'your name.' Аниме Film Tops China's Box Office Chart in 2nd Weekend 

\'your name.\' Anime Film Tops China\'s Box Office Chart in 2nd Weekend

Shinkai\'s film has earned US$71.0 million after 10 days in China

Entertainment news website Variety reported on Sunday that

film has topped the weekend box office in China for its second weekend in a row. The film was first place in China on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, but fell to second place on Sunday to Mel Gibson\'s

earned the equivalent of US$15.1 million in China (compared to

US$14.2 million in the same time period), according to Ent Group. The film accounted for 25% of the entire Chinese box office earnings on Saturday.

has now earned US$71.0 million after 10 days at the Chinese box office.

The film topped the Chinese box office during its opening weekend, earning the equivalent of US$41 million.

earned the biggest opening weekend of any Japanese animated film in China — topping last year\'s

(US$38.5 million). The film also earned the biggest opening weekend of any hand-drawn animated film in China — topping this year\'s Chinese film

has earned 20,006,188,400 yen (about US$175.81 million) and sold 15,391,716 tickets as of Tuesday, after 102 days in Japanese theaters. The film is the second highest-grossing Japanese film of all time in Japan, behind

, and is the fifth highest-grossing overall film of all time in Japan.

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