As of December 25, the total box office of Chinese films in 2023 will reach 53.3 billion yuan, of which the top ten box office are all occupied by domestic films, contributing more than 80% of the annual box office.
On the 2023 Chinese film box office list, the two films "Man Jianghong" and "The Wandering Earth 2" have entered the "4 billion +" club, ranking first and second with 4.544 billion and 4.029 billion results. The "3 billion +" club is occupied by "All or Nothing" and "Disappearing Her", with box office of 3.848 billion and 3.523 billion respectively.
"Fengshen Part I" and "In the Octagonal Cage" ranked fifth and sixth with 2.634 billion and 2.207 billion results. "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", "Bear Infested, Stay with Me "Bear Core"", "Solid as a Rock" and "Unfamiliar with Life" ranked among the top ten at the annual box office with a box office of "1 billion +". Another "1 billion +" film "Predecessor 4: Early Marriage" failed and ranked 11th.
Since 2011, there has only been one instance in 2020 in which domestic films have taken the top 10 at the annual box office.
Judging from the release schedule, the Spring Festival and summer holidays are the box office for this year's movie outbreak. In this year's Spring Festival, the two films "Man Jianghong" and "The Wandering Earth 2" went hand in hand, leading the Spring Festival box office, leading the Spring Festival box office in 2023 to become the second highest Spring Festival box office in Chinese film history.
This year's summer films are even more unbeatable. First, "She Who Disappeared" fired the first shot of the summer file and took the lead in breaking into the 3 billion mark. Later, "In the Octagon Cage" and "All or Nothing" continued to make efforts, and "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" and "Fengshen Part 1" relied on high-quality reputation and accumulated steadily. These films have raised the box office of this year's summer stalls to 20.6 billion yuan, making the domestic summer box office exceed the 20 billion mark for the first time.
The soaring box office comes from solid creation and new exploration, and the films that entered the top 10 at the box office this year are based on excellent quality reputation. "Man Jianghong" allows people to see the new creative thinking of Zhang Yimou, a leading Chinese director, the film cuts from a small perspective, promotes with layers of suspense, and finally creates a grand historical and humanistic concept. "The Wandering Earth 2" made Guo Fan's "Chinese science fiction" signboard polished again, and made the audience believe that Chinese films can continue to advance in the field of science fiction films.
Both are realistic films, "All or Nothing" and "In the Octagon Cage" cut from different themes and achieved fascinating. "Disappearing Her" is unique among the crowds of suspense films, telling a new story through feminism. "Fengshen Part 1", which counterattacked all the way, not only allows the audience to see the progress of the Chinese film industry technically, but also gives the Chinese heroic epic a specific sensibility in terms of content. There is also "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", which tells the story of the new ancient style from the perspective of Tang poetry, which tells a new meaning to the Chinese story.
In this year's total domestic film box office list, 4 imported films entered the top 20: "Fast and Furious 10" ranked 12th with a score of 984 million yuan, "Megalodon 2: The Abyss" ranked 16th with 851 million, "Lingbud Journey" ranked 19th with 807 million, and "Avatar - The Way of Water" ranked 20th with 743 million.
Among the films with a box office of more than 100 million yuan in the whole year, imported films account for only 30%, and most of them have a box office volume of 100 million ~ 300 million yuan. And Hollywood super IPs such as "Spider-Man", "Mission Impossible", "Transformers", "Avatar" and "Aquaman" have not received the attention as scheduled, and the response has been mediocre, and none of them have hit the show.