Entertainment News Roundup: China's 2018 movie box office revenue growth slows; Jimmy Osmond suffers stroke during UK pantomime performance

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Updated: 02-01-2019 10:51 IST | Created: 02-01-2019 10:29 IST

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China 2018 movie box office revenue growth slows

China's movie box office revenue rose 9 percent in 2018 to 60.98 billion yuan ($8.87 billion), state media reported, a slower pace than the 13.45 percent clocked for the previous year. Domestic films recorded ticket sales of 37.9 billion yuan in 2018, accounting for 62 percent of the total box office, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Monday, citing data from the State Film Administration.

Singer Jimmy Osmond suffers stroke during UK pantomime performance

U.S. pop singer Jimmy Osmond, who performed the chart-topping hit "Long-Haired Lover from Liverpool" as a child in 1972, has suffered a stroke and will take time away from the stage, a spokesperson for the singer said on Monday. Osmond completed a performance of the Peter Pan pantomime on Dec. 27 at the Birmingham Hippodrome theater in central England before he was driven to hospital and diagnosed with a stroke, the representative said in a statement on the theatre's website.

(With inputs from agencies.)

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