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Daily Box Office(February 17th 2024)

The market hits ¥224M/$31M which is down -68% from yesterday and down -61% from last week.

Chinese box office crossed the ¥20B/$2.8B mark yesterday in a record 53 days. The first time in history the mark was crossed in February and only the 2nd time it was crossed before April. 2018 being the other time when the mark was crossed in 90 days at the end of March.

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Province map of the day:

Nobody doubted that Ne Zha 2 would remain in control everywhere. And it did. Its 19th clean sweep in a row.

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In Metropolitan cities:

Ne Zha 2 wins Beijing, Chongqing, Wuhan ,Shenzhen, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou

City tiers:

In the Mood for Love into the top 3 in T1. Captain America: Brave New World returns to 3rd in T2 and T4. Creation Of The Gods II up to 3rd in T4.

Tier 1: Ne Zha 2>Detective Chinatown 1900>In the Mood for Love

Tier 2: Ne Zha 2>Detective Chinatown 1900>Captain America: Brave New World

Tier 3: Ne Zha 2>Detective Chinatown 1900>Captain America: Brave New World

Tier 4: Ne Zha 2>Detective Chinatown 1900>Creation Of The Gods II

*YD=Yesterday, LW=Last Week,

Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

Ne Zha 2 also completely dominates pre-sales going into the next week.

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Ne Zha 2

$115-125M

Ne Zha 2 adds $26.46M on Monday as all schools are back and the market takes a hit. Its still a really good day that normaly outside of Holiday Periods you would only see in the Summer but Ne Zha 2 is managing to deliver it in February.

It crosses $1.66B and including pre-sales now pushes The Lion King out of the Worldwide Top 10. Tomorrow Jurrassic World and Ne Zha 2 is set to cross $1.7B and take the crown of highest grossing animated movie worldwide on Wednesday.

Ne Zha 2 hits the 249M admissions including pre-sales. Surpasses the total worldwide admissions of The Lion King and No Way Home leaving only the 2 Avengers movies and 2 Avatar movies infront from the modern era.

After becoming the first ever ¥6B, ¥7B,¥8B, ¥9B, ¥10B and ¥11B movie in China Ne Zha 2 has now crossed ¥12B. Given the slowdown ¥13B will have to wait till the weekend.

On the weekend early projections have it at $115-125M at this point.

Ne Zha 2 pre-sales to gross multiplier:

The multiplier thankfully does return to 4.5+ on the weekdays

Tomorrow's pre-sales are down -13% from Monday which would point towards a day around $23M which seems plausable if the multiplier holds and Maoyan and Tao are also projecting a gross around that number.

Where and what is fueling Ne Zha 2's performance vs Battle At Lake Changjin, Wolf Warrior 2 and Hi, Mom:

The first and most obvious difference is that Ne Zha 2 is playing better towards women than Battle At Lake Changjin and Wolf Warrior 2 ever could. More comparable with Hi, Mom in this regard.

Ne Zha 2 also in turn plays better to kids although this can't really be shown as kids don't buy tickets. It however doesn't have the same reach with younger addults as Hi, Mom did.

Where Ne Zha 2 is absolutely crushing it is Tier 4 areas. And while this is aided by the festival as people travel home. Ne Zha 2 is crushing the records as it not only became the first ¥2B there but the first ¥3B movie and the first ¥4B movie. It alongside Hi Mom is also the only movie to break ¥1B in Tier 3 areas and it has now also broke ¥2B.

Gender Split:

Regional Split:

Tier area split:

Ne Zha 2 breaks ¥4B in Tier 2.

Top Provices:

Top Cities:

Age Split:

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.8 , Taopiaopiao: 9.7 , Douban: 8.5

Maoyan rises to 9.8. Ne Zha 2 is now the best rated movie of all time on Maoyan.

Gender Split(M-W): 40-60

Gender Rating Split: Maoyan: M(9.8)/W(9.8), Taopiaopiao: M(9.6)/W(9.7)

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $1518.75M, IMAX: $105.87, Rest: $33.50M

Language split: Mandarin: 100%

Scheduled showings update for Ne Zha 2 for the next few days:

Detective Chinatown 1900

Detective Chinatown 1900 drops decently into the first fully normal weekday as it crosses $440M

DC1900 extends its gap to DC2 slightly as it now looks set to outgross is becoming the 2nd highest grossing entry in the franchise.

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WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.5 , Taopiaopiao: 9.3 , Douban: 6.5

Gender Split(M-W): 41-59

Gender Rating Split: Maoyan: M(9.4)/W(9.6), Taopiaopiao: M(9.0)/W(9.5)

Age Split: Under 20: 5.6% , 20-24: 23.3% , 25-29: 24.0% , 30-34: 17.1% , 35-39: 14.8% , Over 40: 15.2%

City Tiers: T1: 12.0% , T2: 45.4% , T3: 21.0% , T4: 21.6%

Most Popular Province: Jiangsu: 13.4%

Most Popular City: Shanghai: 5.4%

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $435.07M, IMAX: $2.66M , Rest: $2.52M

Language split: Mandarin: 100%

Scheduled showings update for Detective Chinatown 1900 for the next few days:

Captain America 4: Brave New World

The horror show continues for Cap 4 on Monday as it grossed only $0.52M. Worse first Monday than The Marvels($0.62M)

The Beekeeper is back to keep a watchfull eye on MCU's flops in China:

There's only 1 way for Cap 4 and its not up.

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WoM figures:

Maoyan: , Taopiaopiao:, Douban: 5.3

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $10.41M, IMAX: $0.56M , Rest: $0.12M

Scheduled showings update for Captain America 4 for the next few days:

Other stuff:

The next Holywood release should be Mickey 17 somewhere at the end of February or start of March.

Release Schedule:

A table including upcoming movies in the next month alongside trailers linked in the name of the movie, Want To See data from both Maoyan and Taopiaopiao alongside the Gender split and genre.

Remember Want To See is not pre-sales. Its just an anticipation metric. A checkbox of sorts saying your interested in an upcoming movie.

Not all movies are included since a lot are just too small to be worth covering.

February:

Flow will release on the 28th

March: