It’s turning into the year of Zhang Yimou at China’s box workplace. The age-old 73-year-old director’s 26th function, criminaloffense drama Under the Light, topped ticket sales throughout China’s Mid-Autumn Festival vacation over the past 4 days, opening to $62.6 million, according to information from Artisan Gateway. This comes after Zhang’s previous function, the historic secret thriller Full River Red (2023), controlled China’s previous huge vacation release window, the Lunar New Year in January, with a massive $673 million tally — the nation’s greatest haul this year and sixth-biggest of all time. Local ticketing app Maoyan presently anticipates Under the Light to make inbetween $250 million and $300 million priorto its run is total, which would put Zhang close to the $1 billion mark for overall ticket sales in 2023.
The Mid-Autumn Festival weekend wasn’t without some spirited competitors, . Huayi Brothers Media’s