It appears that Chinese people like robots an awful lot, as Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen has now overtaken Titanic as the highest grossing movie in the country’s history. The film has now grossed $58.6 million in mainland China, considerably besting Titanic’s gross of $52 million.
It adds to the records Transformers 2 has already set in the country, where it’s also had the biggest single day ever ($4.9 million) and the highest first weekend gross ($23.4).
Perhaps most impressive is that it took the film only 19 days to beat Titanic’s records, whereas that film had taken 70 days to outdo the previous biggest movie, suggesting that by the time Revenge Of The Fallen finishes its Chinese run, it will have beaten all other movies by a massive margin.
The movie has now grossed over $711 million worldwide, and has now overtaken the $708 million the first Transformers movie grossed in 2007. By the time the movie ends its box office run, it should be comfortably within the top 20 movies of all time worldwide and could even hit the top 10.