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As of September 1, 2025, *** ���ٳ���DzԱ����The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021) to be the highest-grossing movie of all time in China, raking in almost  **** billion yuan. With a budget of just ** million U.S. dollars, the Chinese fantasy adventure film has achieved unprecedented success in global cinemas and is now the best-selling Asian animation movie of all time. Far behind was The Battle at Lake Changjin (2021), China's most expensive film ever made to date, with about *** billion yuan in box office revenue. **** was the only foreign film in the top ten ranking. The Marvel superhero film generated a total box office revenue of over **** billion yuan in China. In recent years, the country has invested a great deal of its resources in film making and distribution.

China’s homemade blockbusters

China remains a significant share in global's cinema market. Similar to other leading cinema markets in the world, China’s film industry primarily produces feature films. Sci-fi movies were considered the most undersupplied genre among Chinese audience. The Wandering Earth received much critical acclaim as one of China’s most stunning sci-fi productions, grossing about *** billion yuan in box office revenue. Critics lauded it as China’s answer to Hollywood productions such as Interstellar and Gravity.

Foreign film market in China

Foreign films often face a strict censorship by the Chinese authorities. Hollywood productions, like Avatar, Deadpool, The Da Vinci Code, were banned because of sensitive topics or conveying ideologies contradictory to traditional Chinese values. Although more overseas filmmakers are trying to avoid content considered unfavorable by the Chinese government, the market share of imported movies in terms of movie screenings has remained below ** percent since 2015. In terms of box office revenues, foreign enterprises made up less than ** percent of the total revenue between 2020 and 2023. In 2024, none of the Hollywood movies could earn over one billion yuan in box office revenue in the Chinese market.