'The Great Wall' Stands Tall in China With RMB 470 Million

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Polarizing Chinese moviegoers on its opening weekend, director Zhang Yimou’s USD 150 million Hollywood-style blockbuster The Great Wall (长城) grossed RMB 470 million (USD 67.5 million) including five hours of advanced screenings on Thursday evening.

The Great Wall’s debut was on par with this summer’s most commercially successful local film, Time Raiders (盗墓笔记), which pulled in RMB 476 million on its opening weekend in August on the way to a RMB 1 billion finish.

A more apt comparison, however, would be to last year’s local blockbuster Mojin: The Lost Legend (寻龙诀), which opened in the same pre-Christmas frame. The tomb-raiding pic, budgeted at just USD 37 million with the backing of China’s three largest production companies Wanda, Enlight Pictures, and Huayi Brothers, smashed records with a RMB 601 million (USD 95.4 million) three-day debut. Mojin went on to gross RMB 1.37 billion (USD 255.7 million) as the seventh highest-grossing film of 2015.

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