{"id":512342,"date":"2026-06-22T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512342\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T09:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T09:15:09","slug":"china-box-office-toy-story-5-snags-top-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/512342\/","title":{"rendered":"China Box Office: ‘Toy Story 5’ Snags Top Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDisney\u2019s \u201cToy Story 5<\/a>\u201d debuted at the number one spot at the China box office during the June 19\u201321 weekend, grossing RMB121.2 million ($17.8 million), according to data from Artisan Gateway. <\/p>\n

\n\tIn second place, Jinant Film & TV\u2019s family drama \u201cDear You<\/a>\u201d maintained exceptional theatrical longevity, generating an additional $11.3 million in its eighth week of release. Directed by Lan Hongchun and starring Li Sitong and Wang Yantong, the low-budget breakout sensation has accumulated a total of $272.5 million since its April 30 opening frame. The film centers on Grandma Ye Shurou from the Chaoshan region, whose twilight years are disrupted when her grandson travels to Thailand to locate his rumored billionaire grandfather. The investigation uncovers a decades-old love affair, revealing that the person Grandma had been exchanging letters with for half a century via the traditional qiaopi system was a complete stranger.<\/p>\n

\n\tDamai Entertainment\u2019s drama \u201cI Know Who You Are\u201d opened in third place, grossing $9 million over its three-day premiere frame. Directed by veteran filmmaker Feng Xiaogang and written by Shi Jianquan, the film adapt\u2019s Zhang Ce\u2019s 1992 novella \u201cNo Regrets Tracking.\u201d Starring Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge, the narrative unspools a psychological cat-and-mouse game tracking the 40-year relationship between Xiao Dali, a stubborn grassroots police chief, and Feng Jingbo, a quiet alleyway schoolteacher whom the officer suspects is a deeply embedded sleeper spy.<\/p>\n

\n\tEdko Films\u2019 martial arts action vehicle \u201cThe Furious<\/a>\u201d occupied the fourth spot, pulling in $6 million to push its cumulative box office total to $25.3 million. Directed by action veteran Kenji Tanigaki and produced by Bill Kong, the film stars Xie Miao as an ordinary man waging a brutal, high-stakes war against a child trafficking network in Southeast Asia after his daughter is kidnapped, alongside Joe Taslim as a tenacious journalist searching for his missing wife.<\/p>\n

\n\tRounding out the top five, Momo Pictures\u2019 sci-fi romance \u201cThe Boy Who Counted Cars\u201d debuted with $5.8 million over its opening framework. Written and directed by Ling Yim, the romantic drama stars Roy Wang as A-Zhi, an eccentric young man convinced that his entire reality is an artificial simulation. His single-minded obsession to uncover proof that the world is unreal begins to blur when he meets Xiao Yi (Wen Qi), a free-spirited and unpredictable young woman whose presence forces him to choose between his quest for abstract truth and the genuine human connection he has discovered.<\/p>\n

\n\tMainland China\u2019s overall weekend grosses reached $58.5 million, while the 2026 year-to-date revenue stands at $2.48 billion, down 40.8% from the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney\u2019s \u201cToy Story 5\u201d debuted at the number one spot at the China box office during the June…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":511347,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[201475,93,61,60,270,66379,65723],"class_list":["post-512342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-dear-you","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-movies","tag-the-furious","tag-toy-story-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/511347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}