'Ip Man 4' leads Chinese mainland box office
It was followed by "S.W.A.T," a domestic gangster film, which pocketed $95,387
"Ip Man 4," the latest installment in the Chinese martial arts film franchise "Ip Man" based on the life of a legendary Wing Chun master, led the Chinese mainland box office as of Saturday, according to the China Movie Data Information Network Sunday.
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The film raked in $105,700 on Saturday, accounting for nearly 14 percent of the daily total.
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It was followed by "S.W.A.T," a domestic gangster film, which pocketed $95,387 on its second day of screening.
Coming in third was "Sheep Without a Shepherd," a Chinese adaptation of a renowned Indian drama. It grossed about $87,028.
Directed by Wilson Yip, the new film sees Donnie Yen reprising the title role as the legendary Wing Chun kung fu master. In the film, following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to the United States in order to ease the tensions between the local kung fu masters and his star student, Bruce Lee, and gets involved in a dispute between local armed forces and a Chinese martial arts school in San Francisco's Chinatown.
The US review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives "Ip Man 4: The Finale" a score of 90 percent based on 21 critics' reviews and 1,521 Internet Movie Database (IMDb) users have given a weighted average vote of 7.6 out of 10 for the film to date.
