When 2021 arrives, China shoots straight out of the box office with a new record. On Friday, the market reached a milestone for New Year’s Day.
The estimates are estimated at about RMB 600 million ($ 92 million) on January 1, the same day as all previous years. The great result was largely produced by the new local title A red flower which blossomed through strong mouth to mouth. This all comes when China ended 2020 as the largest box office market worldwide, surpassing North America for the first time. As already noted, it was already on hand in October. Comscore estimates that the total box office in the Middle Kingdom was $ 2.74 billion by 2020, although the Chinese film administration raised it slightly to $ 3.12 billion (RMB 20.4 billion). The domestic box office is estimated at $ 2.28 billion per comScore.
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China fell sharply during the pandemic, which made it one of the first markets to close cinemas nearly a year ago, forcing it to miss the typically lucrative lunar New Year period. Local war mail The eight hundred is the biggest movie worldwide for 2020 with $ 461 million (overwhelmingly from China) and the rest of the Top 10 includes the release of National Day My people my fatherland and animated photo Legend of deification.
It was regularly expected that the Middle Kingdom would surpass the domestic at some point, although it is not clear that the market would have done so this year without its impact. However, many business executives we spoke to believe that this will continue to lead in 2021.
China has its own new year coming up and is showing signs of a massive frame starting on 12 February with, Detective Chinatown 3.
For now, the current weekend was led by local moving drama A red flower, the story of two families fighting cancer. It comes from Go away Mr Tumor director Yan Han and brought in a return of 255 million RMB ($ 39 million) on Friday after previews began Thursday at 6 p.m. The current auction until 19:00 local time on Sunday is 740 million RMB ($ 113.3 million) and that counts.
The comedy is also embraced by Chinese audiences Warm hug with RMB 160M ($ 24.5M) on January 1 and a total of Sunday night of RMB 509M ($ 78M). Other films that appear at the top of the charts include last weekend’s world leader Skokgolf 2 (RMB 812M / $ 124.3M until tonight) and Disney / Pixar’s Soul who benefited from a strong mouth-to-mouth and saw strong daily increases. The consumption after ten days is more than $ 25 million.
We will have a full international box office update later today.
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