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    Photo: VCGRomance, animations and crime dramas were competing for moviegoers as China's Valentine's Day arrived on Wednesday, with 19 films opening this week and recent blockbusters still holding strong at the summer box office.
Although the Qixi Festival, celebrated on the seventh day of the seventh month on the Chinese lunar calendar and known as Chinese Valentine's Day, is not traditionally considered a major moviegoing period, the holiday has consistently generated a sharp boost in single-day box-office takes, particularly among younger audiences. 
China recorded 364 million yuan ($53.98 million) in ticket sales on Qixi in 2024, a Saturday, about three times the 107 million yuan earned the previous day. In 2025, the Qixi box office, a Friday, reached 234 million yuan, more than double the 109 million yuan recorded a day earlier. 
As of press time, the daily box office for the 2026 Qixi Festival surpassed 230 million yuan. 
"Qixi may not be a major movie-going holiday, but it can still bring a noticeable boost to the box office by concentrating audiences' demand for cinema-going on a single day," Zhang Peng, a cultural researcher and associate professor at Nanjing Normal University, told the Global Times. "For romance films, in particular, the festival provides a natural occasion for couples and young audiences to go to the cinema."
Zhang Zihan, a sophomore design student at Sichuan University, planned to see All Wishes Come True! with her boyfriend Wednesday night. She told the Global Times that after having seen strong recommendations on social media for the animated film, she decided to watch it herself, hoping to assess it from the perspective of an art student. 
The film's storytelling and animation design have drawn widespread praise, earning an 8.2/10 rating on Douban, a popular Chinese review platform.
Six films opened on Wednesday, including two romance titles.
Be With You, supervised by Lan Hongchun, director of family drama Dear You, follows a young couple whose relationship helps both characters heal. 
Love, My Way was selected for the Asian New Talent Award at the 25th Shanghai International Film Festival, where it received nominations for best film, best director and best actress. The film explores women's struggles and growth in intimate relationships. 
The week's biggest new release is expected to be V, which opened Wednesday. It has grossed more than 30 million yuan at the box office as of Wednesday. Directed by Han Yan, whose previous films include Go Away Mr Tumor, A Little Red Flower and Viva La Vida, the crime drama marks his first foray into the police-and-gangster genre.
Du Yangbaixue, a journalism student at the Communication University of China, had planned well in advance to see V with friends. She told the Global Times she was eager to see the new film as she is a fan of Tony Leung Ka-fai and was drawn by the film's star-studded cast. 
The new releases will enter a market still dominated by several strong holdovers.
As of Wednesday, Once Upon a Time in the Middle East had grossed more than 1.1 billion yuan at the box office, while Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey had garnered 320 million yuan. Animated film All Wishes Come True! had grossed more than 160 million yuan. 
In addition, Niu Lai, a low-budget original animated film with rudimentary character modeling and an unconventional, abstract storyline, could receive an additional lift from Qixi moviegoing. It had grossed over 26 million yuan at the box office as of Wednesday. 
"The previous blockbusters are likely to maintain their momentum, while Qixi, one of the key holidays near the end of the summer movie season, could further boost audience demand and lift overall summer box office," noted Zhang.
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B |     LONDON -- Thousands of travelers faced disruption as all flights were suspended on Wednesday at London's Luton airport after a fire tore through a newly built parking garage, destroying vehicles and partially collapsing the structure.Four firefighters and an airport employee were treated in hospitals for smoke inhalation after the fire, which erupted on Tuesday evening.All flights were suspended until at least 3 p.m. on Wednesday, the airport said in a statement, and would-be passengers were asked to stay away because emergency crews were still on the scene.Luton, about 56 kilometers (35 miles) north of central London, is a hub for easyJet, Ryanair and other budget airlines running flights to destinations in the United Kingdom and Europe.Some passengers had to wait at the nearby railway station because the airport was closed.Nikodem Lesiak, a university student trying to return to Poland, said he had spent the night at the station.“When we got here, we found out Luton is burning and everything is closed, and we were supposed to have our flight at 7:50 today but it was cancelled," he said.Video posted on social media and on the websites of British news outlets showed police and fire department vehicles gathered outside a multi-story parking structure where the top level was engulfed in flames. The parking garage for Terminal 2 partially collapsed.In addition to the five people hospitalized, a sixth person was treated at the scene.Bedfordshire Fire and Rescue Service said its crews were “monitoring the smoldering remains” on Wednesday morning. Chief fire officer Andrew Hopkinson said the blaze is thought to have started with a diesel vehicle, and the recently opened parking garage did not have sprinklers.Authorities said they don't believe the blaze was started intentionally.Russell Taylor, 41, an account director from Kinross in Scotland, saw the flames after flying in to Luton from Edinburgh. He told the PA news agency that he first saw a couple of fire engines with a car on fire on an upper level. "A few minutes later, most of the upper floor was alight, car alarms were going off with loud explosions from cars going up in flames," he said. "The speed in which the fire took hold was incredible.”。

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