And the award for the world’s biggest box office in 2020 goes to, for the first time... China!
“Wolf Warrior 2” was a box-office hit in China, and currently stands as the country’s highest-grossing film of all time. Credit: Wolf Warrior 2
With the government maintaining its chokehold on the coronavirus, there are a lot of things that people in China were able to do that Americans couldn’t in 2020. One of those prized activities was going to the movies.
And as a result, for the first time, China had the world’s biggest box office market in 2020, a year that saw global revenues fall to less than a third of their 2019 peak.
Analysts had predicted that China would soon overtake the United States as the world's b
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