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The box office takings by Wednesday had hit the
same level as the revenue earned by the 2017 Chinese action film
Wolf Warrior 2. But "The Battle at Lake Changjin" is still in
cinemas and accounted for 7% of all films being shown on
Wednesday.
The three-hour-epic depicts Chinese soldiers battling U.S.
troops during the bitter cold of the 1950-1953 Korean war, which
ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty.
The film led China's box office for days after premiering on
Oct. 1 to mark the country's National Day. A sequel, "Water Gate
Bridge", is in the works, according to local media reports.
China is now the world's second largest film market after the
United States, underscoring its importance as a key market for
Hollywood's moviemakers.
However, Chinese movie-goers have been shifting to local content
in recent years amid rising patriotic sentiment.
The Chinese government has imposed a quota of 34 imported films
each year, many of which are produced by major Hollywood
studios.
($1 = 6.3869 Chinese yuan renminbi)
(Reporting by Sophie Yu and Brenda Goh; Editing by Kim Coghill)
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