With the release of Stephen Chow's "Journey to the West" on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2013, it officially opened our Spring Festival box office era!
The concept of Chinese New Year movies to match the atmosphere of the New Year actually comes from Hong Kong, after experiencing the era of Fung style Chinese New Year films, after ten years of development, the Spring Festival has become the most competitive schedule of the year!
In 2013, directed by Stephen Chow and starring Huang Bo and **, "Journey to the West" ended with 12The box office result of 4.6 billion became the box office champion of the 2013 Spring Festival, and also won the 2013 annual box office champion in one fell swoop!
"Journey to the West" has set a number of records, and the most memorable is the monthly box office of 1.2 billion, breaking the record of 1.1 billion in a single month of "Avatar".
With the success of "Journey to the West", it has caused a trend of follow-up filming of Journey to the West movies, and in the next two years, 5 Journey to the West movies have started filming one after another!
In 2014, Hong Kong director Zheng Baorui directed, Donnie Yen, Chow Yun-fat, Aaron Kwok starred in "Journey to the West: Havoc in the Heavenly Palace" with 10The box office result of 4.4 billion became the box office champion of the 2014 Spring Festival!
The production of this movie, from photography to costumes and sets to post-production visual effects, all used Hollywood's first-class team, and "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven" also achieved a whopping 1. on the first day of its release on the first day of the Lunar New YearThe box office of 2.5 billion directly refreshed the box office records of the first day and the single day of the movie, but the plot of the movie was too Westernized and was criticized by many audiences that year.
However, it is worth mentioning that the movies in the same schedule are the big movie "Where Are You Going, Dad" and Wang Jing's "Macau Fengyun", everyone is half a pound and eight taels.
In 2015, directed by Wang Jing and starring Chow Yun-fat, Cheung Ka-fai, and Carina Lau, "Macau 2" ended with 9The box office result of 7.2 billion became the box office champion of the 2015 Spring Festival!
As a sequel to the 14-year-old Spring Festival movie "Macau Vice", it has a certain audience base, and won Jackie Chan's "Lion from the Sky" and "Wolf Totem" at the box office.
In 2016, "The Mermaid" directed by Stephen Chow and starring Deng Chao and Zhang Yuqi ended with 33The box office result of 8.6 billion became the box office champion of the 2016 Spring Festival!
"Mermaid" refreshed the highest box office of the movie, and it was also the box office champion of the year in 2016!
In fact, the competition for the Spring Festival stalls in 2016 is very fierce, in addition to this "Mermaid", there is also the sequel to the 14-year Spring Festival box office champion "Journey to the West: Havoc in Heaven", "Journey to the West: Monkey King Fights the White Bone Spirit Three Times", and the sequel "Macau Fengyun 3" of the 15-year Spring Festival box office champion "Macau Fengyun 2".
In the end, the victory of "Mermaid" is inseparable from Stephen Chow himself, the sentence "I owe Xing Ye a movie ticket", so everyone went into the cinema to support Xing Ye.
In 2017, "Kung Fu Yoga" directed by Tang Jili and starring Jackie Chan ended with 17The box office result of 4.8 billion became the box office champion of the 2017 Spring Festival!
The sequel to the 13-year Spring Festival box office champion "Journey to the West", produced by Stephen Chow and directed by Tsui Hark, finally ended with 16The box office result of 5.2 billion was defeated.
The box office in the same period was followed by Han Han's second film "Riding the Wind and Waves", and Wang Baoqiang's first film "Havoc in Tianzhu".
It is worth mentioning that although Wang Baoqiang's "Havoc in Tianzhu" ended with 7The box office result of 5.6 billion far exceeded expectations, but the word of mouth collapsed, and Wang Baoqiang liked to mention the Golden Broom Award for the worst Chinese film that year.
Wang Baoqiang dressed up to accept the award and apologized to the audience, and after 6 years of lying on salary, he finally got everyone's recognition in 2023 with a "In the Octagon Cage"!
In 2018, "Operation Red Sea" directed by Lin Chaoxian and starring Zhang Yi and Huang Jingyu ended with 36The box office result of 500 million became the box office champion of the 2018 Spring Festival!
Chen Sicheng's "Detective Chinatown 2" ended with 33The box office of 9.7 billion ranks second, and "Monster Hunt 2" 223.7 billion ranked third.
The Spring Festival stalls of that year were very interesting.
In fact, at the beginning of its release, the box office of "Operation Red Sea" was not as good as Tang Detective 2 and Monster Hunt 2, and it was not until the end of the Spring Festival holiday that "Operation Red Sea" began to counterattack strongly, and finally became the box office champion in 2018, second only to Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2" to become the runner-up in the box office in total film history.
