Project Hail Mary<\/a>\u201d maintained a steady presence in third place, taking in $3 million to push its cumulative total to $33.7 million. <\/p>\n\n\tDebuting in fourth place, the horror-thriller \u201cThe Caged Butterfly\u201d earned $2.4 million in its first full weekend. Produced by Ultra Comedy and directed by Hao Han, the film stars Li Meng, Liu Siwei, and Jiang Zhuojun. The story is set within the notorious Butterfly Mansion villa. The plot follows a physiotherapy therapist and a greedy schemer who move into the haunted estate, only to be plagued by bizarre events and a life-or-death game involving a woman in a red dress and a distorted, eyeless boy.<\/p>\n
\n\tRounding out the top five, romantic drama \u201cNow I Met Her\u201d earned $1.8 million for a total of $8 million. Produced by Dirty Monkeys and directed by Xiao Luxi, the film stars Sandra Ma and Ke Bai in a story about an 18-year-old who discovers his late mother\u2019s vibrant past through her personal diaries.<\/p>\n
\n\tThe frame represented a notably quiet period for the market, with the total weekend gross of $21 million marking the second-lowest collective take of the year so far.<\/p>\n
\n\tMainland China\u2019s 2026 year-to-date revenue stands at $1.84 billion, down 50.1% from the same period in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The local drama \u201cIt\u2019s OK\u201d ascended to the number one position at the China box office during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":581433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206,155909,149222],"class_list":{"0":"post-581432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-movies","10":"tag-project-hail-mary","11":"tag-the-super-mario-galaxy-movie"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}