{"id":36376,"date":"2026-08-10T11:39:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36376"},"modified":"2026-08-10T11:39:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-10T06:39:33","slug":"spider-man-stays-top-at-china-box-office-as-the-odyssey-storms-previews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=36376","title":{"rendered":"Spider-Man Stays Top at China Box Office as The Odyssey Storms Previews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>Spider-Man: Brand New Day<\/em> held its grip atop <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/china\/\" id=\"auto-tag_china_1\" data-tag=\"china\">China<\/a>\u2018s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/box-office\/\" id=\"auto-tag_box-office_1\" data-tag=\"box-office\">box office<\/a> for a second weekend, pulling in $28.9 million (RMB 196.6 million) over the Aug. 7-9 frame for a local total of $185.4 million (RMB 1.26 billion) in 12 days.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe Sony tentpole launched in China with a massive $121.3 million five-day haul, of which $19 million came from Imax, a record for the format in the market. The film is now days away from surpassing the $199 million earned by 2019\u2019s <em>Spider-Man: Far From Home<\/em>, the last U.S. superhero release to clear $100 million in China.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tBut it was Christopher Nolan\u2019s <em>The Odyssey<\/em>, which doesn\u2019t officially open in Chinese theaters until Friday, that arguably delivered the weekend\u2019s most surprising number. Playing Saturday and Sunday only, and exclusively on Imax and CINITY screens, Universal\u2019s adaptation of the Greek classic took $6.9 million (RMB 46.8 million) in previews \u2014 enough for fifth place and roughly 7 percent of the entire weekend\u2019s business from a tiny sliver of the nation\u2019s screens. Earlier four-city previews on Aug. 1-2 drew a 95.2 percent occupancy rate, which local media reports, citing Dengta, described as an all-time high for the market.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe 177-minute epic, the first feature shot entirely on Imax film cameras, has scored 8.3 on review site Douban, the summer\u2019s highest rating for a live-action release. The Matt Damon-starring epic crossed $1 billion worldwide last week, and China now appears poised to boost its global sales significantly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tPearl Studio\u2019s <em>All Wishes Come True<\/em> held to second in its fourth weekend with $20.4 million (RMB 138.8 million). The animated comic fantasy from director Mu Zhengyang, which reimagines the classic folk tale of the Eight Immortals, has now earned $210.6 million (RMB 1.43 billion), China\u2019s biggest peformance by an animated feature this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThird place came from previews for another yet-to-open tentpole. <em>Once Upon a Time in the Middle East<\/em> collected $15 million (RMB 101.8 million) across two days of previews ahead of its Tuesday release. Directed by Wen Muye (<em>Dying to Survive<\/em>) and produced by Ning Hao\u2019s Dirty Monkeys Studio, the Imax-shot war comedy stars Shen Teng, one of China\u2019s most bankable comic actors, as a Chinese cook who travels to the Middle East to work off his debts, opens a restaurant with a local partner \u2014 and then finds himself trapped when a military conflict erupts.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>To Your Island<\/em> opened in fourth with $7.9 million (RMB 53.6 million). The animated fantasy romance \u2014 adapted from a web novel and directed by Zhou Haoran \u2014 is the first film produced in-house by Enlight Animation, the specialty arm of <em>Ne Zha 2<\/em> backer Enlight Pictures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tAbsent from the top five for the first time since its July 11 release was Stephen Chow\u2019s <em>Kung Fu Soccer<\/em>, which stood at around $318.5 million after the weekend and remains the summer\u2019s biggest title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tNationwide grosses totaled $97.3 million for the weekend, down about a quarter from the previous frame. China\u2019s 2026 box office now stands at $3.57 billion, off 31.8 percent from the same point last year \u2014 a comparison distorted by <em>Ne Zha 2<\/em>, which alone took more than $2 billion in the market in the first half of 2025. The gap has narrowed steadily since March, when the market trailed by nearly 56 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<em>The Odyssey<\/em> opens wide on Friday, in a test of whether Chinese moviegoers\u2019 renewed appetite for Hollywood extends beyond the friendly neighborhood spider.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spider-Man: Brand New Day held its grip atop China\u2018s box office for a second weekend, pulling in $28.9 million (RMB 196.6 million) over the Aug. 7-9 frame for a local total of $185.4 million (RMB 1.26 billion) in 12 days.\u00a0 The Sony tentpole launched in China with a massive $121.3 million five-day haul, of which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/MCDSPMA_SP145.jpg?w=1296&h=730&crop=1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pics-news"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/36377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}