Sohu Entertainment News (Hamai/Text) This year's summer file is obviously not as hot as last year. In June, the national box office was 2.231 billion yuan, down 46% from 4.134 billion yuan in the same period last year. In July, the national box office was 5.377 billion yuan, down 38.4% from 8.725 billion yuan in the same period last year.
June is the prelude to the summer season, and July and August are the real summer vacations. In July last year, driven by popular films such as "Disappearing Her", "In the Octagonal Cage", "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an", "Fengshen Part 1", "Warm", "Mission Impossible 7", "Tea Ah Erzhong" and other hot films, the monthly box office hit a record high.
In July this year, there was a lack of strong films in the market, and only the two films "Silent Killing" and "Catching the Doll" supported the market, with a cumulative box office of 1.263 billion yuan in 29 days of release and a cumulative box office of 2.42 billion yuan in 16 days of release of "Catching Dolls", these two films accounted for 68.5% of the market share. It was followed by three imported films "Despicable Me 4", "Deadpool and Wolverine" and "Mind Agent 2", with a box office of only 305 million yuan, 241 million yuan, and 160 million yuan respectively in July, all of which fell short of expectations.
Entering August, there are Li Yang's "Safe Evacuation from the 21st Century", Chen Sicheng's "Decryption", the animated sequel "White Snake 3", Xu Zheng's "Retrograde Life", Zhu Yilong's "Negative and Positive" and other new films, and last August there were "All or Nothing", "Fengshen Part 1", "Megalodon 2", "Dad", "Warm", etc., with a box office of 7.771 billion yuan in the whole month, and the box office in August this year will exceed that of last year, and it is not easy.