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Chinese Director Says He’s ‘Truly Sorry’ for Sci-Fi Flop
Kenrick Davis
Aug 12, 2019 2-min read
A star-studded movie once projected to become China’s next big sci-fi blockbuster performed so poorly during its opening weekend that its director has issued a public apology.
Teng Huatao, the director of “Shanghai Fortress,” on Saturday expressed his “extreme sadness” over myriad memes joking that the movie had “closed the door” on expectations for Chinese sci-fi. While such films have performed poorly in recent years, the runaway success of February blockbuster “The Wandering Earth” had ushered in a surge of excitement and optimism about the genre’s future — that is, until now.
“It doesn’t just show dissatisfaction with the film,” Teng wrote in a lengthy, emotional statement that has received over 1 million likes. “It also shows a loss of hope in Chinese sci-fi. As the director, I’m inescapably responsible for this, and I’m truly sorry.”
Based on a 2009 novel of the same name, “Shanghai Fortress” tells the story of young people hiding out in the Chinese megacity, which has become mankind’s last refuge in the face of an alien invasion. Despite its all-star cast (featuring celebrities like Lu Han and Shu Qi), six years in production, and 400 million-yuan ($57 million) budget, the movie raked in just 115 million yuan in its opening weekend. On review website Douban, it has an abysmal 3.3 out of 10average rating from over 120,000 reviewers.
The film’s scriptwriter, Yang Zhi — who wrote the original novel and is widely known by his pen name, Jiang Nan — has also apologizedonline, particularly to the fans of his book who were bitterly disappointed after waiting so many years for the film.
Rather than worry about the future prospects of Chinese sci-fi, however, many netizens have expressed hopes that the movie’s dismal performance will lead producers to stop relying on the “fan economy” to guarantee ticket sales. In China, it’s common practice for studios to cast big-name stars with huge online fan bases to boost box office performance — regardless of whether the web celebs can act.
“It’s OK, Teng. You closed the door on ‘high-traffic celebrities’ being used to boost box office sales,” one user commented under a related article. “This is far more important than opening the door for Chinese sci-fi films.”
Editor: Bibek Bhandari.
(Header image: A promotional poster for the Chinese sci-fi film ‘Shanghai Fortress,’ which recouped less than one-third of its budget on its opening weekend. @电影上海堡垒 on Weibo)
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Chinese Director Says He’s ‘Truly Sorry’ for Sci-Fi Flop
Kenrick Davis
Aug 12, 2019 2-min read
A star-studded movie once projected to become China’s next big sci-fi blockbuster performed so poorly during its opening weekend that its director has issued a public apology.
Teng Huatao, the director of “Shanghai Fortress,” on Saturday expressed his “extreme sadness” over myriad memes joking that the movie had “closed the door” on expectations for Chinese sci-fi. While such films have performed poorly in recent years, the runaway success of February blockbuster “The Wandering Earth” had ushered in a surge of excitement and optimism about the genre’s future — that is, until now.
“It doesn’t just show dissatisfaction with the film,” Teng wrote in a lengthy, emotional statement that has received over 1 million likes. “It also shows a loss of hope in Chinese sci-fi. As the director, I’m inescapably responsible for this, and I’m truly sorry.”
Based on a 2009 novel of the same name, “Shanghai Fortress” tells the story of young people hiding out in the Chinese megacity, which has become mankind’s last refuge in the face of an alien invasion. Despite its all-star cast (featuring celebrities like Lu Han and Shu Qi), six years in production, and 400 million-yuan ($57 million) budget, the movie raked in just 115 million yuan in its opening weekend. On review website Douban, it has an abysmal 3.3 out of 10average rating from over 120,000 reviewers.
The film’s scriptwriter, Yang Zhi — who wrote the original novel and is widely known by his pen name, Jiang Nan — has also apologizedonline, particularly to the fans of his book who were bitterly disappointed after waiting so many years for the film.
Rather than worry about the future prospects of Chinese sci-fi, however, many netizens have expressed hopes that the movie’s dismal performance will lead producers to stop relying on the “fan economy” to guarantee ticket sales. In China, it’s common practice for studios to cast big-name stars with huge online fan bases to boost box office performance — regardless of whether the web celebs can act.
“It’s OK, Teng. You closed the door on ‘high-traffic celebrities’ being used to boost box office sales,” one user commented under a related article. “This is far more important than opening the door for Chinese sci-fi films.”
Editor: Bibek Bhandari.
(Header image: A promotional poster for the Chinese sci-fi film ‘Shanghai Fortress,’ which recouped less than one-third of its budget on its opening weekend. @电影上海堡垒 on Weibo)
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[Leongsam]

Fucked up Chinese as usual. Everything they do is a flop.

