Official co-pros are entitled to better revenue-sharing terms than imported films usually receive in China - 43 percent of after-tax ticket sales, instead of the usual 25 percent. The film was developed as a U.S.-China co-production - and it has received that difficult-to-land designation from Chinese regulators. The Great Wall fits into a potentially lucrative mold that few big films actually have managed to make successful. 17.įrom potential casting scandals to box office slowdowns to high-stakes corporate buyouts, here are five reasons why the The Great Wall offers both big risk and major potential upside to all involved.
Damon plays a British mercenary who joins the Chinese to fight for humanity against an army of Taotie - monsters symbolizing greed from ancient Chinese mythology - who wage an attack every 60 years.Ĭo-produced by Legendary, Le Vision Pictures, China Film Group and Universal Pictures, the film opens in North America on Feb. The film tells an inventive origin story about the world-famous cultural artifact of its title - that China’s Great Wall was built to defend against a far greater threat than warring nomads from the North. The Great Wall is directed by Chinese maestro Zhang Yimou ( Red Sorghum, Hero, House of Flying Daggers) - his first picture in English - and stars Matt Damon, Willem Defoe and Pablo Pascal, along with a phalanx of A-list Chinese talent, including Hong Kong’s Andy Lau, local heartthrobs Lu Han and Lin Gengxin, and half a dozen others. With an estimated budget north of $150 million, the film is the biggest Hollywood-China co-production ever, designed to bridge the world’s two largest box office territories. Legendary Entertainment’s much-anticipated period monster epic The Great Wall opens across China on Friday - and the whole industry will be watching to see how the unprecedented fusion project pans out.
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