China's Box Office Take Grows by Nearly Half for 2015

China's box office has grown by almost 50 percent so far this year to surpass $6 billion in ticket sales, the country's Film Bureau said Friday. China's 2015 box office sales hit 40 billion yuan ($6.3 billion) as of Thursday night, an increase of 48 percent year on year. China is the world's No. 2 movie going market after the United States. The country has about 6,200 cinemas with more than 30,000 screens. Chinese films accounted for 59 percent of box office revenue,...

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