China box office: ‘Pacific Rim: Uprising’ debuts top

Sci-fi action sequel takes $68.3m from first three days, knocking ‘Tomb Raider’ to 2nd.Hollywood dominated the Chinese box office in the week of Mar 19-25, as Pacific Rim: Uprising became the third Us film in a row to top the charts, following Black Panther and Tomb Raider.Legendary East’s action sci-fi sequel stormed the charts with $68.3m from its first three days, almost on par with Black Panther in early March.

This represented almost 60% of the first film’s final gross in 2013, preparing the franchise for a new record.

It was also almost 2.5 times more than its simultaneous North American debut.

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