Aftershock shakes China
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Aftershock, China's first non-English Imax film directed by Feng Xiaogang, shakes more movie theaters across China than any film in history, opening on July 22 on more than 3,500 screens, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
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Aftershock follows a mother widowed by the Tangshan quake to the place where her two children are buried alive. She can only save one and chooses her son, but her daughter overhears her decision through the rubble.
On the release day, Aftershock took in a record 36.2 million yuan -- the highest ever box office ever for a mainland movie on its opening day.
The 7.8-magnitude quake hit the northern city on July 28, 1976, killing more than 240,000 people.
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