{"id":303481,"date":"2025-11-24T09:29:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303481\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T09:29:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T09:29:07","slug":"bi-gans-resurrection-debuts-at-no-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/303481\/","title":{"rendered":"Bi Gan&#8217;s Resurrection Debuts at No. 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tHuace Pictures\u2019 \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/resurrection\/\" id=\"auto-tag_resurrection\" data-tag=\"resurrection\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Resurrection<\/a>,\u201d directed by <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/bi-gan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bi-gan\" data-tag=\"bi-gan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Bi Gan<\/a>, opened on top of the China box office with RMB116.8 million ($16.5 million) over the weekend of Nov. 21\u201323, according to Artisan Gateway. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tIn \u201cResurrection,\u201d starring Jackson Yee, <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/shu-qi\/\" id=\"auto-tag_shu-qi\" data-tag=\"shu-qi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shu Qi<\/a>, Mark Chao, Li Gengxi, Huang Jue and Chen Yongzhong, humanity has lost the ability to dream, with only one creature still entranced by fading illusions of the dreamworld. When a woman with the rare power to perceive these illusions appears, she chooses to enter the monster\u2019s dreams, determined to uncover hidden truths within.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAniplex\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/t\/demon-slayer-infinity-castle\/\" id=\"auto-tag_demon-slayer-infinity-castle\" data-tag=\"demon-slayer-infinity-castle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle<\/a>\u201d held second place with $15.6 million, lifting its total to $79.3 million. Directed by Sotozaki Haruo and produced by ufotable, the film adapts the climactic final arc of Gotouge Koyoharu\u2019s blockbuster manga. Returning voice cast members include Hanae Natsuki, Kit\u014d Akari, Shimono Hiro, and Matsuoka Yoshitsugu. The film follows the Demon Slayer Corps\u2019 all-out assault on Kibutsuji Muzan\u2019s stronghold in a bid to end the war between humans and demons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cNow You See Me: Now You Don\u2019t,\u201d from Lionsgate Films, ranked third with $7 million, taking its cumulative haul to $34.1 million.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cPredator: Badlands,\u201d a 20th Century Studios release, placed fourth with $1 million and now stands at $14.5 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cRow to Win,\u201d from PMF Pictures, rounded out the top five with $0.6 million, bringing its total to $63.7 million. The comedy-drama directed by Ma Lin and starring Huang Bo, Fan Chengcheng, Yin Tao and Li Jiaqi, follows a coastal-town family \u2013 led by a once-tough patriarch \u2013 who rally together in hard times and push for a comeback.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tChina\u2019s weekend box office reached $44 million \u2013 a steep fall from last week\u2019s $79.7 million \u2013 bringing year-to-date nationwide grosses to $6.48 billion, up 16% compared to 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Huace Pictures\u2019 \u201cResurrection,\u201d directed by Bi Gan, opened on top of the China box office with RMB116.8 million&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":303482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[136059,49,48,8684,75,337,20949,55953],"class_list":{"0":"post-303481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-bi-gan","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-demon-slayer-infinity-castle","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-movies","14":"tag-resurrection","15":"tag-shu-qi"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=303481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/303482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}