{"id":77314,"date":"2025-10-14T07:25:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77314\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T07:25:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T07:25:21","slug":"chen-kaiges-the-volunteers-leads-quiet-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/77314\/","title":{"rendered":"Chen Kaige’s ‘The Volunteers’ Leads Quiet Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAt the China box office over Oct. 10\u201312, \u201cThe Volunteers: Peace at Last<\/a>\u201d led a subdued frame with RMB34.9 million ($4.8 million), according to consultancy Artisan Gateway. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe film, which commemorates the Chinese People\u2019s Volunteer Army entering the Korean War, stars Wu Jing and Zhang Ziyi and marks the third chapter in\u00a0Chen Kaige<\/a>\u2019s \u201cThe Volunteers\u201d trilogy. The China Film Group title has reached $73.1 million since its launch. It released during China\u2019s National Day holiday week, collections during which were not as robust in previous years.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cRow to Win<\/a>\u201d climbed from fifth place to second with $3.7 million, lifting its cume to $37.9 million. The comedy-drama, from PMF Pictures, 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

\n\t\u201cA Writer\u2019s Odyssey 2<\/a>\u201d stayed third with $3.5 million for a running total of $45.4 million. The sequel to Lu Yang\u2019s 2021 fantasy action hit, from Huace Pictures, continues the meta-narrative of intertwining fiction and reality, with Lei Jiayin reprising his role alongside Dong Zijian and Yang Mi.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn fourth place, Lian Ray Pictures\u2019 \u201cSound of Silence\u201d earned $3.1 million, taking its total to $28.1 million. Directed by Wan Li, the crime drama stars Tan Jianci as a lawyer from a deaf family who takes on a high-profile fraud case affecting the hearing-impaired community, alongside Lan Xiya, Wang Ge, Wang Yanhui, Chi Peng and Pan Binlong.<\/p>\n

\n\tChangying Film Group\u2019s \u201cEvil Unbound\u201d rounded out the top five with $2.4 million, bringing its cume to $262.2 million. Directed by Zhao Linshan, the World War II drama is centered on Japan\u2019s Unit 731 biological warfare program. <\/p>\n

\n\tWeekend box office totaled $23 million, while China\u2019s 2025 year-to-date gross reached $6.109 billion, up 18.9% compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the China box office over Oct. 10\u201312, \u201cThe Volunteers: Peace at Last\u201d led a subdued frame with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":77315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[60217,60218,156,409,111,139,69,60219,60220],"class_list":["post-77314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-a-writeru2019s-odyssey-2","tag-chen-kaige","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-row-to-win","tag-the-volunteers-peace-at-last"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}