Unbroken unable to draw local audience yet

For Chinese moviegoers, the movie Unbroken has it all - from being directed by Angelina Jolie to the screenplay written by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen to its cinematography by the 11-time Oscar-nominee Roger Deakins. In addition, there's popular Japanese singer Miyavi, who plays the villainous Mutsuhiro Watanabe.

But when Unbroken was screened across theaters on the Chinese mainland recently, box-office results weren't the most encouraging. The movie earned 21.5 million yuan ($3.4 million) in China by Tuesday, five days after its release here.

At a time when Chinese moviegoers are willing to pay more than 500 million yuan for a low-budget domestic comedy such as Running Man - a movie inspired by a South Korean reality TV show, and which was released on Jan 30, the same day as Unbroken - the Hollywood production's prospects in the mainland don't look very bright.