BEIJING -- The top legislature on November 7 adopted a law on the film industry, promising harsh punishment for firms that fabricate box office earnings, data or information.
Film distributors and theaters will have all their illegal earnings confiscated and be fined upward of 500,000 yuan (about 73,800 U.S. dollars) if they falsify ticket sales data, according to the law adopted at the National People's Congress (NPC) Standing Committee bi-monthly session after a third reading.