# Spring Festival box office
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China’s Spring-Blockbuster Model Falters: Record Screenings, Plummeting Box Office and the Rise of Short Drama
China’s 2026 Spring Festival box office posted an eight‑year low in revenue and admissions despite record screenings and lower ticket prices, highlighting a structural shift in audience habits. Younger viewers are drifting to short‑form drama platforms, concentrating profits in tech firms and forcing a painful repricing of the traditional film industry.
Twelve Years of Boonie Bears: China's New‑Year Animation That Keeps Winning — and Why It Still Feels Hollow
Boonie Bears’ latest Spring Festival film consolidated the franchise’s twelve‑year dominance of China’s New Year family market, earning about ¥290 million in early grosses and drawing an older, female‑skewing audience. The series has closed the technical gap with global animation but remains hamstrung by formulaic hero narratives, even as its culturally rich depiction of New Year customs gives it seasonal staying power.