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Casino Royale - China Premiere Details

Daniel Craig, Eva Green, Martin Campbell, Barbara Broccoli to attend

Dame Judi Dench Discusses Changes In Casino Royale For China

'Yes, I wasn't allowed to say that for China...'

An idea how many screens it's going to open on? Given that this is probably the first film to open theatrically in the nation -- which is now opening its first McDonald's chains and is oozing with cash -- I wonder if it could make $100 million there too.

It's not the first film. It's the first James Bond film. China usually doesn't permit certain films for a variety of reasons. For instance The Departed was banned because it had a line of dialogue (part of the plot too) about stolen U.S. technology that ended up in China or something. I can't remember.

Royale should do about 10 million there. Mission Impossible 3 did about 10 million. The #1 film was The Da Vinci Code at like 13 or so million. There's a thread on this somewhere with a listing.

I lived in China a decade ago, and there were plenty of McDonalds outlets there then. Anyway, I doubt it'll make anything even close to $100 million, thanks in large part to the colossal bootleg DVD and VCD market. I imagine that the streets of China's cities were awash with pirate copies of CASINO ROYALE before it even opened in UK cinemas.

Seriously, and without trying to come across as an expert ('cause I'm not one), I think about $10 million is the most we can expect from China. It may have a massive population, but its cinema industry isn't really comparable to that in the sort of country CR can make tens of millions of bucks in.

In any event, it's expected to be a box office winner: �We are extremely pleased that the film has passed and expect it to be one of the highest-grossing films next year in China,� said Li Chow, Sony Pictures� general manager in China.

http://commanderbond.net/article/3858

Well, that is what is expected to be said from a studio excet in the country...

Well, that is what is expected to be said from a studio excet in the country...

I would expect it to be a huge succes, they like their fighting do the Chinese and there's plenty of it in CR. They also like flying fighting but unfortunately there is very little other than the free-running at the beginning which is nearly flying so maybe it should win on both counts!!!

Fair point.

opps, double post in the same message - don't know how that happened...

If one clicks on the "Post Reply" button really fast, it sometimes (and somehow) registers it as two posts.

The forum software now combines the two posts into one--which is good as it prevents two, three, four seperate posts of the exact same thing (which used to be the case).

ah ok, thanks for clearing that up - though, shouldn't flood control sort that up?

I'm surprised that Tomorrow Never Dies hasn't been released there yet. It's like a love fest for Communist China with its heroic Wai Lin character and its "evil capitalist villain" in the Rupert Murdoch-like Elliott Carver.

They would have banned it. Chinese agent, a rogue Chinese general, China on the brink of war with the UK. I don't think so. Banned. For sure. The same probably would have happened for Die Another Day, though I think someone was saying it was released there or something. I don't know - contradicts what the media is saying. Nevertheless, they've banned for a lot less. Like The Departed, though that is technically a remake of a Japanese film and as you may or may not be aware Sino-Japanese relations are hardly good.

It seems to 99% of the time (that's my understanding of it at least).