{"id":4985,"date":"2025-04-08T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4985\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:55:09","slug":"minecraft-movie-unseats-ne-zha-2-as-china-box-office-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/4985\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Minecraft Movie&#8217; Unseats &#8216;Ne Zha 2&#8217; as China Box Office Champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe China box office welcomed a new leader this past weekend as Warner Bros. and Legendary\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/a-minecraft-movie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_a-minecraft-movie\" data-tag=\"a-minecraft-movie\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">A Minecraft Movie<\/a>\u201d debuted in first place with RMB105.5 million ($14.7 million) for the April 4\u20136 frame, according to Artisan Gateway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe long-awaited live-action adaptation of the popular video game opened across China, scoring a solid start during the Qingming Festival period. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn second place, Meila Media\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/we-girls\/\" id=\"auto-tag_we-girls\" data-tag=\"we-girls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">We Girls<\/a>\u201d debuted with $11.1 million. Directed by Feng Xiaogang, the drama follows Gao Yuexiang (played by Zhao Liying), who, in a desperate bid to afford a cochlear implant for her daughter, takes a reckless action that lands her in prison. There, she meets fellow inmates Hei Mei (Lan Xiya), Deng Hong (Chuai Ni), Hu Ping (Wang Ju), and Guo Aimei (Cheng Xiao). Despite their differing personalities, the women form a bond, supporting each other through adversity and refusing to bow to fate. \u200b<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/ne-zha-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_ne-zha-2\" data-tag=\"ne-zha-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ne Zha 2<\/a>,\u201d now in its tenth weekend, continued its extraordinary run with $10 million, bringing its cumulative total to $2.11 billion. The Cococartoon-produced animated epic is the top-grossing film of 2025 by a wide margin and remains a fixture in the top three, with ongoing support from premium formats including Imax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tFourth place went to \u201cMumu\u201d from CKF Pictures, which earned $7.3 million in its first full weekend after a Thursday debut. The drama, directed by Mo Sha, follows a seven-year-old girl who grows up in a deaf community with her father and whose life is disrupted when her estranged mother returns and reintroduces her to the world of hearing. Its current cume stands at $9.9 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tRounding out the top five, \u201cFox Hunt,\u201d a new release from Shanghai Film Group, opened to $3.4 million. The action film from Zhang Leo, led by superstar <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/tony-leung-chiu-wai\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tony-leung-chiu-wai\" data-tag=\"tony-leung-chiu-wai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tony Leung Chiu-wai<\/a> and Yihong Duan, follows a team of Chinese investigators tracking economic fugitives. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tOverall weekend box office revenue reached $52.5 million, helping to push China\u2019s 2025 year-to-date total to $3.45 billion, a 42.2% increase over the same period last year. With \u201cNe Zha 2\u201d still showing remarkable longevity and multiple new releases drawing in solid numbers, the market continues to demonstrate a strong recovery trajectory heading into the spring season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The China box office welcomed a new leader this past weekend as Warner Bros. and Legendary\u2019s \u201cA Minecraft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1078,77,2786,2787,16,15,2788],"class_list":{"0":"post-4985","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-a-minecraft-movie","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ne-zha-2","11":"tag-tony-leung-chiu-wai","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-we-girls"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114301981366019788","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}