Jackie Chan's action comedy Skip During its four-day debut at the Chinese box office, the film reached $60 million, easily surpassing Warner Bros.' “The Legend of Tarzan.”
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Skip debuted on Thursday with $15.6 million, including previews, and remained strong throughout the weekend, averaging $15 million a day, according to data from Beijing Box office monitor Ent Group.
The four-day opening night marks the biggest showing of Jackie Chan's career, surpassing the $54 million “Dragon Blade” earned in its Thursday-Sunday debut last year.
Skip The film was directed by the Finnish filmmaker and Hollywood action veteran Renny Harlinwho moved to Beijing two years ago to work in the fast-growing Chinese industry. The opening is also a career highlight for Harlinsurpassing the first weekend success of Die Hard 2 with $34 million in 1990.
Skip Co-starring Johnnie Knoxville as a fast-talking American gambler, Chan, who plays a Hong Kong detective, is forced to team up with Knoxville's character after his niece, played by Fan Bingbinggets into trouble with a notorious criminal mastermind. The film was shot with a production budget of $30 million.
Harlin has founded his own Chinese production company with financial support from Jiabo Culture Group. He will next direct an adaptation of the popular Chinese video game Legend of the Ancient Sword for Jack Ma's fledgling studio. Alibaba picture group.
Tarzan opened to $7 million last Tuesday and grossed a modest $27.1 million in its six-day debut. Warner Bros. was able to score a rare July release date for the film in China, as regulators there lifted the usual summer ban on imported Hollywood films to counter a rare box office slump.
In third place: Japanese animation Doraemon: Nobita and The Birth of Japan grossed $8 million Friday through Sunday. 36 Movie in Shin-Ei Animations Doraemon Franchise, the film will not reach the astonishing $86.9 million that its predecessor Stand by Me Doraemonmade in China last year.
The local animation film Big Fish & Begonia came in fourth with $1.4 million. After 17 days on Chinese cinema screens Picture earned $79.4 million.
The box office hit of the last two years, the Hong Kong crime thriller Cold War 2, slipped to fifth place with just $1.1 million over the weekend. With $96.7 million after three weekends, the film is the highest grossing film of the sluggish summer so far.
South Indian blockbuster Baahubali: The Beginning, a historical epic directed by SS Rajamouliwas not a great success in the Middle Kingdom and only took in 610,000 dollars in the first three days.
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