20 Things You Didn't Know About Interstellar

12. It Earned Nolan's Biggest Opening At The Chinese Box-Office

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Warner Bros. Pictures

You'd think that Nolan's Batman movies would be the flicks that best translated to overseas territories, but that actually isn't the case.

When it opened in the lucrative Chinese market on a Wednesday, Interstellar nabbed Nolan's biggest-ever opening day in the Middle Kingdom, grossing $5.4 million on 7,742 screens - in local currency, that's 33.3 million yuan.

For comparison, Inception only pulled in 12 million yuan, while The Dark Knight Rises managed 28.3 million yuan.

On the whole, Nolan is a very popular name with Chinese audiences, and Interstellar is one of those movies that really resonates with that crowd. In fact, while the pandemic was raging in 2020, an Interstellar re-release set COVID-era records in China - not bad for a seven-year-old movie.

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