{"id":317,"date":"2014-10-30T18:38:09","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T18:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/test.themolitor.com\/vysual\/?p=317"},"modified":"2017-01-16T04:21:28","modified_gmt":"2017-01-16T04:21:28","slug":"the-script-is-finished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/2014\/10\/30\/the-script-is-finished\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the biggest film in the world right now?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\"title_light\">What&#8217;s the biggest film in the world right now? Hint: It\u2019s Chinese<\/h2>\n<div class=\"separator_mini\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Click here for article<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/what-s-the-biggest-film-in-the-world-right-now--hint--it-s-chinese-112101626.html\">http:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/what-s-the-biggest-film-in-the-world-right-now&#8211;hint&#8211;it-s-chinese-112101626.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Monkey King made more money than The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle this weekend, without even having a global release. As the Oscars loom on the horizon, it would be easy to think that one of the front-runners would be dominating the global box office \u2013 maybe &#8216;The Wolf of Wall Street\u2019 or David O. Russell\u2019s &#8216;American Hustle\u2019. No, the biggest film at the global box office right now is \u2018The Monkey King\u2019, never heard of it? Don\u2019t worry, neither had we until we saw the results of the hotly-contested Chinese New Year box office battle. [&#8216;Iron Man 3&#8217; gets extra scenes for Chinese release] The special effects extravaganza (which looks epic, watch the trailer above), based on a passage from the classical novel \u2019Journey To The West\u2019, opened in just seven regions on January 31st, raking in an estimated \u00a328m over a three day period.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>In comparison, the highest-grossing film at the US box office \u2018Ride Along&#8217; took \u00a37.3m over the same period, in its third week of release. Chinese New Year is historically one of the most profitable weekends in the Chinese cinema year, so it&#8217;s no surprise a home-grown film took home the lion&#8217;s (or should that be monkey&#8217;s?) share. The data from international box office tracking agency Rentrak also shows that \u2018The Monkey King\u2019 performed well on IMAX screens taking \u00a31.1m on the Friday along, beating the record for opening day takings of \u00a3918,000 previously held by \u2018Iron Man 3\u2019.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Hong Kong-made feature which stars Asian cinema heavyweights Donnie Yen (\u2018Ip Man\u2019, \u2018Hero\u2019) and Chow Yun-Fat (\u2018Hard Boiled\u2019, \u2018Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon\u2019), tells the story of how the Monkey King (Yen) rebels against the Jade Emperor of Heaven. [Censored version of &#8216;Skyfall&#8217; opens in China] \u2018The Monkey King\u2019 does not currently have a UK release date, but it\u2019s heading to US cinemas in September.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s the biggest film in the world right now? Hint: It\u2019s Chinese Click here for article\u00a0http:\/\/uk.movies.yahoo.com\/what-s-the-biggest-film-in-the-world-right-now&#8211;hint&#8211;it-s-chinese-112101626.html The Monkey King made more money than The Wolf of Wall Street and American Hustle this weekend, without even having a global release. As the Oscars loom on the horizon, it would be easy to think that one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":567,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":570,"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/570"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalstarproductions.com\/gsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}