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Article: Red Cliff breaks Chinese box office record.
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- China Business News
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- August 12, 2008
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Red Cliff breaks Chinese box office record
Shanghai. August 12. INTERFAX-CHINA - John Woo's period epic "Red Cliff", the most expensive Chinese language film produced to date, had obtained box office sales of RMB 302 million ($44 million) as of Aug.
10, the greatest figure attained in China to date, China Film Group announced on Aug. 11.
The record was previously held by Zhang Yimou's Curse of the Golden Flower, which took in RMB 286 million ($41.68 million) in box office revenue in 2007.
The film's producers, namely China Film Group, South Korea's Showbox Entertainment, Taiwan's CMC Entertainment Group and Japan's Avex Entertainment, ...