Patrick Frater Asia Bureau Chief“Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone,” rereleased in 3D and in Imax versions, topped the box office chart over the weekend in China.
It earned $13.6 million from an outing in some 16,000 screens.That made it comfortably the top film of a weekend in which aggregate revenue increased by 29% from $17 million to $21.9 million, according to data from consultancy, Artisan Gateway.The weekend saw further screens returning to service and an easing of mandatory seating restraints, from 30% of capacity to 50%, enabling more tickets to be sold.
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