Blockbuster Week For Movies Over Lunar New Year

Box office takings over the week-long Spring Festival holiday – which has emerged as the most lucrative movie season in recent years – raked in the second-highest amount of revenue ever during the break, signalling a good start to the Year of the Tiger, China Daily reported.

During the holiday, which ended on Sunday, Chinese cinemas earned 6 billion yuan ($943.8 million) in sales, edging the 5.9 billion yuan taken during the 2019 festival period, according to movie data tracking service Beacon, the report said.

Read the full report: China Daily

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Sean O'Meara

Sean O'Meara is an Editor at Asia Financial. He has been a newspaper man for more than 30 years, working at local, regional and national titles in the UK as a writer, sub-editor, page designer and print editor. A football, cricket and rugby fan, he has a particular interest in sports finance.