17 Feb 2021 03:43PMBEIJING: Chinese cinemas racked up record box-office revenues during the week-long Chinese New Year holiday, as coronavirus travel curbs compelled millions to forego visits home during what is usually the world's biggest annual domestic migration.
"It's pent-up demand, due to the virus controls and also higher ticket prices, that is behind the hefty box-office sales," said a user on China's Twitter-like Weibo, nicknamed Tianjin Share Guru.The top draw was Chinatown Detective 3, a buddy action comedy set in Japan's capital of Tokyo, with sales of 3.4 billon yuan, while Hi Mom, a time-travel comedy about parenthood and family relations, came in second, raking in 2.4 billion.
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