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<p>Source: BBC News (9/30/14): <a href="http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29423454">http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-29423454</a></p>
<p>Chinese cinema set for record year</p>
<div><img alt="Transformers: Age of Extinction" src="http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/77907000/jpg/_77907430_77907429.jpg" width="624" height="351" /></div>
<div><em>Transformers: Age of Extinction was the highest-grossing film of the year in China</em></div>
<p id="story_continues_1">Chinese cinema box office revenue has surged 32% in the first nine months of the year, figures show.</p>
<p>Takings have reached 21.6bn yuan (£2.16bn) so far, already nearly equalling 2013′s full-year total of 21.8bn (£2.18bn) yuan.</p>
<p>The best performing movie of 2014 to date is Transformers: Age of Extinction, which took 1.98bn yuan (£198m).</p>
<p>The top 10 was split evenly between domestic and Hollywood blockbusters.</p>
<p>Fantasy 3D epic The Monkey King, directed by Hong Kong’s Poi Soi Cheang, was the highest grossing domestic movie with 1.04bn yuan (£104m)</p>
<p>Bryan Singer’s X-Men: Days of Future Past was the third biggest movie of the year taking 724m yuan (£72.6m), with comic book film Captain America: The Winter Soldier fourth with 721m yuan (£72.3m) in box office receipts.</p>
<p>Sequels Dawn of the Planet of the Apes and The Amazing Spider-Man 2 also featured in the top 10.</p>
<p>China is the second biggest film market in the world and last year became the first international market to gross more than $3bn (£1.85m) at the box office.</p>
<p>It is thought the country’s box office receipts could exceed 30.7bn yuan in 2014 with some big releases still to come.</p>
<p>Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy will be released on 10 October with Jiang Wen 3D sequel Gone with the Bullets due in December.</p>
<p>China’s boom comes at a time when the US box office has slumped over the summer season to its lowest point in eight years.</p>
<p>Revenue was down 15% from last year’s record $4.75bn (£2.9bn) to $4.05bn (£2.5m), with attendance falling more than 5%.</p>
<p>A number of films did not perform as well as expected in the US, including The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ($203m; £124m), Clint Eastwood’s Jersey Boys (£47m; £29m) and The Expendables 3 ($39m; £24m).</p>
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<td>SOURCE: M1905</td>
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<td>1. Transformers: Age of Extinction – 1.98bn yuan (£198m)</td>
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<td>2. The Monkey King – 1.04bn yuan (£104m)</td>
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<td>3. X-Men: Days of Future Past – 724m (£72.6m)</td>
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<td>4. Captain America: The Winter Solider – 721m yuan (£72.3m)</td>
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<td>5. Dad, Where Are We Going? – 696m yuan (£69.7m)</td>
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by <a href="mailto:denton.2@osu.edu">denton.2@osu.edu</a> on September 30, 2014 </div>
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