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China Cinema News – New Year Special 2018

Chinese New Year is over (also known as Spring or Lunar Festival) and with it a record box office haul for the world’s second biggest cinema market, as we enter the Year of the Dog. After last year failed to improve much on the previous holiday, this year saw a significant leap – both in…
China BO overtake US by Mtime

China Cinema News – Monday 22 January 2018

Will China’s BO overtake US; Chinese audiences go off 3D; battle of mobile ticketing platforms; Wanda cinema report and sheds assets abroad; SMI Group show off ‘new marketing’ ahead of backdoor listing; “Secrtet Superstar” is Bollywood’s first revenue share;…
Shengjia International Studios

CJ China Cinema News – Thursday 27 July 2017

China 45K screens, Dadi goes Tier 3-5, Alibaba increase Tao Piao Piao stake, ticket platforms battle, no growth Tier 1&2, H1 mixed report, “bottleneck period”, local films under-perform, Imax 7 screens with Bestar, Shengjia International Studios interview, 24h automated private cinem…
Alibaba Pictures logo

CJ China Cinema News – Thursday 23 February 2017

Alibaba losses, Baidu platform’s profit, competition in in online ticketing, China blockbuster growth, Hollywood marketing in China, CCTV cameras watch you in cinemas, release date holidays, over-60 discounts and duck necks cause fracas at cinema. Follow Celluloid Junkie on FACEBOOK for NEWS a…
Monster hunt

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 7 October 2015

A refreshingly sceptical article from CNBC about just how big the China cinema market is and what its potential for growth is. Rather than taking all box office numbers at face value it discerns that all is not what it seems and that there is manipulation going on behind the scenes. For example, loc…
Wanda Christie Cinema 9

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 3 September 2015

Wanda Cinema Line has signed a major deal with Christie Digital to deploy the latter’s projectors and audio solutions in its cinemas. The deal covers Christie’s 2K and 4K digital cinema projectors, Christie 6P laser projectors and Christie Vive Audio solutions, which will be installed ac…
Baidu cinema ticket

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 27 August 2015

Online ticket sales through Baidu now account for half of all tickets sold at some cinemas, with particularly strong showings during special promotions on Tanabata Day (Chinese Valentine’s Day). Out of 6.8 million tickets sold across China that day, Baidu accounted for 1.7 million or 25%. In s…
Harbin China cinema statistics

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 26 March 2015

The above infographic summarises almost everything you need to know about cinema developments in China’s Tier 2 cities, in this case Harbin in north-eastern China, perhaps best known for its annual ice sculpture festival. The chart on the left shows the opening of new multiplexes: four in 2012…
China box office micro-channel Dragon Blade

How Subsidies Distorted China’s “Record” February Box Office

Much has been written about how China’s cinema box office ‘overtook’ that of the United States this past February. While we have already covered how much of this is down to skewed arithmetic, often without proper context, it now seems that this “record” may require a la…
Wanda Group

China Cinema Digest – Thursday 5 March 2015

Wanda Cinema’s shares have been soaring since their IPO and WinShang looks at how the company is expanding, with presence now in 80 Chinese cities. During the reporting period, the strong momentum in the company’s development, gradually expand the scale theaters, grossing a rapid increas…
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