In 2019, "The Wandering Earth" directed by Guo Fan, produced by Liu Cixin, and starring Wu Jing won 46The box office result of 8.1 billion became the box office champion of the 2019 Spring Festival!
The competition in the 2019 Spring Festival file is also fierce, Ning Hao's latest work in the crazy series "Crazy Alien", and Han Han's masterpiece "Flying Life" are the two most promising movies in this Spring Festival file at the beginning.
And on the first day of the Spring Festival on the first day of the Lunar New Year, the schedule of "The Wandering Earth" was only 114%, but with the fermentation of word-of-mouth, "The Wandering Earth" finally completed the counterattack and topped the daily crown on the third day of release! At the end of the Spring Festival holiday, the total box office of the movie exceeded 2 billion, and the final annual box office was 468.1 billion, second only to 56 of Wu Jing's "Wolf Warrior 2", the box office list in total film history9.4 billion.
However, the box office champion of the year in 2019 is not Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth", the summer dumpling "Nezha's Demon Boy Descends" was born with 503.5 billion won the championship.
In 2021, Jia Ling directed and starred in "Hello, Li Huanying" with 54The box office result of 1.3 billion has become the box office champion of the 2021 Spring Festival!
The history is strikingly similar, and the most promising movie in the Spring Festival in 2021 is undoubtedly "Detective Chinatown 3", which has been postponed for a whole year and whetted the audience's appetite.
However, with the reversal of the movie's word-of-mouth, "Hello, Li Huanying" sprung up and successfully surpassed Tang Detective 3.
Jia Ling also became the highest-grossing female director in the world with this film, and this record was maintained until the appearance of "Barbie".
The wave of interaction between Li Huanying and the wandering earth later became a good story.
Half a month after its release, the box office of "Hello, Li Huanying" surpassed "The Wandering Earth", director Guo Fan**Official blog: Welcome to the new box office record of the Spring Festival, the little wrecking ball will help you cheer! Jia Ling responded: Thank you Director Guo, cheer for Chinese movies together!
In 2022, directed by Tsui Hark and starring Wu Jing and Yi Yang Qianxi, "Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake" will end with 40The box office result of 6.7 billion has become the box office champion of the 2022 Spring Festival!
"Changjin Lake: Shuimen Bridge" is a sequel to 2021's "Changjin Lake", based on the Battle of Changjin Lake during the Korean War.
This Spring Festival happy twist comedy movie "This Killer is Not Calm" ended with 26The box office of 2.7 billion ranked second.
The box office of "Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake" is far ahead, which shows that after years of development of the Spring Festival file, Spring Festival movies are no longer limited to funny and festive, and movies of any theme can achieve extraordinary results as long as the audience buys it.
And it is worth mentioning that when it comes to film industrialization, many people will think of the Wandering Earth series and the Fengshen trilogy, but take a closer look at the production cycle of "Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake".
At the beginning of 2021, "Changjin Lake" and this "Shuimen Bridge of Changjin Lake" were filmed back-to-back, eleven "Changjin Lake" was released in 21, and the sequel to the Spring Festival file in early 22 was released!
These are two war-themed movies, with a large number of personnel scheduling for war scenes, coupled with post-production, this is a perfect demonstration of real film industrialization!
In 2023, "Man Jianghong" directed by Zhang Yimou and starring Shen Teng and Yi Yang Qianxi will end with 45The box office result of 4.4 billion has become the box office champion of the 2023 Spring Festival!
Everyone must remember the scene of the collective recitation of poems in the movie theater of "Thirty Thousand Miles of Chang'an" in the summer of 23, and the movie that created a precedent for reciting ancient poems in theaters is this "Man Jianghong"!
The 23-year Spring Festival file and "Man Jianghong" competed on the same stage is Guo Fan's "The Wandering Earth 2", there are not many precedents for the sequel to be better than the previous work, "The Wandering Earth 2" is one of them, but unfortunately in the end, "The Wandering Earth 2" ended with 40The box office of 2.9 billion was lost.
The 2024 Spring Festival stalls are still ongoing.
Now Jia Ling's "Hot and Hot", Han Han's "Flying Life 2" and Zhang Yimou's "Article 20" are competing for each other.
Two weeks after its release, "Hot and Hot" has exceeded 3 billion and ranked first, followed by "Flying Life 2", although "Article 20" began to lead the single-day box office, but it was a little far from the first and second box office.
The box office champion of the Spring Festival stalls in 2024 is likely to be Jia Ling's "Hot and Hot"!