Jimu News Chief Reporter Rong Yu
Photographer: Jimu News reporter Xiao Hao
The 7-day National Day file is another important schedule for the Chinese film market since the summer file. In order to welcome the 2024 National Day file, 10 new films with rich genres and diverse styles will be "put on the shelves" during the National Day holiday, and work together to pull the audience back to the cinema.
As of 10 p.m. on October 7, the total box office of the 2024 National Day stalls exceeded 2.1 billion, with a total of 51.98 million moviegoers, and a total of 5 films broke 100 million at the box office during the period, and the movies "Volunteers: Survival Battle", "Road to Fire" and "749 Bureau" were among the top three box office in the schedule. In terms of city box office, Wuhan ranked 8th in the national box office list with a box office score of more than 43.2 million.
"Volunteers: The War for Survival" Extreme Eye Movie Appointment Viewing Party
"Existential Battle" impressed a national audience
Judging from the supply of new films, the "appearance" of this year's National Day file is very good, and it is the largest number of new films in the "head" and "middle waist" of the National Day file in recent years, and the new films during the schedule also cover war, science fiction, action, comedy, dance, crime, animation and other genres and themes.
"Volunteers: The War for Survival" Extreme Eye Movie Appointment Viewing Party
Among them, the second part of the "Volunteers" trilogy directed by Chen Kaige, "Volunteers: The Battle for Survival", Lu Chuan's new sci-fi film "749 Bureau", Zhao Liying, Xiao Yang, Liu Ye co-starred in the crime drama "The Road to Fire", Andy Lau's disaster action film "Crisis Route", adapted from the popular dance poetry drama of the same name "Only This Green" and other works, all of which performed eye-catching on major film data platforms before the release, and seized the opportunity in the pre-sale stage, bringing "hot" the National Day file.
Chen Jin, a data analyst at Lighthouse Professional Edition, said in an interview with Jimu News that from the current data statistics, "Volunteers: Battle for Survival" is the biggest contributor to the box office of this year's National Day file, which has contributed nearly 4% of the box office to the market by itself, and at the same time has exceeded 100 million yuan in a single day for 6 consecutive days, which is the biggest cornerstone of this year's National Day file market.
Up to now, the total box office of "Volunteers: Survival Battle" has reached 850 million, in addition to being the box office champion of this year's National Day file, it also temporarily ranks 9th in the 2024 movie box office list. According to the latest prediction of big data, the total box office of the film is expected to sprint to 1.4 billion.
Why does "Volunteers: Battle for Survival" lead the National Day file strongly? On October 4th, Jimu Film held a viewing party of "Volunteers: The Battle of Survival", almost all the audience shed tears for the group portrait of the volunteers in the movie, and a junior high school student audience told the Jimu News reporter that she had mixed feelings after watching the movie, "I deeply realize that our happy life today is the life and blood of countless martyrs, and we must cherish it." Similar feelings after watching can be seen everywhere in the message areas of the major social platforms of "Volunteers: The Battle for Survival".
Director Chen Kaige once said, "What is the one thing I am most afraid of? What I fear most is that these people will be forgotten. This is the biggest motivation for me to shoot the "Volunteer Army" trilogy. During the 7-day National Day holiday, more than 20 million viewers across the country walked into the cinema to pay tribute to the "loveliest people" through "Volunteers: The Battle for Survival", and the audience's preference for "The Volunteers: The War for Survival" seemed to be answering: "The motherland will not forget, history will not forget, and the people will not forget." ”
"The Road to Fire" overtook at the last moment
"Volunteers: The Battle for Survival" led the whole National Day file, making it the best choice for the box office champion of the schedule. However, who the honor of the box office runner-up belongs to will not be known until the evening of October 7.
In the first half of this year's National Day file, the sci-fi movie "749 Bureau" had a strong momentum, ranking second in the box office list of the National Day file for many consecutive days. However, due to the film's poor reputation and continuous scolding from netizens, "749 Bureau" was weak in the second half of the National Day file, and the film schedule was slowly overtaken by films such as "The Road to Fire" with the theme of "abduction" and "Panda Project" starring Jackie Chan.
At about 8 o'clock in the evening on October 7, the total box office of "Road to Fire" finally surpassed "749 Bureaus", officially replacing the latter as the runner-up at the box office of the 2024 National Day file.
In addition to the top three box office in the schedule, the action comedy "Panda Project" starring Jackie Chan achieved a continuous reversal at the box office on the National Day, verifying the attractiveness of family movies to family audiences; The "hardcore" action movie "Crisis Route" starring Andy Lau also made a small gain, and currently ranks 5th at the box office of the National Day file.
In addition, "Only This Green", adapted from the popular dance drama of the same name, is the highest-rated movie on the Internet for this year's National Day file, and it was also rated as the "most beautiful movie" in the schedule. Zheng Li, manager of Wuhan Paragon Cinemas, said that "Only This Green" does not belong to the "box office" type of players, it is more suitable for long-term screening, and slowly attracts art film lovers, fans of the original dance drama and family moviegoers to support.
It is worth mentioning that the extremely popular "withdrawal" style in the film market in the past two years has not let go of the 2024 National Day file. "Life Events" director Liu Jiangjiang's new work "In and Out of Peace" and the domestic animated film "Pipiru and Lu Xixi's 309 Dark Room" were both announced to be withdrawn during the National Day file and will be screened again at a later date.
2024 National Day box office list (as of 10 p.m. on October 7):
1, "Volunteers: The Battle for Survival"
2, "The Road to Fire"
3, "749 Bureau"
4, "Panda Project"
5, "Crisis Route"
6, "Transformers: Origins"
7, "Only This Green"
8, "New Big Head Son and Little Head Dad 6"
9, "Hot Good Guy"
10, "In and Out of Peace"
(Image source: The film's official public information)
(Source: Jimu News)
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