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The Wandering Earth is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, loosely based on the 2000 short story of the same name by Liu Cixin.^[1]

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2019 science fiction films
Adaptations of works by Liu Cixin
China Film Group Corporation films
Chinese science fiction action films
Films directed by Frant Gwo
Films set in Shandong
Films set in Sulawesi
Films shot in Shandong
Jupiter in film
Sun in film

A World Out of Time

A World Out of Time is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and published in 1976.

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Abbey Road Studios

Abbey Road Studios (formerly EMI Recording Studios) is a music recording studio at 3 Abbey Road, St John's Wood, City of Westminster, London.

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Andy Lau

Andy Lau Tak-wah (born 27 September 1961) is a Hong Kong actor, singer-songwriter and film producer.

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Base FX

Base FX is a visual effects and animation company with production studios in Beijing, Kuala Lumpur, Wuxi and Xiamen, and an office in Los Angeles.

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Beijing

Beijing, previously romanized as Peking, is the capital of China.

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Box Office Mojo

Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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Cheung Ka-fai (film editor)

Cheung Ka-fai is a Hong Kong film editor and actor.

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China Aerospace Museum

The China Aerospace Museum is a museum in Fengtai District, Beijing.

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China Central Television

China Central Television (CCTV) is the national television broadcaster of China, established in 1958.

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China Film Group Corporation

China Film Group Corporation (CFGC) is the largest, most influential film enterprise in the People's Republic of China, owned by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party.

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China Media Capital is a private equity firm specializing in growth capital, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, corporate restructuring, management buyouts, and mergers & acquisitions.

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Chinese Academy of Sciences

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China.

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Chinese American Film Festival

Chinese American Film Festival (CAFF) is an American film festival held every November since 2006 in California (with events in Los Angeles and San Francisco, previously also in San Diego).

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Chinese New Year

Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival (see also § Names) is a festival that celebrates the beginning of a new year on the traditional lunisolar Chinese calendar.

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Comscore

Comscore, Inc. is an American-based global media measurement and analytics company providing marketing data and analytics to enterprises, advertising agencies, brand marketers, and publishers.

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Concept map

A concept map or conceptual diagram is a diagram that depicts suggested relationships between concepts.

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Deadline Hollywood

Deadline Hollywood, commonly known as Deadline and also referred to as Deadline.com, is an online news site founded as the news blog Deadline Hollywood Daily by Nikki Finke in 2006.

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Douban.com, launched on 6 March 2005, is a Chinese online database and social networking service that allows registered users to record information and create content related to film, books, music, recent events, and activities in Chinese cities.

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Earth

Earth is the third planet from the Sun and the only astronomical object known to harbor life.

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Facebook

Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.

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Fandango Media, LLC is an American ticketing company that sells movie tickets via their website and their mobile app.

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Frant Gwo

Guo Fan (born 15 September 1980), credited as Frant Gwo in Latin script, is a Chinese filmmaker.

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Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture

The Golden Rooster Award for Best Picture is an award given to the best film at the Golden Rooster Awards.

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Gravity

In physics, gravity is a fundamental interaction which causes mutual attraction between all things that have mass.

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Hangzhou

Hangzhou is the capital of Zhejiang, China. It is located in the northeastern part of the province, sitting at the head of Hangzhou Bay, which separates Shanghai and Ningbo. As of 2022, the Hangzhou metropolitan area was estimated to produce a gross metropolitan product (nominal) of 4 trillion yuan (US$590 billion), making it larger than the economy of Sweden.

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IMAX

IMAX is a proprietary system of high-resolution cameras, film formats, film projectors, and theaters known for having very large screens with a tall aspect ratio (approximately either 1.43:1 or 1.90:1) and steep stadium seating, with the 1.43:1 ratio format being available only in few selected locations.

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Interstellar ark

An interstellar ark is a conceptual starship designed for interstellar travel.

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James Cameron

James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker.

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Jupiter

Jupiter is the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System.

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Larry Niven

Laurence van Cott Niven (born April 30, 1938) is an American science fiction writer.

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Lei Jiayin

Lei Jiayin is a Chinese actor best known for his roles in the films Guns and Roses (2012), How Long Will I Love U (2018), A Writer's Odyssey (2021), Full River Red (2023), and YOLO (2024), as well as the television series The First Half of My Life (2017), The Longest Day in Chang'an (2019), and A Lifelong Journey (2022).

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List of highest-grossing films in China

This is a list of the highest-grossing films in Mainland China.

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List of highest-grossing non-English films

These are the highest-grossing, primarily non-English language films in the world.

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Liu Cixin

Liu Cixin (pronounced; born 23 June 1963) is a Chinese computer engineer and science fiction writer.

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Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of films, television shows, music albums, video games, and formerly books.

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Mike Sui

Mike Sui is a comedic actor and host in China who became famous for his "12 Beijingers" viral video released on April 27, 2012.

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Moving Earth

Moving Earth is a theoretical astroengineering concept that involves physically shifting Earth farther away from the Sun to protect the planet's biosphere from rising temperatures.

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National Radio and Television Administration

The National Radio and Television Administration (NRTA) is a ministry-level executive agency controlled by the Central Propaganda Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Netflix

Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.

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Ng Man-tat

Richard Ng Man-tat (2 January 1952 – 27 February 2021), commonly called Uncle Tat (達叔), was a Hong Kong actor originally from Fujian.

