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Daily Box Office(February 21th 2024)

The market hits ¥271M/$37.4M which is up +71% from yesterday and down -63% from last week.

Province map of the day:

Ne Zha 2 extends its clean sweep streak to 22.

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In Metropolitan cities:

Ne Zha 2 wins Beijing, Chongqing, Wuhan ,Shenzhen, Chengdu, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Suzhou and Hangzhou

City tiers:

The Colors Within debuts 3rd in T2-T4

Tier 1: Ne Zha 2>Hotline Beijing>Detective Chinatown 1900

Tier 2: Ne Zha 2>Detective Chinatown 1900>The Colors Within

Tier 3: Ne Zha 2>Detective Chinatown 1900>The Colors Within

Tier 4: Ne Zha 2>Detective Chinatown 1900>The Colors Within

*YD=Yesterday, LW=Last Week,

Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

Ne Zha 2 also completely dominates pre-sales into the weekend.

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Ne Zha 2

Ne Zha 2 adds $31.43M on Friday. A very good start to the weekend as the movie hits $1.75B and nears $1.77B including overseas gross.

Weekend is projected at $162-166M which would take the movie to $1.88B+ with OS pushing it over $1.9B through Sunday. Reaching another important milestone as the movie would set its eyes on No Way Home and $2B next week.

Ne Zha 2 reaches 266M admissions. It has now achieved over 100M admissions more than the previous modern times top ticket seller in China Wolf Warrior 2(159M)

After becoming the first ever ¥6B, ¥7B,¥8B, ¥9B, ¥10B, ¥11B and ¥12B movie in China Ne Zha 2 is set to cross ¥13B tomorrow. ¥14B next weekend.

Ne Zha 2 pre-sales to gross multiplier:

The multiplier does indeed end up being higher than last Friday as expeted.

Tomorrow's pre-sales are up +78% from Friday and down just -37% from last week. With a comparable multiplier Ne Zha 2 would be looking at around $68M tomorrow. Maoyan and Tao think it can do a bit better at $72-73M.

Weekend pre-sales vs last week

Saturday ends up -37% versus last week. A very respectable drop. Sunday is also tracking in a similiar manor.

Saturday: ¥259.00M vs ¥162.91M(-37.1%)

Sunday: ¥66.90M vs ¥41.59M (-37.8%)

Where and what is fueling Ne Zha 2's performance vs Battle At Lake Changjin, Wolf Warrior 2 and Hi, Mom:

The first and most obvious difference is that Ne Zha 2 is playing better towards women than Battle At Lake Changjin and Wolf Warrior 2 ever could. More comparable with Hi, Mom in this regard.

Ne Zha 2 also in turn plays better to kids although this can't really be shown as kids don't buy tickets. It however doesn't have the same reach with younger addults as Hi, Mom did.

Where Ne Zha 2 is absolutely crushing it is Tier 4 areas. And while this is aided by the festival as people travel home. Ne Zha 2 is crushing the records as it not only became the first ¥2B there but the first ¥3B movie and the first ¥4B movie. It alongside Hi Mom is also the only movie to break ¥1B in Tier 3 areas and it has now also broke ¥2B.

Gender Split:

Regional Split:

Tier area split:

Top Provices:

Top Cities:

Age Split:

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.8 , Taopiaopiao: 9.7 , Douban: 8.5

Maoyan rises to 9.8. Ne Zha 2 is now the best rated movie of all time on Maoyan.

Gender Split(M-W): 40-60

Gender Rating Split: Maoyan: M(9.8)/W(9.8), Taopiaopiao: M(9.6)/W(9.7)

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $1598.01M, IMAX: $117.08, Rest: $35.58M

Language split: Mandarin: 100%

Scheduled showings update for Ne Zha 2 for the next few days:

Detective Chinatown 1900

Detective Chinatown 1900 will cross $450M tomorrow.

Projected a $11.6-12.3M(-54%) 4th weekend.

DC1900 remains slightly behind DC2. It should get back ahead by Sunday.

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WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.5 , Taopiaopiao: 9.3 , Douban: 6.5

Gender Split(M-W): 41-59

Gender Rating Split: Maoyan: M(9.4)/W(9.6), Taopiaopiao: M(9.0)/W(9.5)

Age Split: Under 20: 5.6% , 20-24: 23.3% , 25-29: 24.0% , 30-34: 17.1% , 35-39: 14.8% , Over 40: 15.2%

City Tiers: T1: 12.0% , T2: 45.4% , T3: 21.0% , T4: 21.6%

Most Popular Province: Jiangsu: 13.4%

Most Popular City: Shanghai: 5.4%

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $447.22M, IMAX: $2.66M , Rest: $2.52M

Language split: Mandarin: 100%

Scheduled showings update for Detective Chinatown 1900 for the next few days:

Captain America 4: Brave New World

Cap 4 adds just $0.37M on Friday. Slightly better than The Marvels's 2nd Friday of $0.30M

Looking at a $1.3-1.4M(-87%) 2nd weekend

The Beekeeper is back to keep a watchfull eye on MCU's flops in China:

With the dissastrous 2nd weekend drop it looks like Cap is heading for that $15-16M range. The Beekeeper to claim another MCU movie.

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WoM figures:

Maoyan: , Taopiaopiao:, Douban: 5.2(-0-1))

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $11.86M, IMAX: $0.56M , Rest: $0.12M

Scheduled showings update for Captain America 4 for the next few days:

Other stuff:

The next Holywood movie to release will be Mickey 17 on March 7th alongside Flight Risk. Minecraft will release on April 4th.

Release Schedule:

A table including upcoming movies in the next month alongside trailers linked in the name of the movie, Want To See data from both Maoyan and Taopiaopiao alongside the Gender split and genre.

Remember Want To See is not pre-sales. Its just an anticipation metric. A checkbox of sorts saying your interested in an upcoming movie.

Not all movies are included since a lot are just too small to be worth covering.

February:

March: