综合灯塔专业票房和北美票房统计网站Box Office Mojo统计的数据，截至北京时间15日，中国2020年累计票房已达到129.5亿元人民币（约19.3亿美元），首次超越北美（19.2亿美元）成为全球最大的电影市场。

而在刚刚过去的一周（10月12日-10月18日），凭借国庆档几部电影的助力，电影市场仍保持强劲势头。灯塔数据显示，上周国内票房接近6.87亿元，《我和我的家乡》以3.09亿元的成绩蝉联票房冠军。由许宏宇执导，刘昊然、彭昱畅、尹昉领衔主演的农村题材喜剧片《一点就到家》票房达8050万元，位列第二。

The Chinese box office earned nearly 687 million yuan ($102.8 million) in the past week (October 12-18) with the domestic anthology film "My People, My Homeland" continuing its predominance by taking in 309 million yuan ($46.2 million) in revenue, according to box office tracker platform Lighthouse.

As National Day holiday blockbusters such as "My People, My Homeland" and "Legend of Deification" drew more viewers back to cinemas, the box office raked in around 12.95 billion yuan (over $1.93 billion) by October 15, and for the first time in history, overtook North America ($1.92 billion) to become the world's biggest movie market this year, according to data from Lighthouse and Box Office Mojo.

Cast members of the film "Coffee or Tea" attend a post-screening event. /CFP

Coming in second at the box office with 80.5 million yuan ($12.04 million) in ticket sales was Hong Kong director Derek Hui's comedy "Coffee or Tea," a story of three youths starting up a business in a rural village in southwest China's Yunnan Province that stars up-and-coming actors Liu Haoran, Peng Yuchang and Yin Fang.

War epic 'The Sacrifice' spotlights CPV soldiers

最新数据显示，中国2020年累计票房已达到134.4亿元人民币（约20亿美元）。与此同时，还有一大波热门电影即将上映。

其中，备受期待的电影《金刚川》将于10月23日在全国院线上映。该片以抗美援朝为题材，讲述志愿军战士们在敌我力量悬殊的情况下，以血肉之躯顽强拼搏的英勇事迹，旨在纪念中国人民志愿军抗美援朝出国作战70周年。

《金刚川》由管虎、郭帆和路阳共同执导，三位导演强强联手提高了观众的“期待值”。管虎的作品《八佰》目前一直占据今年全球票房冠军宝座，郭帆的《流浪地球》和路阳的《绣春刀》系列也均获得高口碑。

此外，强大的演员阵容也是这部影片的看点之一。吴京和张译被网友称为“王炸”组合，此次两位“硬汉”将在《金刚川》中再度同框，或将再现《八佰》的票房奇迹。

The China box office has generated about 13.44 billion yuan (over 2.01 billion U.S dollars) to date with cinemagoing on the rise as the coronavirus epidemic was under control in the country.

A big bunch of strong films is set to be released during the rest of the year, further boosting the recovery process.

Among them is the highly-anticipated war epic "The Sacrifice," also known as "Jin Gang Chuan," which gets a theatrical release nationwide on Friday, October 23, in commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Volunteers (CPV) Army entering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to help in the war to resist U.S. aggression.

Posters for the upcoming film "The Sacrifice."

The special effects-driven war picture is co-directed by three veteran filmmakers, including Guan Hu, the helmsman of "The Eight Hundred" – the No. 1 movie blockbuster of 2020 so far, as well as Frank Guo, whose 2019 sci-fi phenomenon "The Wandering Earth" is the third-highest grossing movie in Chinese box office history.

Spotlighting CPA soldiers, the film featuring an all-star cast such as veteran actors Wu Jing ("Wolf Warrior") and Zhang Yi ("Operation Red Sea ") is likely to repeat the magic of "The Eight Hundred."