'The Sacrifice' continues to lead daily box office

Xinhua

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War film The Sacrifice continued to lead China's daily box office chart, generating nearly 50 million yuan (about 7.4 million U.S. dollars) on Friday.

This brought the film's total box office revenue since its Oct. 23 release to around 568 million yuan, figures compiled by the China Movie Data Information Network showed.

Set in the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953), the film is co-directed by Guan Hu, the director of this year's blockbuster war epic The Eight Hundred.

Digimon Adventure: Last Evolution kizuna, a Japanese animated film, ranked second, grossing 19.05 million yuan on the first day of its screening on Friday.

Coming in third was My People, My Homeland which raked in 10.8 million yuan Friday, with its total box office revenue topping 2.65 billion yuan.