Chinese cinema box office revenue has surged 32% in the first nine months of the year, figures show.<\/p>\n
Takings have reached 21.6bn yuan (\u00a32.16bn) so far, already nearly equalling 2013’s full-year total of 21.8bn (\u00a32.18bn) yuan.<\/p>\n
The best performing movie of 2014 to date is Transformers: Age of Extinction, which took 1.98bn yuan (\u00a3198m).<\/p>\n
The top 10 was split evenly between domestic and Hollywood blockbusters.<\/p>\n
Fantasy 3D epic The Monkey King, directed by Hong Kong’s Poi Soi Cheang, was the highest grossing domestic movie with 1.04bn yuan (\u00a3104m)<\/p>\n
Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past was the third biggest movie of the year taking 724m yuan (\u00a372.6m), with comic book film Captain America: The Winter Soldier fourth with 721m yuan (\u00a372.3m) in box office receipts.<\/p>\n
Sequels Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 also featured in the top 10.<\/p>\n
China is the second biggest film market in the world and last year became the first international market to gross more than $3bn (\u00a31.85m) at the box office.<\/p>\n
It is thought the country’s box office receipts could exceed 30.7bn yuan in 2014 with some big releases still to come.<\/p>\n
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy will be released on 10 October with Jiang Wen 3D sequel Gone with the Bullets due in December.<\/p>\n
China’s boom comes at a time when the US box office has slumped over the summer season to its lowest point in eight years.<\/p>\n
Revenue was down 15% from last year’s record $4.75bn (\u00a32.9bn) to $4.05bn (\u00a32.5m), with attendance falling more than 5%.<\/p>\n
A number of films did not perform as well as expected in the US, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($203m; \u00a3124m), Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys (\u00a347m; \u00a329m) and The Expendables 3 ($39m; \u00a324m).<\/p>\n
\nChinese box office 2014 to date<\/h2>\n<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n\nSOURCE: M1905<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tfoot>\n | 1. Transformers: Age of Extinction – 1.98bn yuan (\u00a3198m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 2. The Monkey King – 1.04bn yuan (\u00a3104m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 3. X-Men: Days of Future Past – 724m (\u00a372.6m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 4. Captain America: The Winter Solider – 721m yuan (\u00a372.3m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | 5. Dad, Where Are We Going? – 696m yuan (\u00a369.7m)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n | <\/p>\n Source: BBC<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Chinese cinema box office revenue has surged 32% in the first nine months of the year, figures show. Takings have reached 21.6bn yuan (\u00a32.16bn) so far, already nearly equalling 2013’s full-year total of 21.8bn (\u00a32.18bn) yuan. The best performing movie of 2014 to date is Transformers: Age of Extinction, which took 1.98bn yuan (\u00a3198m). The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":52612,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[34,6],"class_list":["post-52611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-standards-authority","tag-togbe-afede"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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