Huayi Brothers Media Corp, one of China's leading movie producers, announced on Sunday during the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival that it will release 15 films this year and next.

Five will be released this year, and the rest will be screened in 2014.

"Movie audiences are becoming younger and are showing a tendency to watch films depicting real life. The top three popular genre films are romance, comedy and action movies," said Wang Zhonglei, president of the listed company.

Wang Zhongjun, chairman of the private media group. said: "In the first half of this year, we have generated about 1.7 billion yuan ($277.6 million) in box office revenue, and the total figure of the whole year will exceed 3 billion yuan."