BEIJING, Sept. 1 (Xinhua) — China’s 2025 summer season field workplace reached simply over 11.96 billion yuan (round 1.68 billion U.S. {dollars}), surpassing final yr’s summer season whole, the China Film Administration (CFA) introduced on Monday.
More than 100 movies spanning a various vary of genres, together with historical past, animation, comedy, motion and suspense, have been launched in China this previous summer season, attracting a complete of 321 million moviegoers, in accordance the CFA.
China’s summer season film season runs from June 1 via Aug. 31 and is historically one of many nation’s most profitable movie durations.
The top-grossing title of the summer season is “Dead to Rights,” a movie in regards to the 1937 Nanjing Massacre in east China throughout World War II — which raked in 2.89 billion yuan since its July 25 launch.
Drawing on verified historic pictures, the story depicts a gaggle of Nanjing residents who conceal inside a images studio and are compelled to assist a Japanese navy photographer develop his movie. When they understand the negatives reveal damning proof of atrocities throughout the town, they secretly preserve possession of them and smuggle the pictures to the surface world.
Other top-grossing movies of the summer season of 2025 embody “Nobody,” a by-product of the acclaimed “Yao-Chinese Folktales” animation collection; “The Shadow’s Edge,” a criminal offense motion flick starring Jackie Chan; “The Lychee Road,” a bittersweet drama set through the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and starring comic Da Peng; and Universal’s “Jurassic World Rebirth.”