DreamWorks Animation’s “How to Train Your Dragon 2” continued atop China’s box office last week, and will soon become the top-grossing animated film of 2014 in the territory.
The sequel earned $24.4 million in the 7 days ending Sunday, as per figures from film industry consulting firm Artisan Gateway, taking the movie’s gross to $51.5 million. “Despicable Me 2,” released in China earlier this year, took in a total of $52.3 million.
The hermetic showing for Hiccup and Toothless is colossal news for DreamWorks Animation as it pushes deeper into the Chinese assert. The company has set going on a venture when Chinese family, called Oriental DreamWorks, to make Kung Fu Panda 3 and extra conscious films, and is building a large entertainment perplexing in Shanghai.
Taking second area at the crate office last week was The Four 3, a martial arts film from Gordon Chan that debuted gone almost speaking $16.8 million. Third area went to the Hong Kong genuine house comedy The Temporary Family, which opened subsequent to approximately $8.8 million, Artisan said.
In fourth place was the Hong Kong-set defilement drama Z Storm, taking into account not quite $7.6 million, and rounding out the summit five was the latecomer import Pompeii considering $6.9 million.
Chinese cinemagoers have still to tune some of the biggest titles of the U.S. summer, including Guardians of the Galaxy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes.
On Friday, 20th Century Foxs Apes will finally arrive in China, followed closely by Expendables 3.
The aging-be muddled along plus-star franchise seems to have run out of gas stateside, but the earlier installments found a conventional audience in China. Stars Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone visited Macao last week to pay for the third film in the series.
In mid-September, the tornado thriller Into the Storm, distributed by Warner Bros., will blow into Chinese theaters.
