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Domestically-made war epic The Eight Hundred continued to dominate the box office in China this weekend, even after the highly anticipated sci-fi action film Tenet by Christopher Nolan hit theaters Friday.
With an opening day box office collection of nearly 60 million yuan on Friday, Tenet raked in a total of 200 million yuan from this market as of Sunday night.
IMAX Corporation announced that Tenet earned $11.1 million in IMAX weekend global box office — the biggest global box office weekend ever in September for IMAX — as it expanded into China, the United States and Russia. The film earned 36.6 million yuan in IMAX format in China, delivering 18% of the Chinese box office despite accounting for only 1% of screens in the market.
Even with continued capacity limitations, Tenet claimed the best three-day opening weekend ever in China for a Christopher Nolan film.
Formally released on Aug. 21, The Eight Hundred by Guan Hu saw its total box office revenue grow to around 2.4 billion yuan as of early Sunday night, data compiled by Maoyan, a movie-ticketing and film data platform, showed.
Disney's long-awaited live-action flick Mulan, based on the legend of an ancient Chinese heroine of the same name, is set for release in China on Sept. 11, just one week after Tenet.
Mulan, according to folk legend, lived during a tumultuous era in Chinese history more than 1,400 years ago. She disguised herself as a man to serve in the army in place of her old father and fight for her country.
Mulan stars Liu Yifei in the title role, with Gong Li playing a powerful and dangerous witch, Donnie Yen an army commander, and Jet Li the emperor.
