A long wait for Wandering Earth 3
1 year, 2 months ago

A long wait for Wandering Earth 3

China Daily  

Poster of The Wandering Earth 3. The Wandering Earth 2, the blockbuster sequel to China's highest-grossing sci-fi film, will get additional overseas release in countries including Japan, following its recent release in France and Germany, director Guo Fan said during a promotional event. According to an announcement during this year's Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Festival in Xiamen, Fujian province, on Nov 3, it won't be released until the 2027 Spring Festival. Actors Wu Jing and Andy Lau - who will return to The Wandering Earth 3 - attended the closing ceremony of the 2023 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival on Nov 4. For Guo, another advantage to filming the The Wandering Earth movies over nine years is that he has had a smoother time exploring the planned, standardized, and procedural path of Chinese film production.

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China's sci-fi blockbuster wows audiences, boosted by sci-tech development
1 year, 9 months ago

China's sci-fi blockbuster wows audiences, boosted by sci-tech development

China Daily  

A scene from The Wandering Earth II. More than 50 days into its release, China's sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II has scored big at the box office and aroused heated discussion on social media platforms, drawing attention to the technologies and stories behind the movie. Since its release on Jan 22, the Chinese sci-fi adventure movie remains one of …

China's sci-fi blockbuster wows audiences, boosted by sci-tech development
1 year, 9 months ago

China's sci-fi blockbuster wows audiences, boosted by sci-tech development

China Daily  

A scene from The Wandering Earth II. More than 50 days into its release, China's sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth II has scored big at the box office and aroused heated discussion on social media platforms, drawing attention to the technologies and stories behind the movie. Since its release on Jan 22, the Chinese sci-fi adventure movie remains one of …

Movie industry roars back with robust recovery
1 year, 9 months ago

Movie industry roars back with robust recovery

China Daily  

An exhibition about The Wandering Earth is held at the Sichuan Science and Technology Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in 2020. YUAN KEJIA/FOR CHINA DAILY New opportunities Despite China's huge movie market, many experts believe that the domestic film industry has not yet developed a fully mature business model. However, the response from enthusiastic fans was overwhelming, and the presale …

Movie industry roars back with robust recovery
1 year, 9 months ago

Movie industry roars back with robust recovery

China Daily  

An exhibition about The Wandering Earth is held at the Sichuan Science and Technology Museum in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in 2020. YUAN KEJIA/FOR CHINA DAILY New opportunities Despite China's huge movie market, many experts believe that the domestic film industry has not yet developed a fully mature business model. However, the response from enthusiastic fans was overwhelming, and the presale …

Movie industry roars back with robust recovery
1 year, 9 months ago

Movie industry roars back with robust recovery

China Daily  

A model space elevator themed on a Chinese cartoon TV program The Three-Body Animation is built at a shopping mall in Xi'an, Shaanxi province, in January. YUAN KEJIA/FOR CHINA DAILY Longer running times Most industry insiders contacted by China Daily said some of the holiday blockbusters spent one or two years in post-production, far longer than regular movies in pre-pandemic …

Hit sci-fi movie shot at Qingdao studio
1 year, 11 months ago

Hit sci-fi movie shot at Qingdao studio

China Daily  

A scene from the sci-fi film The Wandering Earth 2 is shot at the Oriental Movie Metropolis, a high-profile film studio complex in Qingdao, Shandong province. As the sci-fi film, The Wandering Earth 2, became a Chinese New Year hit on the big screen, and the Oriental Movie Metropolis, a high-profile film studio complex in Qingdao, Shandong province, where the …

The Wandering Earth 2: Global vision and Chinese wisdom
1 year, 11 months ago

The Wandering Earth 2: Global vision and Chinese wisdom

China Daily  

A man passes a poster of Wandering Earth II at a cinema in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on Jan 23, 2023. Ever since the genre-defining The Wandering Earth established China as a truly viable producer of large-scale and ambitious sci-fi films in the spring of 2019, sci-fi film production has truly taken off in China and matured itself with numerous mind-blowing …

The Wandering Earth 2: Global vision and Chinese wisdom
1 year, 11 months ago

The Wandering Earth 2: Global vision and Chinese wisdom

China Daily  

A man passes a poster of Wandering Earth II at a cinema in Shenyang, Liaoning province, on Jan 23, 2023. Ever since the genre-defining The Wandering Earth established China as a truly viable producer of large-scale and ambitious sci-fi films in the spring of 2019, sci-fi film production has truly taken off in China and matured itself with numerous mind-blowing …

Buoyed by holiday movies, China's annual box office hits bln-yuan milestone in record time
1 year, 11 months ago

Buoyed by holiday movies, China's annual box office hits bln-yuan milestone in record time

China Daily  

A woman walks past movie posters in a cinema in Hangzhou, East China's Zhejiang province on Jan 27, 2023. BEIJING - Buoyed by robust Spring Festival holiday ticket sales, China's 2023 box office hit 10 billion yuan on Tuesday, the earliest date the milestone figure has ever been reached. This is a significant achievement that made immediate headlines online, especially …

