{"id":2294986,"date":"2026-02-23T08:18:52","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:18:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2294986"},"modified":"2026-02-23T08:18:52","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T08:18:52","slug":"china-box-office-pegasus-3-dominates-lunar-new-year-holiday-frame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/china-box-office-pegasus-3-dominates-lunar-new-year-holiday-frame\/","title":{"rendered":"China Box Office: \u2018Pegasus 3\u2019 Dominates Lunar New Year Holiday Frame"},"content":{"rendered":"

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China\u2019s theatrical market surged during the Lunar New Year holiday period (Feb. 17\u201322), earning RMB4.47 billion ($647.4 million) over the six-day frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway.<\/p>\n

The period was led by a slate of major simultaneous releases that debuted on Tuesday, propelling the territory to temporarily become the world\u2019s top-grossing film market for 2026. Racing-comedy \u201cPegasus 3<\/a>\u201d emerged as the runaway champion, amassing $369.3 million in its first six days. Directed by Han Han<\/a> and starring Shen Teng, the third installment in the franchise follows racer Zhang Chi<\/a> as he leads an underdog national team into the international Muchen 100 Rally.<\/p>\n

Zhang Yimou<\/a>\u2019s espionage thriller \u201cScare Out<\/a>\u201d secured the second spot for the holiday period, earning $110.7 million. Starring Jackson Yee<\/a> and Zhu Yilong<\/a>, the film centers on a high-stakes counterintelligence operation to plug a leak of classified data.<\/p>\n

In third, martial arts epic \u201cBlades of the Guardians<\/a>\u201d took in $97.3 million…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China\u2019s theatrical market surged during the Lunar New Year holiday period (Feb. 17\u201322), earning RMB4.47 billion ($647.4 million) over the six-day frame, according to data from Artisan Gateway. The period was led by a slate of major simultaneous releases that debuted on Tuesday, propelling the territory to temporarily become the world\u2019s top-grossing film market for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2294987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2294986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/China-Box-Office-\u2018Pegasus-3-Dominates-Lunar-New-Year-Holiday.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2294986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2294988,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2294986\/revisions\/2294988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2294987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2294986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2294986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2294986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}