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Monster Hunt has become the highest-grossing domestic movie in China, Xinhua state news agency reported.

As of Sunday afternoon, Monster Hunt had earned 1.317 billion yuan ($212 million) since it opened on July 16, Xinhua said.

The previous record was held by 2012 road trip comedy Lost in Thailand which earned about 1.27 billion yuan.Monster Hunt box office record China

Fantasy comedy Monster Hunt, a blend of live-action and animation, tells the story of a radish-like baby monster called Huba.

The movie is set in a fantasy world resembling ancient China, where monsters and humans co-exist uneasily in two separate lands.

When revolutionaries in the monsters’ world attempt to overthrow their royalty, the monster queen flees to the land of humans and impregnates a hapless human man, Tianyin, with Huba.

He ends up being pursued by both monsters and monster-hating humans keen on capturing the newborn Huba.

Monster Hunt was directed by Raman Hui, who co-directed 2007’s Shrek the Third.

The Hollywood Reporter said that, outside China, Monster Hunt faces stiff competition from the likes of Minions and Inside Out.

The highest grossing movie ever in China is Furious 7, which earned about 2 billion yuan after it opened in April.

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Filming on The Green Destiny – a prequel to Oscar-winning martial arts film Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon – will start in July.

The Green Destiny will see Michelle Yeoh reprise her role as female warrior Yu Shu Lien.

Pre-production is believed to have begun. Filming is due to start in Auckland, New Zealand, with two further weeks of shooting in China.

Yuen Woo-ping, who co-ordinated the action scenes in the original, will step behind the camera for the prequel.

The Green Destiny will see Michelle Yeoh reprise her role as female warrior Yu Shu Lien

The Green Destiny will see Michelle Yeoh reprise her role as female warrior Yu Shu Lien

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon remains the most successful Chinese-language film of all time, making $213.5 million on its release in 2000.

The movie won the best foreign-language Oscar the following year, with three more awards in the technical categories.

Part of the reason for the film’s success was that it operated on many different levels. It was a love story, a martial arts fantasy with a feminist twist and an historical epic set against a backdrop of spectacular locations in China.

Director Ang Lee also employed sophisticated technology that enabled the characters to perform gravity-defying stunts, drawing in fans of the previous year’s box office hit, The Matrix.

But plans for a prequel were delayed by a row over the film rights to Wang Du Lu’s novels, on which the film was based.

Columbia Pictures claimed it had struck a deal with the late writer’s son in 2005. He denied this, and said he had signed an agreement with The Weinstein Company, another US studio.

With the case resolved, The Weinstein Company is pushing ahead with the prequel, choosing New Zealand as a location thanks to a generous production incentive that offers filmmakers a 20% rebate on money spent in the country.

The Green Destiny draws on the fifth book in Wang Du Lu’s series, Silver Vase, Iron Night.

“This introduces a new generation of star-crossed lovers, and a new series of antagonists in a battle of good and evil,” screenwriter John Fusco told movie website Deadline last year.

Although John Fusco is known for US blockbusters such as Young Guns I and II, he also penned The Forbidden Kingdom for Jet Li and Jackie Chan in 2008.

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