Chinese romantic comedy and road film Breakup Buddies emerged as China's highest-grossing local film for 2014, bagging US$187,970,000 in revenues based on Box Office Mojo's data.

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The Chinese blockbuster led the Chinese movies, which grossed a cumulative 16.15 billion yuan based on the data provided by Beijing-based film research company EntGroup Inc. The revenue of local film industry comprised 54 percent of China's over-all box-office grosses, including Hollywood produced pictures released in China, which stood at 29.6 billion yuan (US$4.77 billion), 36 percent higher compared to last year's, although short of the 30 billion yuan projected for 2014.

Following Breakup Buddies is the fantasy film, The Monkey King, which was an adaptation of the Journey to the West, a Chinese literary classic written in the Ming Dynasty by Wu Cheng'en. The film earned US$167,840,000 in the box office.

Taking the third spot is The Taking of Tiger Mountain, the epic action film, which earned US$135,580,000. It is the movie adaptation of the novel Tracks in the Snowy Forest by Qu Bo.

Where Are We Going, Dad? -- the spinoff from a reality TV show of the same name about fathers trying to hack it in the outdoors with their young pampered offspring, which earned US$111,870,000 and landed on the fourth spot.

On the fifth spot is the romantic-comedy-drama film The Breakup Guru, which grossed US$106,590,000     

Making it into the top ten are the following movies: The Continent (US$100,150,000), Fleet of Time (US$93,470,000), From Vegas to Macau (US$84,590,000), Tiny Times 3 (US$82,320,000) and Gone With the Bullets (US$82,320,000).

Hollywood box-office champ, Transformers: Age of Extinction, meanwhile, reigns as the highest grossing movie shown in China, which earned over US$301,000,000.

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