China’s ‘Yolo’ Busts Out Oscar Weekend, With ‘Love Lies Bleeding’; ‘The Taste of Things’ At $2.7M – Specialty Box Office
deadline.comChinese comedy drama YOLO from Sony Pictures International had a yodeling good domestic debut, grossing $840k on 200 screens, making no.
9 on the weekend top 10. Directed and produced by and starring China’s top grossing female helmer, Jia Ling, it’s earned close to $482 million in China since opening Feb.
10 — and was the highest-grossing film over the Lunar New Year holiday. The film follows Le Ying (Jia Ling), an unemployed woman in her 30s who still lives with her parents until one day she meets a boxing coach (Lei Jiayin) who may change her life.
Produced by New Classics Pictures, Big Bowl Entertainment Also new, A24’s Love Lies Bleeding by Rose Glass brought the highest per screen average of the weekend and one of the best limited openings of the year.
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