China spurs global box-office record

Chinese movie fans helped push worldwide cinema sales ahead 6 per cent to a record US$34.7 billion last year, as the world's most-populous nation passed Japan to become the No 2 film market.

Moviegoers in China increased their box-office spending by 36 per cent to US$2.7 billion last year, according to the Motion Picture Association of America, the Washington-based trade group, which released year-end statistics yesterday.

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