Brad Pitt’s ‘F1’ Outraced by ‘Detective Conan’ at China Box Office

TMS Entertainment’s anime film “Detective Conan: One‑Eyed Flashback” debuted at the top of the China box office over the June 27–29 weekend, earning RMB153.1 million ($21.3 million) in its opening frame, according to Artisan Gateway.

Directed by Katsuya Shigehara with a screenplay by Takeharu Sakurai, this 28th installment in the long-running “Case Closed” series unveils a mystery centered on Inspector Kansuke Yamato. After surviving a sniper attack that leaves him blind in one eye and triggers an avalanche at Nagano’s Nobeyama Observatory, Yamato becomes the focus of an unfolding conspiracy. Conan Edogawa and Detective Kogoro Mouri join the Nagano prefectural police to investigate a break-in at the observatory while uncovering a deeper plot involving undercover agents, betrayal, and vengeance.

The top-billed Japanese voice cast includes Minami Takayama as Conan Edogawa, Wakana Yamazaki as Ran Mouri, Rikiya Koyama as Kogoro Mouri, Yūji Takada as Kansuke Yamato and Ami Koshimizu as Yui Uehara, among others.

Warner Bros.’ “F1: The Movie,” starring Brad Pitt, debuted in second place with $7.9 million. Imax accounted for 43% of the nationwide debut with $3.8 million. “Detective Conan: One‑Eyed Flashback” earned $804,000 from Imax screens in China.

Peter Chan Ho-sun’s period noir “She’s Got No Name,” headlined by Zhang Ziyi, moved to third place in its second weekend with $7.8 million. The Huanxi Media release has now amassed $44.7 million in total.

Based on one of China’s most famous unsolved murder cases, the film centers on Zhan-Zhou (Zhang Ziyi), a wife charged with the bloody dismemberment of her husband during the Japanese occupation of Shanghai in the 1940s – a killing that seems impossible for her to have committed alone. The murder thrusts Zhan-Zhou into the spotlight and the court of public opinion, forcing her towards a fate intertwined with that of her own country. The story follows the case from Japanese-occupied Shanghai through the Kuomintang Nationalist government victory and into the People’s Republic, ending in 1993 though the accused murderer lived until 2006.

Universal’s “How to Train Your Dragon” ranked fourth, earning $4.2 million in its third frame. Its cumulative gross stands at $31.3 million.

Fifth place went to SHIN-EI’s “Crayon Shin-Chan: The Adult Empire Strikes Back,” a re-release of the 2001 Japanese anime film, which earned $2.5 million from its two-day opening.

The weekend box office reached $52.5 million, lifting China’s 2025 gross box office to $4.05 billion, up 23.3% from the same period in 2024.