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A China-U ambitious co-production starring Matt Damon did well at the Chinese box office the weekend, biggest hit of 478 million yuan 69 million if it had less success with Chinese critics.
The Great Wall follows a European mercenary, played by Mr. Damon, who is held to the wall and later joined forces with Chinese soldiers to repel the mysterious monsters.
At a cost of about 150 million film is supported by Comcast Universal Pictures, Legendary Entertainment, which is now owned by China's Wanda Group Co the state-backed China Film Group and Vision Pictures China's largest chain cinema, belonging to Wanda, gave the film more than 60 slots in theaters for the weekend.
The film was directed by famous Chinese director Zhang Yimou said that M. Damon was the real draw for him the film and also has a list of big-name Chinese idol superstar Andy Lau Lu Han a young heartthrob operated by Disney last year to promote Star Wars The force awakens in China.
Its performance in theaters is considered a crucial test for the people in the industry in China and in Hollywood may be adopted if a co-production with a global audience.
This film needs to succeed at the box office so that more young Chinese filmmakers can have a shot at a bigger stage and this cooperation model can go further, Zhang said in an interview earlier this month, he said he is confident the film would gross at least 400 million worldwide.
M. Zhang is internationally known for films such as Raise the Red Lantern and to direct the opening and closing ceremonies to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, but some critics of Chinese cinema aren t let his latest production down easy action of the film , script, plot and tempo are bad, read a review by a social media veteran critic under the handle Taotao Taodianying maybe it can not boast of special effects.
Others say that the Chinese symbolic elements pileup shot the film in an opening ceremony of the Olympic Games on the Great Wall.
The Screenwriting film is totally based on the model of Hollywood popcorn movie, said a film review using the handle Breach Films, whose account is followed by more than 740,000 users on Twitter -like the Weibo service of a China shouldn t rely on symbols to transmit oriental traditional values.
The Great Wall, the first in China at the weekend, doesn t open in the U S for another couple of months Jasin Boland Photo Universal Studios.
The movie doesn t open in the U S until February, but some critics are already Hollywood and they aren t mince words either.
Zhang and his Hollywood writers delivered nothing more than a stereotypical monster movie, said Hollywood Reporter, albeit transposed to China historically undefined when generals dressed as terracotta warriors have already mastered anesthetic, Travel air and English American accent.
Some in the Chinese film industry have expressed their support for M. Zhang Peng Kan, Beijing R & D director based Media Legend said M. Zhang exploring the potential for Chinese films to compete with Hollywood is not perfect, but should be encouraged.
What has not generated much discussion in China's media and its platform of social media is a bleaching controversy on Twitter earlier this year on the role of M. Damon as a savior in a western Chinese history Mr. Zhang and Damon both defended its cast, calling the film a historical fantasy and saying he didn t take away an Asian actor role.
The Chinese public generally embraced the movie, which scored 8 4 of 10 of more than 210,000 spectators on a platform of major movie ticketing online.
The film is easily topped the revenue box office without competition from foreign major releases until early next month, when Disney Star Wars Rogue One A Story, which features two Chinese players, opens here.
The stakes are high for Legendary and partners Peter Loehr, CEO of the legendary arms of China, said that the studio is working on other English-language co-productions with a budget similar to the Great Wall.
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