 

[eatshitndie]

their big budget all-star cast fantasy movie was also a flop. without angmoh in the movie it would be a greater flop.

 

[laksaboy]

Laughably cheap-looking CGI, crappy script... what could go wrong?

Creativity never thrives in a totalitarian shithole. Compare this with Sinkieland: once upon a time the Hollywood of SE Asia, now we have the occasional Jack Neo crap.

 

[Leongsam]

Whole cities flop too. A movie flop is minor in comparison.

34 Unforgettable Photos Of China’s Massive, Uninhabited Ghost Cities
By Natasha Ishak
Published April 28, 2019
Updated May 3, 2019
The country's ambitious plans for urban growth have led to more than 50 abandoned cities whose empty buildings paint a dystopian landscape.

34 Unforgettable Photos Of China’s Massive, Uninhabited Ghost Cities
View Gallery
Extravagant monuments, spacious parks, modern buildings, and interconnected roads would all seem to indicate a bustling metropolis. But in China, there is an increasing number of uninhabited "ghost" cities that seem to have been abandoned after years of construction.
It is unclear how many of these Chinese ghost cities currently exist, but estimates put the number as high as 50 municipalities.
Some of these cities have yet to be completed while others are fully functioning metropolises, save for the lack of residents. The occurrence of these ghost cities across China has, unsurprisingly, attracted significant attention from international observers.
"All of them are bizarre, all of them are surreal. There's no other way to describe a city meant for thousands of people that's just completely empty," explained Samuel Stevenson-Yang, a photographer working to document this modern Chinese phenomenon, in an interview with ABC Australia.
The Making Of A Chinese Ghost City
The street lamps, expansive parks, and sprawling highrises that dot these ghost cities undoubtedly inspire comparisons to dystopian visions of the future.
As China continues to experience rapid economic growth, the government has rushed to urbanize massive rural areas. One of the key goals of this urbanization project is to redistribute economic opportunities that have drawn millions of rural inhabitants into coastal cities, but observers believe that the government's overambitious construction plans may have backfired.

Getty ImagesUnfinished developments abound in the Chinese ghost city of Kangbashi.
Kangbashi district is a perfect example. It was meant to be a bustling urban district in the city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, built using profits that were pouring in from the coal industry boom.
The 90,000-acre development sits right at the edge of the massive Gobi Desert. It includes many of the fixtures one would expect to find in a city once dubbed China's answer to Dubai: colossal plazas, expansive shopping malls, large commercial and residential complexes, and towering government buildings.
The hope was that these facilities would attract commuters from nearby Dongsheng and help accommodate the two million residents of Ordos.
"This is a good place, with modern buildings, grand plazas and many tourist attractions," Yang Xiaolong, a security guard working in one of Kangbashi's new office buildings, told the South China Morning Post. "Once there are more people and businesses, the city will be more lively."
But the district that was planned to house more than one million people currently houses less than 100,000, and it is still less than halfway toward the district's goal of housing 300,000 people by 2020. Despite all their efforts, Kangbashi's skyscrapers and residential buildings remain as empty as its streets.
Ghost Cities Are Nothing New

