BEIJING, Dec. 8 (Xinhua) -- Domestic adventure movie "Schemes in Antiques" on Tuesday continued to lead the Chinese mainland box office chart on its fifth day of screening, data from the China Movie Data Information Network showed Wednesday.
Adapted from a novel of the same name, the movie tells a story of a series of adventures of the main characters to find out the truth surrounding a Buddha head from the Tang Dynasty (618-907). It generated about 18.8 million yuan (about 3 million U.S. dollars) on Tuesday, accounting for 53 percent of the day's total.
The domestic comedy-suspense film "Be Somebody" came in second on the box office chart, generating around 8.7 million yuan on Tuesday.
It was followed by a domestic romance "Your World, Without Me," with daily revenue of around 1.4 million yuan. Enditem
