Source-checked snapshots of theatrical performance, audience momentum, and the limits of real-time figures.
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2026-08-18
Dear You opened in Hong Kong on June 18, with early box office reported in Hong Kong dollars. Its 4-day total reached HK$3,867,795 and placed third for the week. By late July, the Hong Kong run should be read separately from the mainland total, because the markets, currencies, and release timing are not the same.
2026-07-26
Dear You received a third mainland film-key extension on July 20, moving the current screening deadline from July 31 to August 31, 2026. The July 31 date belonged to the previous extension and is now outdated for mainland cinemas. The announcement also placed the mainland box office near RMB 2 billion. This deadline should not be applied to overseas theatres: Hong Kong, Southeast Asia, North America, Britain, Ireland, Japan and festival screenings each follow their own local schedules.
2026-07-22
Dear You kept growing in Malaysia after its June 18 release there, with an eight-day gross of RM8.2 million and a later total above RM15 million. The film was also recorded as the 2026 Chinese-language box-office leader in Malaysia. That commercial rise explains why the team still appeared in Kuala Lumpur for a fan meet-and-greet: the movie was not just running well, it was still pulling in viewers who wanted to see the people behind it. The film’s wider release plan also expanded on June 5, when its first overseas rollout was set for Hong Kong, Macau, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei.
2026-06-28
The box-office story of Dear You is not only about crossing another number. Its real signal is the way a modest Chaoshan dialect film kept earning after the opening rush, turning family emotion and regional memory into a long-running market presence.
2026-06-16
1.6 billion is a number, but an all-time top-60 ranking and 1.8-billion-range forecasts give it a different weight. What matters is not crossing another round figure, but that this low-cost dialect film has firmly entered China's all-time box-office chart, with its long tail clearly not finished.
2026-06-11
Crossing 1.5 billion yuan is not an isolated milestone. It is the point where Dear You — a low-budget Teochew-dialect film with no major stars — turns from a breakout story into an industry case study, proving that word of mouth can still bend the box-office curve in a film's later weeks.
2026-05-26
Dear You did not become a breakout only because of one ticket-sales number. Its rise came from a sharper combination: low early expectations, strong audience emotion, a concrete regional world, and a story that viewers kept explaining to one another.
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