The highest-profile co-productions in the works are low- to midbudget period pieces such as Skydance and Alibaba’s World War II drama The Flying Tigers, written by Randall Wallace ( Braveheart), and producers Mark Gordon and Hawk Koch’s road movie Edge of the World, to be co-produced by Pegasus and China Film Group. Past tentpoles, such as Paramount’s Transformers: Age of Extinction and Disney’s Iron Man 3, were briefly planned as co-prods before their producers realized the depth of Chinese involvement and script control. To date, the studios have viewed officially sanctioned China co-productions with skepticism, even though they offer vastly greater financial benefits, enabling backers to pocket 43 percent of ticket-sale revenue out of the country, far more than non-co-productions allow. “You’re trying to appeal to everyone, and you’re not compelling enough to appeal to anyone. “This was the first movie of its type,” says one executive connected to the project. Among the lessons insiders have learned are the difficulties of finding stories that meld Eastern and Western characters and the challenges of blending crews, which in Wall‘s case meant hiring 100 interpreters and solving conflicts that allegedly took place among some below-the-line workers. Still, the crumbling of this Wall has toppled much hope for major Sino-American pictures. 'The Great Wall' ('Chang Cheng'): Film Review
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If the movie generates hoped-for ancillary revenue (including $20 million from domestic home entertainment and as much as $40 million from international home entertainment, with $25 million to $30 million from TV - admittedly, a best-case scenario), that will further stanch the red ink. The four partners will split any further theatrical income equally. The studio gets to collect a roughly 10 percent distribution fee from all theatrical revenue (between 40 percent and 50 percent of the total box office), and box-office rentals likely will recoup much, if not all, of its marketing outlay before other investors dip into whatever money is left to cut into production costs. The good news for Universal is that its share of this failure will be relatively modest. Adds one Hollywood executive who has dealt extensively with China, “There’s no question but that it’s a failure.”
2 movie markets in the world will eventually happen, but it is a misfire, domestically speaking,” says box-office analyst Jeff Bock. That’s way less than investors had anticipated for the biggest-ever U.S.-China co-production. The film earned $171 million in China (a disappointment) and is expected to top out at about $320 million globally. But Universal also covered Wall‘s global marketing expenses, conservatively estimated at $80 million-plus. It works well enough as an action-adventure romp, too, despite its simplistic plotting.The studio funded about 25 percent of the film’s $150 million production budget, the rest coming in equal parts from Legendary Entertainment, China Film Group and Le Vision Pictures. From its swooping, acrobatic camerawork, to the fight scenes unfolding in eye-popping 3D, it’s easy to see where the money has been spent. With a budget of £120m, the English-language debut from Chinese director Zhang Yimou ( House of Flying Daggers, Hero) is the most expensive China-US co-production to date. However, though both are dab hands with a bow, the two fight for different reasons he for food and money, she for trust and honour, a lesson William inevitably learns by the film’s conclusion (perhaps making an oversimplified case for Chinese communism).ĭamon and Pascal are less white saviour figures than they are an entry point for western audiences, presumably cast in an attempt to maximise the crossover between Hollywood and Chinese blockbuster markets. The order are preparing to battle the mythical Tao-Tie – giant, green, lizard-y looking monsters that are resurrected every 60 years to teach the Chinese a lesson about unchecked greed and swarm the wall in their millions.Ĭommander Lin (the film’s sole speaking female character, played by Jing Tian) takes a shine to William, pointing out their similarities. O n the hunt for precious “black powder”, rogue mercenaries William Garin (a grizzled-looking Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar ( Game of Thrones’s Pedro Pascal) are captured by The Nameless Order, an ancient military operation occupying the Great Wall of China.
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