Local Films Give Hong Kong Box Office a Lunar New Year Bounce

Cinema box office in Hong Kong rebounded over the recent Chinese New Year holiday period. They failed to recover to pre-pandemic levels, but local titles performed strongly. Data from Hong Kong Box Office Limited showed gross revenues between Saturday and Tuesday (Jan 21-24, 2023) amounted to HK$50.89 million ($6.52 million). That is a 19% improvement on the equivalent four-day period in 2020, when COVID was just starting to arrive in the city and revenues fell to HK$42.89 million ($5.50 million). But the number was still 17% below the 2019 figure of HK$61.47 million ($7.88 million). Cinemas in the territory were… Read Full Article