In 2024, the global Film industry underwent profound transformation amid the restructuring of the media ecosystem and the diversification of entertainment. Chinese mainland’s Film market, while maintaining its position as the world’s second largest with a box office of 42.502 billion yuan, showed a decline compared with 2023, revealing structural weakness. This shift stemmed not only from external pressures such as global market contraction, short-video diversion, and the rise of AIGC technologies, but also from internal issues like audience aging and the loss of younger viewers. Within a complex environment, this study adopts a framework of “industrial ecology–creative transformation–technological innovation” to explore the transitional path of China’s Film industry. On the creative side, Films increasingly focus on social realism and youthful expression; on the production side, technologies such as virtual production, algorithmic creation, and intelligent marketing are reshaping workflows and promoting industrial upgrading. Consequently, the Chinese Film industry is shifting from scale expansion to quality improvement, pursuing sustainable development through technological integration and global narrative innovation, thereby offering valuable insights for the reconstruction of the global Film ecosystem.

Yang Zhipeng, Hu Yaping. A Study on the Film Production Industry in Chinese Mainland in 2024. Frontiers in Art Research (2025), Vol. 7, Issue 8: 1-7. https://doi.org/10.25236/FAR.2025.070801.

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