China-made Monster Hunt sets national box-office record

Mainland-made movie Monster Hunt has become China’s highest-grossing movie ever with a take of RMB2.428 billion (US$381.2 million) thanks in part to its release during an annual 6-8 week “domestic film protection period” in which few foreign films are released, The Guardian reported, citing Variety. The criticism from US film industry press comes on the heels of a report byThe Hollywood Reporter claiming the propaganda film The Hundred Regiments Offensive had stolen the box office from the American film Terminator: Genisys after local theaters were offered state incentives to deliver fraudulent ticket sales reports that may have cost the latter’s studio Paramount as much as US$11 million.