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Article: Box office takings to hit record 4 billion yuan in 2008: official
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- August 6, 2008
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Box office takings to hit record 4 billion yuan in 2008: official
BEIJING, Aug. 6 (Xinhua) -- Box office takings in China may hit a
new high by exceeding 4 billion yuan ( 590 million U.S. dollars)
this year, according to an official with the country's movie
regulator.
The box office reached a record 3.33 billion yuan in 2007, but
the film industry was expected to rake in more this year, topping
four billion yuan, said Zhang Hongsen, an official with the State
Administration of Radio, Film and Television(SARFT).
Zhang, deputy director of the film bureau under SARFT, did not
provide a detailed analysis of the box office increase, but said
China's home-made movies had witnessed year-on-year ...