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China Box Office: ‘Oppenheimer’ Nears $50M But Loses Second Weekend to Local Thriller ‘Dust to Dust’
(www.hollywoodreporter.com)
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Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer climbed to $47.2 million in China over the weekend, continuing a better-than-expected run in the world’s second-biggest box office territory.
Despite its long runtime and weighty historical subject matter — which many analysts expected would be a drag in China — Oppenheimer has been boosted by a rave local reception.
On the influential fan platform Douban, it has received nearly half a million reviews averaging 8.8, one of the highest scores of any Hollywood film of recent memory.
A crime thriller starring popular comedian Da Peng and actor Zhang Songwen (lead of the recent hit TV drama The Knockout), the film is based on a real armed robbery from 1995, which involved a group of five thieves ambushing a cash transport vehicle in Guangdong, killing three bank couriers and making away with millions.
North American viewers will have a chance to check out the film, dubbed by fans as “China’s answer to Lord of the Rings” and widely praised for its production values, on Sept. 22, thanks to a domestic distribution deal recently inked by Well Go USA.
On Friday, Millennium Films’ action flick Expend4bles and 20th Century’s A Haunting in Venice, the latest Hercule Poirot mystery starring Kenneth Branagh, will open in China.
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