Local Chinese movies dominate the box office as they take eight out of the 10 top slots last week.
Sequel to the 2012 Hong Kong police thriller movie, “Cold War II” earned $15.6 million over the weekend, according to data from EntGroup. It held the top place during the weekend but was beaten on Friday by Chinese romance “Larry.”
Taking the second place is the beautifully animated, locally created “Big Fish and Begonia.” It has earned $14 million over the weekend and pushed it to $68.4 million over 10 days, which makes it one of the best performing Chinese animated movies of all time. Many animation fans have called it "the dawn of the Chinese animation industry" and voted it as the "most anticipated animated film."
“Never Gone,” an adaptation of a Chinese romantic drama of the same name, earned $19.52 million, showing that Chinese adaptation of novels can be a success in the current market as well.
Horror flick “TikTok” opened in the fourth place with $7.82 million. That put it ahead of youth romance “Never Gone” in its second week. It scored $6.19 million.
Another opener, the comedy actioner “For a Few Bullets” took the sixth place with $6.15 million.
The only foreign movies in the Top 10 are the Michael Bay-directed adaptation of the classic Saturday-morning cartoon, "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows" in the sixth place, and the star-studded Jesse Eisenberg, Daniel Radcliffe vehicle "Now You See Me 2" at the eighth spot, earning $7.31 million and $2.74 million, respectively.
Chinese-Russian animation collaboration “Sun Duck” takes the ninth spot, earning $2.34 million, and "Rock Dog" rounds up the list with a $1.80 million box-office revenue.
The local domination is likely to be broken with the release of the highly anticipated Disney “The Legend of Tarzan.”