《流浪地球2》周边爆火冲上热搜,商家:理性消费
今年的春节档电影院可谓是热闹非凡。据国家电影局发布的统计数据,2023年春节档(除夕至正月初六,1月21日至1月27日)位列中国影史春节档票房榜第二位。电影票房达到67.58亿元,同比增长11.89%;观影人次为1.29亿,同比增长13.16%;国产影片票房占比为99.22%。
China's box office during the Spring Festival holidays (Jan 21-27) exceeded 6.75 billion yuan, surpassing 2022's 6.04 billion yuan mark, making this year's Spring Festival holiday the second highest-grossing to date, according to China Film Administration.
A hi-tech craze has been sweeping China during the Spring Festival holiday with China's homemade sci-fi epic The Wandering Earth II hitting theaters, scoring 2.6 billion yuan at the box office so far, and it has sparked heated discussion over the country's hard technology as well as the public's keen interest in the peripheral derivative product of the movie.
For example, the crowdfunding for several peripheral derivative product of the movie have received more than 100 million yuan as of press time, overshooting its targeted amount of 100,000 yuan within nearly a week after the movie's release.
As a prequel of the first movie, the new tale takes place in an earlier period, recounting how the world is facing an unprecedented crisis and plans to migrate the Earth out of the solar system by installing more than 10,000 enormous fusion-powered engines on the Earth. It explains why humanity has decided to move the Earth out of the solar system for a new home in the galaxy.
It also delves into some intriguing, hard-core, sci-fi concepts such as digital immortality, the movie has been widely hailed as a visual feast that features many special-effect scenes, indicating improvements in the Chinese film industry.
"The creators of The Wandering Earth II are very similar to the characters featured in the movie. Their great courage and innovative spirit are the engine to push the 'planet' of science fiction into the future," Liu Cixin, author of the popular story The Wandering Earth and the Hugo Award-winning sci-fi novel The Three-Body Problem, said Sunday in a post on China's Twitter-like Sina Weibo after watching the hit sci-fi epic The Wandering Earth II for the second time.
"We all know that China's science fiction has a long way to go. Fortunately, such a group of people are working tirelessly," he said.
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