China´s cinema owners bullish about industry´s prospects despite falling box office receipts
(WorldNews Music)

Four years ago, I went to Shenzhen on an ordinary Tuesday morning to catch one of the first screenings of Hong Kong filmmaker Wong Kar-wai’s martial arts film The Grandmaster on its open­ing day in China. Given the need to file a review immediately afterwards, I opted for a four-screen cineplex just a few hundred metres from the Futian checkpoint on the border with Hong Kong. The cineplex was eerily empty – of customers, of course, but also of staff. First, there was a 10-minute......