After several weeks of dominance, China’s pseudo-propagandistic pandemic blockbuster Chinese Doctors was knocked off the top of the country’s theatrical box office over the weekend. Loc…
performed particularly well on Imax, opening to $2.6 million, which was 9.1 percent of its total weekend sales — the best opening share ever for a Chinese animation title in the giant screen format., which tells stories of heroism from China’s frontline medical professionals during the earliest stages of the pandemic, has climbed to $176.6 million after 17 days on Chinese screens. That’s the biggest haul, so far, of any film this summer in China.
China’s theatrical box office, which started the year with a bang during the Lunar New Year holiday, has limped along through the peak earning months of summer so far. Imported Hollywood films have been blocked from release in the country because of Beijing’s celebration of the Communist Party’s 100th anniversary this month. China’s most commercial titles that don’t hew to overtly nationalistic storylines are also waiting out the anniversary period to make their run at cinemas.
As of Sunday, China’s total ticket sales for 2021 were $4.65 billion, down from $5.44 billion in 2019, the last year of “normal” theatrical earnings before the pandemic.
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