Daily Box Office (April 24th 2026)

The market hits ¥25M/$3.65M. Up +91% from yesterday and up +15% from last week.

Should be 6th weekend for PHM in the title instead of 4th.

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Province map of the day:

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

Michael dominates on its opening day.

In Metropolitan cities:

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

City tiers:

Michael tops every tier on its opening day.

Tier 1: Michael>Dear You>Project Hail Mary

Tier 2: Michael>It's OK>The Caged Butterfly

Tier 3: Michael>The Caged Butterfly>It's OK

Tier 4: Michael>The Caged Butterfly>It's OK

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#	Movie	Gross	%YD	%LW	Screenings	Admisions(Today)	Total Gross	Projected Total Gross
1	Michael	$1.56M			79749	0.23M	$1.56M	$8M-$11M
2	It's OK	$0.39M	+12%	-43%	53979	0.08M	$25.36M	$27M-$31M
3	The Caged Butterfly	$0.31M	+30%	-20%	37725	0.06M	$11.89M	$13M-$15M
4	Project Hail Mary	$0.22M	+10%	-50%	18530	0.04M	$37.87M	$39M-$42M
5	Dear You(Pre-Scr)	$0.20M			5147	0.04M	$0.56M
6	Nobody But You 2	$0.14M	-17%		32627	0.03M	$3.12M	$3M-$4M
7	Pegasus 3	$0.13M	+8%	-48%	17059	0.02M	$639.06M	$639M-$640M
8	Now I Met Her	$0.13M	+11%	-52%	23297	0.03M	$10.43M	$11M-$12M
9	Super Mario Galaxy Movie	$0.12M	+100%	-50%	20319	0.02M	$17.55M	$19M-$222M
10	Organ Child	$0.08M	-15%		15362	0.01M	$1.35M	$1M-$2M

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 Saturday.

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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	83	249	+166
2	Michael	373	3601	+3228
2	Super Mario Galaxy	9	24	+15

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Michael

Michael opened with a rather dissapointing ¥10.6M/$1.56M. Below Bohemian Rhapsody's ¥12.6M opening.

Opening weekend projections massively downgraded to $4.7-5M. Total projections down to $8-11M

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $0.92M , IMAX: $0.48M , Rest: $0.12M

WoM figures:

Michael opens with great scores on both Maoyan and Taopiao.

Maoyan: 9.6 , Taopiaopiao: 9.5 , Douban:

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
First Week	$1.56M							$1.56M

Scheduled showings update for Michael for the next few days:

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	79749	$665k	$1.70M-$2.10M
Saturday	85521	$567k	$1.80M-$1.91M
Sunday	69679	$147k	$1.33M-$1.48M

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Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Mario Galaxy grossed ¥0.79M/$0.12M on its 4rd Friday.

Below the first movies ¥0.89M/$0.13M 4th Friday but slightly above the 4th Friday of Hoppers at ¥0.66/$0.09M

4th weekend projections slightly upgraded to $1.0-1.2M(-46%)

Super Mario Galaxy vs Super Mario Bros:

https://i.imgur.com/UQpTQ2m.png

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $16.31M , 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
Third Week	$0.24M	$0.95M	$0.83M	$0.08M	$0.06M	$0.06M	$0.06M	$17.43M
Fourth Week	$0.12M							$17.55M
%± LW	-50%

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

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	20324	$16k	$0.10M-$0.12M
Saturday	32460	$77k	$0.51M-$0.55M
Sunday	25585	$15k	$0.45M-$0.53M

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Project Hail Mary

Project Hail Mary in 4th grossed ¥1.50M/$0.22M on Friday. The loss of the majority of IMAX screenings definitely affecting it.

6th weekend projections slightly raised to $1.2-1.6M(-38%)

Screen Distribution Split: Regular: $24.55M , IMAX: $10.90M , Rest: $2.30M

WoM figures:

Maoyan: 9.3 , Taopiaopiao: 9.2 , Douban: 8.6

#	FRI	SAT	SUN	MON	TUE	WED	THU	Total
Fifth Week	$0.44M	$1.02M	$0.78M	$0.20M	$0.20M	$0.20M	$0.20M	$37.65M
Sixth Week	$0.22M							$37.87M
%± LW	-50%

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

Day	Number of Showings	Presales	Projection
Today	18655	$32k	$0.23M-$0.24M
Saturday	20581	$147k	$0.55M-$0.85M
Sunday	17240	$31k	$0.43M-$0.55M

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May/Labor Day:

The Devil Wears Prada 2 continues its solid pre-sales as opening day pre-sales exceed $100k reaching $119k

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	$381k/56830	$228k/28028	$76k/27293
5	$119k/33312
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3
2
1
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*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	163k	+2k	274k	+3k	26/74	Drama/Comedy	30.04	$9-41M
Cold War 1944	71k	+2k	92k	+2k	75/25	Drama/Action/Crime	01.05	$60-88M
Vanishing Point	70k	+2k	31k	+1k	33/67	Thriller/Crime	01.05	$21-36M
Being Toward Death	21k	+1k	10k	+1k	38/62	Drama	01.05
Once a Thief	29k	+2k	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	12k	+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	7k	+1k	12k	+1k	63/37	Actiiom/Sci-Fi	20.05	$5M
All The Good Eyes	20k	+1k	11k	+1k	34/66	Drama/Romance/Crime	23.05