China’s summer box office breaks records without Hollywood’s help

Chinese cinema box office receipts for the summer season hit a new all-time high, with 17.8 billion yuan ($2.44 billion) in ticket sales to date. The previous record – 17.78 billion yuan – was set in the summer of 2019. Since the beginning of June, 435 million cinema tickets have been sold in China. However, according to the agency Reutersin the current year, films from Chinese film studios, rather than Hollywood ones, were in the greatest demand among viewers.

For example, four Chinese films, including the thriller Lost Among the Stars and the crime drama No More Bets, have grossed $274.7 million since the beginning of summer. topics, earning $ 116.7 million. At the same time, the successfully conquering world film “Barbie” in China collected $ 33.8 million in a month from the start of the show. And the next film from the Mission Impossible franchise, which has been in theaters for more than a month, brought cinema $48 million

Alena Miklashevskaya