Daily Box Office (April 23th 2026)

The market hits ¥12.9M/$1.89M. Up +1% from yesterday and down -10% from last week.

Minions & Monsters has been confirmed for a release in China.

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Province map of the day:

https://i.imgur.com/921EVjB.png

It's OK mostly dominate on Thursday.

In Metropolitan cities:

If I Were You wins Chongqing

Project Hail Mary wins Shanghai and Beijing

Its OK wins Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Suzhou

City tiers:

Nobody But You 2 climbs to 3rd in T3.

Tier 1: Project Hail Mary>It's OK>The Caged Butterfly

Tier 2: It's OK>The Caged Butterfly>Project Hail Mary

Tier 3: It's OK>The Caged Butterfly>Nobody But You 2

Tier 4: It's OK>The Caged Butterfly>Nobody But You 2

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#	Movie	Gross	%YD	%LW	Screenings	Admisions(Today)	Total Gross	Projected Total Gross
1	It's OK	$0.35M	-2%	-25%	61266	0.07M	$24.97M	$27M-$31M
2	The Caged Butterfly	$0.24M	+1%	-10%	40698	0.05M	$11.58M	$13M-$15M
3	Project Hail Mary	$0.20M	-2%	-29%	24166	0.03M	$37.65M	$39M-$42M
4	Nobody But You 2	$0.17M	-15%		44643	0.03M	$2.98M	$3M-$4M
5	Pegasus 3	$0.13M	-1%	-24%	21739	0.02M	$638.93M	$639M-$640M
6	Now I Met Her	$0.12M	-6%	-40%	30804	0.02M	$10.30M	$11M-$12M
7	Michael(Midnight scr.)	$0.10M			959	0.01M	$0.10M	$10M-$16M
8	Organ Child	$0.09M	-12%		23782	0.02M	$1.27M	$1M-$2M
9	Super Mario Galaxy Movie	$0.06M	-9%	-40%	26016	0.01M	$17.43M	$19M-$222M

New releases marked in bold

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Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

https://i.imgur.com/Eql45H5.png

Michael dominates pre-sales for Friday.

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IMAX Screenings distribution

And just like that Project Hail Mary and Mario will lose the vast majority of IMAX screenings tomorrow which will go to Michael which already had a decent ammount for its Midnight screenings today.

	Movie	IMAX Screeninsgs Today	IMAX Screeninsgs Tomorrow	Change
1	Project Hail Mary	1992	86	-1906
2	Michael	373	3601	+3228
2	Super Mario Galaxy	168	9	-159

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Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Mario Galaxy grossed ¥0.39M/$0.06M on its 3rd Thursday.

Below the first movies ¥0.64M/$0.09M 3rd Thursday but slightly above the 3rd Thursday of Hoppers at ¥0.36/$0.05M

4th weekend projected at $0.9-1.2M(-48%)

Super Mario Galaxy vs Super Mario Bros:

https://i.imgur.com/9zISf6I.png

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $16.20M , IMAX: $0.69M , Rest: $0.48M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.3 , Taopiaopiao: 9.3 , Douban: 7.0

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
Second Week	$0.37M	$1.58M	$1.32M	$0.12M	$0.10M	$0.11M	$0.10M	$15.15M
Third Week	$0.24M	$0.95M	$0.83M	$0.08M	$0.06M	$0.06M	$0.06M	$17.43M
%± LW	-35%	-40%	-37%	-33%	-40%	-45%	-40%

Scheduled showings update for Super Mario Galaxy Movie for the next few days:

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	26293	$7k	$0.05M-$0.06M
Friday	20324	$16k	$0.10M-$0.12M
Saturday	23284	$20k	$0.42M-$0.55M
Sunday	15291	$5k	$0.43M-$0.52M

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Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary climbed to 3rd with ¥1.34M/$0.20M on Thursday. Again remains pretty much flat for a 4th day running.

6th weekend projected at $1.2-1.5M(-39%)

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $24.34M , IMAX: $10.89M , Rest: $2.30M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.3 , Taopiaopiao: 9.2 , Douban: 8.6

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
Fourth Week	$0.55M	$1.38M	$1.07M	$0.28M	$0.34M	$0.33M	$0.28M	$34.61M
Fifth Week	$0.44M	$1.02M	$0.78M	$0.20M	$0.20M	$0.20M	$0.20M	$37.65M
%± LW	-20%	-26%	-27%	-28%	-40%	-39%

Scheduled showings update for Project Hail Mary for the next few days:

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	24435	$28k	$0.18M-$0.19M
Friday	18655	$32k	$0.23M-$0.24M
Saturday	16745	$62k	$0.54M-$0.75M
Sunday	10511	$16k	$0.42M-$0.51M

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Other stuff:

The next Holywood release Michael on April 24th followed by Devil Wears Prada 2 on the 30th.

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Michael Opening Day pre-sales

Michael scores around $100k in midnight screenings.

Opening day pre-sales hit $665k at T-0. A pretty bad last day.

Opening day projections downgraded further to $1.7-2.1M. Opening weekend projected at $5-7M. Total projections start at $10-16M

Days till release	Michael	Project Hail Mary	F1
8	$40k/12877	/	$31k/14328
7	$115k/18281	/	$48k/15335
6	$170k/20839	$19k/4747	$69k/16308
5	$211k/23170	$38k/6270	$87k/17506
4	$253k/25655	$62k/7441	$107k/19421
3	$318k/30730	$104k/9268	$156k/21808
2	$391k/43009	$154k/12234	$230k/29788
1	$483k/65765	$266k/18902	$319k/43313
0	$665k/80228	$473k/23759	$543k/51748

*Gross/Screenings

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May/Labor Day:

The Devil Wears Prada 2 has a solid 2nd day of pre-sales reaching $58k

Cold War 1944 continues to lead pre-sales for May 1st Labor Day.

Days till release	The Devil Wears Prada 2	Cold War 1994	Vanishing Point	Being Towards Death
9	/	$68k/35764	$20k/13736	$12k/15106
8	/	$191k/44903	$137k/19293	$52k/19940
7	$8k/2229	$287k/51261	$189k/23937	$64k/23680
6	$58k/25865
5
4
3
2
1
0

*Gross/Screenings

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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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May/Labor Day Holidays(30.4-5.5)

Movie	Maoyan WTS	Daily Increase	Taopiaopiao WTS	Daily Increase	M/W %	Genre	Release Date	3rd party media projections
Devil Wears Prada 2	161k	+3k	271k	+4k	26/74	Drama/Comedy	30.04	$9-41M
Cold War 1944	69k	+1k	90k	+1k	75/25	Drama/Action/Crime	01.05	$60-88M
Vanishing Point	68k	+2k	30k	+1k	33/67	Thriller/Crime	01.05	$21-36M
Being Toward Death	20k	+1k	10k	+1k	38/62	Drama	01.05
Once a Thief	27k	+1k	21k	+1k	47/53	Drama/Comedy/Action	03.05

May

Movie	Maoyan WTS	Daily Increase	Taopiaopiao WTS	Daily Increase	M/W %	Genre	Release Date	3rd party media projections
Mortal Kombat II	23k	+1k	11k	+1k	75/25	Action/Fantasy	08.05
Love Battle	34k	+1k	48k	+1k	20/80	Romance/Comedy	20.05
Be Yourself	18k	+1k	17k	+1k	31/69	Romance/Comedy	20.05
Star Wars: Mandalorian & Grogu	6k	+1k	11k	+1k	63/37	Actiiom/Sci-Fi	20.05	$5M
All The Good Eyes	20k	+1k	11k	+1k	34/66	Drama/Romance/Crime	23.05