Zhang Yimou's 'The Flowers of War' made RMB204.4 million ($32.4 million) in China last week. By Sunday night, the war epic had taken RMB356.5 million ($56.4 million) after eleven days in cinemas.

It widened its lead on TSUI Hark's 3-D action-fantasy 'Flying Swords of Dragon Gate' that made RMB175.4 million ($27.8 million) in the same time frame for a current gross of RMB317.1 million ($50.2 million).

By comparison, in its first eleven days, JIANG Wen 's 'Let the Bullets Fly' had taken RMB382.3 million ($60.5 million), however its second week box office was slightly lower than that of Flowers at RMB200.8 million ($31.8 million).

At RMB674.3 million ($106.7 million), Bullets is China's highest grossing local film.

New releases included XU Jinglei 's 'Dear Enemy' re-teaming her with Taiwan's Stanley HUANG, her co-star in her previous film as a director, 'Go! Lala Go!'.

Enemy made RMB41.4 million ($6.5 million) in its first three days. The office drama Lala, which ended its theatrical run with RMB131.3 million ($20.8 million), made a comparable RMB46.0 million in its first four days in cinemas.

Another new release, Barbara WONG's Allure of Tears starring ZHOU Dongyu, Aarif LEE and Shawn DOU, was runner-up to Enemy with RMB24.0 million ($3.8 million) after four days on release.

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