Thriller lauded as first film to take more on debut in China than the US. In fact, analysts mixed up dollars and yuan
It was supposed to be the moment the Chinese box office raised its head above the parapet and began its climb towards replacing the US as the world's largest cinemagoing audience. In reality, it appears to have been a basic accounting mistake: the Rian Johnson science fiction film Looper did not, after all, post a higher figure in China than in north America when it debuted in multiplexes at the weekend.
