China Upcoming Movies & Most Anticipated Films (Maoyan)

See which upcoming films Chinese audiences want to see most, before they open. Data comes from Maoyan (猫眼), China's largest movie ticketing platform. No login, no browser.

• Every upcoming release in China (about 100 films) with release date, cast and the want-to-see count (想看)
• Maoyan's most-anticipated ranking (最受期待), merged into the same records, including big titles without a date yet
• Growth tracking: the change in want-to-see since your last run, and the change per day
• Film details (optional): genres, directors, duration, country, release note

Want-to-see counts are the best public early signal for Chinese box office: they grow fast in the weeks before a hit opens.

Use cases

• Box-office forecasting: track want-to-see growth for every upcoming film and compare it with opening weekends.
• Studios, distributors and marketers: measure campaign impact day by day, and benchmark against competing releases.
• Investors: early demand signals for Chinese and Hollywood titles released in China.
• Media and fans: release calendar for China with real interest numbers.
• New-release alerts: schedule a daily run with "Only films new since the last run" to catch newly announced releases.

Example input

{
  "lists": ["upcoming", "mostExpected"],
  "sortBy": "wishCount",
  "minWishCount": 1000,
  "maxMovies": 100,
  "compareWithLastRun": true
}

Output

One record per film:

{
  "type": "movie",
  "movieId": "1500516",
  "title": "恐怖直播",
  "releaseDate": "2026-10-08",
  "releaseLabel": "10月8日 周四",
  "wishCount": 15562,
  "anticipationRank": 23,
  "inUpcomingList": true,
  "stars": ["丁一帆", "李雪嫚", "贺金雪"],
  "score": null,
  "preShow": false,
  "listStatus": "seen before",
  "previousWishCount": 14010,
  "wishChange": 1552,
  "wishChangePerDay": 1552,
  "genres": ["惊悚", "恐怖"],
  "directors": ["孟鑫"],
  "durationMin": 90,
  "country": "中国大陆",
  "url": "https://www.maoyan.com/films/1500516"
}

• releaseDate is null when the film has no exact date yet; releaseLabel then says e.g. 2026年 待定 (2026, date to be announced).
• anticipationRank is the film's position in Maoyan's most-anticipated ranking (null if it isn't ranked).
• score is the Maoyan audience score once there is one (early screenings), otherwise null.
• Titles and names are kept in Chinese as published.
• Detail fields (genres, directors, durationMin, country, releaseNote, englishTitle, watchedCount, ratingCount) appear only with Include film details.

Monitoring

With Compare with the last run (on by default) each film gets previousWishCount, wishChange, wishChangePerDay and listStatus (new, seen before or first run). The memory is kept in your Apify account between runs. Schedule a daily run to build a want-to-see history for every film.

Pricing

$0.002 per film. All upcoming films (about 100) cost about $0.20 per run; a daily run for a month costs about $6.

Notes and limits

• Maoyan limits how many film-detail pages it answers. Details are fetched slowly for the first films only (20 by default); if Maoyan asks for verification, the run keeps saving every film without details and says so in the log.
• Want-to-see counts are national (they don't depend on the city).
• Only public data is collected.

Related

• China Box Office: daily box office for every film in cinemas, including presale figures for coming days.

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