Guillaume Payen/LightRocket/Getty ImagesInhabitants of Tianducheng playing basketball in front of an Eiffel Tower replica.
Most countries have experienced a similar development phase at some point where roads and buildings for new cities were being built in locations that lacked the population to fill them.
The difference, however, is that modern urban developments in China have an unprecedented scale and speed. Just how fast is China going? The country has used more cement in its construction of new cities between 2011 to 2013 than the entirety of the United States in the 20th century.
According to statistics reported by the Beijing Morning Post, the number of empty apartment properties that are sitting in these Chinese ghost cities may be as high as 64.5 million.
This estimate was supplied by the State Grid Corporation of China, based on the number of apartment buildings that have been completed but have not used electricity for six straight months in 2010. That number could very well double by 2020.
Despite these staggering numbers, some believe that the Chinese ghost cities that have sprung from the overzealousness of its government are temporary. They maintain that this overload of construction will pay off for China in the long run, as the country continues to experience economic growth.
Problems Of Real Estate And A Bubbling Debt Crisis

Getty ImagesA young man walks through an abandoned apartment and villa construction project near Shanghai, China.
The sight of thousands of empty buildings is not the only thing that Chinese ghost cities are leaving in their wake. The massive capital that backed these developments was largely funded by the country's ballooning debt, and experts think it's only a matter of time before it will burst.
To make matters worse, there is also the issue of soaring property costsassociated with purchased but unoccupied housing, which could spell disaster for younger Chinese who want to become homeowners.
But not all is lost with China's ghost towns. Even Kangbashi, a city that was practically built in the desert, can still turn things around. Carla Hajjar, an urban design researcher working on her master's thesis at Tongji University in Shanghai, frequents Kangbashi as a case study for her research.
"I was really surprised because there are people," Carla explained her first impression of the ghost city to Forbes. "And those people are really friendly and welcoming, they don't look at you like you're a stranger."
Shenzhen — A Success Story And Potential Model For The Future
Moreover, many of China's most prosperous cities were built with a develop-now-fill-later approach, which has, to some extent, proven to work in China's favor.
One example is the 12-million-strong city of Shenzhen that straddles China's border with Hong Kong. In 1980, it was a sleepy fishing town with a population of 30,000. Shenzhen is now China's fourth largest city and one of the wealthiest thanks to its focus on high tech industries.
Another example often cited by Chinese optimists is Pudong, a revitalized area across from Shanghai that was once a considered a "swamp."
"[Pudong] is an example of designed urbanization going really well," said Tim Murray, a managing partner at research firm J Capital. "I was working in Shanghai when that was still a dream and I used to look at it and think 'these guys are nuts just building so much and nobody is gonna use it'... I was wrong. It's just been so successful," he said.
The Struggle For Revival

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty ImagesThe Chinese ghost city of Caofeidien was built on reclaimed land, made possible through huge bank loans.
Despite the seemingly staggering scale of China's ghost city problem, the government has been able to revive several former ghost cities into thriving metropolises. The key, it seems, are jobs and quality transportation to attract young professionals, new families, and residents who are looking to retire.
For example, the ghost city of Zhengdong rose from the ashes after the local government paid a Taiwanese phone manufacturer to open a factory in the city. The factory attracted droves of people looking for jobs and the eventually employed 200,000 workers. The promise of new jobs jumpstarted the former ghost town seemingly overnight.
Similarly, the luxury resort of Jingjin New Town, about 70 miles from Beijing, is awaiting its own infusion of workers. Currently, it has a few small shops and holiday homes but remains empty for much of the year. However, an upcoming high-speed railway line that will be passing through the city is expected to jumpstart its revitalization.
Despite this optimistic outlook, international observers note that these examples are not the rule to China's urban construction gamble, but the exception. But as long as the government continues to wager its bets on long-term growth, there is a good chance at least some of China's ghost cities will come back from the dead.

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Whole cities flop too. A movie flop is minor in comparison.

34 Unforgettable Photos Of China’s Massive, Uninhabited Ghost Cities
By Natasha Ishak
Published April 28, 2019
Updated May 3, 2019
The country's ambitious plans for urban growth have led to more than 50 abandoned cities whose empty buildings paint a dystopian landscape.

