China began to inaugurate the year of the snake last Wednesday, while the local public sank their teeth in a multitude of new films with record enthusiasm. The trend continued throughout the weekend with brushes for all the release films (including the Hollowers) reaching RMB 7B (965.4 million dollars) from Wednesday to Sunday, according to Maoyan. The Chinese New Year Holidays have been extended this year and take place until February 4, which means that 2025 can become the largest lunar New Year of all time at the local box office.
This was also a record of a few days for IMAX which saw five of the new Chinese films released in the format increasing up to $ 38.1 million until Sunday in China. It is already the largest CNY of all time for IMAX, beating the $ 34 million in 2023, and with two days in the section.
Overall, as we noted on Wednesday, the animated fantasy adventure of Illy Ne zha 2 From director Yu Yang was the leader in the period (which is also known as Spring Festival), and he never dropped, now with RMB 3.12B ($ 430.3 million) on Sunday. While Maoyan is currently planning a final of $ 938 million, there may be a possibility Ne zha 2 becomes the first film at 1 billion gross dollars on a single market.
In IMAX, Ne zha 2 Generated $ 22.1 million – The fastest IMAX release never to exceed 100 million RMB ($ 13.8 million) in China.
In second place, it’s Maoyan Chinatown 1900 detectiveThe fourth of the $ 1.3 billion + franchise approaching Chen Sicheng. He held place No. 2 throughout the weekend and sank his way to RMB 1.82b (251 million dollars) on Sunday. The portion of Imax was $ 2.6 million.
Behind DC4Alibaba Creation of gods II: Demonic force landed at n ° 3 with RMB 895.3 m (123.5 million dollars). IMAX raised $ 7.3 million. (Well Go USA published the Wuershan suite at 1.3 million dollars at the national level this session.)
China Film Group Legend of the Condor Heroes: The GallingFrom director Tsui Hark, made 543.8 million RMB ($ 75 million) to Sunday ($ 3.5 million for IMAX).
The last of the animated franchise of Boonie opens, Boonie Bears: Future Rebornmade 418 m RMB ($ 57.6 million). And, Bona’s naval drama Hadal operationcame with RMB 240 million RMB ($ 33.1 million), including $ 2.6 million in IMAX.
This is good news for China after a terrible 2024 which experienced a slide of around 25% in a full year against 2023. As we noted last week, a promotional program was launched last December by The China Film Administration to offer subsidies of 600 million RMB ($ 83 ($ 83 M) to the cinema public until February. The spring festival period is generally the most lucrative for cinemas during the year In China, so this week’s performance does not necessarily point out a strength, but it is encouraging.
Note that some of the above titles had outings on other markets this weekend; We will update with complete brushes when they are available.
