Following the 2024 Spring Festival, the domestic film market ushered in another important schedule - Qingming file, although it is not as popular as the Spring Festival file, it still attracts many films to be scheduled.
As the Qingming Festival holiday is coming to an end, the box office performance of major films is also clear at a glance, as of 21 o'clock, the total box office of Qingming files in 2024 will be 834 million, setting a new record for the highest box office of Qingming files in Chinese film history.
The top five box office in the Qingming schedule are: "What kind of life do you want to live", "Godzilla vs. King Kong 2", "Kung Fu Panda 4", "Grass and Trees", "Yellow Sparrow is Behind!".
Among them, Hayao Miyazaki's new work "What kind of life do you want to live" ranked first with a box office of 497 million, as Miyazaki's farewell work, "What kind of life do you want to live" continues the warmth and healing of Miyazaki's movies, but it is still a bit unexpected to beat "Godzilla vs. King Kong 2" to become the box office champion of Qingming file.
Although "Godzilla vs. King Kong 2" was not released in the Qingming file, the release time just crossed the Qingming file, and it also contributed a lot to the box office of the Qingming file, and the cumulative box office of the film has exceeded 646 million so far, becoming the Hollywood blockbuster with the best box office imported from the mainland in 2024.
As a purely commercial cool film, "Godzilla vs. King Kong 2" is just one word "cool", the film is monster smash brawl, from beginning to end, exquisite special effects and grand action scenes make the audience's blood rush, friends who like monster-themed movies must not miss it.
Attentive viewers must have discovered that among the top five movies, the first three of them are all foreign films, and there are only two domestic films, "The World of Grass and Trees" and "Yellow Sparrow is Behind!".
"The World of Grass and Trees" starring Wu Lei and Jiang Qinqin is the first anti-pyramid scheme film in China, and the topic is very high before the release, after the release of the film, the cumulative box office so far is only 55 million, and the Douban score continues to decline, and the quality of the film is average, which is an important reason for the poor performance of the box office.
The crime suspense movie "Yellow Sparrow Behind!" starring Feng Shaofeng and Tao Hong has a cumulative box office of more than 51 million, with a Douban score of 7.2, but because the early publicity is not in place, many viewers don't know much about this movie, if it can be seriously promoted, the box office may be better.
If the box office performance of "The World of Grass and Trees" and "Yellow Sparrow is Behind!" is decent, then the movies "The Big "Villain" and "Zero Limit" have completely become cannon fodder in the Qingming file.
The movie "Big "Anti" faction" is a comedy film directed and acted by Bao Bell, with a box office of only 17 million in 3 days of release, you must know that this movie brings together Bao Bell, Li Jiaqi, Wei Xiang, Jia Bing, Yin Zheng, Wang Xun, Chang Yuan and many other well-known comedians, as well as the beautiful Clara joined, and it is still very luxurious from the perspective of the lineup.
But after the film was released, it ushered in countless bad reviews, and the comment area was even swiped by one star, the remake plot and embarrassing laughter, netizens shouted like a fish in their throats, and even many viewers bluntly said that Bao Bell can give up the profession of director, which is really not suitable for you.
The box office results of the movie "Zero Limit" are even more shocking, with a cumulative box office of 429,000 in 4 days of release, and a single-day box office of less than 100 yuan.
As a sports-themed movie, "Zero Limit" aims to show the audience the unique charm of skiing, but the film was originally scheduled to be released in 2021, just to take advantage of the popularity of the Winter Olympics, but I don't know why, it was suppressed for 3 years before meeting the audience.
All in all, the record high box office of the Qingming file is indeed gratifying, but the collective weakness of domestic films, it seems that the rise of domestic films has a long way to go!