BEIJING: China’s box office revenue during the past seven-day period ending on Sunday hit 5.5 billion yuan ($851 million), marking a second time that the market’s weekly total has ever crossed the 5-billion-yuan mark.

The first such achievement was made in 2019 when the market’s total earnings from Feb. 4 to 10, 2019 topped 5.9 billion yuan, with “The Wandering Earth,” a cinematic adaptation of Liu Cixin’s sci-fi novel of the same name, contributing one third.

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