PACIFIC RIM Opens in China with $9 Million; Sequel on the Horizon?

Deadline.com reports that Guillermo Del Toro's PACIFIC RIM may be looking forward to a sequel after the pic opened today in China to $9 million -- the highest-ever opening gross for any Warner Bros. film in that country.

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PACIFIC RIM was the No. 1 film internationally between July 19 and 21, when it had hit about half of its global markets. The movie was also released today, July 31, in Spain and Japan, and will next debut in Brazil on August 9.

Following Sunday, PACIFIC RIM's worldwide gross is sitting at $224 million.

The Del Toro-helmed action adventure stars Charlie Hunnam, Idris Elba, Rinko Kikuchi, Charlie Day, Ron Perlman, Robert Kazinsky, Max Martini, Clifton Collins, Jr., Burn Gorman, Larry Joe Campbell, Brad William Henke and Diego Klattenhoff.

When legions of monstrous creatures, known as Kaiju, started rising from the sea, a war began that would take millions of lives and consume humanity's resources for years on end. To combat the giant Kaiju, a special type of weapon was devised: massive robots, called Jaegers, which are controlled simultaneously by two pilots whose minds are locked in a neural bridge. But even the Jaegers are proving nearly defenseless in the face of the relentless Kaiju. On the verge of defeat, the forces defending mankind have no choice but to turn to two unlikely heroes-a washed up former pilot (Hunnam) and an untested trainee (Kikuchi)-who are teamed to drive a legendary but seemingly obsolete Jaeger from the past. Together, they stand as mankind's last hope against the mounting apocalypse.

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