“Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” ranked first at the Chinese mainland box office over the weekend with an opening score of $17.2 million (RMB122 million).
Big screen company Imax reports that $2.7 million, or more than 16% of the film’s total in China, came from its Middle Kingdom locations.
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Chinese online ticketing agency Maoyan forecasts that “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” will earn a total of RMB241 million or $34 million at current exchange rates.
“Fast X,” which had taken the prize for the past two weekends, was passed on its third lap and raked in $7.7 million for second place, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. After 17 days in Chinese theaters, “Fast X” has amassed $124 million, making it the highest-grossing imported title to open this year in China ahead of Japanese animation “Suzume.”
Maoyan has revised his forecast for “Fast X” once again. He now predicts a lifetime score of 932 million RMB ($132 million), having initially predicted 728 RMB ($104 million) and then given at least two updates.
Two Japanese animated newcomers, Studio Ghibli’s 1986 “Castle in the Sky” and current year’s franchise title “Doraemon: Nobita’s Sky Utopia” ranked third and fourth respectively, edging out Disney’s live-action film. “The Little Mermaid” out of the top five. chart in just its second weekend.
“Castle in the Sky” earned $6.0 million (RMB42.8 million) during the mainstream Friday-Sunday weekend and raked in $10.7 million (RMB76 million) including on the Thursday release day. Similarly, the title “Doraemon” also enjoyed a June 1 release and grossed $4.2 million (RMB 29.6 million) over the weekend for a four-consecutive-day total of $10.9 million. (RMB77.1 million).
The Chinese title, “Godspeed,” which was released at the end of April, remained in fifth place over the weekend. He added $3.8 million for a cumulative total of $152 million (RMB 1.08 billion).
“The Little Mermaid,” which received a decidedly icy reception in China, sank to tenth place according to provisional figures from other data providers. His cumulative languishes at about $3.77 million after ten days.
The weekend box office total domestically was $43.9 million. That’s 46% ahead of a sickly 2022, according to Artisan Gateway, and 19% below the cumulative total at the same point in 2019.
The consultancy reported that the month of May, which includes a significant one-week holiday period, generated a box office gross of $487 million (RMB3.4 billion), an increase of more than three times compared to the affected month of May. by COVID-19 last year, but a 30% delay compared to 2019.
It also estimates that despite the return of largely normal Hollywood releases in China since early 2023, Chinese-language content has amassed a 79% market share in the first five months of the year. The remaining 21% achieved by foreign language titles had to be shared by Hollywood and Japanese films, with “Suzume” and “The First Slam Dunk” performing strongly.
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