![]() " The Captain is the only movie from China which I have watched recently. He said he gained new knowledge about this historical incident, which he did not know about previously. It is based on the true story of Liu Chuanjian, a Sichuan Airlines captain who brought 119 passengers and nine crew members home safely after his plane's windshield cracked and eventually shattered on its way from Chongqing in southwest China to Lhasa in May 2018.Īmong those who were the earliest to catch The Captain in cinemas was Singaporean auxiliary police officer Cheng Je Han, 28, who watched it with his girlfriend after finding about the movie on social media. ![]() "It has also been generating excellent word of mouth and we expect the movie to continue its strong run at the cinemas," said the spokesperson.ĭirected by Hong Kong director Andrew Lau, the film portrays one of the most miraculous emergency landings in the contemporary history of Chinese aviation. Since The Captain opened on Oct 3 in Singapore on 22 screens, it has seen a "strong performance," grossing 300,000 Singapore dollars (about $220,000) in box office revenue and 30,000 admissions in one week, said a spokesperson from Clover Films, a regional movie producer and distributor based in Singapore, recently. SINGAPORE - Chinese disaster film The Captain draws crowds in Singapore, with the film opening at number two in the Singapore box office behind Hollywood blockbuster Joker. ![]()
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