Spider-Man: Model New Day held its grip atop China‘s field workplace for a second weekend, pulling in $28.9 million (RMB 196.6 million) over the Aug. 7-9 body for a neighborhood whole of $185.4 million (RMB 1.26 billion) in 12 days.
The Sony tentpole launched in China with an enormous $121.3 million five-day haul, of which $19 million got here from Imax, a file for the format out there. The movie is now days away from surpassing the $199 million earned by 2019’s Spider-Man: Far From House, the final U.S. superhero launch to clear $100 million in China.
But it surely was Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which doesn’t formally open in Chinese language theaters till Friday, that arguably delivered the weekend’s most shocking quantity. Taking part in Saturday and Sunday solely, and completely on Imax and CINITY screens, Common’s adaptation of the Greek traditional took $6.9 million (RMB 46.8 million) in previews — sufficient for fifth place and roughly 7 p.c of your complete weekend’s enterprise from a tiny sliver of the nation’s screens. Earlier four-city previews on Aug. 1-2 drew a 95.2 p.c occupancy fee, which native media stories, citing Dengta, described as an all-time excessive for the market.
The 177-minute epic, the primary characteristic shot solely on Imax movie cameras, has scored 8.3 on evaluate website Douban, the summer season’s highest score for a live-action launch. The Matt Damon-starring epic crossed $1 billion worldwide final week, and China now seems poised to spice up its world gross sales considerably.
Pearl Studio’s All Needs Come True held to second in its fourth weekend with $20.4 million (RMB 138.8 million). The animated comedian fantasy from director Mu Zhengyang, which reimagines the traditional people story of the Eight Immortals, has now earned $210.6 million (RMB 1.43 billion), China’s largest peformance by an animated characteristic this yr.
Third place got here from previews for an additional yet-to-open tentpole. As soon as Upon a Time within the Center East collected $15 million (RMB 101.8 million) throughout two days of previews forward of its Tuesday launch. Directed by Wen Muye (Dying to Survive) and produced by Ning Hao’s Soiled Monkeys Studio, the Imax-shot struggle comedy stars Shen Teng, one among China’s most bankable comedian actors, as a Chinese language cook dinner who travels to the Center East to work off his money owed, opens a restaurant with a neighborhood accomplice — after which finds himself trapped when a army battle erupts.
To Your Island opened in fourth with $7.9 million (RMB 53.6 million). The animated fantasy romance — tailored from an online novel and directed by Zhou Haoran — is the primary movie produced in-house by Enlight Animation, the specialty arm of Ne Zha 2 backer Enlight Footage.
Absent from the highest 5 for the primary time since its July 11 launch was Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Soccer, which stood at round $318.5 million after the weekend and stays the summer season’s largest title.
Nationwide grosses totaled $97.3 million for the weekend, down a few quarter from the earlier body. China’s 2026 field workplace now stands at $3.57 billion, off 31.8 p.c from the identical level final yr — a comparability distorted by Ne Zha 2, which alone took greater than $2 billion out there within the first half of 2025. The hole has narrowed steadily since March, when the market trailed by practically 56 p.c.
The Odyssey opens vast on Friday, in a check of whether or not Chinese language moviegoers’ renewed urge for food for Hollywood extends past the pleasant neighborhood spider.
