SUBMITTED BY LClem

December 30, 2002 — Since being released on Friday, HERO has become a record-breaker all over China. During the first weekend, It has collected 50 million yuans, about US$ 6.04 million, and on the first day of release, the new record is 12 million (US$ 1.45 million) Tickets are sold at as high as 70 (US$ 8.46) and nearly 300 copies of the film has been distributed to theaters around the country. In Beijing alone, the result for the first three-days is over 7 million (US$ 0.85 million), much higher than the record set by TITANIC, which is $4.3 million (US$ 1.52 million