Hollywood, Bollywood top China holiday box office

A new box-office record was created during the recent Tomb Sweeping Day holiday in China, with more than 20 new movies contending for audiences' attention.

The traditional Chinese holiday to remember ancestors, which lasted from April 5 to 7 this year, raked in 684 million yuan ($109 million) - a surge of 17 percent from 586 million yuan in 2017 - at the box office. The figure marks a new high for the annual holiday, according to Entgroup, an entertainment-industry tracker.

As a result, Hollywood sci-fi movie Ready Player One has made nearly 1 billion yuan since it was released in China on March 30, making it Steven Spielberg's highest-grossing film in the country.