In 2016, the movie box office broke 44.1 billion, exceeding the growth rate of last year or less than 3%.

1905 movie network news As of December 23rd, 2016, the box office of mainland movies exceeded 44.1 billion yuan, and it took 358 days to surpass the total box office of 44.069 billion yuan last year, which is far from the rate of exceeding the box office of 2014 in just over nine months in 2015. This year’s box office growth rate will be lower than 25% for the first time in 13 years. According to the current overall box office trend, the box office growth rate in 2016 is likely to be less than 3%, which is also the slowest year of box office growth in China in the past 17 years.

However, looking back on the film market in 2016, there are still many things worthy of recognition: the box office performance of Xingye reached 3.389 billion yuan, which became the first film in China to break through the 3 billion yuan mark and also set a new record in China film history. This year, single-day, single-week and single-month box office also created the best results in history. In addition, it is worth mentioning that among the films released this year, as many as 84 films have exceeded 100 million yuan at the box office.

Single-chip, single-week, single-month, record-breaking. In February, 6.8 billion box office ranked first in the whole year.

In recent years, China’s film industry has developed rapidly, and the box office has grown from less than 1 billion in 2002 to more than 44 billion today. In just 14 years, the box office has increased 45 times, ranking second in the global film market. In 2010, the growth rate of box office in mainland China reached 64%, and the growth rate of box office in 2009 and 2015 also remained above 40%.

In 2016, after the record-breaking rapid development in the first quarter, the growth rate of box office in China suddenly slowed down, and the box office output declined month by month, which once caused the "panic" of filmmakers. But fortunately, the popular schedule still performed well, especially the summer file saved a lot of decline. In addition, the single-chip "turning the tide" brought the eleventh file and the New Year file. Finally, when there were eight days left in 2016, the box office successfully broke through the 44.1 billion yuan mark, which made it difficult to surpass the total box office in 2015. Although the industry predicted that the annual box office of 60 billion yuan could not be realized at the beginning of the year, this year has also become the first year in 14 years that the growth rate of box office in mainland China has dropped to single digits, but looking back at the whole year, there are still frequent highlights.

Top three movie box office rankings in 2016

This year’s single-film, single-day, single-week and single-month box office have all set new records in film history, which makes people clap their hands. Among them, The Mermaid, directed by Stephen Chow, earned 280 million yuan on the opening day, and reached 310 million yuan on Valentine’s Day on February 14, and surpassed 2.439 billion yuan in 12 days, making it the top box office champion in the mainland film history. "Mermaid" therefore announced a three-month extension, and finally ended with 3.389 billion yuan, becoming the first film in China to rank among the 3 billion clubs.

With The Mermaid and the escort of the Troika released on the same day at the beginning of this year, the February box office with only 29 days was brought to a high of 688,500 yuan, exceeding the highest monthly box office of 5.5 billion yuan set in July last year, successfully refreshing the single-month box office record in China and becoming the first month in the history of mainland film to break 6 billion yuan. February this year is a record year, and from February 8 to February 14,Create a new single-week box office record with a box office output of 3.63 billion yuan.The original box office of 1.78 billion yuan (from July 13 to 19, 2015) doubled. The box office reached a new high that day, with 646 million, 603 million and 526 million box offices on February 8, February 14 and February 9, respectively, ranking among the top three in the single-day box office of the mainland film history.

Five domestic films have grossed more than 1 billion. Who will break the 3.3 billion myth of The Mermaid?

In 2016, the movie "The Mermaid" and "He" won the first, second and third place at the box office in mainland China this year with 3.38 billion yuan, 1.53 billion yuan and 1.47 billion yuan respectively. Mermaid, Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon on a Journey to the West, operation mekong, storm riders of Macau and five domestic films are among the 1 billion yuan clubs, leading the box office charts of Chinese films this year.

Up to now, a total of 84 Chinese and foreign films released in the mainland have exceeded 100 million at the box office this year, of which 41 Chinese films have exceeded 100 million. However, it just premiered on December 23, and no matter what the word of mouth is, I believe there is no suspense in the box office of the two films exceeding 100 million.

This year, The Mermaid’s box office achievement of 3.3 billion yuan has reached the dust. No matter Xiaogang Feng’s I Can’t Pan Jinlian, or the big IP Tomb Notes, or World of Warcraft and other Hollywood blockbusters, it has failed to shake Stephen Chow’s position. As of 15: 00 on December 23rd, Zhang Yimou’s highly anticipated new work "The Great Wall" had less than 700 million box office, and it was hopeless to surpass The Mermaid.

Then, who will break this record, can only wait until next year, especially on the first day of 2017, nine films will be released together, directed by Tsui Hark, directed by Wang Baoqiang and starring Jackie Chan, and many Hollywood sequel to the movie, etc., will all launch a powerful impact on the single-chip box office record of 3.3 billion.