The forefront | Douban released the 2020 annual film list, and "Sunshine" topped the highest-rated Chinese film

The Chinese film industry in 2020 is extraordinary.

Since the end of January, theaters across the country have been closed. The film was withdrawn, the offline publicity was suspended, the film crew stopped filming... The National Film Administration revealed at the film system response work conference in April that the direct economic losses caused by the epidemic to the film industry in the short term are huge, and it is currently estimated that the annual box office loss will exceed 30 billion yuan.

According to the 2020 film list released by Douban on December 18, during the epidemic, 3,200 domestic film and television companies were cancelled, the number of movies released throughout the year fell by 40% year-on-year, and only 299 domestic cinema films were released, and the number of moviegoers in the whole year fell by 70% year-on-year.

Behind a series of pessimistic data, there are also some new trends in the film industry. In January, Joy Media's comedy film 囧Mom chose to partner with ByteDance to change the movie to an online free premiere. Later, there are Also Hong Kong action comedies such as "Fat Dragon Crossing the River", comedy "Big Winner", and drama "Spring Tide" have been transferred to the network. Some experts said that although the new crown epidemic has brought a heavy blow to the film industry, it has also brought new models such as online broadcasting, cloud dissemination, "Internet + movies, tv series" and so on.

Actor and director Chen Sicheng said in the list, "One of the problems that these filmmakers need to solve urgently is how to bid farewell to the profit model of the traditional and single film industry before." ”

Director Wen Muye said that the epidemic has given filmmakers the opportunity to reflect on the "state of overheated development" in previous years and review the problems of content creation.

Judging from the content released by the Douban annual list, "Sunshine" topped the highest-rated Chinese films, followed by "Balloon", "One Second", "Uncle Uncle", "Jindu", "Eight Hundred", "Tropical Rain", "My Hometown and Me", "Win the Championship", and "Half a Comedy".

The popular search films and television of the year are "Want to See You", "Celebrating The Year Season 1", "Manslaughter", "Detective Chinatown 3", and "Little Women".

The list shows that the new crown epidemic has accelerated the transformation of consumers' viewing behavior from traditional models to digital models, and streaming media has also ushered in an unexpected outbreak, becoming the main force of the original content boom, and streaming media self-made dramas occupy a large proportion of high-scoring episodes. Among the highest-rated Chinese dramas, "Want to See You" ranked first, followed by iQIYI Mist Theater's self-made suspense dramas "The Silent Truth" and "The Hidden Corner", Hong Kong drama "Bridge of Sighs", and anti-epidemic drama "Together".

In terms of classification, the highest-rated comedies are "Jojo's Whimsical World", "Gentlemen", "Good Dream Day Trip", "Silent Film Narrator", and "Half a Comedy". The highest-rated romance films were "Little Women", "The Gap of Hope", "Theater", "Wendini", and "From Miyamoto to You".

Watching movies at home has become the choice of many people. The most watched films during the epidemic are "囧Mom", "The Shawshank Redemption", "Nezha's Demon Boy Descending", "Young You", and "Parasite".

The most watched dramas during the epidemic are "The Hidden Corner", "The First Season of Qingyu Nian", "Want to See You", "Three Lives THREE Pillow Book", and "I Am Yu Huanshui".

Among foreign language films, "1917" is the highest rated foreign language film, followed by "Speed King", "Jojo's Whimsical World", "Blackwater", "Gentlemen"; the highest-rated Anglo-American new dramas are "Rear Wing Abandoned Soldier", "All Creatures Season 1", "Normal People", "Lady Of America", "Stage Drama Season 1"; the highest rated Japanese films are "Staying in Kyoto", "Theater", "Silent Film Narrator", "Tomorrow's Family", "Archimedes Wars".

For the film and television industry in the post-epidemic period, director Lu Qingyi said that after this year, he believes that more film and television industry practitioners will focus on people's livelihood and realistic themes.

The upcoming Spring Festival in 2021 will be a key moment to fully pull the film market. With films with diverse themes such as "Detective Chinatown 3", "Assassination of a Novelist", "New God List: Nezha Reborn", "Samurai Order", "Hello, Li Huanying", "Surging Crowds" and other films with diverse themes, a large number of fans will return to the theater, and the Spring Festival file in 2021 is worth looking forward to.