![]() Journey to the West finds Kris Wu as a monk in ancient India. ![]() Kung Fu Yoga featured Jackie Chan as an archaeology professor who teams up with young Indian professor from Rajasthan to locate a lost Indian treasure in Tibet. ![]() India has been a major theme amongst China’s biggest box office hits, with the south Asian neighbor figuring prominently in the PRC’s second, third, and fourth highest-grossing films in the year’s first half. Both Dangal and The Last Knight continue to play at Chinese multiplexes. The top 5 films of the 6-month period were Hollywood’s Fate of the Furious ($388 million), the Jackie Chan starring Kung Fu Yoga ($255 million), the Tsui Hark directed and Stephen Chow-written/produced Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back ($241 million), the Aamir Khan-starring Indian drama Dangal ($189 million), and Hollywood’s Transformers: The Last Knight ($174 million). ![]() On a per capita basis, however, China still lags far behind, with about 34 screens per million inhabitants, against 125 screens per million in the U.S. China has already far surpassed the United States as the most heavily screened nation with more than 47,000 screens versus just under 41,000 in the U.S. If the trend continues China will be back on track toward eventually overtaking North America as the world’s biggest box office territory within a few years. Aggregate box office for the six months from January through June was 27.175 billion RMB, or about $3.95 billion.
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