MGM’s “No Time to Die,” Daniel Craig’s swan song as James Bond, added US$11.4 million in its second weekend in China’s cinemas, a 60 percent slide from its US$28.2 million local debut.

The film has brought in US$49.2 million from the Middle Kingdom, with ticketing app Maoyan projecting a US$65 million finish. That will make China the Bond movie’s fourth-biggest market, behind the U.K., U.S. and Germany. “No Time to Die” won’t match “Spectre”’s US$83.5 million China performance from 2015 though.

Theater closures can’t explain away the pitiful performance of Paramount’s “Snake Eyes: G.I. Joe Origins,” however. The film opened to just US$1.5 million, failing to crack the weekend’s list of top-five titles. It scored just 5.8 on Maoyan and 4.3 on Douban — the lowest social scores for a Hollywood release in China since the start of the pandemic.

China’s domestic juggernaut “The Battle of Lake Changjin” continued to add to its historic box-office total, meanwhile, earning US$8.7 million in its sixth weekend, according to data from Artisan Gateway.

Legendary Entertainment’s “Dune” slipped to fifth place in its third weekend with US$2.1 million in sales. The Denis Villeneuve-directed sci-fi tentpole has brought in US$36.9 million in China to date, with Maoyan forecasting a local finish of about US$40 million.

(SD-Agencies)