What a difference a year makes. After a 12-month postponement caused by the coronavirus pandemic, Wanda Pictures' much anticipated comedy tentpole Detective Chinatown 3 finally opened in China Friday for the first day of the week-long Lunar New Year holiday.
The film debuted with a record-setting haul of $160 million and finished the weekend with an astonishing $397.2 million three-day total, according to Artisan Gateway.
If there was any doubt, China's theatrical box office is back to booming. But DC3's huge start not only proved the health of China's film market for the most popular local titles, it also established the country as the world's single-most powerful potential theatrical territory.
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