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Post subject: Red Cliff movie new China box-office record
 Posted: Aug 12, 2008 - 11:49 PM CST
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John Woo's epic "Red Cliff" has set a new box-office record for a Chinese film, state media reported Wednesday.
The film, which depicts war and turbulence in third-century China, raked in 302 million yuan (44 million dollars) in China after it opened on July 10, the Southern Metropolis Daily said.
The earnings overtook the previous record of 280 million yuan set by "Curse of the Golden Flower," directed by Olympic opening ceremony mastermind Zhang Yimou, the report said, citing producer China Film Group.
With its sequel due to debut in January, "Red Cliff" is expected to "create a new box-office miracle" and break the all-time domestic record of 360 million yuan earned by Hollywood blockbuster "Titanic," the newspaper said.
The two-part 80-million-dollar epic, starring Hong Kong star Tony Leung and Japan's Takeshi Kaneshiro, made headlines in June when a stuntman working on a battle scene died in a fire on set.
Woo, a Hong Kong film director and producer, rose to international prominence with "Face Off" starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage in 1997. He was also the director of "Mission: Impossible II" starring Tom Cruise.
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