Two months ago, China Daily reported that Chinese box office rose by 36% in 2014, to US$4.76b. 54.5% of that ticket revenue was spent on domestic Chinese films.
Of the top ten locally made films in 2014, only two were action fantasies based on special effects, one was a family documentary, all of them had young casts, five were rom-coms or comedies, and one of them was a 3D crime romp with slinky characters set in Shanghai in the 1920’s. Three of them were spinoffs from film and TV.
