Daily Box Office (February 3rd 2026)

The market hits ¥26.8M/$3.86M which is down -3% from yesterday and down -6% from last week.

Looks like the Spring Festival pre-sales will not start on Friday but instead of Monday the 9th at 10AM local time.

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Province map of the day:

https://imgsli.com/NDQ3MzY5

Zootopia 2 continues to mostly dominate. Avatar 3 wins Beijing.

In Metropolitan cities:

Busted Water Pipes wins Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing and Suzhou

Zootopia 2 wins Chengdu, Guangzhou, Suzhou

Avatar 3 wins Beijing and Chongqing

Mercy wins Shanghai and Shenzhen

City tiers:

Zootopia 2 climbs to 2nd in T1. Avatar 3 back in to the top 3 in T1 and T2.

Tier 1: The Shining>Zootopia 2>Avatar 3: Fire & Ash

Tier 2: Zootopia 2>Busted Water Pipes>Avatar 3: Fire & Ash

Tier 3: Zootopia 2>Busted Water Pipes>The Fire Raven

Tier 4: Zootopia 2>The Fire Raven>Busted Water Pipes

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#	Movie	Gross	%YD	%LW	Screenings	Admisions(Today)	Total Gross	Projected Total Gross
1	Zootopia 2	$0.77M	+1%	+42%	59494	0.14M	$632.83M	$642M-$648M
2	Busted Water Pipes	$0.51M	-0%	-20%	49779	0.10M	$10.75M	$17M-$18M
3	The Fire Raven	$0.45M	-0%	-18%	38804	0.09M	$63.48M	$68M-$70M
4	Avatar 3: Fire & Ash	$0.40M	+6%	+12%	21005	0.06M	$164.40M	$169M-$171M
5	Return to Silent Hill	$0.38M	-1%	-46%	45507	0.07M	$15.31M	$18M-$21M
6	The Shining	$0.30M	-12%		16972	0.05M	$3.19M	$6M-$7M
7	Mercy	$0.18M	-3%	-59%	16921	0.03M	$6.26M	$8M-$9M
8	Take Off	$0.18M	+3%	-36%	16828	0.04M	$9.07M	$10M-$12M
9	Shelter	$0.18M	-15%		31288	0.03M	$2.23M	$4M-$5M
10	Fight Against Evil 3	$0.13M	-3%		20085	0.03M	$1.56M	$2M-$3M

New releases marked in bold

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Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

https://i.imgur.com/DozQbjz.png

Zootopia 2 mostly dominates pre-sales for Wednesday.

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IMAX Screenings distribution

The Shining is the widest IMAX release today and will remain so tomorrow.

	Movie	IMAX Screeninsgs Today	IMAX Screeninsgs Tomorrow	Change
1	The Shining	1300	1292	-8
2	Avatar 3: Fire & Ash	1055	1056	+1
3	Mercy	277	268	-9
4	Zootopia	42	49	-2

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Return To Silent Hill

Return To Silent Hill crosses $15M as it continues its surprisingly strong run with another $0.38M today.

Very very early 3rd weekend projections at $1.4-1.9M(-24%) which i don't think i really have to say would be a crazy good drop for something so bad in its 3rd weekend. Even the low end of that would be great.

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $15.31M

WoM figures: Maoyan: , Taopiaopiao: , Douban: 4.5

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
First Week	$3.98M	$3.60M	$1.87M	$0.82M	$0.71M	$0.70M	$0.67M	$12.35M
Second Week	$0.64M	$0.87M	$0.68M	$0.39M	$0.38M			$15.31M
%± LW	-84%	-76%	-64%	-52%	-46%	/	/	/

Scheduled showings update for Return To Silent Hill for the next few days:

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	45474	$36k	$0.34M-$0.36M
Wednesday	45112	$50k	$0.38M-$0.42M
Thursday	31402	$9k	$0.37M-$0.40M

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Avatar 3: Fire & Ash

Avatar 3 continued its rise climbing to 4th today with $0.40M. 6% up from yesterday and 12% up from last week.

With that Avatar 3 has now surpased ¥1.15B overtaking Transformers: Bumblebee(¥1.149B) and climbing to 29th of all time on the Holywood list. Next up Kong: Skull Island at ¥1.158B.

Admissions wise it has also cleared 23.8M tickets sold. This means that its reached the treshold where the admissions sold drop from Avatar 2 will be less than 30%

Very very early weekend projections at $1.9-2.4M

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $112.92M , IMAX: $39.75M , Rest: $11.68M

WoM figures: Maoyan: 9.3, Taopiaopiao: 9.5 , Douban: 7.6

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
Sixth Week	$0.54M	$1.12M	$0.96M	$0.33M	$0.36M	$0.40M	$0.41M	$161.48M
Seventh Week	$0.45M	$0.90M	$0.79M	$0.38M	$0.40M			$164.40M
%± LW	-16%	-20%	-18%	+15%	+12%	/	/	/

Scheduled showings update for Avatar 3 for the next few days:

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	21011	$61k	$0.37M-$0.41M
Wednesday	21352	$76k	$0.42M-$0.46M
Thursday	15522	$11k	$0.41M-$0.45M

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Zootopia 2

Zootopia 2 grossed another strong ¥5.35M/$0.77M today. Up a tiny bit from yesterday and up +42% from last week.