34 Unforgettable Photos Of China’s Massive, Uninhabited Ghost Cities
View Gallery
Extravagant monuments, spacious parks, modern buildings, and interconnected roads would all seem to indicate a bustling metropolis. But in China, there is an increasing number of uninhabited "ghost" cities that seem to have been abandoned after years of construction.
It is unclear how many of these Chinese ghost cities currently exist, but estimates put the number as high as 50 municipalities.
Some of these cities have yet to be completed while others are fully functioning metropolises, save for the lack of residents. The occurrence of these ghost cities across China has, unsurprisingly, attracted significant attention from international observers.
"All of them are bizarre, all of them are surreal. There's no other way to describe a city meant for thousands of people that's just completely empty," explained Samuel Stevenson-Yang, a photographer working to document this modern Chinese phenomenon, in an interview with ABC Australia.
The Making Of A Chinese Ghost City
The street lamps, expansive parks, and sprawling highrises that dot these ghost cities undoubtedly inspire comparisons to dystopian visions of the future.
As China continues to experience rapid economic growth, the government has rushed to urbanize massive rural areas. One of the key goals of this urbanization project is to redistribute economic opportunities that have drawn millions of rural inhabitants into coastal cities, but observers believe that the government's overambitious construction plans may have backfired.

Getty ImagesUnfinished developments abound in the Chinese ghost city of Kangbashi.
Kangbashi district is a perfect example. It was meant to be a bustling urban district in the city of Ordos in Inner Mongolia, built using profits that were pouring in from the coal industry boom.
The 90,000-acre development sits right at the edge of the massive Gobi Desert. It includes many of the fixtures one would expect to find in a city once dubbed China's answer to Dubai: colossal plazas, expansive shopping malls, large commercial and residential complexes, and towering government buildings.
The hope was that these facilities would attract commuters from nearby Dongsheng and help accommodate the two million residents of Ordos.
"This is a good place, with modern buildings, grand plazas and many tourist attractions," Yang Xiaolong, a security guard working in one of Kangbashi's new office buildings, told the South China Morning Post. "Once there are more people and businesses, the city will be more lively."
But the district that was planned to house more than one million people currently houses less than 100,000, and it is still less than halfway toward the district's goal of housing 300,000 people by 2020. Despite all their efforts, Kangbashi's skyscrapers and residential buildings remain as empty as its streets.
Ghost Cities Are Nothing New

Guillaume Payen/LightRocket/Getty ImagesInhabitants of Tianducheng playing basketball in front of an Eiffel Tower replica.
Most countries have experienced a similar development phase at some point where roads and buildings for new cities were being built in locations that lacked the population to fill them.
The difference, however, is that modern urban developments in China have an unprecedented scale and speed. Just how fast is China going? The country has used more cement in its construction of new cities between 2011 to 2013 than the entirety of the United States in the 20th century.
According to statistics reported by the Beijing Morning Post, the number of empty apartment properties that are sitting in these Chinese ghost cities may be as high as 64.5 million.
This estimate was supplied by the State Grid Corporation of China, based on the number of apartment buildings that have been completed but have not used electricity for six straight months in 2010. That number could very well double by 2020.
Despite these staggering numbers, some believe that the Chinese ghost cities that have sprung from the overzealousness of its government are temporary. They maintain that this overload of construction will pay off for China in the long run, as the country continues to experience economic growth.
Problems Of Real Estate And A Bubbling Debt Crisis

Getty ImagesA young man walks through an abandoned apartment and villa construction project near Shanghai, China.
The sight of thousands of empty buildings is not the only thing that Chinese ghost cities are leaving in their wake. The massive capital that backed these developments was largely funded by the country's ballooning debt, and experts think it's only a matter of time before it will burst.
To make matters worse, there is also the issue of soaring property costsassociated with purchased but unoccupied housing, which could spell disaster for younger Chinese who want to become homeowners.
But not all is lost with China's ghost towns. Even Kangbashi, a city that was practically built in the desert, can still turn things around. Carla Hajjar, an urban design researcher working on her master's thesis at Tongji University in Shanghai, frequents Kangbashi as a case study for her research.
"I was really surprised because there are people," Carla explained her first impression of the ghost city to Forbes. "And those people are really friendly and welcoming, they don't look at you like you're a stranger."
Shenzhen — A Success Story And Potential Model For The Future
Moreover, many of China's most prosperous cities were built with a develop-now-fill-later approach, which has, to some extent, proven to work in China's favor.
One example is the 12-million-strong city of Shenzhen that straddles China's border with Hong Kong. In 1980, it was a sleepy fishing town with a population of 30,000. Shenzhen is now China's fourth largest city and one of the wealthiest thanks to its focus on high tech industries.
Another example often cited by Chinese optimists is Pudong, a revitalized area across from Shanghai that was once a considered a "swamp."
"[Pudong] is an example of designed urbanization going really well," said Tim Murray, a managing partner at research firm J Capital. "I was working in Shanghai when that was still a dream and I used to look at it and think 'these guys are nuts just building so much and nobody is gonna use it'... I was wrong. It's just been so successful," he said.
The Struggle For Revival

