Hollywood films took the top three places at the China box office, with Alibaba-backed “Mission: Impossible – Fallout” again on top. But it was a slow weekend.
After a highly impressive $77 million opening a week earlier, the Tom Cruise-starring “Fallout” fell 59% in its second weekend to score $31.5 million. But it had little competition.
“Fallout” played at 7,149 venues delivering some 100,000 screenings per day. Its total included $2.6 million from most of the country’s IMAX screens. After 10 days its cumulative is $137 million.
The second placed film, and the week’s highest newcomer, was wilderness tale “Alpha.” It earned $10.1 million from over 60,000 screenings per day.
Both of the top two titles have Chinese industry connections. “Fallout” is backed by and marketed in China by Alibaba Pictures. ‘Alpha” is a product of the Fosun International-backed Studio 8.
Third place belonged to “Ant-Man and the Wasp.” Playing in its third week, it earned $4.53 million, for a 17-day cumulative of $117 million.
Soccer drama, “Pele: Birth of a Legend” took fourth spot with $2.50 million. (Another sports drama, “Lee Chong Wei: Rise of the Legend” earned $620,000, enough for tenth place. Lee is a Malaysian badminton star, whose biggest rivalry was with a Chinese player.)
Fifth was “Go Brother,” which earned $1.71 million for a cumulative of $53 million after 24 days. Chinese crime drama, “The Blizzard” released on Thursday and earned 1.46 million in four days for sixth place.
On a weekend with a top-10 cumulative gross of just $54.6 million, the third lowest of the year, no other film earned more than $1 million.
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