![]() ![]() Foreign mercenaries William Garin (Matt Damon) and Pero Tovar (Game of Thrones’ Pedro Pascal) unwittingly stumble upon the wall while fleeing tribesmen, greeted by an enormous army and the stunning sweep of the enormous structure rising from the mist. The Great Wall trailer: Matt Damon in the Chinese epic Guardianįitting, then, that the film centres as much on China’s relationship with foreigners as the legend of the Taotie, a group of flesh-eating monsters who scale the Great Wall every 60 years to feed. December is the busiest month for Chinese cinemas, which are hoping The Great Wall will help bring back crowds after a few months of mediocre new releases. International collaborations are an obvious solution to bypassing strict state controls. Nonetheless, China is still expected to become the biggest moviegoing market in the world by 2019, and state restrictions over international film screenings are pushing film-makers to find new ways to enter the market. However, viewing figures have fallen consecutively for the last quarter: takings in November were down 5% on the same month a year earlier, following a 19% drop in October and a 33% annual decline in September. When The Great Wall was announced, the Chinese cinema box office was on a never-ending upwards trajectory, with audience revenue growing nearly 60-fold in just over a decade to 2015, and cinema development racing at a dizzying pace of 27 new screens per day. Hollywood has been keen to court China’s enormous viewing public, with US studios making a series of concerted plays for their share of the market. The action adventure was helmed by superstar Chinese director Zhang Yimou, backed by Chinese-owned Hollywood studio Legendary, with a cast featuring Chinese A-listers as well as Matt Damon, making it the most expensive film ever made in China. L ong-awaited Chinese-Hollywood epic The Great Wall has finally hit screens in China, testing the water for a new period in US-China film cooperation. ![]()
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