‘Golden Job’ heist flick steals limelight at China box office
BEIJING: The Golden Job, a Hong Kong action film that revives the 1980s Young & Dangerous action franchise, topped the mainland Chinese box office over the weekend. Directed by Eric Tsang, it earned a respectable US$ 22.7 million ( RM93 million) in its opening three days, for a 34 per cent share of a lowball pre-holiday weekend.
Second place went to Chinese romance Cry Me A Sad River. It scored US$ 11.2 million, according to data from Ent Group
Last week’s box office winner, another Hong Kong picture, L Storm dropped to third place with US$ 9.20 million over the weekend. That lifted its 10- day cumulative score to US$ 53.9 million.
Mission: Impossible – Fallout earned US$ 6.87 million for fourth place. Its cumulative 24- day gross is US$ 174 million, making it the fourth most successful Hollywood film in China this year, and the 11th ranking film of the year.
Ash is Purest White, the Jia Zhangke- directed low-life drama that played in competition in Cannes in May, took fifth place. It earned US$ 5.83 million.
Chinese animation, Adventure in Journey to the West was released last Saturday and scored US$ 2.58 million in two days. Bruce Willis- starring action remake Death Wish earned US$ 1.83 million in seventh place on its opening weekend. Japanese drama Destiny: Kamakura Monogatari placed eighth with US$ 750,000. Two days of previews gave female drama Lost, Found US$ 470,000 and ninth place, ahead of Ant Man and the Wasp, which took US$ 190,000 for a 31- day cumulative of US$ 121 million.