As time reached the end of August, the summer box office season officially came to an end.
This year's summer box office in Mainland China could be described as the most uninhibited year for Hollywood movies. If not for Liu Zhou's *Aftershock* recovering some face, domestic filmmakers would have been completely humiliated.
The first half of this year was entirely dominated by imported blockbusters. Starting in May, major blockbusters like *Kung Fu Panda*, *Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides*, and *Fast Five* launched wave after wave of bombardment.
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