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China film on track for box office record

Published: October 5 2009 17:19 | Last updated: October 5 2009 17:19

China’s star-studded propaganda blockbuster, which marks 60 years of communist rule, is on track to match the country’s box office record set by the Hollywood film Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen in July, a senior movie executive said on Monday.

The Founding of a Republic has made nearly 330m renminbi ($48m, €33m, £30m) as of Sunday, since it was released on September 16, China Film Group Corp’s assistant president Zhao Haicheng told the news agency.

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