In fact, “The Great Wall” was seen as the first crossover blockbuster for Legendary after China’s real estate and investment conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group acquired Thomas Tull’s 16-year-old production firm last January for $3.5 billion. While it edged out “Kung Fu Panda 3” as China’s eighth-highest grossing film of last year, Legendary’s video-game adaptation “Warcraft” hauled in $220.8 million in China last year with much less hype - but an easily identifiable and massive core audience of gamers who got exactly what they wanted.Īlso Read: Matt Damon's 'Great Wall' Slammed as 'Low Quality' by Head of China's People's Choice Awards (Exclusive) “That movie became one of the worst movies in China,” Wang Haige, chairman of the Huading Awards (China’s version of the People’s Choice Awards) told TheWrap in December.
Worse, director Zhang Yimou’s English-language fantasy epic starring Matt Damon didn’t prove to be much of a blockbuster in China either, reeling in a disappointing $170.4 million since it opened in December. (The projection for the four-day holiday is $21 million.) crossover epic “The Great Wall” crumbled at the box office, earning just $18.1 million during its opening weekend in North America on an estimated $150 million production budget. After years of hype, Legendary’s would-be China-U.S.
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