Sohu Entertainment News (Hamai/Text) On the first day of May Day, eight new films were released, and the national box office was about 414 million yuan, second only to 601 million yuan in 2019 and 457 million yuan in 2021, ranking third in the single-day box office history of Labor Day.
Huang Jingyu, Wang Yibo and others starred in the peacekeeping police-themed action film "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" got 27% of the film schedule on the first day, closing a box office of 136 million yuan, becoming the highest-grossing movie on the first day after the Spring Festival, surpassing last year's May Day highest-grossing single-day box office "Unfamiliar with Life" (132 million on the fourth day).
However, the attendance rate of "Peacekeeping Anti-riot Team" was 14.1% on the day, far less than the 25.9% of "Spending Money at the End of the Road" and the 23.1% of "The Siege of Kowloon Walled City". On the second day, pre-rehearsal dropped from 27% to 25.5%.
Jia Bing, Tan Zhuo, Xiao Shenyang, Yu Yang, and Gem starred in the comedy "Spending Money at the End of the Road" on the first day of filming, with a box office of 86.41 million yuan, ranking second. The attendance rate was 25.9%, ranking first among the eight new films. Because of the high attendance, the pre-rehearsal of the film increased to 17.9% on the second day.
Directed by Zheng Baorui and starring Louis Koo, Sammo Hung, Ren Xianqi, Lin Feng, etc., the Hong Kong-style action film "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City" rushed to open a large-scale screening before its official release, and the cumulative box office exceeded 80 million yuan in eight days. On the first day of the official release, the film schedule was 9.2%, and the box office was 50.59 million yuan, ranking fourth, and the attendance rate was 23.1%, ranking second, which was very competitive. On the second day, the pre-rehearsal was up to 10.7 percent.
The first day box office of the two Japanese animations "Spy Playing House Codename: White" and "Howl's Moving Castle" was 57.12 million yuan and 32.72 million yuan respectively, with attendance rates of 15.7% and 12.2% respectively, and the attendance rate was far worse than "The End of the Road" and "The Siege of the Kowloon Walled City", which was better than "There is no hot pot that can't be solved" and "A trip through the moon".
The suspense comedy "There is No Thing That Can't Be Solved by a Hot Pot" starring Yang Mi and Yu Qian and the romance film "Journey Through the Moon" starring Zhang Zifeng and Hu Xianxu had a box office of 18.74 million yuan and 16.66 million yuan respectively on the first day, with the lowest attendance rate and falling behind at the beginning.