Patriotic films dominate China’s National Day holiday as industry faces pileup of unreleased titles

Among the limited options, The Battle at Lake Changjin (长津湖), is the best-performing movie at the box office right now. Co-directed by prominent Chinese and Hong Kong filmmakers Chén Kǎigē 陈凯歌 and Tsui Hark (徐克 Xú Kè), the three-hour war epic has brought in a healthy 2 billion yuan ($310 million) in ticket sales since its release last Thursday, which was the start of the ongoing weeklong holiday, according to ticketing app Maoyan.

On Sunday, the war drama raked in 438 million yuan ($67.9 million), breaking the single-day box office record previously held by the 2017 action blockbuster Wolf Warrior 2 (战狼2). Maoyan predicts that The Battle at Lake Changjin will finish its run with a total of approximately 5 billion yuan ($776 million), which will make it one of China’s highest-grossing movies of all time.

Commissioned by the central government’s propaganda department and produced by a group of major studios, including Bona Film Group and the Chinese military-owned August First Film Studio, the movie tells the real-life story of the 1950 Battle of Chosin Reservoir in the Korean War, where Chinese soldiers fought against American-led United Nations forces in an act known in China as the “War to Resist American Aggression and Aid North Korea.”

Made with a production budget reported to be over $200 million, The Battle at Lake Changjin is believed to be China’s most expensive film ever made. It stars pop idol turned actor Jackson Yee (易洋千玺 Yìyáng Qqiānxǐ) and Wú Jīng 吴京, the 44-year-old Beijing-born actor and director of the blockbuster “Wolf Warrior” war films. Wu also appears in and is credited as one of four co-directors of the patriotic anthology My Country, My Parents (我和我的父辈), which is currently the second-best performing movie at the box office in China.

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