The top three are all domestic films, breaking 500 million for two consecutive days! The total box office of the 2023 summer season exceeded 15 billion yuan. Industry | Data | Box Office
Summer movies are booming again!
According to the latest data from Lighthouse Professional, as of 21:45 on August 7, the total box office of the 2023 summer season has exceeded 15 billion yuan. The top three are all domestic films, namely "The Disappearance of Her", "In the Octagonal Cage", and "Fengshen Part One".
Although the summer season has just passed halfway, the cumulative box office has approached the box office levels of the entire summer season in 2018 and 2019. The industry generally expects that this year's summer box office is expected to reach a historic high.
Over the past weekend, the total daily box office of the Chinese film market has exceeded 500 million yuan for two consecutive days. According to Lighthouse Professional Edition data, on August 5th, the national box office reached 503 million yuan, setting the highest daily box office performance since the Spring Festival holiday this year. On August 6th, the record was updated again, with a nationwide box office of 520 million yuan that day.
The reason why this year's summer box office has significantly exceeded expectations is mainly due to the continuous emergence of domestic film box office "dark horses".
The film "The Disappearing She", released on June 22nd, took the lead as a dark horse, significantly increasing its expected box office of over 1 billion yuan to the current 3.5 billion yuan. Following that, "In the Octagonal Cage," "The First Episode of Fengshen," and "Three Thousand Miles in Chang'an," continued to ignite the audience's enthusiasm for watching movies, with their respective box office reaching around 2 billion yuan.
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With the release of several heavyweight movies such as "Shark 2: Abyss" and "All in One", it is expected to help the summer season usher in another wave of box office success.
After the first round of screening, the anti fraud themed film "All for One" led by Zhang Yixing and Jin Chen achieved a high attendance rate and grossed 416 million yuan in just two days, breaking the record for single day box office sales in domestic film history. The film has been announced to be released nationwide on August 8th.
In addition to the popularity of "All in One", the movie "Shark: The Abyss" has also received a lot of attention. On its first day of release on August 4th, it grossed 150 million yuan, with a total box office of over 400 million yuan.
According to Guotai Junan's analysis, based on historical summer trends, box office in August is expected to increase month on month compared to July. Given the abundant film reserves in the coming month, the film market is expected to continue its explosive scene in August.
As of now, the anti domestic violence themed film "I've gone through a storm" produced by Light Media, the comedy film "Study Dad" controlled by Joy Media, and the youth film "Burning Winter" produced by Huace Film and Television will all be released in August.