They still lag far behind those of US mastery.
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It will take more time for Chinese movies to go international, particularly in terms of movie financing, industry, technology and narratives. For example, there is only one Chinese movie - Wolf Warrior 2 (ranking 54th) - among 100 highest grossing movies worldwide. Yet there is still a big gap with other leading movie markets. Undoubtedly, the catch-up of Chinese movies is only the beginning. The complex logic behind this includes, but is not limited to, the rigorous prevention and control of the coronavirus epidemic in China, the popularization of e-commerce, the growth of online consumption and transportation, and the increase of real income due to China's success of economic transformation at the initial stage. The promotion of cultural consumption is also an important variable. In 2020, China overtook the US as world's largest consumer market. The second improvement generally pertains to China's urbanization, the consumption power of Chinese people, and the vitality of Chinese society. The total number of screens reached 75,581, up 8.3 percent year on year, accounting for 40 percent of the global total - far exceeding that of the US. First, the number of Chinese movie screens has become "the highest in the world." In 2020, the total number of cinemas in China reached 11,856, with a year-on-year growth of 4.4 percent. There are at least two reasons behind this boom. In 2021, the movie market is becoming so heated up that it was even hard to buy a ticket during China's Spring Festival holidays. In 2020, there were no foreign movies in China's top 10 box office. In 2019, the total box office of Chinese movies was close to that of North America, with only Avengers: Endgame in the top three and The Fast and the Furious at the 10th place on the list of 10 highest-grossing movies in China that year. The second decade of the 21st century turns out to be a period for Chinese filmmakers to forge ahead, and for China's accelerated urbanization and living standards to rise. But knowing shame is akin to courage, as an old Chinese expression goes. This was a year when Hollywood greatly crashed the confidence of Chinese movies. However, Avatar smashed all-time Chinese box-office record at that time. When Avatar was first released in the US in December 2009, Chinese cinemas delayed its release for two weeks, making ways for two Chinese movies ( Bodyguards and Assassins and A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop) that both featured almost all the top Chinese movie stars. When China exceeded North America to become the largest box office market in the world for the first time last year, some people jealously said that China had become the first because the US was mired with the COVID-19 pandemic.īut this view completely ignores the hard work that Chinese filmmakers have made in the past decade and the rapid development of Chinese society. In that sense, it will continue to lead the world's largest film market in 2021. The scale of China's film market will, expectedly, again surpass that of North America. It has set new records both for the domestic box office and for opening day and opening weekend sales in one single market. Illustration: Tang Tengfei/GTWho would have thought about watching movies in enclosed cinemas as the COVID-19 pandemic continues raging the world? Yet Chinese box-office revenues surpassed $1 billion during the week-long 2021 Spring Festival holidays.
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