Hong Kong– Monster Hunt has emerged as the highest-grossing Asian film of 2015 and will receive the Asian Film Awards’ award for Highest-Grossing Asian Film of the year at the 10th Asian Film Awards (AFA) at The Venetian Macao. The film is also competing for the Best Visual Effects and Best Sound in the coming awards.
Upon its release in July 2015, Monster Hunt became a huge commercial success breaking numerous box office records with an accumulated box office of RMB$2.438 billion (US$382 million) in China. It surpassed Hollywood blockbusters, such as Furious 7 and Transformers: Age of Extinction, to become the highest-grossing film in China of all time; and broke the records of Chinese movies released in the same year, including From Vegas to Macau II and Jian Bing Man, to emerge as the highest-grossing Asian Film of 2015.
