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 biggest film market, with a 2017 Deloitte report even foreseeing 2020 as the year that the two countries would swap the No. 1 and 2 slots. But with the pandemic dampening ticket sales, it's not clear how long that will last. Paul Dergarabedian, a senior analyst at Comscore, expects that North America will likely retake the throne as the biggest box office market again soon — though perhaps not in 2021, if the pandemic lingers in the United States and Canada.
Even before its breakout pe
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