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29.11.2025 14:51

China’s Box Office Just Broke Its Own 2024 Record — in October — Thanks to the “Ticket-Stub Economy”

While Hollywood limps toward the finish line of 2025 hoping to scrape together a respectable global total, China has already left last year in the dust — and it’s not even Thanksgiving.By November 20, 2025, mainland China’s cumulative box office reached ¥43.8 billion RMB (approximately $6.12 billion USD), officially surpassing the full-year 2024 total of ¥43.5 billion — with two full months still to go. Local blockbusters like Ne Zha 2 (¥9.8 billion), The Battle at Lake Changjin III (¥7.3 billion) and the animated phenomenon Boonie Bears: Future World (¥4.1 billion) are driving the surge, but the real rocket fuel is something far more ingenious: the “ticket-stub economy” (票根经济).
While Hollywood limps toward the finish line of 2025 hoping to scrape together a respectable global total, China has already left last year in the dust — and it’s not even Thanksgiving.By November 20, 2025, mainland China’s cumulative box office reached ¥43.8 billion RMB (approximately $6.12 billion USD), officially surpassing the full-year 2024 total of ¥43.5 billion — with two full months still to go. Local blockbusters like Ne Zha 2 (¥9.8 billion), The Battle at Lake Changjin III (¥7.3 billion) and the animated phenomenon Boonie Bears: Future World (¥4.1 billion) are driving the surge, but the real rocket fuel is something far more ingenious: the “ticket-stub economy” (票根经济).