China's box office made a blockbuster comeback on October 1, the beginning of a week-long National Day and Mid-Autumn Festival holiday. Registering its biggest daily gain of 2020, it cashed in over 700 million yuan ($103 million).

According to Maoyan, China's biggest movie-ticketing platform by sales, theaters across China grossed about 728 million yuan, only second to the highest-ever Golden Week daily earnings of 815 million yuan recorded in 2018. 

Domestic movies emerged as big winners, with animated film "Jiang Ziya: Legend of Deification" and anthology drama film "My People, My Homeland," topping the charts.  

"Jiang Ziya" bagged 358 million yuan, becoming the highest daily grossing movie of the epidemic-wracked year. It also set a new daily box office record by an animated film in China, smashing the 144-million-yuan previous high created by "Ne Zha" in 2019.

"My People, My Homeland" ended the busy day with 267 million yuan, followed by Jackie Chan-starred "Vanguard" and sports drama "Leap." 

(Cover: A moviegoer outside a theater in Shanghai, September 27, 2020. /CFP)