The film went on to nab six Oscar nominations at the 75th Academy Awards. 18, 2002, Peter Jackson unveiled the middle chapter of his Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers. The re-release of the second installment in The Lord Of The Rings franchise, The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers, is scheduled for release this weekend (April 23), along with Guo Jinglin’s sci-fi title Memory Dissection and Min Hui’s drama City In The Air.On Dec. It was followed by romantic drama August Never Ends, directed by Li Kai and starring Elane Zhong ( Youth) and Tan Songyun ( Empresses In The Palace), which grossed $6.2m in its opening three days. Kong, which opened one week before Sister on March 26, came in third over the weekend with the $7m, for a cumulative total of $178.5m. The film appears to have tapped into the Chinese audience’s current interest in stories that explore gender discrimination and emotional family issues.
Yin Ruoxin’s drama, which opened on April 2, revolves around a young woman who is forced to look after her younger brother when their parents die in a car crash. Meanwhile, Lian Ray Pictures’ Sister, starring Zhang Zifeng ( Detective Chinatown), came in second over the three-day weekend, grossing $9.8m for a cumulative total of $119.5m. This could explain the lacklustre opening for the re-release of the first installment in the franchise, which was popular when it initially played in China. As the confirmation finally came just a few days before the April 16 opening, many cinemas across China did not receive digital prints in time.
The re-release had been scheduled for April 9, but was pushed back by one week, due to the late confirmation of the film’s censorship approval. With the Tokyo Olympics already delayed by a year due to the pandemic, the topicality of the film’s plot may partly explain its success, as it involves a crisis that affects a major sporting event in Japan.ĭetective Conan also easily outgrossed the other major release of the weekend (April 16-18), the re-release of The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring, which came in fifth with $4.1m in its opening three days, according to figures from theatrical consultancy Artisan Gateway.
It also had a strong start in Japan, which together with its China opening, propelled it to become the highest-grossing film worldwide over the weekend. The film, which opened in China on April 17, is directed by Nagaoka Tomoka and produced by Tokyo-based TMS Entertainment, with Toho distributing in Japan. Detective Conan: The Scarlet Bullet, the latest installment in the long-running Japanese anime franchise, topped the China box office on its opening weekend, grossing $17.1m in its first two days.
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