How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legendary movie fiasco

Re:How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legen... by verytvse on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @12:27PM (#11770981)

> Jiang told him that he planned to cast foreign actors in the lead roles and wanted to tailor the movie for international distribution.

I wonder if it irks him that the Chinese film which has made the most money ever in the history of Chinese cinema (US$553.8 million so far, even beating Hollywood films in China) is a film called "The Mermaid."

And it features a completely Chinese main cast and the story is geared towards the Chinese audience.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mermaid_%282016_film%29

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Re:How an underwater fantasy blockbuster turned into a legen... by studentrob on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @02:01PM (#11771757)

> I wonder if it irks him that the Chinese film which has made the most money ever in the history of Chinese cinema

Why should it? That's awesome.

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