China Weekend Box Office Tumbles

China’s box office plunged back to its lowest levels in six months as the twin curses that have haunted the China film industry throughout this year – COVID restrictions and a lack of new releases – came back to haunt the latest weekend.

Japanese animation is the top-rated film “Detective Conan: The Bride of Halloween” In its second frame, it dropped 71%. According to Artisan Gateway data, nationwide take-overs fell to $8.6 millions between Friday and Sunday. This is more than 60% less than the weekend before,

“Conan” For a total 12 days of $16.9million, $3.4 million was earned (RMB24.2 million). The new releases are unchallenged. “Conan” Market share was more than twice that of the second-placed film “The Tipping Point” With $1.3 million (RMB9.2 millions). “The Tipping Point” After just three weeks of release, has managed to collect $19.6 Million.

“Farewell Beijing” Earned $1.2 Million (RMB8.7 Milion) third in a 2-week total of $4.8 Million (RMB34.3 Milion). “Homecoming” In fourth place was $700,000. This brings its total to $221 millions. It was earned in a period of two months.

Fictional thrillers imported “Fall” It took 5th place, with $500,000 (RMB3.7million) its second weekend. That’s down from $1.4million in the opening session. Over the last 10 days, it now holds a total of $2.4 Million.

China’s COVID epidemic is on the rise. In every part of the country, new cases are reported. The nation’s infection levels have reached new records (39,300 Sunday), and COVID-related deaths have now been reported for the first time since many months.

These have caused China’s central and local governments to halt moves to relax restrictions that were promised by the State Council only a few weeks ago, around the time of the Communist Party of China’s once in five years National Congress.

In major cities such as Beijing, Guangzhou or Chongqing, localized restrictions were applied. And, while city-wide lockdowns like the one operated in Shanghai earlier this year, have not since been repeated, a large portion of China’s industrial and economic machinery is being held back. In these circumstances – and with the World Cup soccer another reason for folks to stay home – few people are venturing out to the cinema and distributors see fewer reasons to release new film titles.

Exhibitors’ hopes for a brisk year end were given a boost last week by the announcement that “Avatar 2” China will release the film on December 11. This will occur on the exact same day as the North American and international film premieres.

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