War epic film "The Battle at Lake Changjin" continued leading the Chinese mainland box office on Thursday, figures from the China Movie Data Information Network showed on Friday.
With a daily box office of 70.8 million yuan (about 11 million U.S. dollars), the film's total box office had amounted to 4.45 billion yuan by Thursday, its 15th day of screening.
Another film of patriotic theme "My Country, My Parents" stayed second on the chart, finishing the day with nearly 15.1 million yuan and bringing its total revenue to about 1.25 billion yuan.
In third place was "Water Boys," with a daily box office of about 1.3 million yuan.