In 2016, the box office broke 45.7 billion yuan, hitting a record high in a single week and a single month.
1905 movie network news According to preliminary statistics, the box office in 2016 exceeded 45.7 billion yuan, a slight increase of 3.7% over last year. Although the growth rate has slowed down, looking back on the whole year, the film market in China is still full of bright spots — — The total number of screens reached 41,179, ranking first in the world. In 2016, as many as 85 films were newly released, and the box office exceeded 100 million. Single-chip, single-day, single-week and single-month box office all created the best in history. In particular, the film directed by Stephen Chow has made a box office achievement as high as 3.393 billion yuan, becoming the first film in China to break through the 3 billion yuan mark, and it will also be pulled down, setting a new record in the film history of China. (Note: The box office of this manuscript is preliminary statistics, and the final box office published by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television shall prevail.)
Single-chip, single-week, single-month and monthly record broke through the 6 billion yuan mark for the first time in February.
Over the years, China’s film industry has been developing rapidly, and the box office has also grown from less than 1 billion yuan in 2002 to 45.7 billion today. In 14 years, the box office has increased 47 times, ranking second in the global film market. In 2010, the growth rate of movie box office reached an unprecedented 64%, and in 2009 and 2015, the growth rate of movie box office in China also remained above 40%.
Although the growth rate of the market slowed down in 2016, it was amazing that a single film, a single day, a single week and a single month created a new record in the history of Chinese film. Stephen Chow’s "The Mermaid" grossed 280 million yuan on the opening day, surpassed 310 million on Valentine’s Day, surpassed 1.8 billion in the first seven days, and surpassed 2.439 billion in the 12 days after its release, making it the box office champion in mainland film history. "Mermaid" was also extended for three months, and finally ended with 3.393 billion yuan, accounting for 7.4% of the total box office in China, bringing China movies to a new height of 3 billion yuan.
With The Mermaid and the escort of Harmony and Troika, which were released on the same day of the New Year’s Eve, the box office in February directly rushed to a high of 6.89 billion yuan, surpassing the box office of 5.5 billion yuan created in July last year, setting a new monthly box office record, and becoming the first month in the history of mainland film that the box office broke 6 billion yuan. In addition, from February 8 to February 14, a new box office record was set with a box office output of 3.63 billion yuan, which doubled the original record of 1.78 billion yuan (from July 13 to 19, 2015). This year’s single-day box office has reached a new high. On February 8, February 14 and February 9, 2016, it won 646 million, 603 million and 526 million box offices respectively, ranking among the top three in the single-day box office in mainland film history.
Domestic film box office 26.6 billion, 85 imported films exceeded 100 million, 5 domestic films broke 1 billion.
In 2016, The Mermaid, the Monkey King’s Three Bai Gujing in Journey to the West captured 3.393 billion, 1.532 billion, 1.472 billion, 1.248 billion and 1.202 billion yuan respectively, ranking among the top five highest-grossing movies in 2016. It is worth mentioning that in this year’s movie box office list, the top 10 total box office reached 14.129 billion yuan, accounting for 31% of the total box office in the whole year.
In 2016, China produced 772 feature films, 49 cartoons, 24 special films, 67 science and education films and 32 documentary films, totaling 944. This year, the performance of domestic films is also very eye-catching, with the box office reaching 26.6 billion yuan, accounting for 58.3% of the total box office, once again pushing against imported films. A total of 85 newly released films exceeded 100 million yuan at the box office in the whole year (note: the box office of three films has exceeded 100 million yuan this year, but it was not included because it was released last year), including 43 domestic films. Mermaid, Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon on a Journey to the West, storm riders of Macau and five domestic films are among the 1 billion yuan box office clubs.
The overall performance of the schedule is relatively stable, and Valentine’s Day increased by 166%, but the Mid-Autumn Festival National Day file dropped significantly.
In 2016, the performance of each schedule was relatively stable. Eight of the 13 major schedules increased compared with last year, and the performance of Valentine’s Day, New Year’s Day and Spring Festival was quite eye-catching. Their growth rates reached 166.93%, 86.98% and 69.51% respectively, ranking first, second and third in this year’s schedule.
However, the three major periods of gold absorption — — The performances of Spring Festival, Summer and New Year’s Eve files were not satisfactory, with the summer and New Year’s Eve files both declining slightly, but the three major files still jointly attracted more than 20 billion yuan, accounting for 43% of the total box office. The biggest drop was in Mid-Autumn Festival and National Day, both exceeding 10%. Although "operation mekong", which was released on September 30th, won 1.1 billion yuan at the box office in one fell swoop, it was a good hit, but it was helpless to fight alone, resulting in an increase of 66.5% in the eleventh file last year. This year, it only achieved 1.59 billion yuan at the box office, down 14.64% from 2015.
Throughout 2016, after experiencing a record-breaking rapid development in the first quarter, the growth rate of China’s film market slowed down, but the market continued to maintain steady growth, but the whole film market gradually became rational, the quality of domestic films was greatly improved, film talents were constantly emerging, and the audience’s appreciation level was also improved.
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It is believed that after the baptism in 2016, China films, which turned 112 this year, will continue to make steady progress towards the goal of becoming a film power under the protection of the Film Industry Promotion Law.
Next page: Detailed list of films with box office exceeding 100 million in 2016.