{"id":77501,"date":"2022-02-07T13:57:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T08:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lunar-new-year-box-office-in-china-lake-changjin-ii-dominant\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T08:27:57","slug":"lunar-new-year-box-office-in-china-lake-changjin-ii-dominant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/lunar-new-year-box-office-in-china-lake-changjin-ii-dominant\/","title":{"rendered":"Lunar New Year Box Office in China: ‘Lake Changjin II’ Dominant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Patriotic blockbuster \u201cThe Battle at Lake Changjin II\u201d earned just short of $400 million over the Chinese New Year holidays at a mainland China box office that weighed in at some $950 million.<\/p>\n

Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway showed \u201cLake Changjin II\u201d earning $152 million over the Friday to Sunday weekend, comfortably ahead of comedy \u201cToo Cool to Kill\u201d which took $111 million over the same three days. In third place over the weekend was drama \u201cNice View\u201d with $45.4 million and animation \u201cBoonie Bears: Back to Earth\u201d with $38.8. The Zhang Yimou- and Zhang Mo-directed \u201cSnipers\u201d was fifth over the weekend with $22.7 million.<\/p>\n

Data from other sources show that the first three days of the six-day holiday period \u2013 Tuesday to Sunday \u2013 were the strongest, indicating that the cumulative scores at the end of Sunday are more important.<\/p>\n

\u201cLake Changjin II\u201d completed its first six days in Chinese theaters with $395 million, according to Artisan Gateway. \u201cToo Cool to Kill\u201d earned $217 million ahead of \u201cNice View\u201d with $104 million, \u201cBoonie Bears\u201d with $88.8 million and \u201cSniper\u201d with $41.1 million. <\/p>\n

Another prominent title, Han Han\u2019s motorbike adventure \u201cOnly Fools Rush In\u201d had a strong opening day with $36 million, but it faded rapidly. It finished with $79.3 million after six days, according to data from Ent Group. <\/p>\n

\u201cLake Changjin II\u201d (aka \u201cWatergate Bridge\u201d) dominated proceedings on all six days, but it appears to be scoring more slowly than its predecessor, \u201cThe Battle at Lake Changjin\u201d which launched as recently as Oct. 1, 2021, the beginning of China\u2019s National Day holiday season. The first \u201cLake Changjin\u201d film earned $235 million in its first three days and $633 million over its first ten days.<\/p>\n

Ent Group \u2013 which arrives at a significantly different six-day cumulative of $422 million for \u201cLake Changjin II\u201d \u2013 reports that the film opened with $103 million on Feb. 1. It followed that with daily scores of $45.7 million, $69.0 million, $56.4 million, $52.4 million and $45.7 million on the five succeeding days.<\/p>\n

Imax reports that \u201cThe Battle at Lake Changjin II\u201d was its third highest scoring opening in China, behind only \u201cDetective Chinatown III\u201d and \u201cThe Wandering Earth.\u201d The film earned $23.3 million of its nationwide total on 729 Imax giant screens, with $14,7 million coming between Tuesday and Thursday and $8.6 million coming between Friday and Sunday. The company said that the film\u2019s Imax total accounted for nearly 6% of the national box office whilst representing only 1% of total screens playing the film. <\/p>\n

Overall box office across the country for the six-day holiday period totaled RMB6.01 billion or $946 million by Variety<\/em>\u2019s calculation, based on daily reports from Alibaba\u2019s Beacon box office tracking service. <\/p>\n

Artisan Gateway calculates that China\u2019s year-to-date aggregate box office is now $1.36 billion, or more than double the figure achieved by this date in 2021. But that cannot be considered a like-for-like comparison as the Chinese New Year holidays were roughly two weeks later (Feb. 12, 2021).<\/p>\n

A more accurate comparison of the year-on-year running total can only be reached at the end of February, when the holiday season is effectively complete. <\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s Chinese New Year season was led by \u201cDetective Chinatown III,\u201d which scored $397 million in just three days, but was later overtaken by sleeper hit \u201cHi, Mom\u201d which had only $161 million in its first three days. Both films went on to finish their extended runs with over $800 million.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patriotic blockbuster \u201cThe Battle at Lake Changjin II\u201d earned just short of $400 million over the Chinese New Year holidays at a mainland China box office that weighed in at some $950 million. Data from consultancy Artisan Gateway showed \u201cLake Changjin II\u201d earning $152 million over the Friday to Sunday weekend, comfortably ahead of comedy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":77502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Lunar-New-Year-Box-Office-in-China-Lake-Changjin-II.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}