The box office in China saw its greatest weekend ever with around $700 million coming from all the films released with the two big new releases films getting $560 million plus between them. The previous best seen in China was $500 million plus in 2018.

It is the Chinese New Year which is  the best time for box office collections in China. The $500m plus in 2018 also came in the same New Year week. Detective Chinatown 3collected almost $400m making it the highest weekend numbers ever in any country. Avengers Endgame had collected $350 million plus in North America in 2019.

The other big release Hi Mum collected $162 million but this film will go ahead of Detective Chinatown 3 over the weekdays as the advances from Monday onward are better. The Monday numbers for this film will surpass Sunday which was the best day over the weekend. The collections in China are like as if there has been no Covid and it will be no surprise if both these films collect over $1 billion between them. The weekend collections of Detective Chinatown 3 in China are as follows.

Friday - $156.36m

Saturday - $126.10m

Sunday - $115.76m

TOTAL - $398.22

The weekend collections of Hi Mum in China are as follows.

Friday - $45.11m

Saturday -  $46.55m

Sunday -  $70.34m

TOTAL - $162m