China's Spring Festival box office tops $998.5 million

China's box-office revenue for the Spring Festival holiday reached 6.7 billion yuan (about 998.5 million US dollars) as of Friday, according to data released by the China Film Administration on Saturday.

Ticket sales from famed director Zhang Yimou's historical epic Man Jiang Hong, or Full River Red, ranked first with takings of more than 2.6 billion yuan, followed by the sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II with 2.16 billion yuan.