Paramount Picture's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows is sitting in the top spot at the Chinese box office after ousting Lee Min Ho's Bounty Hunters.

Despite the remarkable opening for the Chinese-Korean comedy action movie on Friday, July 1, Ninja Turtles managed to catch up and even surpass Bounty Hunters. It raked in $26.1 million in a 2-day frame from 6,600 screens, thanks to its Chinese backing from Alibaba Pictures and strategic investor Wanda Group. Bounty Hunters, on the other hand, pulled in $17.3 million in three days.

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Other than the Chinese firms' support, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle was also well-promoted as Arrow actor Stephen Amell personally took a rare tour through four Chinese cities including Beijing, Shanghai, Chengdu, and Guangzhou ahead of the opening. His appearance was a hot topic on social media in China.

Trailing behind in the third spot is last week's top grosser Now You See Me 2, with $15.2 million between Friday and Sunday. All in all, the American caper thriller film has accumulated $81.7 million in 10 days.

Last week's number two Independence Day: Resurgence has now slipped to the fourth spot, earning $11.5 million over the weekend, and a total of $66.6 million for the 10 days cumulative.

Korean movie No One's Life is Easy (So I Married an Anti-Fan), which opened on Thursday, slid down the fifth place, earning a total of $8.62 million over its four-day opening weekend.

After over two weeks of showing, Pixar's Finding Dory still secured a spot on number six with $4.97 million, adding to its $35.8 million cumulative total after 17 days.

Meanwhile, even if it opened om June, Warcraft still managed to add $800,000 over the weekend, summing its cumulative total to $220 million in 26 days.

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