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
Despite the challenging year, global distributors will take heart in the fact that Japan's total movie screen count actually increased slightly in 2020, suggesting that a robust theatrical rebound should be achievable as the pandemic eventually fades. According to the Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan, the country had 3,616 screens in operation in 2020, up from 3,583 screens in 2019. … [Read more...] about Japan’s Box Office Fell 45 Percent to $1.38 Billion in 2020