Box-office bonanza

This Lunar New Year, Chinese movies earned 1.73 billion yuan, making it the most successful 'golden period' for mainland theaters, Xu Fan reports.

The just-ended Lunar New Year holidays proved a roaring success for China's box office as it recorded a new high with several local films possibly earning more than Western blockbusters half a world away.

The country's top regulator for the sector said that box-office revenues from Feb 19 to 24 touched 1.73 billion yuan ($280 million), 36 percent up from the same period last year, according to Xinhua News Agency.