SCI-Fi's onscreen surge

A new Hollywood blockbuster tops China's box office on opening day, but critics say such films need stronger stories. Xu Fan reports.

In a mass migration to a remote planet, a passenger accidentally wakes up 90 years earlier, discovering he will have to spend the rest of his life alone in a 120-year, nonstop journey.

The grand theme examining loneliness and humanity once made Passengers one of the most popular original screenplays on "Black List", which collects the unproduced tales by powerful Hollywood players.