China Box Office: Sony’s ‘Peter Rabbit 2’ Opens in Second Place with $7.8M

Sony’s Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway opened to strong reviews in China over the weekend, but it proved the tortoise in the local box office race, finishing in second behind Chinese sports drama…

, the directorial debut of Han Bowen, stars Zheng Kai as a past-his-prime Chinese track star. It opened Saturday at the front of the pack and pulled in $10.2 million by the end of Sunday., another directorial debut, opened in third with $6.9 million, including $500,000 on Imax. The film is produced by veteran hitmaker Ning Hao and helmed by newcomer Shi Wenpei.

Altogether, Dragon Boat Festival 2021 is shaping up to be a relatively sluggish holiday weekend. To date, China’s box office has generated $4.14 billion in ticket sales this year, 8.9 percent behind the equivalent period in 2019.

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