A Chinese war epic has become the world’s top box office hit this year, eclipsing Hollywood blockbusters as a recovering economy has given the country’s pandemic-hit filmmakers an edge over US rivals.
The Eight Hundred, a drama set in Shanghai during the 1937 Japanese invasion of China, had raked in Rmb2.91bn ($428m) as of Tuesday in its first month in cinemas, according to box office tracker Maoyan.
Group Communist party screenings of the nationalist tale helped propel it past Sony’s Bad Boys for Life to make it the highest-grossing motion picture of 2020 so far, in a rare instance of a Chinese film holding the global record.
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