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Domestic Vs Import Box Office: Appearances Can Deceive

Apr 19, 2017  /  Box Office  / 
Looking at the box office split between foreign and Chinese films this year, it’s easy to conclude China is a balanced market: imports lead slightly with a 52% market share through April 18. But huge imbalances lie behind those numbers. Read More

China Box Office: Chinese Moviegoers Dead on ‘Arrival’

Jan 23, 2017  /  Box Office  / 
General audiences in China gave a resounding thumbs-down to "Arrival," with social media declaring the film a plodding, incomprehensible mess. Read More

Film Review: ‘Some Like It Hot’ More like Lukewarm Water

Jan 18, 2017  /  Reviews  / 
A typical, and not unentertaining contemporary Chinese comedy of upwardly-mobile, city-dwelling, professional-class Chinese boy-men, dumbstruck by hot young women who are not their wives, with an unsubtle moral tacked on the end. Read More

China Box Office: First Weekend of New Year Not So Happy

Jan 2, 2017  /  Box Office  / 
Ticket receipts across the three-day New Year’s Holiday (元旦节) from Saturday through Monday totaled RMB 662 million (US$95 million), a 22 percent decrease from 2016’s record-breaking haul of RMB 849 million ($130 million). Read More

On Screen China: Limp 2016 Box Office to Close with a Whimper

Dec 29, 2016  /  Box Office  / 
China’s swan-diving box office will go out aptly this weekend with a whimper as 2016 makes room for a handful of new releases straggling in for the three-day New Year’s public holiday. Read More

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