Daily Box Office (May 22nd 2026)

The market hits ¥90.5M/$13.31M today. Up +29% from yesterday and up +28% from last week.

Peng Hu has received its release date. It will release on the prime date of July 25th. Also the first potential competition for Spider Man if that indeed also launches on that date.

Disclosure Day has been confirmed for release but has not gotten an exact date yet.

Province map of the day:

https://imgdiff.net/s/7fabe6e253f2b821b20273dea2445bc4

Dear You cleen sweeps for a 10th day running.

In Metropolitan cities:

Dear You wins Guangzhou, Shanghai, Chongqing, Chengdu, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Beijing, Shenzhen, Wuhan and Nanjing

City tiers:

The Mandalorian and Grogu

Tier 1: Dear You>The Mandalorian and Grogu>Vanishing Point

Tier 2: Dear You>The Mandalorian and Grogu>Vanishing Point

Tier 3: Dear You>The Mandalorian and Grogu>Vanishing Point

Tier 4: Dear You>The Mandalorian and Grogu>Vanishing Point

New releases marked in bold

Pre-Sales map for tomorrow

https://i.imgur.com/652brmC.png

Dear You dominates pre-sales for Saturday

Dear You

Dear You grossed ¥69.7M/$10.26M today. 4th Friday up +33% from last week.

Dear You has passed ¥800M total and is well on track to pass ¥1B through the weekend.

4th weekend projections narrow to ¥314-330M/$46-49M(+16%). Still on track to post the 2nd best 4th weekend of all time behind Ne Zha 2(¥1.10B) and ahead of Ne Zha(¥290M).

Total gross projections nearing ¥1.8B/$265M. With a lack of competition for almost another full month it could very well approach ¥2B.

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $123M

WoM figures:

The fantastic scores hold.

Maoyan: 9.7 , Taopiaopiao: 9.7 , Douban: 9.1

Scheduled showings update for Dear You for the next few days:

Star Wars: Mandalorian and Grogu

Mandalorian and Grogu opens with a modest ¥9.25M/$1.35M including midnight screenings. The worst opening day for Disney Star Wars in China below Episode 9(¥17M)

Opening weekend projected $5-6M

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $0.83M, IMAX: $0.33M, Rest: $0.07M

WoM figures:

No scores yet.

Maoyan:, Taopiaopiao: , Douban:

Scheduled showings update for Mandalorian & Grogu for the next few days:

Other:

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.

May

Summer

Do note that the vast majority of the local summer lineup including all the likely heavy hitters has not been announced yet. There are rumors. Even interviews confirmations of what might come but no real official announcements yet.

The 2026 China Film Fair and 29th National Film Promotion Conference will be held in Xiamen from the 20th to the 23rd of May and should see a decent ammount of detail about the upcoming summer lineup.

As for Holywood most of the June lineup as well as Minions&Monsters on July 1st is already announced. The most notable miss from June so far is Disclosure Day but that should be coming as well.

For July Moana 2, Odyssey and Spider Man which is already rumored to have passed review will be announced in due time as will be Paw Patrol 3 for August.