2018年中国票房突破600亿!“好成绩”背后也有忧
China's movie box office revenue grew 9 percent to $8.9 billion (RMB 60.98 billion) in 2018. The expansion would be considered impressive in most markets, but it represents an ongoing slowdown for China, the world's second-largest film territory and a continual source of growth for Hollywood for the better part of a decade. Chinese state media reported that box office revenue growth was 13.5 percent in 2017, with this year marking only a modest decline. Over the past three years, drawing conclusions about China's box office growth has been complicated by Beijing's decision to include new service fees in official revenue totals. In 2016, China's box-office experienced a shock correction, with growth plummeting to just 3.7 percent from a roaring 48 percent rate in 2015. Perhaps in response, at the start of 2017, China's media regulator quietly began including service fees charged by online ticketing companies when reporting box-office figures. However it's framed, 2018 was a strong year for many of China's biggest domestic film studios though. |