The source forecast that, by the end of 2022, the annual revenue of the global film production and distribution industry would amount to **** billion U.S. dollars. As of mid-2022, the sector employed almost *** thousand people in a little more than ** thousand businesses worldwide. China, the North American market (a term that includes the United States and Canada and excludes Mexico), and Japan were the world's leading box office markets by revenue in 2021.
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