The national box office of Avatar 2 broke 600 million today, and the first wave of Yangkang audiences entered the cinema!

Avatar: The Way of Water (hereinafter referred to as Avatar 2) has been released for a week, and with its shocking and extraordinary audio-visual effects, the global box office has reached 609 million US dollars. Foreign box office analysts predict that the global box office will exceed 1 billion US dollars in about 10 days.

These days, with the first batch of "Yangkang" in China returning to normal work and life, the number of people watching movies is increasing. It is expected that the box office of Avatar 2 in China will grow steadily, and the ticket price is also expected to fall.

Avatar 2 is a super 3D visual blockbuster that James Cameron has sharpened his sword for thirteen years, and it is highly anticipated by fans all over the world. On December 16th, the film was officially released in many countries and regions around the world, and earned $134 million at the box office in North America and RMB 397 million at the box office in China. The global first weekend box office was $434.5 million.

Although this box office achievement is lower than expected, it has set a new box office record for James Cameron’s film in the first weekend. Cameron’s works have always been long-distance runners. Before the release of Titanic and Avatar, the box office was not as good as expected in the first weekend, but in the end, the two films successively topped the global box office champion.

As of December 23rd, the global box office of this film reached 609 million dollars. According to Time. com, some foreign box office analysts predict that Avatar 2 will exceed $1 billion at the box office after the Christmas holiday, that is, within 10 days of its release.

Avatar, which was released 13 years ago, was released in North America until the third week, and the global box office only exceeded $1 billion. From this point of view, Avatar 2′ s current global box office performance is not bad.

Cameron’s own response to the first weekend’s box office query is: We won’t know how Avatar 2 performed at the box office until the third weekend. Now that the director has said so, we will wait and see.

In contrast, the box office performance of Avatar 2 in China mainland film market is far from the expected performance: the first weekend box office was 397 million yuan, and as of December 23 (the eighth day of release), it was 556 million yuan, and it will exceed 600 million yuan today.

However, this summer’s domestic blockbuster, Moon Man, earned 997 million yuan at the box office in the first three days of the weekend, with an obvious gap between the two. Moon Man finally got a box office of 3.1 billion yuan. As of December 23rd, Cat’s Eye predicted that Avatar 2 would finally get a box office of 1.003 billion yuan.

Jurassic World 3 was released in China on June 10th this year, with a box office of 355 million yuan in the first weekend and 495 million yuan as of June 17th (the eighth day of release), which were not as good as Avatar 2′ s box office in the same period, but it finally got 1.059 billion yuan in the mainland.

The reason why Avatar 2′ s box office was not as good as expected in the first week of its release in mainland China was mainly affected by the epidemic situation, which can be seen from the rare high refund rate in the first three days of its release in mainland China.

According to the cat’s eye data, the refund rates of Avatar 2 at the screening on December 14th and the zero-point screening on December 15th are all around 20%, and the refund rates in the first three days of release are 14.8%, 12.7% and 10.8% respectively, which is much higher than the industry average of about 5%.

This extremely rare high refund rate fully shows the strong impact of the epidemic on the box office of Avatar 2 on the first weekend. Its release is far below the expected attendance rate of the market, and the impact of the epidemic can not be ignored.

Fortunately, these days, with the first batch of "Yangkang" in China returning to normal work and life, the number of people watching movies is increasing. It is expected that the box office of Avatar 2 in China will grow steadily, and the ticket price is also expected to fall.

Perhaps because of this, as of the morning of December 24th, the box office forecast of Avatar 2 in Cat’s Eye Professional Edition has quietly risen to 1.062 billion yuan.

The biggest attraction of Avatar 2 is, of course, the stunning and extraordinary 3D visual effect, which is the surprise that director Cameron brought to the global audience through Avatar 13 years ago and the consensus established from it.

From this point of view, Avatar 2 will never disappoint! After "Yangkang", this week, I went to the Dolby Cinema Hall of Wanda Studios wanda plaza Store in Tongzhou, Beijing to watch this 193-minute super blockbuster, and enjoyed this unparalleled audio-visual feast in an immersive way.

The blue and deep underwater world, Tukun and other magical marine life are incredibly realistic. An island reef like a paradise, and a beauty on an island reef that looks like a water snake. The magnificent picture that has never been seen before is refreshing …

The epidemic has been going on for three years, and I have never heard of any case of infection in the cinema. For this reason, audiences in Beijing and other places do not need to check the 48-hour nucleic acid negative certificate when they go to the cinema to watch movies.

On the eve of the release of Avatar 2, director Cameron said confidently that the special effects of Na Mei Ren’s moving capture and expression capture were much better than those of Marvel Comics’s Thanos, and promised that the special effects of Avatar 2 were true. This statement is true.

IMDB has been kept above 8 points, rotten tomatoes above 80%, and popcorn index as high as 94%. Douban scored 8.5 points and currently stands at 8.1 points. Both Cat’s Eye and Taobao Film scored 9.2.

The famous film critic Electronic Knight commented: "Although there are some flaws in the plot and characters, which are not as neat and seamless as the first one, there is still no problem in killing almost all commercial blockbusters in the last decade (except two or three films such as Interstellar, the Dark Knight)."

Xieirs, a user of Douban, thinks Avatar 2: "Hanging all Marvel Comics films and 95% Hollywood commercial films in the past decade. The effect of underwater virtual shooting is epoch-making, and the light and shadow are unparalleled. There is something wrong with the script, but it looks good … "

It is no exaggeration to say that Avatar 2 is a movie made for cinemas, and it is only suitable for viewing in cinemas, especially in special cinemas such as IMAX, CINITY, Dolby Cinema, PRIME, LUXE and China Giant Screen, and of course it is also suitable for viewing in ordinary 3D cinemas with good cinemas.

In the first week of the release of Avatar 2, the market share of Wanda Cinema increased significantly. This is not only because its studios have many special cinemas, but also because of the high brightness and good quality of its ordinary 3D cinemas.

Traditionally, the Chinese New Year movie will be dominated by domestic blockbusters, and the key of imported films is generally only one month. Avatar 2 has a great chance of being shown on the eve of the Spring Festival. For those who want to watch this top-notch visual blockbuster in the cinema, don’t miss the remaining 20 days.