Very early 11th weekend projections have it doing $4.7-4.8M(+13%)

Here's its $ gross chart vs Endgame:

Zootopia 2 hits $632.83M meaning it has now surpassed Endgames $632.1M $ gross in China. Even though this is technicaly the least relevant metric its still nice to wrap it up. Zootopia 2 is now the most successfull Holywood movie of all time in all metrics be it Local Curency gross, $ gross and admissions.

https://i.imgur.com/zkQMwlT.png

Zootopia 2 vs Detective Chinatown 3 and Full River Red

With that out of the way attentions shift back to local movies as Zootopia 2 is still in with a shot of surpassing Detective Chinatown 3 and Full River Red for 8th and 7th on the all time highest grossing list in China.

It needs another ¥58M/$8.4M to surpass DC3 and another ¥79M/$11.4M to surpass Full River Red. Both very much so achieavable.

https://i.imgur.com/oXMdzlW.png

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $581.00M , IMAX: $33.00M , Rest: $11.50M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.7 , Taopiaopiao: 9.7 , Douban: 8.4

#	WED	THU	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	Total
Ninth Week	$0.53M	$0.55M	$0.67M	$1.67M	$1.42M	$0.48M	$0.54M	$625.74M
Tenth Week	$0.66M	$0.71M	$0.90M	$1.76M	$1.53M	$0.76M	$0.77M	$632.83M
%± LW	+23%	+28%	+34%	+6%	+8%	+59%	+42%	/

Scheduled showings update for Zootopia 2 for the next few days:

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	59095	$88k	$0.74M-$0.77M
Wednesday	60281	$97k	$0.75M-$0.78M
Thursday	41770	$14k	$0.74M-$0.77M

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Other stuff:

The next Holywood release is La La Land re-release on Valentines Day. Followed by The Bride, Wuthering Heights and GOAT in March.

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Release Schedule:

A table including upcoming movies in the next month alongside trailers linked in the name of the movie, Want To See data from both Maoyan and Taopiaopiao alongside the Gender split and genre.

Remember Want To See is not pre-sales. Its just an anticipation metric. A checkbox of sorts saying your interested in an upcoming movie.

Not all movies are included since a lot are just too small to be worth covering.

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Early February

Movie	Maoyan WTS	Daily Increase	Taopiaopiao WTS	Daily Increase	M/W %	Genre	Release Date	3rd party media projections
La La Land Re-release	161k	+2k	148k	+1k	30/70	Musical	14.02

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Spring Festival 2026 Lineup:

With 20 days to go the Spring Festival lineup is now complete barring any suprise late addition.

6 movies will enter the ring this year.

Pegasus 3 will be heading into the Spring Festival as the headline movie and the big favorite. The sequel to Pegasus 2 which made $400M+ in the Spring Festival 2 years ago with returning director Han Han and returning lead Shen Teng will look to repeat if not improve on the success of the 2nd part.

Director Zhang Yimou returns to the Holiday season after his successful Article 20($340M) in 2024 and Full River Red($670M+) in 2023 with Silent Awakening. A National Security-Themed movie. While unlikely to challenge for the victory this movie has a decent shot at taking 2nd place.

The Boonie Bears franchise as has been the case for the last 12 years returns to the Spring Festival with Boonie Bears: The Hidden Protector. The new entry in the $1B+ franchise will look to improve on last years $118M and push the franchise back closer if not over the $200M mark it surpassed in 2024 and 2023.

Blades of the Guardians starring Wu Jing and Jet Li meanwhile will try to revive the popularity of the martial arts genre and aim to improve upon the result and especialy reception of last years Condor Heroes which failed to break $100M. This and Boonie Bears will in all likelyhood fight for 3rd place.

Per Aspera Ad Astra as the only Sci-Fi blockbuster will try to make itself stand out with cool visuals and a unique theme. However its very likely this ends up being the cannon fodder of the lineup.

And lastly Panda Plan 2 or as its officialy called Panda Plan: The Magical Tribe. I don't see this doing partiuraly well either but it could tempt in some families.

Movie	Maoyan WTS	Daily Increase	Taopiaopiao WTS	Daily Increase	M/W %	Genre	Release Date	3rd party media projections
Pegasus 3	697k	+23k	509k	+37k	40/60	Drama/Comedy/Sports	17.02	$460-547M
Panda Plan 2	282k	+7k	81k	+4k	33/67	Comedy/Action	17.02	$71-87M
Silent Awakening	218k	+11k	655k	+47k	21/79	Crime/Espionage	17.02	$158-313M
Blades of the Guardians	164k	+6k	470k	+20k	42/58	Action/Martial Arts	17.02	$129-244M
Boonie Bears: The Hidden Protector	160k	+10k	151k	+12k	37/63	Animation/Fantasy	17.02	$194-230M
Per Aspera Ad Astra	78k	+2k	146k	+3k	25/75	Fantasy/Sci-Fi	17.02	$43-86M
Return To The Wolves Re-Release	43k	+13k	62k	+9k	30/70	Documentary	19.02