Who has heard of
The Eight Hundred
?
Nobody except… 1.4 billion Chinese: this blockbuster is screened almost exclusively in China.
It is, however, the biggest success of the year at the global box office.
The receipts of this war film produced by Huayi Brothers with very nationalist accents whose budget amounts to 80 million dollars reached, between August 21 and October 11, 460 million dollars.
That's more than the 426 million
Bad Boys
, the Sony Pictures franchise starring Will Smith and Martin Lawrence.
Better, too, than
Tenet
, the American blockbuster by Christopher Nolan and its $ 323 million.
An exception?
Not even.
My People, My Homeland,
another Chinese feature film, has already raked in $ 325 million after two weeks in theaters, while it took
Tenet
six to
raise the same amount.
Among the world's biggest hits, we will also have to count on the Beijing animated film Enlight Picture,
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