Chinese moviegoers still hot for Disney’s Frozen 2 as it rakes in 40 per cent of Sunday’s total box office revenue
- The animated sequel to the 2013 blockbuster Frozen earned 68.67 million yuan (US$9.7 million) on Sunday in China, 6 per cent of global weekend receipts
- On its first weekend in China, Frozen 2 took US$53 million, the highest ever for a Disney animated film in the country
Disney’s Frozen 2 continued to take China by storm in its second weekend at cinemas, bringing in almost US$10 million on Sunday alone, its tenth day on the big screen.
The animated Walt Disney sequel to the 2013 blockbuster Frozen earned 68.67 million yuan (US$9.7 million) on Sunday in China, accounting for almost 40 per cent of the total box office sales among all films, state media outlet Xinhua said on Monday, citing the China Movie Data Information Network.
That would mean Chinese moviegoers on Sunday alone generated 6 per cent of Frozen 2’s global earnings over the whole weekend – US$164 million.
Enthusiasm has not waned for the story of sisters Queen Elsa, voiced by Idina Menzel, and Princess Anna, voiced by Kristen Bell, who travel to an ancient enchanted forest in a bid to save their kingdom.
On its first weekend in China, Frozen 2 raked in US$53 million – the highest ever for a Disney animated film in the country – to instantly surpass the US$48 million earned by the original Frozen through its entire run in Chinese theatres in 2014.
The animation has already made US$90.9 million in China, the world’s second largest film market, according to Asian film and cinema consultancy Artisan Gateway.
On Weibo, China’s microblogging website often likened to Twitter, a hashtag of the film’s name has been mentioned almost 9 million times with users posting trailers and pictures of their tickets and quotes from the film.
Meanwhile, on ticketing app Maoyan the film is rated 8.9 out of 10, on Alibaba’s Taopiaopiao it scores 8.8, and on social networking and rating service Douban it managed a more modest 7.3.