The Great Wall | February 17, 2017 | Releasing in China in December

[Charism]

Just found out who the director is, just after rewatching Hero, after ~10 years. That movie is masterpiece. Now I'm really interested in The Great Wall.

[efialtes76]

25 minutes ago, Charism said:

Just found out who the director is, just after rewatching Hero, after ~10 years. That movie is masterpiece. Now I'm really interested in The Great Wall.

He's an amazing director.

[Gavin Feng]

 

[NoobSaibot]

On December 5, 2016 at 6:33 AM, Gavin Feng said:

There will have a 15 min footage showing to cinema managers on Tuesday evening(premiere).But none of them wanna watch that.

 

Only one media screening will play the film(not sure if that is the whole film) before opening(7pm Dec.15).

 

China Film Group hope the film could make ￥3 billion(about $430m) in China.

 

If it were to make that much money, imagine how that could change the dynamic of the film industry in Hollywood.

 

Of course, this won't happen. But it'd be a nice paycheck.

[filmlover]

Now that Kimmel's hosting the Oscars around the time this opens, I'm sure we can expect a lot of jokes at this movie's expense.

[That One Girl]

1 minute ago, filmlover said:

Now that Kimmel's hosting the Oscars around the time this opens, I'm sure we can expect a lot of jokes at this movie's expense.

 

Looks like Damon's wall fell at the box office!

[AniNate]

Reviews are out. Not good

 

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/great-wall-review-956341

http://variety.com/2016/film/reviews/the-great-wall-review-chang-cheng-matt-damon-1201942358/

[Captain H]

Underperforming in China as well. Won't even reach 1 billion yuan, according to the posters in Chinese box office thread.

[Sam]

@MrPink

 

Our pact is strong but I start noticing that our stanning hasn't been working out well for the movies so far. Beyond, Billy Lynn and now this.

 

The hope is on Rogue One now. If that doesn't work out....

 

l think maybe I better leave Dunkirk to you. I won't be able to handle your despair if unfortunate events were to happen to that one. 

[AniNate]

I was almost going to stan for this but I bailed out when the US date got shifted to February

[filmlover]

I'll never understand why Damon took on this project, beyond a paycheck.

[NCsoft]

this movie is turning out to be a missed oppuntunity, I think this will discourage future large budget co-productions.

[WeneedtotalkaboutKevin]

LOL, a lot of Chinese are comparing it to Warcraft (not in a good way, you know what I mean). It is gonna get crushed in North America come February. By the way, some reviews seem to be very scathing. 

[marveldcfox]

China flops.

[NoobSaibot]

People really expected this to do great numbers in China?

 

Chinese audiences know that they're being pandered to. It's different from selling a great movie, which The Great Wall won't be.

[kowhite]

16 minutes ago, NoobSaibot said:

People really expected this to do great numbers in China?

 

Chinese audiences know that they're being pandered to. It's different from selling a great movie, which The Great Wall won't be.

 

Michael Bay knows how to pander to China better than the rest of Hollywood apparently.

[filmlover]

This is gonna bomb big time in February. I'm thinking sub-$50M total.

[Jayhawk the Hutt]

How much did Damon get paid for this?

[Gavin Feng]

17 minutes ago, Jayhawk said:

How much did Damon get paid for this?

Someone in internet said $20 mil and nobody know if this is true.

[Gavin Feng]

24 minutes ago, Jayhawk said:

How much did Damon get paid for this?

But I can clearly tell you that Karry Wang, who played the emperor in this film for 3 min, earned ￥5m(about $700k).

 

Insider also said the reason why Karry Wang could star in TGW and get that number was that Universal and Legendary thought Karry’s fans will be the major force in consumer(they used big data).