“Bumblebee” flew to its third weekend of dominance in China.
But the Chinese box office remains in lackluster mode at the start of 2019.The spinoff from Paramount’s “Transformers” franchise earned $16.1 million in Chinese theaters between Friday and Sunday, according to date from exhibition and distribution consultancy Artisan Gateway.
That was a 38% drop from its previous weekend session.After 17 days in theaters, “Bumblebee” has moved on to a total of $138 million in China.
That is now a considerable margin ahead of the film’s North American score, and makes China the title’s biggest territory worldwide.Its weekend score was achieved on 7,150 screens.
It included a $1.5 million contribution from the IMAX circuit.
It has earned $12.1 million on IMAX screens to date, in China.
Most of those screens will migrate next week to showing “Once Upon a Deadpool” instead.“The White Snake,” a Chinese-made animation, produced by Light Chaser Animation Studios
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