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North China

North China is a geographical region of China, consisting of two direct-administered municipalities (Beijing and Tianjin), two provinces (Hebei and Shanxi), and one autonomous region (Inner Mongolia).

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People's Daily

The People's Daily is the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).

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Pixomondo

Pixomondo (PXO) is an Academy and Emmy award-winning international visual effects and virtual production company with studios in Los Angeles, Frankfurt, Stuttgart, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, and London.

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Prequel

A prequel is a literary, dramatic or cinematic work whose story precedes that of a previous work, by focusing on events that occur before the original narrative.

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Principal photography

Principal photography is the phase of producing a film or television show in which the bulk of shooting takes place, as distinct from the phases of pre-production and post-production.

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Qingdao

Qingdao is a prefecture-level city in eastern Shandong Province of China.

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Qu Chuxiao

Qu Chuxiao (born 28 December 1994) is a Chinese actor and singer.

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Red giant

A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass (roughly 0.3–8 solar masses) in a late phase of stellar evolution.

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Red Ventures

Red Ventures is an American media company that owns and operates brands such as Lonely Planet, CNET, ZDNet, The Points Guy, Healthline, and Bankrate.

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Renminbi

The renminbi (symbol: ¥; ISO code: CNY; abbreviation: RMB), also known as Chinese Yuan is the official currency of the People's Republic of China.

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Roche limit

In celestial mechanics, the Roche limit, also called Roche radius, is the distance from a celestial body within which a second celestial body, held together only by its own force of gravity, will disintegrate because the first body's tidal forces exceed the second body's self-gravitation.

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RogerEbert.com

RogerEbert.com is an American film review website that archives reviews written by film critic Roger Ebert for the Chicago Sun-Times and also shares other critics' reviews and essays.

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Rotten Tomatoes

Rotten Tomatoes is an American review-aggregation website for film and television.

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Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (RPO) is a British symphony orchestra based in London.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.

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Science fiction film

Science fiction (or sci-fi or SF) is a film genre that uses speculative, fictional science-based depictions of phenomena that are not fully accepted by mainstream science, such as extraterrestrial lifeforms, spacecraft, robots, cyborgs, mutants, interstellar travel, time travel, or other technologies.

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Shandong

Shandong is a coastal province in East China.

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Shanghai

Shanghai is a direct-administered municipality and the most populous urban area in China.

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Shanghai Tower

Shanghai Tower is a 128-story, megatall skyscraper located in Lujiazui, Pudong, Shanghai.

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Sohu

Sohu, Inc. is a Chinese Internet company headquartered in the Sohu Internet Plaza in Haidian District, Beijing.

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Solar System

The Solar SystemCapitalization of the name varies.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.

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Space suit

A space suit or spacesuit is a garment worn to keep a human alive in the harsh environment of outer space, vacuum and temperature extremes.

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Sulawesi

Sulawesi, also known as Celebes, is an island in Indonesia.

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Sun

The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.

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Supernova Era

Supernova Era is a science fiction novel written by the Chinese writer Liu Cixin.

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Suspended animation

Suspended animation is the temporary (short- or long-term) slowing or stopping of biological function so that physiological capabilities are preserved.

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Terminator 2: Judgment Day is a 1991 American science fiction action film directed by James Cameron, who co-wrote the script with William Wisher. The Wandering Earth and Terminator 2: Judgment Day are films set in the future.

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The Hollywood Reporter

The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Numbers (website)

The Numbers is a film industry data website that tracks box office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.

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The Sun in culture

The Sun, as the source of energy and light for life on Earth, has been a central object in culture and religion since prehistory.

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The Verge

The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.

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The Wandering Earth (novella)

The Wandering Earth is a science fiction novella by Chinese writer Cixin Liu.

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The Wandering Earth 2

The Wandering Earth 2 is a 2023 Chinese science fiction action-adventure film directed and co-written by Frant Gwo, and starring Wu Jing, Andy Lau, and Li Xuejian. The Wandering Earth and The Wandering Earth 2 are Adaptations of works by Liu Cixin, China Film Group Corporation films, Chinese science fiction action films, films about astronauts, films based on Chinese novels, films based on science fiction novels, films directed by Frant Gwo, films set in the future, films shot in Shandong, Jupiter in film, space adventure films and sun in film.

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Troll (slang)

In slang, a troll is a person who posts deliberately offensive or provocative messages online (such as in social media, a newsgroup, a forum, a chat room, an online video game) or who performs similar behaviors in real life.

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Visual effects

Visual effects (sometimes abbreviated VFX) is the process by which imagery is created or manipulated outside the context of a live-action shot in filmmaking and video production.

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Wanda Film

Wanda Film Holding Co. (formerly Wanda Cinema Line) is a cinema operator, film production and film distribution company in China, headquartered in the Wanda Plaza (万达广场) in Chaoyang District, Beijing.

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Wētā Workshop

Wētā Workshop is a special effects and prop company as well as video game developer based in Miramar, Wellington, in New Zealand, that produces effects for television and film.

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Worldbuilding

Worldbuilding is the process of constructing an imaginary world or setting, sometimes associated with a fictional universe.

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Wu Jing (actor)

Wu Jing, also known as Jacky Wu, (born 3 April 1974) is a Chinese actor, director and martial artist best known for his roles in various martial arts films such as Tai Chi Boxer, Fatal Contact, the Sha Po Lang films, and as Leng Feng in Wolf Warrior, its sequel Wolf Warrior 2, and most recently The Battle at Lake Changjin.

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