Synopsis
The detective is embroiled in his most difficult case yet. Accused of wrongdoing by Empress Wu, Detective Dee must defend himself against this formidable foe, all while investigating a crime wave that has engulfed the city, marked by strange and seemingly supernatural occurrences.
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Movie Details
| China Releases: |
July 27th, 2018 (Wide) |
| Video Release: |
November 13th, 2018 by Well Go USA Video |
| MPAA Rating: |
Not Rated |
| Running Time: |
131 minutes |
| Franchise: |
Detective Dee |
| Keywords: |
Supernatural, Martial Arts, Wuxia, Private Investigator, Romance, Inbetwequel, Prequel, Action Adventure, Falsely Accused |
| Source: | Original Screenplay |
| Genre: | Action |
| Production Method: | Live Action |
| Creative Type: | Fantasy |
| Production Countries: |
China, Hong Kong |
| Languages: |
Mandarin |
December 20th, 2018
We’ve already talked about First-run Releases, TV on DVD releases, and Limited Releases / Classics / Foreign-Imports. This week we look at some books, music, movies that didn’t arrive in time to talk about before, movies I just forgot to mention, or screeners that arrived late and I won’t be able to get to.
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August 2nd, 2018
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood dominated the theater average chart earning first place with $28,144 in one theater. The next closest film was a fellow documentary, McQueen, which earned an average of $16,692 in five theaters during its second weekend of release. The overall number one film, Mission: Impossible—Fallout, was next with an average of $13,962. The final film in the $10,000 club was Puzzle, with an average of $12,243 in five theaters.
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August 1st, 2018
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Hello Mr. Billionaire, a Chinese remake of Brewster’s Millions, opened in first place in China and the international market with $132.26 million. That’s more than 800 million in the local currency, while it took just one more day to live up to its name and reach 1 billion Yen in revenue.
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July 27th, 2018
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We are entering the dog days of summer, which means there are not a lot of limited releases. It’s too late to get a boost from summer vacations while trying to expand, but it is way too early for Awards Season buzz. There are some films that could find smaller audiences in theaters, like Scarred Hearts or Puzzle, but I don’t expect any of them to earn any real measure of mainstream success.
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Because some of our sources provide box office data in their local currency, while we use USD in the graph above and table below, exchange rate fluctuations can have effect on the data causing stronger increases or even decreases of the cumulative box office.
Weekend Box Office Performance
| Date | Rank | Gross | % Change | Screens | Per Screen | Total Gross | Week |
|---|
| 2018/07/27 |
2 |
$43,320,000 |
|
115,633 |
$375 |
$43,400,000 |
1 |
| 2018/08/03 |
2 |
$12,550,000 |
-71% |
36,027 |
$348 |
$76,750,000 |
2 |
| 2018/08/10 |
9 |
$370,000 |
-97% |
2,411 |
$153 |
$86,270,000 |
3 |
| 2018/08/17 |
10 |
$540,000 |
+46% |
867 |
$623 |
$88,170,000 |
4 |
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