Domestic comedy Lost in Thailand has made a new record at the Chinese box office.

It has become the first Chinese movie to gross over 300 million yuan ($48.12 million) in its first week of release.

Viewing numbers last Saturday alone reached over 2.5 million ($401,000), surpassing records set by Titanic 3D and Transformers 3.

The film stars Xu Zheng, Wang Baoqiang and Huang Bo, whose characters meet on a trip to Thailand, where a series of funny events unfold on their journey.

Xu also invited popular actress Fan Bingbing to guest in the film as a surprise to viewers.

The director explained, "Everybody thinks Fan is just a symbol in the film. But when she actually appears at last, it will highlight the movie. This is also unexpected to the audiences."

Lost in Thailand is a sequel to an earlier film, Lost on Journey, which was directed by Wai Man Yip in 2010.