{"id":538873,"date":"2026-07-13T07:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538873\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T07:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T07:58:14","slug":"china-box-office-kung-fu-soccer-scores-huge-73-6-million-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/538873\/","title":{"rendered":"China Box Office: ‘Kung Fu Soccer’ Scores Huge $73.6 Million Opening"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tShenzhen Film Studio\u2019s sports comedy \u201cKung Fu Soccer<\/a>\u201d dominated the mainland China box office during the July 10\u201312 weekend, scoring a massive opening of RMB500.3 million ($73.6 million) in just two days of release, according to data from Artisan Gateway. <\/p>\n

\n\tWritten and directed by Stephen Chow<\/a>, the film marks his return to the sports comedy genre more than two decades after his classic \u201cShaolin Soccer.\u201d Starring Zhang Xiaofei, Dilraba Dilmurat, and Lay Zhang, the narrative follows a grassroots Chinese women\u2019s soccer team as they utilize physics-defying martial arts choreography to compete in a high-stakes tournament. <\/p>\n

\n\tUniversal\u2019s \u201cMinions & Monsters\u201d moved to second place in its second full weekend, adding $8.1 million to bring its cumulative Chinese haul to $32.4 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tLight Chaser Animation\u2019s historical animated epic \u201cThree Kingdoms: The Beginning\u201d debuted in third place, drawing $4.7 million over the three-day frame to reach a cumulative total of $6.4 million including previews. Directed by Xie Junwei, the first entry in a planned trilogy reimagines the turbulent final years of the Eastern Han Dynasty. The narrative centers on the early careers and shifting dynamic between legendary figures Cao Cao and Yuan Shao as political corruption, peasant rebellions, and personal ambitions push the capital of Luoyang into absolute chaos.<\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s \u201cBackrooms<\/a>\u201d secured fourth place, adding $3.2 million to push its cumulative gross to $21.8 million.<\/p>\n

\n\tTaopiaopiao\u2019s satirical comedy \u201cKeep Real\u201d rounded out the top five, collecting $3 million in its sophomore weekend for a cumulative total of $18.5 million. Written and directed by Xing Wenxiong, the film stars Bai Jingting as Superman Wang Changhai, a superhero who is dispatched back to his hometown to form a combat squad. Facing a town where long-term peace has bred complex interpersonal networks and deep-rooted social courtesies, the naive hero must navigate high-stakes local etiquette and learn to develop his emotional intelligence with the help of a local branch director played by Wei Xiang.<\/p>\n

\n\tMainland China\u2019s overall weekend grosses reached $101.2 million, while the 2026 year-to-date revenue stands at $2.74 billion, down 38.6% from the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Shenzhen Film Studio\u2019s sports comedy \u201cKung Fu Soccer\u201d dominated the mainland China box office during the July 10\u201312…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":538874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[154757,146,85,46,233001,217127,233000],"class_list":["post-538873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-backrooms","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-kung-fu-soccer","tag-minions-monsters","tag-stephen-chow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=538873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/538873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/538874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=538873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=538873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=538873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}