Poster: China's summer box office surpasses 10 billion yuan

China's summer box office revenue has surpassed 10 billion yuan (about 1.4 billion U.S. dollars) as of Aug. 18, with homegrown titles dominating the season's top earners.

Leading the charge is "Dead To Rights," a film about the Nanjing Massacre during World War II, which has grossed 2.6 billion yuan since its July 25 release. It is the only summer release to top the 2-billion-yuan threshold so far, and now ranks as the year's third-highest earner overall in China.

Drawing on verified photographic evidence of Japanese wartime atrocities during the Nanjing Massacre, "Dead To Rights" tells the story of a group of Chinese civilians who shelter in a photography studio during the brutal occupation of Nanjing by Japanese aggressors in 1937.