It was another terrible weekend at the Chinese box office with no new releases and more Covid-related lockdowns. The returns have been moribund for weeks now with no genuine hits aside from Moon Man. And more cities have been locked down, including Wuhan, Guangzhou, and areas in Beijing and Shanghai with an estimated 232 million people affected.

So a combination of the rise of streaming platforms like Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, and with the easy availability of pirated content and the lack of new releases including Hollywood product, the already released films have just shuffled around on the top ten list for the weekend of October 28-30. The newest film, Come Back Home, has been out for 28 days and is No. 10 on the list.

The year-to-date theatrical box office is $3.90 billion, down 34% from last year, according to Artisan Gateway.

Leading the list again was the 31-day-old Home Coming, which grossed $218.10 million in its month-long run, earning $5.65 million over the weekend. The Rao Xiao Zhi-directed film is about the heroic deeds of a Chinese diplomat and a civil servant who evacuate 125 Chinese from a war-torn North African country. It stars Zhang Yi and Karry Wang.

Give Me Five was No. 2 again. It has been in release for 52 days. Its total gross is $73.95 million with $2.15 million grossed over the weekend. The sci-fi Chinese film tells of a young man who travels back in time to the 1980s to help his Alzheimer’s-afflicted father remember his life. It is directed by Zhang Luan and stars Chang Yuan.

Ordinary Hero stayed at No. 3 for a weekend gross of $1.72 million and a total of $30.24 over 31 days. It is based on a true story of a rescue team racing against time to transport a 7-year-old boy with a severed arm over 1,400 miles from a Hotan village to a hospital in the Xinjian Autonomous Region. It is directed by Tony Chan and stars Li Bingbing, Huang Xiaoming, and Feng Shaofeng.

A couple of animated films ended the weekend at No. 4 and 5: the space-themed New Happy Dad and Son 5: My Alien Friend, and The Tyrannosaurus Rex. Both have been out for 30 days and have grossed $11.71 million and $4.61 million respectively. New Happy Dad is the fifth in a franchise that started in 1995; Tyrannosaurus is an animated fantasy released in both 2D and 3D.

Steel Will (31 days in release), and the animated Cinderella and the Spellbinder (30 days) managed to earn just over $100,000 each by Sunday and came in at No 6 and 7, but Table for Six (62 days), Warriors of Future (87 days), and the aforementioned Come Back Home (28 days) didn’t even reach $100,000 each and round out the top 10.

Moon Man has grossed $460 million in 93 days and the animated Xin Shen Bang: Yang Jian (New Gods) made $82.43 million in 72 days. Both showed up on the Friday and Saturday charts in the middle but slipped off the list on Sunday.

In an interesting aside, IMAX just made a deal last month with exhibitor Wanda Films for six new installations in their multiplexes in China, including in Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Guangzhou, according to Deadline. The company has been in China for 20 years and has 788 theaters in the country with another 198 in the works. The upcoming release of The Way of Water will be a big test of IMAX’s business, aside from, obviously, that of the Chinese box office.