China’s theaters are mostly back to normal. And My People, My Homeland is close behind with $325 million in 11 days of Chinese release.
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The $80 million, shot-on-IMAX Eight Hundred is the year’s biggest-grossing movie with $450 million worldwide, with the vast majority of that coming from China. Wolf Warrior II ($854 million in 2017), Detective Chinatown 2 ($575 million in 2017) and Wandering Earth ($699 million in 2019) going toe-to-toe with the biggest Hollywood movies in terms of single-market success. China has been offering its own semi-regular local blockbusters since 2013, with quantity increasing over the last few years. With Detective Chinatown 3 now slated for next January (a year after its initial New Year’s week 2020 release), I wouldn’t be shocked to see Detective Chinatown and Detective Chinatown 2 pop up in American theaters just in case the storm hasn’t cleared by early 2021 and theaters need new “big” movies. I cannot say if there will be more Chinese biggies playing in wide release in American theaters, although I’d argue the likes of The Eight-Hundred is probably more Hollywood-friendly than My People My Homeland.
Since then, the actor has been concentrating on local flicks, with the likes of Police Story Lockdown ($94 million in 2013), Dragon Blade ($123 million in 2015, and co-starring John Cusack and Adrien Brody), Skip Trace (a Rush Hour knock-off co-starring Johnny Knoxville with earned $137 million in 2016) and Kung Fu Yoga ($258 million in 2017) repositioning him as a China-specific action star. That Jaden Smith-starring blockbuster earned $359 million worldwide, bigger than any live-action Chan movie in raw global grosses. That grim IRA political thriller, starring Chan as a traumatized former soldier avenging a terrorist bombing that killed his daughter, was a change of pace for the beloved icon, but Vanguard seems more par for the course, especially in terms of his last several years of China-specific biggies.īefore The Foreigner, Chan hadn’t had a live-action movie open nationwide in wide domestic release since The Karate Kid in June of 2010. That China/Hollywood co-production, released in October of 2017, was the first such co-pro to actually qualify as a hit in North America ($34.3 million) and China ($81 million) for a $145 million cume on a $35 million budget. The globe-trotting action flick marks just Chan’s second feature to get a nationwide theatrical release, following Martin Campbell’s (English-language) The Foreigner.
So instead of James Bond, we’re getting Jackie Chan for Thanksgiving. The film, also co-starring Yang Yang, Ai Lun, Mu Qimiya, Xu Ruohan and Zhu Zhengting, will open in domestic theatrical release, including drive-ins and IMAX auditoriums, on November 20. The ensemble action movie, which opened last month in China to “meh” reviews and merely pretty good ($36 million in 12 days) box office results, stars Jackie Chan as the CEO of an elite security company who must pitch in and save the day when their newest client gets sandbagged by bad guys. We got word yesterday that Gravitas Ventures has acquired domestic theatrical rights to Stanley Tong’s Vanguard. theaters on November 20, the date previously occupied by No Time to Die. Jackie Chan's Vanguard will open nationwide in U.S. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images) VCG via Getty Images actress Miya Muqi attend the premiere of director Stanley Tong's film 'Vanguard' on Januin Beijing, China. His sudden transformation from a villain to a good guy is laughable.BEIJING, CHINA - JANUARY 16: (L-R) Actor Yang Yang, actress Cici Xu Ruohan, actor Jackie Chan and. Sonu Sood has played the villain several times before in our Hindi films but you will see him in an English-speaking villain's avatar for the first time and it is a total disgrace to the language. Disha Patani and Amyra Dastur look just pretty and the two have nothing much to act. He will surely impress the kids, must say. Though the film got the biggest opening ever in his homeland China, it lacks logic in every aspect. Looks like, he took Bollywood too seriously! He is cute while dancing but nothing will get in your head because he is talking and singing in Chinese.
Over to the actors, this is probably the worst of Jackie Chan movies. The biggest hiccup of the film is that there are no subtitles while the film is in Chinese and English. The only scene which looks real is when Amyra escapes from the cage surrounded by aggressive Jackals. The scene where Chan and Disha are chased by a VFX-generated orange snake while hanging on the roots just spoils the film. Chan’s car-chasing sequence with a giant lion in his car seated behind is annoying. The scenes where Jackie Chan does Kung Fu to scare a bunch of wolfs is silly.
Brain dead action sequences and impractical humour make the film look even more awful.
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