Light Chaser Animation production is a sequel to its 2019 hit White Snake, which tapped into a growing trend for youth-oriented animated films.
Light Chaser Animation’s Green Snake, the sequel to its 2019 hit animated feature White Snake, topped the box office in its opening weekend in China, grossing $29.7m in its first three days (July 23-25), according to figures from theatrical consultancy Artisan Gateway.
The film continues the Chinese legend of two snake spirits with magical powers, who are able to take on human form after achieving immortality, and choose to live in the physical world as beautiful women. Tapping...
Light Chaser Animation’s Green Snake, the sequel to its 2019 hit animated feature White Snake, topped the box office in its opening weekend in China, grossing $29.7m in its first three days (July 23-25), according to figures from theatrical consultancy Artisan Gateway.
The film continues the Chinese legend of two snake spirits with magical powers, who are able to take on human form after achieving immortality, and choose to live in the physical world as beautiful women. Tapping...
- 7/26/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
“Green Snake,” the Chinese animated sequel to the folktale adaptation “White Snake,” slithered past propaganda films to the top of the box office this weekend with a $29.7 million debut, according to Maoyan figures.
The platform currently predicts that “Green Snake” will go on to gross $77.5 million, which would make it more successful than its 2019 predecessor’s $61.6 million.
The new sequel brought in $2.6 million from Imax screens in China, which accounted for 9.1% of its total weekend sales. That makes it Imax’s highest indexing local animated title of all time in China, beating the 2019 breakout hit “Ne Zha.”
The film is the latest work from the ever-improving local animation studio Light Chaser, and once again employs a video game-like aesthetic to tell the constantly reprised fable dating back to the Tang dynasty. The tale recounts the story of two snakes who develop super powers after achieving immortality and become able to transform into women.
The platform currently predicts that “Green Snake” will go on to gross $77.5 million, which would make it more successful than its 2019 predecessor’s $61.6 million.
The new sequel brought in $2.6 million from Imax screens in China, which accounted for 9.1% of its total weekend sales. That makes it Imax’s highest indexing local animated title of all time in China, beating the 2019 breakout hit “Ne Zha.”
The film is the latest work from the ever-improving local animation studio Light Chaser, and once again employs a video game-like aesthetic to tell the constantly reprised fable dating back to the Tang dynasty. The tale recounts the story of two snakes who develop super powers after achieving immortality and become able to transform into women.
- 7/25/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Foreign titles are few and far between during this period, when cinemas have been ordered to play new and classic “main melody” films.
Bona Film Group’s Chinese Doctors stayed atop the Chinese box office in its second weekend (July 16-18), according to figures from theatrical consultancy Artisan Gateway, grossing $44.2m for a cumulative total of $136.6m.
Directed by Hong Kong’s Andrew Lau, the patriotic drama about a group of medical professionals in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan, stars Zhang Hanyu and Yuan Quan.
It beat off three local openers including musical comedy The Day We Lit Up The Sky,...
Bona Film Group’s Chinese Doctors stayed atop the Chinese box office in its second weekend (July 16-18), according to figures from theatrical consultancy Artisan Gateway, grossing $44.2m for a cumulative total of $136.6m.
Directed by Hong Kong’s Andrew Lau, the patriotic drama about a group of medical professionals in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic in Wuhan, stars Zhang Hanyu and Yuan Quan.
It beat off three local openers including musical comedy The Day We Lit Up The Sky,...
- 7/19/2021
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
“Chinese Doctors” gave a shot in the arm to a sluggish weekend at the Chinese box office, coming in first with sales of $44.4 million, according to Maoyan data.
The patriotic tear-jerked had little competition: only other patriotic films, children’s animations and youth-centric programming are currently in theaters.
The Wuhan-set pandemic film from Bona Film is the most commercial of a slew of blockbusters intended to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party, and has grossed $138 million so far. Some $5.5 million of those sales came from Imax screens, $2.2 million of which rolled in this weekend, the company said.
In comparison, earlier frontrunner “1921” has grossed $71 million since its July 1 debut and “The Pioneer” just $18.9 million.
In a slow week with no breakout new releases, the latter two films nevertheless remained in the top ten, coming in fifth and tenth this weekend, grossing $2.6 million and $593,000, respectively.
In second place this...
The patriotic tear-jerked had little competition: only other patriotic films, children’s animations and youth-centric programming are currently in theaters.
The Wuhan-set pandemic film from Bona Film is the most commercial of a slew of blockbusters intended to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party, and has grossed $138 million so far. Some $5.5 million of those sales came from Imax screens, $2.2 million of which rolled in this weekend, the company said.
In comparison, earlier frontrunner “1921” has grossed $71 million since its July 1 debut and “The Pioneer” just $18.9 million.
In a slow week with no breakout new releases, the latter two films nevertheless remained in the top ten, coming in fifth and tenth this weekend, grossing $2.6 million and $593,000, respectively.
In second place this...
- 7/19/2021
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
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