiders pointed out that in the next phase of the transformation and upgrading of Chinese films, we must further improve the quality of production, optimize the product structure, with a more diversified creation, more professional services to better meet the audience increasingly diverse viewing needs.

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