Rebecca Davis editor“Chinese Doctors” gave a shot in the arm to a sluggish weekend at the Chinese box office, coming in first with sales of $44.4 million, according to Maoyan data.The patriotic tear-jerked had little competition: only other patriotic films, children’s animations and youth-centric programming are currently in theaters.The Wuhan-set pandemic film from Bona Film is the most commercial of a slew of blockbusters intended to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party, and has grossed $138 million so far.
Some $5.5 million of those sales came from Imax screens, $2.2 million of which rolled in this weekend, the company said.In comparison, earlier frontrunner “1921” has grossed $71 million since its July 1 debut and.
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