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Hong Kong Box Office Stumbles at Lunar New Year


Cinema box office in Hong Kong failed to live up to expectations or the last year's total over the Lunar New Year holidays.

Cinema box office in Hong Kong failed to live up to expectations over the Lunar New Year holidays, even as local films led the chart. Audiences in the territory, which returned to full Chinese sovereignty in 1997, also have substantially different taste from their northern brethren. Making the third local title in the chart, crime thriller Rob N Roll, earned HK$5.12 million ($656,000) in its opening four days.

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