This summer, a movie made a fortune. With little publicity, the 2009 suspense thriller "Terror Cruise" co-produced by the UK and Australia quietly took over 52 million yuan at the box office in mainland China. The narrative structure of "time loop" had a certain cognitive impact on domestic audiences at the time. "It turns out that movies can still be made like this."

Why did an old movie sell 50 million in China 17 years later?
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