'xXx 3,' 'La La Land' dominate Valentine's film market
- By Zhang Rui
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Two lovers walk by a billboard of newly released romantic film "La La Land" in a cinema in Yichang, Hubei Province, on Feb. 10, 2017. [Photo/ VCG] |
With revenue's from China, "La La Land" has danced its way past US$300 million worldwide. The film continues its award spree as it has just won 5 British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) awards on Sunday and is considered as a strong contender for this year's Oscars.
Another two new Chinese films "Love Contractually" and "Revenge for Love" aiming at the St. Valentine Day rush performed averagely. Both took in more than 33 million yuan (US$4.8 million), ranked at No. 3 and 4 at box office chart for St. Valentine Day.
Another notable landmark is Jackie Chan's "Kung-Fu Yoga" which has surpassed "Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" made by Tsui Hark and Stephen Chow to become the biggest grossing film in the 2017 Spring Festival season. The two films respectively grossed more than 1.6 billion yuan (US$233 million) thus far; the gap between them was just several million yuan on Tuesday. But the gap will increase as "Kung-Fu Yoga" keeps its healthy momentum while "Journey to the West" sequel loses pace.
"Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back" broke the biggest single day and opening day box office records ever with a stunning take of 355 million yuan (US$51.69 million) in China when it premiered on Spring Festival Day with huge hype and expectation. But it suffered great drops day by day after its debut as its uneven quality attracted mixed reviews and several scenes and content is not that family-friendly compared with action comedy "Kung-Fu Yoga" starring Jackie Chan.
All these films will suffer great drops as everything returns to normal after the Valentine's Day economic boost - a day when Chinese lovers would spend whatever amount of money they have to celebrate romance.
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