Jurassic World Rebirth has turn out to be the largest launch in China for the reason that peak Chinese language New 12 months season as native movies battle to ignite the summer season field workplace.
Common’s dinosaur tentpole took a cumulative $64.6m (RMB463m) as of July 14, narrowly beating Tom Cruise’s Mission: Not possible – The Remaining Reckoning, which took $64.5m (RMB462m). It now ranks because the seventh highest grossing movie of 2025 after 5 Chinese language New 12 months hits led by native animated characteristic Ne Zha 2.
Extra considerably, Jurassic World Rebirth is about to surpass the landmark RMB500m ($69.8m), a milestone no launch – native or worldwide – has scored since Chinese language New 12 months in February.
It’s promising that Hollywood imports are making a comeback albeit not on the identical scale as in previous years. Jurassic World Dominion was the final US movie to cross RMB1bn ($139.5m), having earned $147.7m (RMB1.06bn) in 2022.
Subsequent Hollywood hits have been 2023’s Quick X ($137.3m/RMB984m) and final 12 months’s Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire ($133.4m/RMB956m).
Within the first six months of 2025, China’s field workplace took $4.07bn (RMB29.2bn), up 22.9% year-on-year. This was primarily fuelled by field workplace sensation Ne Zha 2, the primary ever movie to cross $1bn in a single market. The figures mark the third finest outcomes of all time and the most effective in 5 years, in line with Chinese language field workplace tracker Beacon.
China’s summer season field workplace, which started on June 1 and runs via August, reached $418.5m (RMB3bn) as of July 12.
A various slate of movies together with Peter Chan’s She’s Acquired No Title, starring Zhang Ziyi, Japanese animation Detective Conan: One-eyed Flashback, live-action How To Prepare Your Dragon and Apple Unique’s F1: The Film have been among the many high summer season performers.
However none reached RMB400m ($55.8m) except for Jurassic World Rebirth and Mission: Not possible – The Remaining Reckoning, pointing to a lacklustre summer season season. Final summer season’s smash hit, household drama Successor, raked in additional than $460.4m (RMB3.3bn), and ended up because the third highest grossing movie of 2024.
No native Chinese language movie has but to face out on the summer season field workplace. As of July 13, Malice, produced by Chen Sicheng who has delivered hit thrillers reminiscent of 2022 summer season breakout hit Misplaced In The Stars, made a mere $25.6m (RMB184m), whereas comedy drama A Cool Fish 2, directed by the identical Rao Xiaozhi, took simply $7m (RMB50m), in comparison with nearly $111.6m (RMB800m) made by the primary movie in 2018.
The weekend field workplace (July 11-13) collected $51.3m, bringing the nation’s 2025 operating complete earnings to $4.24bn, up 20.2% from the identical interval final 12 months, in line with Artisan Gateway.