{"id":732477,"date":"2026-06-29T07:53:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:53:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732477\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T07:53:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T07:53:14","slug":"china-box-office-crossing-debuts-at-number-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/732477\/","title":{"rendered":"China Box Office: ‘Crossing’ Debuts at Number One"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tBona Film Group\u2019s historical war epic \u201cCrossing<\/a>\u201d captured the top spot at the mainland China box office during the June 26\u201328 weekend, opening with RMB79.3 million ($11.7 million), according to data from Artisan Gateway. <\/p>\n

\n\tCommemorating the 90th anniversary of the Long March, the film has brought its cumulative total to $12.8 million. Directed by Xu Zhanxiong, the large-scale production features Liu Ye as Mao Zedong and Wang Lei as Zhou Enlai, alongside Yu Shi and Wang Zhifei. The narrative recreates the Battle of Chishui River.<\/p>\n

\n\tDisney and Pixar\u2019s \u201cToy Story 5<\/a>\u201d moved to second place in its second weekend of release, earning $7.4 million to push its cumulative total to $29.6 million. <\/p>\n

\n\tA24\u2019s psychological horror feature \u201cBackrooms<\/a>\u201d debuted in third place, drawing $5.3 million over its opening frame. <\/p>\n

\n\tJinant Film & TV\u2019s family drama \u201cDear You<\/a>\u201d placed fourth, pulling in $4.8 million in its ninth weekend in theaters. Directed by Lan Hongchun and starring Li Sitong, Wang Yantong, and Wu Shaoqing, the Teochew-dialect sleeper hit has accumulated a phenomenal lifetime total of $281.8 million since launching on April 30. The film tells the story of an elderly Chaoshan matriarch whose life is transformed when her debt-ridden grandson travels to Thailand to seek out his long-lost grandfather, unlocking a hidden love story rooted in the historical qiaopi tradition of cross-border remittance letters.<\/p>\n

\n\tDamai Entertainment\u2019s historical drama \u201cI Know Who You Are\u201d was in fifth place, taking in $2.6 million to push its cumulative gross to $14.6 million. Directed by Feng Xiaogang and starring Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge, the adaptation of Zhang Ce\u2019s novella unspools a multi-decade psychological cat-and-mouse game between a grassroots police officer and a local schoolteacher suspected of being a deeply embedded sleeper agent.<\/p>\n

\n\tMainland China\u2019s overall weekend grosses reached $38.3 million, while the 2026 year-to-date revenue stands at $2.54 billion, down 40.5% from the same period in 2025. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bona Film Group\u2019s historical war epic \u201cCrossing\u201d captured the top spot at the mainland China box office during…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":732478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[247168,185280,290300,88,206,79349],"class_list":["post-732477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-backrooms","tag-crossing","tag-dear-you","tag-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-toy-story-5"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732477","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=732477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/732477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/732478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=732477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=732477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=732477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}