"The Wandering Earth 2" grossed 440 million yuan on its first day of release! Wu Jing's starring works grossed over 29 billion yuan

News on January 22, today, the movie "The Wandering Earth 2" was officially released. Before writing, the film's box office reached 444 million yuan, becoming the box office champion on the first day of release for science fiction films in Chinese film history, and breaking the box office record for science fiction films on the first day of release in the past three years.

It is worth mentioning that with the strong box office revenue of "The Wandering Earth 2", the box office revenue of works starring Wu Jing has now exceeded 29 billion yuan.

It is understood that Wu Jing's representative works include "The Battle at Lake Changjin", "Wolf Warrior 2" and "The Wandering Earth", with box office revenues of 5.775 billion yuan, 5.694 billion yuan and 4.686 billion yuan respectively. Maoyan Professional Edition predicts that the total box office of "The Wandering Earth 2" is expected to be 3.395 billion yuan.

Judging from the screening schedule on the first day of the Lunar New Year, The Wandering Earth 2 had 115,000 screenings on the first day, accounting for 27%; Red River had 110,000 screenings on the first day, accounting for 25.6%; Swapping Lives and Unknown accounted for 17.4% and 13% of the first-day screenings respectively.

Some institutions stated that as word-of-mouth spreads after the release on the first day of the Lunar New Year, films with lagging schedules are expected to make a comeback. Based on the fact that the pre-sale box office in the first five days was the highest in the past five years, it is predicted that the overall box office of the Spring Festival period is expected to exceed 9 billion.