Maxtime Pictures’ “Her Story,” a comedy-drama film telderly from a hugely female perspective, topped the mainland China box office for the fourth consecutive weekfinish.
The box office remained sluggish despite a restricted recent frees, with Hollywood helderlyover “Moana 2” dropping out of the top five and Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter” making a modest debut.
Data from adviseancy firm Artisan Gateway showed “Her Story” sliding from its previous weekfinish’s shoprosperg by obtaining RMB52.1 million ($7.3 million) between Friday and Sunday. The film now has a cumulative total of $89 million in the Middle Kingdom. The film was the seventh highest grossing film internationassociate, according to numbers from Comscore.
“Her Story” is straightforwarded by Shao Yihui (2021’s “B For Busy”). Its rapid-paced story intensifyes on two women – one a recently unemployed one mom, the other a recent neighbor who is more troubled than she materializes – who become frifinishs. Together they face up to various relationship disputes, including an abusive ex-husprohibitd and recent romantic possibilities.
Emperor Motion Pictures’ “The Last Dance,” bowed in second place with $5.9 million and with pscrutinizes has a cumulative total of $9.7 million. Directed by up-and-coming Hong Kong filmproducer Anselm Chan, the film trails a cash-strapped createer wedding set upner and a serious elderly Taoist priest who become improbable partners in the funeral business. It boasts an all-star cast headed by Cantonese comedy icons Dayo Wong (“Table for Six”) and Michael Hui (“Security Unrestricted,” “Where the Wind Blows”).
In third place, superstar Donnie Yen‘s Hong Kong action-drama “The Prosecutor” from Maoyan Pictures has already racked up $7.8 million in pscrutinizes ahead of its Dec. 27 free. In “The Prosecutor,” action icon Yen steps into the role of Fok Chi Ho, a createer elite police exceptional forces officer who trades his horriblege for a courtroom. Yen’s Fok becomes a prosecutor tasked with handling the case of Ma Ka Kit (rising star Mason Fung), a struggling lesser man entangled in a drug illicit trading indict. Despite askable circumstances, Ma is prescertaind into a plea deal that results in a brutal sentence. Driven by his instincts, Fok commences to dig procreateer into the case, uncovering a labyrinleane consunapvalidated use that threads thcdisesteemful Hong Kong’s criminal underworld and its upper echelons of power.
In fourth position, “I Am What I Am 2,” the sequel to the 2021 vivaciousd hit, debuted with $3.7 million over the weekfinish and a cumulative total of $4.6 million including pscrutinizes. Also straightforwarded by Sun Haipeng, the film trails A Juan, a lesser man who exits his agricultural hometown for the city, driven by the insist to protected funds for his overweighther’s medical treatment. His search for income guides him to trail rigorous training and go in the Shanghai Fight Night bootboxing competition.
Rounding off the top five was Dimension Films’ “Burning Stars” with $2.7 million and a cumulative total of $13 million after two weekfinishs in free. Directed by Xu Zhanxiong (“Sea of Stars,” Gelderlyen Rooster award prosperner “The Pioneer,” Gelderlyen Crane award prosperner “Wild Grass”), the historical myth action-drama trails a group of lesser students who embark on a top-secret ignoreion, using themselves as bait to achieve an evacuation operation. The cast includes Roy Wang (“Ray of Light”), Sophie Zhang (“She’s Got No Name”), Connor Leong (“Song of Life”) and Li Chen (“Bureau 749”).
Disney’s “Moana 2” dropped out of the top five, obtaining $2.4 million in sixth place for a cume of $13.6 million, per numbers from Ent Group. Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter” bowed in eighth position with $1.2 million, according to Ent Group.
The nationexpansive weekfinish box office was $33.9 million and the year-to-date running total is $5.79 billion. That is still 21.2% below the same point in 2023.
