China’s box office takings surged 20 per cent year on year in the second quarter, with Hollywood and Bollywood riding to the rescue of the ailing Chinese film industry.
The authorities had relaxed restrictions on foreign films in an effort to avoid the first annual box office drop in over 20 years. US blockbusters such as the latest in the Fast and Furious franchise and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and India’s Dangal become the top-grossing films from April to June.
Out of the Rmb12.7bn ($1.9bn) quarterly total, The Fast and Furious 8 (as The Fate of the Furious was renamed in China) accounted for Rmb2.67bn, or
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