Gilles Sabrie/LightRocket/Getty ImagesThe Chinese ghost city of Caofeidien was built on reclaimed land, made possible through huge bank loans.
Despite the seemingly staggering scale of China's ghost city problem, the government has been able to revive several former ghost cities into thriving metropolises. The key, it seems, are jobs and quality transportation to attract young professionals, new families, and residents who are looking to retire.
For example, the ghost city of Zhengdong rose from the ashes after the local government paid a Taiwanese phone manufacturer to open a factory in the city. The factory attracted droves of people looking for jobs and the eventually employed 200,000 workers. The promise of new jobs jumpstarted the former ghost town seemingly overnight.
Similarly, the luxury resort of Jingjin New Town, about 70 miles from Beijing, is awaiting its own infusion of workers. Currently, it has a few small shops and holiday homes but remains empty for much of the year. However, an upcoming high-speed railway line that will be passing through the city is expected to jumpstart its revitalization.
Despite this optimistic outlook, international observers note that these examples are not the rule to China's urban construction gamble, but the exception. But as long as the government continues to wager its bets on long-term growth, there is a good chance at least some of China's ghost cities will come back from the dead.

It's not all bad news lah...

 

[KuanTi01]

Fucked up Chinese as usual. Everything they do is a flop.

That's a bigoted and all-sweeping statement. Not everything is a flop!

 

[Hypocrite-The]

Laughably cheap-looking CGI, crappy script... what could go wrong?

Creativity never thrives in a totalitarian shithole. Compare this with Sinkieland: once upon a time the Hollywood of SE Asia, now we have the occasional Jack Neo crap.

Fucked up Chinese as usual. Everything they do is a flop.

their big budget all-star cast fantasy movie was also a flop. without angmoh in the movie it would be a greater flop.
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The Wandering Earth - Wikipedia
The Wandering Earth (Chinese: 流浪地球) is a 2019 Chinese science fiction film directed by Frant Gwo, loosely based on the novella of the same name by author Liu Cixin. It stars Qu Chuxiao, Li Guangjie, Ng Man-tat, Zhao Jinmai, Wu Jing and Qu Jingjing. Set in the far future, The Wandering Earth follows a group of astronauts guiding the Earth away from an expanding Sun, while attempting to prevent a collision with Jupiter. The film was theatrically released in China on 5 February 2019 (Chinese New Year's Day),[4] by China Film Group Corporation, followed by North America and Australia on 8 February 2019.
The Wandering Earth
Chinese theatrical release poster
Chinese 流浪地球Mandarin liúlàng dìqiúDirected by Frant GwoProduced by Gong Ge'erWritten by

• Gong Ge'er
• Yan Dongxu
• Frant Gwo
• Ye Junce
• Yang Zhixue
• Wu Yi
• Ye Ruchang

Based on The Wandering Earth (Chinese: 流浪地球)
by Liu CixinStarring

• Qu Chuxiao
• Li Guangjie
• Ng Man-tat
• Zhao Jinmai
• Wu Jing
• Qu Jingjing

Music by

• Roc Chen
• Liu Tao (additional music)

Cinematography Michael LiuEdited by Cheung Ka-fai
Production
company

China Film Group Corporation
Distributed by China Film Group Corporation
Netflix
(International)
Release date

