The global box office enjoyed a long overdue blockbuster weekend, with James Bond installment No Time To Die rocketing to $119.1 million from 54 markets and Venom: Let There Be Carnage opening to a pandemic-best $90.1 million at the domestic box office.
But the truly enormous business was happening over in China, where local war epic The Battle at Lake Changjin made an explosive opening during the country’s long National Day holiday weekend, earning $235 million from Thursday to Sunday. Bringing additional energy to the Chinese multiplex, the propagandistic ensemble film My Country, My Parents opened in second place with a healthy $90.6 million during the same stretch, according to data from Artisan Gateway.
The National Day holiday period, running Oct. 1-7, is one of China’s biggest box-office windows of the year. With several days still to go, local analysts are forecasting further heavy holiday sales for the two tentpoles. Chinese ticketing app and data company Maoyan is currently projecting The Battle at Lake Changjin to finish its run with a total of approximately $785 million, which would make it the third-biggest film in Chinese box office history. My Country, My Parents, meanwhile, is pegged to top out at $245 million.
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Source: HollyWood