Chinese sci-fi blockbuster 'The Wandering Earth II' hits North American big screen
1 year, 11 months ago

Chinese sci-fi blockbuster 'The Wandering Earth II' hits North American big screen

China Daily  

LOS ANGELES -- China's homemade sci-fi blockbuster "The Wandering Earth II" opened Sunday, the Chinese Lunar New Year's Day, in a limited theatrical release in North America. The much-anticipated prequel to China's all-time highest-grossing sci-fi epic "The Wandering Earth," also directed by Guo Fan, is being released in Mandarin with English and Chinese subtitles in more than 120 theaters in …

Welcoming interface
4 years, 3 months ago

Welcoming interface

China Daily  

Guo Fan's latest film, Jin Gang Chuan, is set during the Korean War. Speaking about the sequel, Guo says his team canceled a previous plan－an overseas trip to some leading companies specializing in visual effects to seek partners－to shift focus on polishing the script. The development of 5G networks will benefit China's film industry, with the faster transfer of digital …

Welcoming interface
4 years, 3 months ago

Welcoming interface

China Daily  

The Wandering Earth, directed by Guo Fan, is China's all-time highest-grossing sci-fi movie with a box office of 4.69 billion yuan. China's rising director Guo Fan's best-known work is the country's all-time highest-grossing sci-fi movie, The Wandering Earth, an epic based on a book by celebrated author Liu Cixin. Guo looked like an elite businessman in a black suit, white …

Welcoming interface
4 years, 3 months ago

Welcoming interface

China Daily  

The Wandering Earth, directed by Guo Fan, is China's all-time highest-grossing sci-fi movie with a box office of 4.69 billion yuan. China's rising director Guo Fan's best-known work is the country's all-time highest-grossing sci-fi movie, The Wandering Earth, an epic based on a book by celebrated author Liu Cixin. Guo looked like an elite businessman in a black suit, white …

New blockbuster expected to continue China's sci-fi fever
5 years, 6 months ago

New blockbuster expected to continue China's sci-fi fever

China Daily  

Actor Lu Han and actress Shu Qi star in Shanghai Fortress. Cautious Optimism Despite the bullish market mood set by the trailblazer film The Wandering Earth, observers said China's sci-fi movie industry is still in a nascent stage and the huge success of The Wandering Earth is difficult to copy. "We had to start from nothing when learning how to …

With The Wandering Earth, Netflix has nabbed a sci-fi secret weapon
5 years, 7 months ago

With The Wandering Earth, Netflix has nabbed a sci-fi secret weapon

Wired  

The Wandering Earth, a Chinese sci-fi film that quietly appeared on Netflix, is based on a short story by Liu Cixin, the country’s most popular sci-fi author. Liu is known as China’s Arthur C. Clarke, and the comparison is apposite: he is the first ever Chinese recipient of the Hugo award, and his The Three-Body Problem series, a trilogy of …

Four films made in Qingdao given $5.6m subsidy
5 years, 10 months ago

Four films made in Qingdao given $5.6m subsidy

China Daily  

The government of Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, offers a total subsidy of 36 million yuan to four films produced at its site. Four films produced in Qingdao, East China's Shandong province, have been granted a total subsidy of 36 million yuan by local government, said the government on Friday. Based in the city's West Coast New Area, Oriental Movie …

China's sci-fi movies on right track
5 years, 10 months ago

China's sci-fi movies on right track

China Daily  

Renowned Canadian filmmaker James Cameron talks about China's sci-fi film industry with Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin while promoting his new film Alita: Battle Angel in China. CHINA DAILY As China's first domestic sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth impresses moviegoers around the world, Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin and renowned Canadian filmmaker James Cameron predict a brighter future for China's …

China's sci-fi movies on right track
5 years, 10 months ago

China's sci-fi movies on right track

China Daily  

Renowned Canadian filmmaker James Cameron talks about China's sci-fi film industry with Chinese sci-fi writer Liu Cixin while promoting his new film Alita: Battle Angel in China. CHINA DAILY As China's first domestic sci-fi blockbuster The Wandering Earth impresses moviegoers around the world, Hugo Award winner Liu Cixin and renowned Canadian filmmaker James Cameron predict a brighter future for China's …

Will smash hit ‘The Wandering Earth’ change China’s film industry?
5 years, 10 months ago

Will smash hit ‘The Wandering Earth’ change China’s film industry?

CNN  

CNN — Millions of moviegoers watched breathlessly over the Lunar New Year week as Beijing and Shanghai were destroyed for the first time in modern Chinese film history. “I didn’t expect China could make such a large-scale science-fiction film,” said one of the top comments on Chinese film review site Douban.com. “There is little nationalistic plot in ‘The Wandering Earth’,” …

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