Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens in China on Saturday after generating more $1.5bn at the global box office in 19 days, putting it on course to surpass Avatar as the top grossing movie ever released.
The Walt Disney film capped a record 2015 for Hollywood, with global receipts for all movies exceeding $38bn, thanks to a multiplex boom in China, and total US box-office returns hitting $11bn for the first time.
China’s cinema market is growing rapidly. Its total box office increased 49 per cent in 2015 according to state figures, generating $6.77bn in revenues. The country is adding an average of 22 new screens per day.
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