Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Detective Chinatown 3” lived up to its billing as the box office favorite over the Chinese New Year holiday period, with first day grosses passing $150 million by 4pm local time.Data from ticketing agency Maoyan showed the franchise comedy adventure film as clocking up RMB975 million of revenues, and claiming over 60% of the nationwide box office total.
That total was derived from 17.9 million people buying tickets for the first day.Maoyan’s early forecast for the film’s career total is RMB5.89 billion ($912 million).
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