Whilst Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince takes the world by storm it’s easy to forget that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is still making box office waves.

Now Michael Bay’s Transformers sequel has smashed the Chinese box office to become the biggest earning movie in the country, surpassing an 11 year old record set by James Cameron’s Titanic.

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has taken the equivalent of US $59M (400 million Chinese yuan) in China.  The second highest earner in the country is now Titanic with $43M.

Unsurprisingly the film’s chinese showing was slightly censored.  During the opening sequence the Autobots and Decepticons battle in Shanghai, but when the U.S. military refer to where the battle is taking place the word is muffled.

As of now Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has earned US $350M and $383M internationally to sit pretty on $733M.  It has now out-earned its predecessor and is ranked 16th in the all time top grosser list.

Source: THR / Box Office Mojo