Wolverine fans in China say bye to Logan
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With an ambition to be more than a popcorn hit, Logan explores humanity, death and love.
The world premiere of Logan was held during the Berlin film festival－an event usually for art-house titles－adding to its serious appeal.
"For us, it is a movie about humans more than superheroes," says Jackman.
Some critics reckon Logan, also an attractive story to moviegoers not interested in Marvel comic books, has so far been the best ever X-Men movie.
For Chinese movie fans, it acts more as a nostalgic journey, in the wake of recent news about Jackman's struggle with skin cancer as he wrote on Twitter about his treatment.
By raking in more than 400 million yuan ($58 million) in six days, Logan is now topping the country's box-office charts. On Douban, one of China's most popular movie review sites, it received 8.5 of 10 points.
Related merchandise is making money as well.
The Chinese version of the 2010 comic book Wolverine: Old Man Logan, penned by Mark Millar and painted by Steve McNiven, has quickly soared to the third-best selling book on presale charts on amazon.cn, according to the Chinese publisher World Publishing Corporation.
Jiang Yumin, editor of the book, says fans want to know more about Wolverine after watching the movie.
Unlike Star Wars and Star Trek, the enduring franchises that are less known in China than in the West, the X-Men series grabbed Chinese attention almost at the same time as in the rest of the world.
More than half of the X-Men movies have been released on the Chinese mainland.
"In cinematic history, we've seen nine Batmans, 10 Supermans, three Spider-Mans and six James Bonds, but only one Wolverine ... We cannot imagine anyone else playing Wolverine," writes the critic Yu Xiaodao on Basa Movie, a public account on phone app WeChat.
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