Season of the beasts

Wolf Totem, the 3-D adventure epic that stars real animals and took five years to make, is expected to be the biggest grosser during the Spring Festival, Xu Fan reports.

Eleven years after it was published in 2004, Jiang Rong's novel Wolf Totem, which sold as many as 5 million copies and was translated into 39 languages in 110 countries, will come to the big screen during the Chinese Lunar New Year.

The movie, a coproduction of China and France, will be released across the country on Feb 19.