Hit the popcorn 🍿 and buckle up! By 6:08 p.m. on Saturday, China's eight-day National Day holiday had already smashed past the 1.1-billion-yuan mark ($155M), according to box office data. This festive "Golden Week" is a blockbuster battleground where movies duke it out for audience attention – and this year is no exception.
Topping the chart is domestic war epic The Volunteers: Peace at Last, director Chen Kaige’s thrilling finale to his The Volunteers trilogy. Audiences are diving into its epic battle scenes and tense diplomatic showdowns set during the War to Resist U.S. Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-1953). 🎖️
Coming in a close second is Evil Unbound, a gritty drama that sheds light on the Japanese germ-warfare Unit 731’s harrowing experiments in China during WWII. Brace yourself for a haunting tale of survival and resilience. 😱
Rounding out the top three is A Writer’s Odyssey II, the follow-up to the 2021 fantasy-action hit. This installment takes us on a mind-bending journey as a novelist fights to save both his real life and the virtual world he created. 🖋️✨
With such powerhouse releases lighting up screens across the Chinese mainland, box office totals are on a roll. Stay tuned for more updates on which titles will cross the finish line first! 🎥🏆
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China's National Day box office surpasses 1.1-billion-yuan mark
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