Having anticipated the implosion of the Chinese cinema bubble – as we predicted here and here – and at a time when commentators were falling over themselves to predict how soon China would overtake North America as the number one movie market in the world, our predictions came true in 2016. All the tell-tale signs that were previously highlighted, such as an inevitable end to e-ticket subsidies, restrictions on domestic content, rampant fraud and more, came together in a perfect storm causing China’s box of
Source: China’s Box Office ‘Slump’ Is Worse Than You Realise – Celluloid Junkie