• 5 February 2019

(China)
Running time
125 minutesCountry ChinaLanguage Mandarin
English (Electronic Voice)
Russian
FrenchBudget $50 million[1]Box office $699.7 million[2][3]
The film grossed $700 millionworldwide, including $691 million in China.[2] It became China's second highest-grossing film of all time,[5] 2019's seventh highest-grossing film worldwide,[6] the second highest-grossing non-English film to date, and one of the top 20 highest-grossing science fiction films to date. It has received generally positive reviews from critics, with The Hollywood Reporter describing it as "China's first full-scale interstellar spectacular."[7]Netflix has acquired the film's global streaming rights.[6] The film was available to stream in various countries outside of China on 30 April 2019, by Netflix.[8]
Plot
In the year 2061, the Sun has aged and is about to turn into a red giant, pushing the nations of the world to consolidate into the United Earth Government, a world government, to initiate a project to move the Earth out of the Solar System to the Alpha Centauri system, in order to preserve further human civilization. Enormous thrusters running on fusion power are built across the planet to propel the Earth. Human population is reduced severely due to catastrophic tides that occur after the planetary engines stop Earth's rotation, and later as the planet moves away from the Sun, much of the surface is frozen due to lowered temperatures, forcing humans to live in vast underground citiesbuilt adjacent to the engines.
At the beginning of the film, Liu Peiqiang, a Chinese astronaut, promises to his son Liu Qi of his eventual return before his mission to a space station that will help Earth navigate as it moves out of the Solar system, and hands guardianship of his son over to his father-in-law Han Zi'ang.
Seventeen years later, Liu Peiqiang's mission is about to end and he will soon return to Earth. To celebrate the Chinese New Year, an adult Liu Qi brings adopted sister Han Duoduo on a trip to the surface in a truck they stole using Han Zi'ang's clearance as a trucker. They are arrested, meet a fellow prisoner named Tim, and are joined by Han Zi'ang after an unsuccessful attempt to bribe the prison warden into releasing them.
As Earth passes by Jupiter to make use of gravity assist, a "gravitational spike" causes devastating earthquakes that disable many thrusters across the globe and pull the Earth dangerously close. The four escape amidst the chaos and attempt to make their way out in Han Zi'ang's truck, but the truck is requisitioned for a rescue mission by the military rescue team CN171-11; they are to transport a lighter core, an engine component, to restart the planetary thruster engine in Hangzhou, supervised by soldiers led by Wang Lei. In the remnants of Shanghai, they lose their vehicle, and while transporting the component up the ruins of the Shanghai TowerHan Zi'ang is killed. With news that the Hangzhou thruster was fully compromised and the city was completely destroyed, the group is downcast. However they later find a new vehicle where the on-board engineer, Li Yiyi, convinces them to transport a lighter core to repair a larger planetary thruster engine in Sulawesi.
In space, Liu Peiqiang discovers that MOSS, the artificial intelligence commanding the space station, has directed it to escape rather than to assist the humans on Earth. He breaks out of forced hibernation and attempts to stop the space station along with Russian cosmonautMakarov, who is killed by the spacecraft's automated security measures. Liu Peiqiang arrives in the control room, but his clearances are revoked due to his acts of insubordination and he can do little to override the escape process.
Liu Qi's group arrive at Sulawesi to find that the engine was already fully restored. Globally, most of the planetary thrusters have been repaired as well. However, the gravitational pull from Jupiter is too great and Earth continues to move toward it, approaching the planet's Roche limit. Liu Qi, inspired by recollections of his father's explanation of the thrusters' mechanics as a child, proposes to ignite Jupiter's hydrogenabundant atmosphere to blow Earth away. Li Yiyi proposes to concentrate the Sulawesi engine's power to fire a beam high enough to ignite Jupiter. The group overcome various challenges, such as renewed aftershock tremors that injure several members, and are able to mostly reconfigure the engine to carry out the plan, however they are not able to push the firing pin of the engine to ignite it.
Liu Peiqiang, learning of this, is able to persuade the United Earth Government to use its communication channels to call assistance for the party at Sulawesi, even though MOSS reveals that the solution being attempted was already proposed by others and has no chance of success based on probability calculations. Other rescue and repair parties arrive and the engine is fired up, but it falls short of being able to ignite the hydrogen. Liu Peiqiang proposes intentionally flying into exhaust jet and detonating the space station's propellant to ignite Jupiter's hydrogen; MOSS disagrees as the station is the back up plan should the Wandering Earth project fail. After disabling MOSS using a fire started with vodka that Makarov smuggled on-board, Liu Peiqiang pilots the space station into the exhaust jet of the planetary thrusters, sacrificing himself as the ignition succeeds. Earth is saved from destruction and continues towards the destination star system.
As the film ends, Liu Qi recounts and envisions the stages of Earth's migration, a process taking 2,500 years and still bound with uncertainty, in a hopeful tone.
Cast

