Typically, CineAsia doesn’t release Chinese films until four to eight weeks after their mainland premiere, since it takes time to dub them and create promotional campaigns, but Chinese partners often don’t deliver materials until very late in the game, often only as the film is set to debut. There’s a vacuum left by ‘Wonder Woman’ that we can plug,” he concluded. “In this case, we said, ‘Well, let’s go for it,’ because there’s no other films around. So we had to make this very hard decision - do we go with the film now and take a chance on theatrical or wait knowing that we might not have a second chance in theaters?” 4 to $8.9 million.īehrel outlined the predicament of scheduling theatrical releases at a time when China is hurtling ahead but global cinema-going remains so depressed: “It’s detrimental to wait to release until things get better, because we don’t know when that’ll be, and by that stage the film will be old news and available through piracy and so on. “Vanguard” opened in China Wednesday to first day sales of $8.59 million, according to the Maoyan industry tracker, outpacing the opening days of competing volleyball drama “Leap” ($8.2 million) and Disney’s “Mulan” ($8.1 million) but lagging behind “Tenet,” which opened Sept. “The only market in the world that’s going back to normal is China, leaving China out of sync with the rest of the world” as the pandemic continues to wreak global havoc, explained Behrel. Re-opened cinemas all are operating at 50% capacity. Meanwhile, 90% of cinemas in Ukraine and 100% of cinemas in the Baltics are open, though theaters in major CIS markets Azerbaijan and Kazakhstan remain entirely shut. Predictions that 90% could be open by the time “Vanguard” premieres could turn on a dime according to the virus’ trajectory.
It helps that Chan’s star power makes the film an easier sell to a commercial audience than most other Chinese-language titles.Īround 75% of cinemas are currently reopened in Russia CIS. We are definitely trying to take advantage of that,” said Trinity CineAsia co-founder and director Cedric Behrel.
“There’s a sort of vacuum left by these studio films falling off the schedule. The star-studded Kenneth Branagh-directed murder mystery “Death on the Nile” was also at one point scheduled for early October, but has since been pushed to Dec. 2, but it was rescheduled earlier this month for Dec. had initially scheduled “Wonder Woman 1984” to premiere Oct. Trinity CineAsia anticipates a box office of around $750,000 for the region, but estimates remain a “moving target” due to changing coronavirus conditions. 2 at 163 cinemas and Russia CIS from Oct. release date is still to be determined, i t will screen in wide release in Ukraine from Oct. “Vanguard” is the ninth collaboration between Chan and Tong, and features the action star jetting between continents in search of the kidnapped client of his international security agency, called Vanguard. It was produced by Shanghai Lix Entertainment, Hong Kong director Stanley Tong’s production outfit. The firm has acquired the Jackie Chan-starring blockbuster “ Vanguard” from Hong Kong-based Golden Dragon Pictures for theatrical runs in the U.K., Ireland and Russia CIS. At least that’s what London-based distributor Trinity CineAsia is betting on. studio tentpoles dropping out of the theatrical calendar, Chinese blockbusters may find a rare opportunity to gain some traction abroad.
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