With its $700 million box office haul, “The Wandering Earth” is the second highest-grossing non-English film of all time and one of the biggest science-fiction films of all time.

... the Chinese box office began to cool down with a 45% week-on-week contraction in the week of Feb 11-17. “The Wandering Earth” ended up breaking the record for the highest daily gross and opening week for a local title, and it is on pace to beat more movie records.

Wandering Earth’s high flying box office results included a limited opening in North America, where it was screened in twenty-two cities but did not find its way into the domestic top ten. Another Chinese film, the sci-fi comedy Crazy Alien , also had a big debut this week, opening to … “The Wandering Earth” now ranks behind only “Wolf Warrior 2” as China’s all-time box office champ. It is officially announced that the total box office of China’s first hard sci-fi film The Wandering Earth has reached 3 billion yuan ($443 million) in just nine days and 16 hours after its release, now ranking the sixth in history of Chinese film production.. On top of the list is the Chinese patriotic blockbuster Wolf Warrior 2, which garnered 5.67 billion yuan in total. Chinese cinema rides high at the global box office this week with two science-fiction films, “The Wandering Earth” and “Crazy Alien”, taking first and second place respectively. China box office: 'The Wandering Earth' passes $500m. Set in … The Wandering Earth was a box office smash in China, a high-octane blockbuster with a ridiculous concept that measures up to Armageddon or Avatar.

'The Wandering Earth' destroys global box office competition on $173m (update) ... as The Wandering Earth earned $172.7m and Crazy Alien delivered $77.7m to …