• Qu Chuxiao as Liu Qi (刘启)
• Li Guangjie as Captain Wang Lei (王磊)
• Ng Man-tat as Han Zi'ang (韩子昂)
• Zhao Jinmai as Han Duoduo (韩朵朵)
• Wu Jing as Liu Peiqiang (刘培强)
• Arkady Sharogradsky as Makarov
• Mike Sui as Tim
• Qu Jingjing as Zhou Qian (周倩)
• Zhang Yichi as Li Yiyi (李一一)
• Yang Haoyu as He Lianke (何连科)
• Li Hongchen as Zhang Xiaoqiang (张小强)
• Yang Yi as Yang Jie (杨捷)
• Jiang Zhigang as Zhao Zhigang (赵志刚)
• Zhang Huan as Huang Ming (黄明)

Production
Development
Frant Gwo was a big fan of the science fiction genre and was first influenced by James Cameron's Terminator 2: Judgment Day which inspired him to become a director in the genre. He spent the following years studying the genre to direct a science fiction film.[9]
Pre-production
In order to establish a rigorous setting, Gwo invited four scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) to act as consultants.[10] The film's three thousand concept mapsand more than eight thousand sub-mirrors were elaborately created by a conceptual art team of three hundred people over a period of 15 months.[11]
Filming

