With a box office of 648.91 million yuan ($98.96 million), Warcraft dominated the Chinese mainland theaters during the three-day Dragon Boat Festival weekend, according to data from mainland box office tracking site cbooo.cn.
The long holiday weekend (Thursday-Saturday) saw total industry box office earnings of 837.88 million yuan.
Other films in the top five are X-Men: Apocalypse (123.92 million yuan), The Angry Birds Movie (27.00 million yuan), Alice Through the Looking Glass (24.73 million yuan) and Toys War (6.35 million yuan).
Toys War was the only Chinese produced film to make it into the top five.
Adapted from the popular Warcraft series of video games, the film premiered in the mainland on June 8 with an opening day box office of 250.29 million yuan, but its highest single day record, 368.03 million yuan, was set the next day, also the first day of the festival.
By noon on Sunday, the film had earned more than 980 million yuan at the mainland box office, making it the ninth highest-earning foreign film in China, surpassing The Jungle Book (979.31 million yuan) and closely following 2011 action blockbuster Transformers 3: The Dark of the Moon (1.07 billion yuan).
This rapidly rising box office has some comparing it to Furious 7's performance. Earning a total of 2.42 billion yuan, Furious 7 is currently the second highest-earning film and the highest-earning foreign film in the mainland.
