'Monster Hunt' and top Chinese film grossers
- By Zhang Rui
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The Chinese fantasy film "Monster Hunt" has so far grossed 1.437 billion yuan (US$231.5 million) to become the highest-grossing Chinese film of all time. It also beat James Cameron's "Avatar" to become the fifth highest-grossing films ever screened in China, just behind Hollywood blockbusters such as "Furious 7" and "Transformers: Age of Extinction."
China's previous top box office record is held by "Lost in Thailand," a 2012 low-budget comedy directed by local director Xu Zheng. Xu doesn't mind, declaring: "Records are meant to be broken! Keep pressing ahead, Chinese movies."
11, "Rumble in the Bronx"
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"Rumble in the Bronx" [Photo/youth.cn] |
Box office gross takings: 95 million yuan
Release date: Jan. 21, 1995
The time the film held on to the record was the longest: 5 years and 6 months
Box office total gross of all films in China that year: 1 billion yuan
It was the first public release of Chinese box office statistics. "The Fugitive," the first imported foreign film, grossed 25.8 million yuan. The film was the first one to appear in China's box office statistics. "Rumble in the Bronx," directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan later became the biggest grossing Chinese film of that year, taking in 95 million yuan as the whole market's gross total was only 1 billion yuan. It was second only to James Cameron's "True Lies" starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, which grossed 103 million yuan in China that year, making it the first imported film to gross more than 100 million yuan.
However, considering the fact that Hong Kong had not yet returned to China's sovereignty in 1995, we can count Jiang Wen's "In the Heat of the Sun" as the top Chinese domestic film as it grossed 50 million yuan.
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