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‘YOLO’ Thrives In Chinese New Year Bow; ‘Wonka’ Nears $600M Worldwide – International Box Office
China this weekend ushered in the Year of the Dragon, and with it the lucrative Chinese New Year moviegoing period which so far is led by YOLO
Although Maoyan’s Pegasus 2 was tops on Saturday, the first day of the holiday, ultimately it was the Jia Ling CFG/Alibaba inspirational film YOLO that won the weekend with an estimated RMB 804M ($112M/comScore has it slightly lower at $110.4M) across the two-day stretch. Elsewhere, leading play for the studios, Sony’s soaring romcom Anyone But You dipped by just 30% this frame, adding$9.7M in 50 markets to bring the offshore cume to$90M and global to$170M. With a total to date of $6.7M in Italy, Poor Things has already surpassed the lifetimes of Killers of the Flower Moon, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One and Knives Out.
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