film: Based on works by novelist Liu Cixin, it tells the story of a group of Chinese astronauts working to save Earth from a dying and rapidly expanding sun, according to CNN. Opening on February 5, the film made about 405 million 2.7 billion yuan in just over its first week in China alone -- putting it on track to become the country's most successful film of all time. It's just one of the reasons China's new sci-fi movie The Wandering Earth is taking the nation by storm. Reaction has been startling. State-run news agency Xinhua, meanwhile, described it as a new dawn for China's sci-fi filmmaking. I didn't expect China could make such a large-scale science-fiction film, said one of the top comments on Chinese film review site Douban.
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