China’s market remained all-local across the top five for Aug. 8–10, with “Dead to Rights” (China Film) leading for a third weekend, adding RMB303.6 million ($42.2 million) and lifting its cume to RMB2.203 billion ($306 million), according to data from Artisan Gateway. That also made it the No. 3 film globally over the weekend, according to Comscore.
Directed by Shen Ao and written by Shen Ao, Zhang Ke, and Xu Luyang, and set against the backdrop of the 1937 Nanjing Massacre and drawing from documented historical events, “Dead to Rights” follows A Chang (Liu Haoran of the “Detective Chinatown”
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