During the recent weeklong National Day holiday, running Oct. 1-8, China's cinemas sold $586 million worth of tickets. Local blockbuster My People, My Homeland brought in $19.1 million over just the past weekend, lifting its total earnings to $360 million after 18 days. China also has produced the world's biggest hit of 2020, WWII epic The Eight Hundred, with $460 million and counting. (Hollywood's biggest global earner this year is Sony's Bad Boys for Life at $426.5 million.) … [Read more...] about It’s Official: China Overtakes North America as World’s Biggest Box Office in 2020
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Japan’s Box Office Fell 45 Percent to $1.38 Billion in 2020
Thanks to the chaos COVID-19 has wrought on Hollywood release schedules, U.S. films took their lowest share of Japan's box office in modern times in 2020. Western movies, the bulk of them U.S. studio releases, brought in just $328 million (34 billion yen), down 71 percent from $1.09 billion (119 billion yen) the year prior, which was the highest figure since 2004. … [Read more...] about Japan’s Box Office Fell 45 Percent to $1.38 Billion in 2020