LOS ANGELES, Nov. 18 (Xinhua) -- Chinese youth drama film "Better Days" took in more than 320,000 U.S. dollars in its second weekend at the North American box office, pushing its North American cume to 1.63 million dollars after ten days of release.
"Better Days" was released on Nov. 8 by Well Go USA Entertainment in Mandarin with English subtitles in selected theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and a few other major cities across the United States and Canada.
Starring actress Zhou Dongyu and the boy band TFBoys' member Jackson Yee, the film by Hong Kong director Derek Kwok-Cheung Tsang puts the spotlight on school bullying.
In the film, Chinese girl Chen Nian, who is single-mindedly preparing for the national college entrance exam, becomes a target of relentless bullying and then forms a strong friendship with small-time criminal Xiao Bei; the two are dragged into a murder case of a teenage girl where they are the prime suspects.
According to studio figures released on Monday by U.S. analytic firm Comscore, "Better Days" brought in 328,150 dollars from 88 locations with a per-theater average of 3,729 dollars through Sunday in North America, ranking 21st among 77 films on the North American weekend box office chart.
It landed in sixth on Comscore Specialized Top 10 Weekend Box Office Actuals Chart for films released in fewer than 1,000 locations.
"Better Days" has been a box-office hit on the Chinese mainland, grossing more than 1.49 billion yuan (about 212 million dollars) over the past 25 days, according to the Chinese film database Maoyan.