Spacesuit used in the film
Principal photography started on 26 May 2017, in Qingdao, a seaside city on north China's Shandong province,[10] and wrapped on 27 September 2017.[12]
Weta Workshop made the film's highly specialized spacesuits, exoskeletons and weaponry.[13][14]
Wu Jing was asked by Frant Gwo to play a cameo role in the film, later he found out that Gwo cast him into a leading role. When he was told that the production had run into financial trouble, he gave up his remuneration and invested in the film to help it continue, for which he was given special thanks in the credits of the film; and praised by Frant Gwo as father of "little dirt ball" (nickname of the film) .[15][16]
Post-production
The visual effects of the film were made by Base FX, Bottleship VFX, Dexter Studios, Macrograph, More VFX, Pixomondo and Black Nomad.[citation needed]
"My film was successful but I don't want to speak about only one successful film and China's sci-fi movies could be find a new way for being better in 2019" The Movie director, Frant Gwo told to the China.org.cn[17] Liu Cixin, the author of the original novella said to state broadcaster China Central Television, "Chinese studios have no interest to invest in sci-fi films. US sci-fi film audiences have trust but this trust between audiences and China's sci-fi movies doesn't exist yet and this is the main difference between Chinese and US sci-fi films." He said "It is a challenge because this trust must build between producers, investors, and the audience until people have faith in a Chinese sci-fi movie."[17]
Music
The film's music was composed by Roc Chen (阿鯤),[18] and Liu Tao (刘韬) as an additional composer.[19] The film's music was performed by the British Royal Philharmonic Orchestraand conducted by Roc Chen at the Abbey Road Studios.
Differences between the film and the novel
The film shares the same basic setting as the novella, but the plot has significantly changed. In the novella, the protagonist was born after the Braking Era ended, the Earth had stood still and begun its escape. It focused on the social impact and conflicts of logic and emotion, instead of the crisis depicted in film. Moreover, the Earth passes Jupiter's orbit without experiencing the key crisis of the film. There were components of the book that did not end up in the film such as: a long-lasting debate between two categories of escape plan - a generation spaceship or a planetary engine; a large and disturbing debate among mankind concerning whether the prediction was true that the sun would undergo a helium flash and devastate the Earth, and whether the United Earth Government had cheated mankind by organizing and carrying out the "Wandering Earth" project. In the movie there is only a minor depiction of this in the ending narration where protestors are holding signs claiming the "sun will not have helium flash" and MOSS’ final word is a reference to the top leader of United Earth Government from the novel.
Release
On 25 December 2018, the first official trailer for the film was released at the China Aerospace Museum in Beijing along with a teaser poster.[20]
On 30 January 2019, Beijing-based distributor China Media Capital (CMC Pictures) announced that it has secured the international rights and is planning a sizable North American release on 8 February. The company will open the film in 22 cities in the U.S. and three in Canada, as well as throughout Australia and New Zealand.[21]
On 20 February 2019, it was announced that Netflix acquired the distribution rights to stream the film internationally. The film was expected to be available to stream globally on Netflix, outside of China, on 30 April 2019,[22][23] however the film was later promoted on the Netflix facebook page as being released on 6 May 2019.[8]
Reception
Box office
The Wandering Earth released over the Chinese New Yearholiday season, and earned more than CN¥2 billion (£232 million) in six days, setting a new record for a Chinese film.[17][24] It also set the record for the highest-grossing Chinese film on IMAX.[25] Second weekend box office dropped 53%, on par with all other currently playing films post Chinese holiday season, as expected.[26] The film's total gross in China stands at CN¥4.655 billion.[27]
Internationally, it topped the worldwide box office with a three-day opening weekend gross of $172,718,000, and had a six-day opening gross of $289,090,290.[28] The film has grossed $693,371,204 in China, $5,875,487 in the United States and Canada, and $1,575,366 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $700,822,057.[2][3]
Critical response
On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 74% based on 31 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10.[29] The film received a generally positive reception in China. Several state-run media publications have given the film a positive review.[30][31] Specifically, Zhong Sheng, in the People's Daily, writes that the film is "not superheroes saving the world but mankind changing their destiny together."[31] On Douban, during the initial release, the movie had a 8.5 rating; then suddenly fell to 7.9 as of the early morning of February 23 in China. It was reported some reviewers were offered money for posting negative reviews on the rating platform. Douban banned nearly 50 users for violating guidelines and thousands of comments were removed.[32] The rating finally stabilized at 7.9. Some commenters, specifically on Douban, who give the film negative reviews were accused to be in bad faith or trolling,[32][33] but the accusations are disputed.[34]
Tasha Robinson of The Vergedescribes the film as "rich, gorgeous, and goofy".[35] Travis Johnson, of Flicks.com.au gave the film four out of five stars and, whilst criticizing the film for its lack of character development, praised the visuals and called it the best science fiction film of 2019.[36] Ben Kenigsberg in The New York Times wrote that the film is "as awash in murky computer imagery, stupefying exposition and manipulative sentimentality as the average Hollywood tentpole", but that it proved that the Chinese film industry "can hold its own at the multiplex."[37]Simon Abrams of RogerEbert.com gave the film three and a half stars out of the four, saying that the experience was "visually dynamic, emotionally engaging."[38] In the United States the reviewer aggregate site Metacritic gave an overall Metascore of 57 signifying mixed to average reviews based on eight critics.[39]

 

[eatshitndie]

Box office $699.7 million[2][3]
The film grossed $700 millionworldwide, including $691 million in China.[2]

$699m worldwide? and $691m in tiongland? only a tad over $6.9m outside china? what an "international" joke. the recurring 69 number is kind of a joke itself.

 

[myfoot123]

Ah Tiong land doesn't have sci-fiction movie. The only timeless one is SUN WU KONG DA NOW TIANG KONG,

 

[Hypocrite-The]

$699m worldwide? and $691m in tiongland? only a tad over $6.9m outside china? what an "international" joke. the recurring 69 number is kind of a joke itself.

We'll u can't argue with 'success' n a win is a win

 

[Pinkieslut]

Sinkieland got destroyed in Sci-fi No Horse Run ... Ah Tiong Can wait Long Long.

 

[Pinkieslut]

The movie in question

 

[Pinkieslut]

 

[Hypocrite-The]

 

[eatshitndie]

We'll u can't argue with 'success' n a win is a win

confined to the soixante neuf domestic market. $691m. they can lick one another shiok shiok until cows cum home.