A first-day box office of thirteen million—let alone comparing it to Interstellar—fell short even of Chen Shiren's previous films, The Promise and Forever Enthralled.
Nowadays, any blockbuster with a first-day box office of under twenty or thirty million would be too embarrassed to even call itself a blockbuster.
Not to mention top-tier directors like Liu Zhou, Old Mouzi, Tsui Hark, and Feng Kuzi, even directors like Ning Hao and Peter Chan routinely pull in twenty to thirty million on their opening days.
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