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7 hours ago, ThatWaluigiDude said:

I just saw a listing for Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix for august 19th. Any information on how wide is that gonna be, or is it just for selected theaters?

Haven't seen any shows listed on that day. I will update if I see any.

 

1 hour ago, abra said:

it is known when the presale of tickets will start ? 

It should start 7-days before release. I will update the Pre-sales Thread when it starts 

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Box Office: ‘Moon Man’ Becomes The (Pretty Great) Blockbuster China Needed

 

Chiyu Zhang’s Moon Man earned $6.9 million on its third Friday in China, bringing its 15-day total to $336 million including around $14 million in IMAX theaters. It’s the first true-blue China since New Years’ week when Water Gate Bridge earned $626 million while To Cool to Kill earned $393 million this past February. China’s annual box office was, for the first half of 2022, down 38% compared to 2021, with a government bailout on the way. Meanwhile, Hollywood blockbusters are crushing it globally either sans China (Top Gun: Maverick, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, etc.) or earning less (Jurassic World Dominion, The Batman, etc.) than in pre-Covid times. Moon Man, which should end the weekend just over $355 million is, pardon the cliché, the movie China needed right now. It’s also very good.

 

The second Battle at Lake Changjin flick is an unapologetically nationalistic (but not jingoistic/xenophobic) Korean war epic. It’s a 2.5-hour, shot-on-IMAX blowout that’s probably the closest to non-stop action I’ve seen since The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. Too Cool to Kill, which you can watch on Viki, is a pure crime comedy farce. It’s a goofy, sometimes clever but comparatively slight little romp about an actor who gets coaxed into impersonating an assassin without realizing that it’s not for a movie. There’s a priceless gag toward the end which made my son guffaw. Moon Man is a successful blend of Chinese-specific patriotism and old-school Hollywood blockbuster spectacle. It’s just a damn good movie that, and this is neither criticism nor compliment, I can easily see being remade by Hollywood in the next few years.

 

Moon Man, which opened on July 29 with a $148 million Fri-Sun weekend, stars Teng Shen as a willfully underachieving engineer who finds himself working maintenance on an outer-space mission meant to prevent an asteroid from smashing into Earth. Pre-title spoilers ahoy, but things go to hell when he’s accidentally left behind amid an emergency evacuation. Oh, and the plan fails. The asteroid does collide with our planet. By the time the title card pops up around twenty minutes in, Dugu Yue is stuck on the moon, seemingly doomed to live out his natural life as Earth’s only survivor. That’s a considerable jolt right there. I wouldn’t call it subversive, but the Chinese blockbuster opens with the hyper-competent Chinese government launching a plan which does not save the Earth from an extinction-level event.

 

First act spoilers, but we soon discover that at least some of humanity survived the disaster, including Yue’s workplace crush (astronaut Ma Lanxing, played by Li Ma). His moon base day-to-day life, starring him and a single surviving animal (no spoilers there) eventually becomes a kind of Truman Show/Ed TV-type entertainment for those needing escapist optimism in post-apocalyptic China. What follows is a skewed mix of Passengers, The Truman Show, The Martian and its unique sensibilities as we get a fair share of self-satirizing bureaucratic humor and macabre punchlines. It’s a reminder that not every big Chinese tentpole is 'China is always right and never makes mistakes.’ The film peaks in the first hour, but there are genuine pleasures and some ‘never seen that before’ images in the second half before the poignantly satisfying finale.

 

After a $148.1 million debut and a $60.5 million second-weekend gross, we can expect around $27 million for an over/under $355 million 17-day total. A 60% drop in weekend two (following a $37 million day-six gross on China’s Valentine’s Day) and a 55% drop in weekend three isn’t super leggy. Still, the film seems to be fending off competition amid China’s annual ‘only Chinese flicks allowed’ blackout period. It could still clear $400 million global by the end, even as it ironically faces competition next Friday from Minions: The Rise of Gru. We have a genuine Chinese blockbuster and a tentpole Hollywood export, whose last installment (Despicable Me 3) earned $153 million in China, facing off in the biggest overseas market. It may just feel like pre-Covid times for the first time since late 2019.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2022/08/12/box-office-moon-man-becomes-the-pretty-great-blockbuster-china-needed/?sh=54f4316d72fe

 

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Movie industry confidence high as China's top film festival returns, screening hits from around the globe

Carnival for movie fans 

"This will be a carnival for Chinese audiences, especially those who are loyal fans of the big screen," Shi noted, getting approval from other Chinese film critics.

Different from the mainstream commercial market, film festivals tend to offer a more diverse array of themes from around the globe, so easily attract movie fans in droves. 

The movies screened at the Beijing International Film Festival 2022 also come from a variety of countries such as India, Japan and France. Some, such as the 2022 Japanese anime action-adventure film One Piece Film: Red, are recent releases while others are decades-old classics like the US crime film trilogy The Godfather, now restored in high definition 4K.

According to data from Chinese ticketing platform Maoyan, the first ticket sold on the platform was for screenings of Japanese animated film INU-OH on August 21. Meanwhile, in just the first two hours of sales on the platform, the biggest winner was animation Ghost in the Shell, which sold 3,361 tickets for eight screenings, followed by INU-OH and French-German drama film One Fine Morning.

At the opening ceremony of the film festival on Friday, Chinese filmmakers introduced their favorite films screening at the festival, including well-reviewed Indian movie Jai Bhim.

The opening ceremony gala captured the attention of many netizens on Chinese social media platform Sina Weibo. Many Chinese stars, including popular action star Wu Jing and Hong Kong actor Wong Cho-lam, posed on the red carpet during the opening ceremony.

The cast of the war epic The Battle at Lake Changjin about China's historic military victory in a battle during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea (1950-53) also appeared at the event with two People's Volunteer Army veterans. Two Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics gold medalists, Gao Tingyu and Qi Guangpu, presented bouquets to the two veterans. Shen Haixiong, chairman of the organizing committee of the film festival, noted at the opening ceremony that they chose to hold the event at its scheduled time despite the pandemic to unite domestic and foreign filmmakers and inspire them to accept challenges together.

"I am eager to seeing new films from around the world that I have never watched before at the film festival," Luo Luo, a Beijing-based film critic, told the Global Times.

Bright future

When speaking at the opening ceremony, many filmmakers remarked that they are confident in the Chinese film industry despite the hiccups brought by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. According to Maoyan data, a total of 67 films are currently screened in Chinese mainland cinemas, with 16 still set for released before the end of August.

So far this summer, the biggest box-office winner has been comedy sci-fi film Moon Man, starring Shen Teng Ma Li. The hit film has earned over 2.3 billion yuan ($341 million) since its debut on July 29. Among the 16 remaining to hit theaters, 2022 UScomputer-animated comedy film Minions: The Rise of Gru is set to debut in the Chinese mainland on August 19.

 

Additionally, many new works are currently in production, such as Chinese People's Liberation Air Force film Born to Fly, which focuses on China's military modernization over the past decades

 

In the trailer released on Saturday, the country's most advanced J-20 stealth fighter made an appearance. The story of the film will follow the scientists and military personnel who worked together to make the domestic-made jet fighter a realit

 

Directed by Liu Xiaoshi, a director experienced in filming military promotional ads, the movie features popular actors Wang Yibo, Hu Jun, and Zhou Dongyu

 

The film is set to release before the end of 2022.

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