In 2002, Hero became the highest-grossing domestic film, with CN¥250 million. In 1998, Titanic (directed by James Cameron) became the all-time highest grossing film to be released in China, with a then-unprecedented ¥360 million. In 1997, Xie Jin's The Opium War was the year's top-grossing domestic film with ¥72 million, though it was narrowly beaten that year by The Lost World: Jurassic Park, an American film which earned ¥72.1 million. Later the same year, the American film True Lies overtook it as the all-time highest-grossing foreign film in China, with ¥103 million earned at the box office, while Jiang Wen's In the Heat of the Sun became the year's highest-grossing domestic film in the country with ¥50 million. In 1995, the Hong Kong action film Rumble in the Bronx, directed by Stanley Tong and starring Jackie Chan, became the all-time highest-grossing foreign film in China, where it grossed ¥95 million it is not considered a domestic film as it was produced in Hong Kong (then a British Dependent Territory).
Ĭhina began releasing box office gross revenue results for foreign non- Chinese films in November 1994, upon the release of The Fugitive (1993). Hollywood film releases were relatively rare in China up until First Blood (1982), which had its Chinese release in 1985, and went on to sell 76 million tickets, the highest for a Hollywood film in China up until 2018. The foreign film with the highest ticket sales in China is the Indian Bollywood film Caravan (1971), which had its Chinese release in 1979 and sold nearly 300 million tickets in China. The Chinese– Hong Kong film Shaolin Temple (1982) set the record for the highest-grossing film in China, with a gross revenue of CN¥161,578,014. The film with the highest ticket sales in China is In-Laws ( Full House of Joy), released in 1981, followed by Mysterious Buddha (1980) and then Gunshots in the CIB (1979), each with more than 300 million ticket sales. Up until the 1980s, the Chinese box office was typically reported in terms of box office admissions (ticket sales), rather than gross revenue. Journey to the West: The Demons Strike Back
0 kommentar(er)
