China Film Industry

In the year after Chinese President Xi Jinping put the Communist Party's propaganda office in charge of regulating films, box-office totals are headed for their first annual decline in a decade

China recently reported its worst January box office receipts since 2015, while the number of movies produced began to fall last September, a harbinger of leaner times ahead

Misguided policy and excessive capital have been setting the stage for disaster

Some foreign films, including Amir Khan-starrer Indian blockbuster "Dangal", this year raked in higher box office collections in China.