Mapping China: Film - Current Situation, Trend and Development: Film Production

Since 2010, significant changes have occurred in the pattern of world films. The global market share of the North American box office has shrunk slightly, with an average annual decline of 1.5%. The Chinese film market’s global market share rose, with an average annual increase of 2.1%.The entire global box office was 37.5 billion dollars in 2014, with China accounting for 13% of that. Looking at increment, 75% of the 1.6 billion dollar increment in the global box office in 2014 came from the Chinese film market. China is now the world's second-largest film box office market, and also the world's third largest producer of films. Domestic film production rose from 140 films in 2003 to 618 in 2014.

 The relationship between the number of domestic films, imported films and the box office in recent years can be summarized as a basic ‘twenty-fifty rule’ which means that imported films account for 20% of all films and their combined box office revenue contributes approximately 50% to the total revenue. The most popular film types are comedy, action/martial arts, youth films and family ethics films.

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