BEIJING, April 20 (Xinhua) -- "Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire," the latest installment in the MonsterVerse film franchise, continued to lead the Chinese mainland's daily box office on Friday, data from the China Movie Data Information Network showed.

 

The monster film generated 10.05 million yuan (about 1.41 million U.S. dollars) on the day.

 

It was followed by "The Boy and the Heron," an Oscar-winning animated fantasy film directed by Japanese animation guru Hayao Miyazaki, with a daily earning of 8.52 million yuan in box office revenue.

 

The domestic romance film "Viva La Vida" took third place, raking in 3.27 million yuan of daily box office revenue.