In 2025, the May Day box office was 748 million yuan, less than half of last year's, but movie stocks rose against the trend.

According to the data from the Lighthouse Professional Edition, the total box office of the May Day holiday period was 7.48 billion yuan, with a total of 18.89 million viewers and a total of 233.5 million screenings. Compared with the total box office of 15.27 billion yuan in the same period in 2024, this year's May Day box office saw a significant decrease of 51%. Despite the lower than expected box office for the May Day holiday period, Wind data showed that the cultural and media index rose by 1.91% by the midday closing on May 6. As for listed film companies, except for Wanda Film and China Film, whose stock prices fell slightly, the stock prices of other listed film companies closed in the red.