China may save global cinema from final curtain, expert says
China DailyAudiences check into a cinema to watch My People, My Homeland in Shanghai on October 1. Overtaking North America to top the world's film market in terms of yearly box-office receipts from late October, China's film industry has seen a slow recovery. Hauling in a total gross of 17.9 billion yuan as of Dec 18, less than 30 percent of the 64.1 billion yuan earned last year, domestic filmmakers are still struggling to survive this industrial "winter". Nevertheless, Dai Jinhua-a Peking University film scholar who has published dozens of academic books, with most of them being translated to various languages including English, French, Italian and Spanish-believes China could be the last hope for the survival of world cinema. "If the Chinese film industry could maintain, world cinema will have a chance of survival.