China’s ‘Ne Zha 2’ Debuts At $7.2 Million, ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Rounds Out Top 10, ‘A Complete Unknown’ Crosses $70 Million – Specialty Box Office

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Ne Zha 2, the fantasy epic that’s been setting records in China, opened to $7.2 million on 660 screens, according to Comscore, for the no.

5 spot at a domestic box office being trounced by Captain America: Brave New World. The animated film from CMC Pictures, see Deadline review, takes up where the 2019 original left off as Demon Orb Ne Zha (voiced by Joseph) and Spirit Orb Aobing (Mo Han) must share a body for seven days as Ne Zha battles dragons to save his hometown, and a lot more.

Written and directed by Yang Yu (known as Jiaozi), the cast also includes Jiaming Zhang and Deshun Wang. It set an all-time record box office record during the annual Lunar New Year holiday and has passed $1.5 billion in China alone, making it the second-biggest animated film in global box office history after Inside Out 2. Becoming Led Zeppelin from Sony Pictures Classics grossed $1.8 million in week 2 on 1,039 screens, up from 369 Imax locations.

That’s a cume of $5.5 million and the no. 10 spot for the documentary by Bernard MacMahon. The long-gestating film with remastered concert footage explores the origins of this iconic group, their meteoric rise, and their music.