Author: Patrick Frater / Source: Variety
-starring “Venom” injected some much-needed juice into the Chinese box office, with a blockbuster $102 million first weekend opening. The film crushed other new releases and holdovers alike.
Data from Artisan Gateway, which excludes online ticketing fees, shows the superhero film enjoying 73% of the entire Chinese box office this weekend.
Second placed Japanese animation, “Detective Conan: Zero the Enforcer,” took $10.6 million, or a 7.5% share.The strong performance of “Venom” is a useful fillip to the Chinese theatrical market, which has suffered a string of sub-$100 million cumulative totals by the top-10 films for the previous nine weekends. The aggregate box office leaped to $140 million, giving a year to date total of $7.30 billion, some 9% ahead of the same point last year.
The weekend score for “Venom” is the…
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