The newest addition to the growing films starring fan favorite Dwayne Johnson has been soaring high in China's box office.
Dwayne Johnson's action-adventure Rampage made a strong start in China over the weekend, bagging up a hefty $55 million.
The film opened on some 21,500 screens, claiming nearly 70 percent of the full weekend box office. The sizable first-frame haul is 9 percent ahead of the China debut of Johnson's San Andreas, 34 percent more than his Jumanji and 32 percent better than fellow video-game adaptation Tomb Raider.
The muscular showing in the Middle Kingdom should help New Line and Warner Bros. offset the title's somewhat soft $34.5 million opening in North America, where it narrowly beat Paramount's high-concept horror hit A Quiet Place.
Rampage clamored out of the gate in China to $15.7 million on Friday, adding $22 million on Saturday and $18.1 million on Sunday, according to local box-office tracker EntGroup.
An adaptation of the classic 1980s video game of the same name, Rampage reunites Johnson - a fan favorite in China, thanks to the huge local success of the Fast and the Furious franchise - with his San Andreas director, Brad Peyton.
The story revolves around Dwayne Johnson, starring as a primatologist whose beloved pal - a silverback gorilla - when a rogue genetic experiment gone awry, mutates this gentle ape into a raging creature of enormous size. To make matters worse, it's soon discovered there are other similarly altered animals. As these newly created alpha predators tear across North America, destroying everything in their path, Okoye teams with discredited geneticist Kate Caldwell (Naomie Harris) to secure an antidote, fighting his way through an ever-changing battlefield, not only to halt a global catastrophe but to save the fearsome creature that was once his friend.
