Better Days (film)


Better Days is a 2019 Chinese romantic crime coming of age film directed by Derek Tsang and starring Zhou Dongyu and Jackson Yee. The film is adapted from the popular Chinese YA novel In His Youth, In Her Beauty by author Jiu Yuexi. It tells a story of a bullied high school girl and a teenage street thug, how both of their lives were changed by each other. The story also discussed about their dreams and wishes related to their future and how they protect each other in their own way. The film was released on October 25, 2019, in China, and on November 8, 2019, in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. The box office for this film is a total of 227.3 million around the globe.

Cast

Soundtrack

Production

Better Days is adapted from Jiu Yuexi's novel In His Youth, In Her Beauty.
Production started in July 2018 and ended on September 10, 2018. Most of the film was shot on location in Chongqing.

Release

Better Days was released on October 25, 2019, in China. It was released by Well Go USA Entertainment in Mandarin with English subtitles in selected theaters in the United States and Canada.
The film was pulled from the Berlin festival's Generation section.

Critical reception

reported that 100% of critics have given the film a positive review based on 8 reviews, with an average rating of 8.33/10. Audience Score is 97% from 131 ratings.

Box office

Better Days collected more than 100 million yuan on its opening day. The film earned more than 1.29 billion yuan over the past 15 days in China, according to Maoyan.
Opening Weekend USA: $989,536 10 November 2019
Gross USA: $1,921,657
Cumulative Worldwide Gross: $225,320,294

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