The Chinese box office for the new year reaches its highest level with a record 1.3 billion dollars
The Chinese Spring Festival 2025 in the snake, recorded a new box office number during the annual holiday period. The total total of the mainland reached 9.51 billion yuan ($ 1.3 billion) from January 28, February 4. This exceeds the previous record of 8.02 J.
The new teacher was expected to be as soon as the Chinese roundabout for the new year was seriously launched on January 29, with the largest total of one day in China at 1.8 billion yuan (247.5 million dollars) through all titles. The momentum did not falter during the following week, as yesterday, more than 1b Yuan ($ 137.5 million) recorded every day.
The total number of tickets sold during the framework (also referred to as the New Spring and Lunar General Festival) was a record number 187 meters, according to Moyan.
Significantly and lead greatly Ne zha 2 Which reached a total of 4.84b Yuan ($ 665.6 million) until yesterday (which, by the way, is the largest day in its race until now). This is the box office record in one movie for the new Chinese year in the history of the market, for every maoyan.
Including early numbers today, Ne zha 2 It has already exceeded her predecessor 2019 and concludes in 2021 The battle in Lake Changjin To become the largest movie in China ever. Maoyan is now expecting that the complementarity finals of 8.7 billion yuan ($ 1.2 billion) in China. If it crosses $ 1 billion, this will be the first time that the film reaches this standard in one market. Anything ended Star Wars: The Force Awakens“936.7 million dollars in North USA will be made Ne zha 2 The highest movie ever in one market.
It will come in second place through the extension of the lunar year Chinese neighborhood investigator 1900 With RMB 2.28B ($ 313.5 million). Follow it The creation of the second gods: the power of Satan With 998 million yuan (137.2 million dollars), Condor Champions Legend: Witnesses (RMB 591.5M/81.3 million dollars), BONIE Bears: Reborn in the future (RMB 508.6M/70 million dollars) and HADL Operation (RMB 290.8m/40 million dollars). All of them are still playing.
It seems that a promotional scheme was launched last December by the Chinese Film Administration to provide subsidies of 600 million yuan (83 million dollars) for the public film until February, along with other campaigns at regional levels, which helped stimulate traffic, but traffic continued. This has helped to be both the six new films that were released during the festive period as a succession or amendments to the known IP. “I think the most important reason for success is the knowledge and quality of films, all of which are part of the privilege,” says a USC professor and Chinese expert Stanley Rosen.
The spring festival frame is usually the most profitable for cinema during the year in China, and therefore the performance this week does not necessarily indicate a return to full strength, but it is encouraging after 2024 bleak the market segment witnessed 25 % in general compared to 2023.
Rosen’s comments, “Success in the film is part of what appears to be the broader success in” cultural tourism “and increased consumption. Things may be economically bad in China, and the paradox may support the desire to entertain, including among young people who suffer from a lack of work.”
This is still what Hollywood films in China in the air. The market accepted a group of studio titles in 2024 – and it appears to reduce some censorship restrictions – with two Hollywood films at the top of 10 of the year. However, the situation will not become more clear until we see the performance of the main headlines in the last half of 2025, especially ZOOTopia 2 and Avatar: fire and ash.
