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Han Bingbin reports on the new releases scheduled for the coming holiday season.

John Woo's romantic epic The Crossing: Part 1, set against the backdrop of civil war and the sinking of the Chinese ship Taiping, opened to a warm box-office welcome on Tuesday.

The movie was released at the start of the so-called hesui dang period, when Chinese like to dress up and spend money on entertainment over weeks marked by festivities as Christmas and the New Year leading up to the Chinese New Year.