Dangal continued what has been one of the leggiest runs in global box office history by pinning down another $3 million in China this weekend, a drop of just 38% from the previous Friday-Sunday. This brings its total Chinese box office gross to over $185 million in the 7 weeks since its debut there. At 1.268 billion RMB in local currency, the film needs just 4 million RMB ($588,000) more to overtake Lost in Thailand and become the 16th highest-grossing film ever in China. The James Cameron-directed sci-fi fantasy held the PRC total box office record for four years from its 2010 release there until it was overtaken by Transformers: Age of Extinction in 2014. Avatar still stands just ahead of Dangal on the all-time top-grosser chart with a 1.34 billion total in China, holding an 80 million RMB lead that will probably prove insurmountable.

Source: Forbes June 19, 2017 00:56 UTC