Over the past two years, high-grossing films have emerged in a steady stream.
At the dawn of the new century, a film box office breaking ten million could already be considered quite impressive. Back then, the top ten films on the domestic Chinese box office charts were all in the tens of millions, and rarely exceeded fifty million.
Even if there were occasionally one or two exceptions, they were almost entirely mainstream melodramas, and because of large-scale bought-out screenings, their box office figures held little actual value.
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