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Maxtime Pictures’ “Her Story,” a comedy-drama film told from a largely female perspective, topped the mainland China box office for the fourth consecutive weekend.

The box office remained sluggish despite a few new releases, with Hollywood holdover “Moana 2” dropping out of the top five and Sony’s “Kraven the Hunter” making a modest debut.

Data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway showed “Her Story” sliding from its previous weekend’s showing by earning RMB52.1 million ($7.3 million) between Friday and Sunday. The film now has a cumulative total of $89 million in the Middle Kingdom. The film was the seventh highest grossing film internationally, according to numbers from Comscore.

“Her Story” is directed by Shao Yihui (2021’s “B For Busy”). Its fast-paced story focuses on two women – one a recently unemployed single mom, the other a new neighbor who is more troubled than she appears – who become friends. Together they face up to various relationship challenges,...

Maxtime Pictures’ “Her Story,” a comedy-drama film told from a largely female perspective, topped the mainland China box office for the third consecutive weekend. Disney’s “Moana 2,” which had debuted in second place, dropped to third.

Data from consultancy firm Artisan Gateway showed “Her Story” sliding from its previous weekend’s showing by earning RMB90.1 million ($12.7 million) between Friday and Sunday. The film now has a cumulative total of $76.3 million in the Middle Kingdom.

“Her Story” is directed by Shao Yihui (2021’s “B For Busy”). Its fast-paced story focuses on two women – one a recently unemployed single mom, the other a new neighbor who is more troubled than she appears – who become friends. Together they face up to various relationship challenges, including an abusive ex-husband and new romantic possibilities.

Dimension Films’ “Burning Stars” debuted in second place with $7 million. Directed by Xu Zhanxiong, the historical fiction action-drama follows a...

Crush is a person’s soldiers and horses, but also a lifetime of unforgettable. Luo Yu (Zhang Xueying), who has excellent grades and is proud of his nature, has a crush on his classmate Sheng Huainan (Xin Yunlai), with who had a relationship with when he was a child, and Sheng Huainan is completely unaware of this. After graduating from high school, Luo Yu found that he and Sheng Huainan were actually at the same university. The two accidentally met and got closer and closer, but Luo Yu still did not dare to confess his heart. When the pressure of growth and reality ensues, how should this long crush be placed?

The film is adapted from the August Chang’an Zhenhua series, which is the sequel to the movie “The Best of Us.”...

“My Blue Summer,” a local romance led the Chinese box office higher over the latest weekend with a modestly respectable 7.2 million (RMB48.2 million) opening session. But the trend is hard to discern due to continually changing Covid conditions in China and the country’s uncertain economic direction.

The nationwide Friday to Sunday box office total was 26.7 million, according to data from consultancy Artisan Gateway. The total was more than double the 11.5 million achieved the previous weekend.

The performance was goosed by the Dragon Boat Holiday weekend, operating June 3-5. It was also helped by the re-opening of cinemas in several parts of the country. China has grappled in aggressive fashion, using mass testing and citywide lockdowns, with coronavirus case numbers that are smaller than the figures that are considered as endemic in other parts of the world.

Shanghai, China’s biggest city and its economic capital was officially allowed to...