This year’s $450 million box office hit you definitely haven’t seen is seeking to change that

Believe it or not, there’s a movie that released this year and has earned more at the box office than John Wick: Chapter 4, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny, The Flash, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts, Creed III, and countless others that you definitely haven’t seen, but Lost in the Stars is seeking to change that perception.

Despite being the sixth highest-grossing hit of 2023 so far, the entirety of the film’s $456 million and counting box office haul has come from its home territory of China, and it doesn’t show any signs of slowing down, either. Of course, the people behind the project aren’t happy with that, with Lost in the Stars expanding onto screens in the United Kingdom and Ireland this week to try and set the stage for world domination.

The mystery thriller sees a man’s wife presumed vanished during their anniversary trip reappear seemingly intact and unharmed, only for the husband to claim that the woman is not his spouse. When a lawyer gets involved to sift through the wreckage, even more bizarre coincidences and events begin to unfold, creating a sprawling web of deceit that threatens to swallow everybody whole.

With Hollywood movies bombing in China more often than not these days, it doesn’t feel as though Lost in the Stars will do the opposite and have anywhere near the same sort of impact abroad as it has domestically. However, it’s already one of the year’s most profitable releases regardless of how it fares from this point onward, so the folks who count the fat stacks of cash at the end of the day don’t have anything to worry about.