"Detective Chinatown 3" tops the Chinese box office with $ 397.2 million
Wanda Pictures has confirmed that the box office in China has returned to prosperity, as "Detective Chinatown 3", on the first day of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday, made a record $ 160 million and ended the weekend with a staggering total of 397.2. $ 1 million in a three-day show, according to Artisan Gateway.
European cinemas saw a 70.6% drop at the box office, as cinemas closures due to Corona wiped $ 7.5 billion in revenue, as figures released by the International Film Federation (UNIC) showed a 70.6% drop in the box office across Europe in In 2020, (6.2 billion euros) through 38 European regions.
The declines come after 2019, which saw the highest revenue entry in all of Europe, the highest in 15 years - and box office numbers reached $ 10.65 billion (€ 8.8 billion).
Although the government's response to the coronavirus epidemic varied widely between European countries, countries such as Italy and Spain took a quick and severe lockdown early on, while others, including Sweden and the Netherlands, chose less restrictive measures, but this difference is reflected in the box office results. In general, revenues have decreased everywhere, with few exceptions, for example Italy, the first European country to enter a lockdown in Corona, witnessed a 71% decrease in box office revenues for 2020.
