Racing ahead
By Xu Fan | China Daily | Updated: 2015-04-16 08:03
Fast & Furious 7 breaks Chinese box-office records as millions flock to theaters, Xu Fan reports.
The high-octane Fast and Furious 7 has lived up to its reputation, making 425 million yuan ($68.5 million) on Sunday, when it broke both first-day and single-day records for the Chinese box office. About 1.3 million moviegoers flocked to the midnight release on Sunday across more than 65 percent of the country's 23,600 theaters.
The movie broke the first-day record of 223 million yuan set by Transformers: Age of Extinction last June, and the single-day record of 373 million yuan mainly taken by homegrown blockbusters on the first day of Chinese Lunar New Year on Feb 19.
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