Complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each word can only be used once. (将下列单词或词组填入空格,每词限填一次)
A. earned B. ahead C. range D. back E. fighting |
Concluding with a stunning haul up to 4. 39 billion yuan ($680. 9 million), the box office for this year’s National Day holiday has pulled in its second-highest gross of all time during the same period, according to the live tracker Beacon.
Co-directed by Chen Kaige, Hark Tsui and Dante Lam, headlined by Wu Jing and Jackson Yee, The Battle at Lake Changjin, the 176-minute epic about the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53), tells the story of the Chinese People’s Volunteers soldiers 22 bravely under freezing temperatures in a key campaign at Lake, Changjin, or Chosin Reservoir, which dominated the holiday box office charts with an absolute advantage. Raking in 3. 45 billion yuan, the war-themed blockbuster landed far 23 of My Country, My Parents, which garnered over l billion yuan to sit in the No 2 position. Chinese animated film “Dear Tutu: Operation T-Rex” pocketed 7. 67 million yuan on Saturday, ranking third.
Largely propelled by The Battle at Lake Changjin, which hit eight records for IMAX China including the highest-grossing film during the National Day holiday, IMAX China 24 a record-breaking 168 million yuan, up 30 percent from the same period in 2020.
But this holiday has seen the polarized performances between big-budget films and comparatively smaller titles. None of the other seven new films released for the holiday surpassed 50 million yuan, putting them well below the 100 million yuan threshold for blockbusters in China.
During the National Day holiday, 13 films are being screened with a wide 25 of themes from history and war, romance to cartoon fantasy. Eleven of these 13 films are made in China.