Closing more than half of Chinese cinemas
With the start of a new wave of coronavirus infection in China, 54% of Chinese cinemas have closed again.
Theater News Base: Since the beginning of the Corona epidemic, Chinese cinema has been able to claim the title of the world’s largest movie market from the United States for two consecutive years. The cinema of this country is inactive.
“Wonderful Beasts: The Dumbledore Secrets” directed by David Yates from the screenplay by J.K. “Rowling” and “Steve Clause” is the latest Hollywood film to be released in China and has sold only $ 9.7 million.
The first installment of “Amazing Animals” was released in China in 2016, which had initial sales of $ 40.4 million, and its sequel in 2018 was able to sell $ 36.6 million in its first week of release in China.
“The Amazing Beasts: The Dumbledore Secrets” is the third installment in the Wizarding World series and the eleventh in the Harry Potter series. The film stars Eddie Redmin, Katherine Waterston, Jessica Williams and Jude Law.
In recent months and years, Hollywood movies have clearly made less money at the box office in China, but it is not clear whether the expected “Wonderful Beasts: The Dumbledore Secrets” continues to decline due to Chinese interest in American films. The reopening of some cinemas in this country.
Chinese cinema snatched the title of the world’s largest movie market from the United States in 2021 with sales of $ 7.3 billion for the second year in a row. China’s total cinema sales in 2021 will increase by more than 100% compared to 2020, but are still 26% lower than in 2019 and before the box office.
American cinema, which faced far more challenges than China in facing Corona in 2021, sold $ 4.5 billion last year, which is 60% less than the box office figure in the pre-Corona era. 2019) is.