In 2023, the total box office of China movies broke 50 billion! How many movies did you watch this year？

Special feature of 1905 film network According to the preliminary statistics of the National Film Office, as of November 13th, 2023, the annual box office of China movies exceeded 50 billion yuan, which took 317 days. The domestic movie box office was 41.7 billion yuan, accounting for 83.4%, and the imported movie box office was 8.3 billion yuan, accounting for 16.6%. This is also the total box office of the national movies has returned to 50 billion yuan since the epidemic, which shows that China movies are in a big pattern of recovery and development, steady progress and long-term improvement.

After three years, each schedule reappears its competitiveness.

This year, China’s film market has received many good news.

At the beginning of the Spring Festival, many new films such as the Spring Festival continued to be shown, and finally produced 6.758 billion yuan at the box office of the Spring Festival, ranking second in history, injecting a shot in the arm into the market; On January 31st, 2023, the total box office in China exceeded 10 billion yuan, which also set a new record for the total box office in China film market to break 10 billion yuan at the earliest.

The five-day box office of the "May 1" file (April 29 to May 3) was 1.519 billion yuan, second only to the same period in 2019 and 2021. It is worth mentioning that the long tail effect is strong and it has also entered the top ten of the current box office list. On May 7, 2023, the national box office exceeded 20 billion yuan.

This year’s summer vacation (June 1 to August 31) is even more surprising. China’s film market has ushered in a new breakthrough in box office and movie attendance — — The box office reached 20.619 billion yuan, and the number of people watching movies was 505 million. This is also the first time that the summer file exceeded 20 billion yuan, setting a new box office record. On August 18th, the box office of the national film market in 2023 exceeded 40 billion yuan.

A number of different types of domestic films have been released one after another. With the high quality of their works, the film market continues to be hot, which has triggered a wave of movie-watching craze.

The achievement of "Mid-Autumn National Day" was equally gratifying. Under the impact of the tourism enthusiasm of the first small holiday after the epidemic, it finally ended with a box office score of 2.732 billion.

On November 13th, the annual box office of China movies reached 50 billion yuan. There are still many good films waiting to enter the market, and the total box office in the whole year may exceed 55 billion yuan. This series of data has inspired countless filmmakers.

The quality of the film is excellent, and it is a success.

The box office achievement of 50 billion is inseparable from the continuous release of high-quality films. In 2023, there were 55 films with box office exceeding 100 million, of which 37 were made in China, accounting for more than half.

The top ten films in this year’s box office are all made in China, namely, Man Jiang Hong, Wandering Earth 2, Put All Your Eggs on It, The Disappeared She, The First Part: Worship the Gods, In an Octagonal Cage, Three Wan Li in Chang ‘an, Bears with Me, and Unfamiliar Road in Life. The box office of these ten films all exceeded 1 billion yuan.

What’s more worth mentioning is that this year’s domestic films not only have outstanding box office performance, but also have a breakthrough in word of mouth. According to the survey results of movie audience satisfaction in China, this year’s Spring Festival audience satisfaction score was 87.1 points, up 1.8 points year-on-year; The audience satisfaction score of "May 1st" movies is 83.3, which is also the highest value of survey satisfaction in the same period in recent years. The audience satisfaction score of summer movies was 84.5, and the satisfaction score of six movies exceeded 84, ranking the highest in number and proportion in the same period of the previous year; The satisfaction of five key films in Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day files all exceeded 80 points, and the satisfaction of three films exceeded 83 points.

With the release of a large number of high-quality films and the audience’s enthusiasm for watching movies, we can see the possibility and potential of China film market.

The film industry continues to develop healthily.

This year’s film market is a year of rapid recovery, and the current achievements are gratifying. However, compared with the same period in 2019, the total box office of 50 billion yuan has only recovered to about 85%, and there is still 10%~15% room for improvement. Therefore, it is still necessary to promote the sustainable and healthy development of China’s films in the future, and bring more vitality and possibilities to China’s film market.

Professor Tsinghua University said: Besides relying on several strong schedules, we also need to pay attention to the schedule of every weekend, so the market needs more high-quality movies. We should have more movies for the audience to choose from, so that the audience can not only have the impulse and desire to watch movies on holidays, but also go to the cinema to watch movies on Friday and Saturday, and they can all choose their favorite movies. Sufficient quality film supply is always the first condition for the development and prosperity of the film market.

In addition, it is also an important step to improve the film market in China to speed up the reform of film distribution mode and do a good job in the distribution of different films. Let some fans of minority films also have the opportunity to walk into the cinema to watch movies. Although the relative number of them seems to be a small number, when they are added together, it is also an absolute majority, which is why we advocate separate distribution now.

Among the upcoming films, there are many domestic popular new films waiting to enter the market, which have attracted a lot of attention and expectation from the audience, which also shows that China’s film industry has strong resilience and development potential in the future!