April Movies Coming to China and Other Upcoming Foreign Imports

Fergus Ryan | Apr 5, 2017 11:30 am | 2 comments | 2739 reads

This post comes courtesy of our content partners at China Film Insider.

There are a total of 22 new films hitting Chinese screens this April, only five of which are foreign imports. 

They include French-Canadian animation Snowstorm!, Ghost in the Shell, The Fate of the Furious, Smurfs: The Lost Village, and Russian commie superhero blockbuster Guardians.

Here’s the full list of the latest foreign movies for you to mark into your diary (click on the titles for trailers):

Snowstorm! (冰雪大作战)
Out now
2D/3D
Rotten Tomatoes Score: No score yet
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet

Ghost in the Shell (攻壳机动队)
April 7
3D/IMAX 3D/CFGS
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 43 percent
Critics Consensus: Ghost in the Shell boasts cool visuals and a compelling central performance from Scarlett Johansson, but the end result lacks the magic of the movie's classic source material.

The Fate of the Furious (速度与激情8)
April 14
2D/ 3D/ IMAX 3D/China Film Giant Screen (CFGS)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: No score yet
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet

Smurfs: The Lost Village (蓝精灵：寻找神秘村)
April 21
3D/China Film Giant Screen (CFGS)
Rotten Tomatoes Score: 26 percent
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet

Guardians (世纪战元)
Release date still unclear
2D
Rotten Tomatoes Score: No score yet
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet

Despite this month’s somewhat lackluster list, there are still plenty of other big blockbusters heading China’s way this year.

Local movie site Mtime has put together this handy infographic highlighting the ones that are still on their way.

If you're having trouble recognizing any of the cartoon characters, here's the list in English:

Logan 
Beauty and the Beast 
Kong: Skull Island 
Ghost in the Shell 
The Fate of the Furious 
Smurfs: The Lost Village 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales
Wonder Woman 
Cars 3
Transformers: The Last Knight 
Despicable Me 3
Spider-Man: Homecoming 
War for the Planet of the Apes
Kingsman: The Golden Circle 
Justice League

That's a lot of foreign movies, and it's likely that the list will end up being longer still, so stay tuned.

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Images: aolcdn.com, Mtime

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Re: April Movies Coming to China and Other Upcoming Foreign...
Posted Apr 6, 2017 10:47am by Kyle Mullin

It'll be interesting to see how Ghost in the Shell performs here in China and especially in Japan, given the Hollywood white washing of its Japanese source material. They opted not to use Asian stars, to pander to Western audiences who couldn't care less, and now the studio is relying on Asian audiences to break even (Emily Yoshida wrote a great piece about the root of the issue for The Verge, it's a really compelling read).

Re: April Movies Coming to China and Other Upcoming Foreign...
Posted Apr 6, 2017 12:31am by Candy1988

Too cool to be true! April is definitely gonna be the month of movies.