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Because it was supposed to be released in January this year, this was always going to be a 10-course Chinese New Year gut-buster of a meal. Still, nothing will prepare you for just how much has been jammed into this two-hour-plus record of the lives of heliborne heroes.
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Eddie Peng plays captain Gao Qian in The Rescue.PHOTO: GOLDEN VILLAGE
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Warner Bros. Wonder Woman 1984 will debut on HBO Max and in theaters on Dec. 25 in the U.S.
Hong Kong action movie Shock Wave 2 opened to $65 million while Pixar s Soul received limited screens and opened to just $5.5 million, but the film is generating rave word of mouth and could climb somewhat over the coming week.
Hong Kong action sequel
Shock Wave 2 rocked China s box office over the weekend, opening to a healthy $64.5 million. Youth fantasy film
Dream of Eternity also did decent business, debuting to $38.9 million.
Hollywood tentpoles, however, fared far less well. Warner Bros.
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News of the World (PG-13) Paul Greengrass tries to be John Ford. It doesn’t work. The director of The Bourne Ultimatum adapts Paulette Jiles’ Western novel about a Civil War veteran (Tom Hanks) who makes a living as an itinerant newsreader in Texas who finds an orphaned German girl (Helena Zengel) whose Kiowa family has been slaughtered and resolves to take her from Wichita Falls to Castroville to her last remaining biological relatives. Greengrass knows how to stage a shootout when our protagonist has to defend the girl against a band of pedophiles in the open country, but little of interest comes from the journey taken by two people who don’t speak the other’s language. Without the heart of the story, this Western is as arid as the Texas air. Also with Elizabeth Marvel, Michael Angelo Covino, Ray McKinnon, Fred Hechinger, Thomas Francis Murphy, Bill Camp, and Mare Winningham. (Opens Friday)
Gal Gadot and Chris Pine in Wonder Woman 1984
Dante Lam s The Rescue opened in first place but also finished far behind expectations as dissatisfaction with both new releases, combined with a local cold snap, weighed on China s theatrical recovery.
China s box office was the scene of disappointment over the weekend as Warner Bros.
Wonder Woman 1984 got trounced by local action flick
The Rescue.
The Rescue, directed by Dante Lam, opened to $36.3 million, nearly double
Wonder Woman 1984 s meager $18.8 million start, according to data from Artisan Gateway. Both films finished the weekend far below expectations though, as audience disappointment in the movies and a sudden cold snap across much of China weighed on the country s theatrical market recovery. A few small-scale clusters of COVID-19 also have kept consumers in several cities indoors in recent days.