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With so many movies being released in the month of February, you probably wouldn’t expect a Chinese movie to be at the top of the box office… but The Wandering Earth proved the competition wrong!
The China produced movie took the world by storm with a record breaking box office take of RM1,419,487,700 ($349 million) on its first week, topping the opening week gross of RM1,376,099,939 ($338 million) for Avengers: Infinity War.
The Chinese science fiction movie begins 2,500 years after the people of Earth built giant thrusters to move the planet to a new star system after the Sun died out. However, on their course to revive the planet, Earth got caught in Jupiter’s magnetic fields.
The movie is based on a novella of the same name by author Liu Cixin and has a budget of RM203,380,000 ($50 million).
The Wandering Earth is now the highest grossing movie of 2019, with Glass in second place, and it’s looking like it might stay the same until Avengers: End Game is released later this year!
Seems like Hollywood has some tough competition to face now! Did you watch the movie? Let us know your thoughts on it!
Info via Forbes
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