Do you want to see
John Cho doing his best Robin Williams? Well, the new Sony Animation movie
Wish Dragon is granting your…wish. Cho voices the titular wish-granting magical dragon, Long, who is unleashed from an ancient teapot by a working-class college student (
Jimmy Wong), sending the two of them on a hijinks-filled adventure through contemporary Shanghai. Netflix, which is debuting the Sony film, has released the
Wish Dragon trailer.
Wish Dragon Trailer
John Cho, I love you, but you’re no Robin Williams. To be fair, very few people are, but it’s painfully clear here in the
Netflix enters a whole new world of wish-granting in the first trailer for
Wish Dragon. Forged in the same mold as Aladdin, the upcoming modern-day animated feature tells the story of Din (Jimmy Wong), a working-class college student who gets a chance to realize his greater ambitions after he discovers an all-powerful dragon named Long (merrily voiced by John Cho) inside a nondescript teapot.
The dragon has been trapped in there for the last thousand years and while we can t speak to the possible crick in his neck, it is confirmed that there are certain limits on his powers. Like most wish-granting entities, for example, Long can t make anyone fall in love.
A Little Red Flower
The Chinese romantic drama has climbed to $182.8 million, despite allegations from some filmgoers that it s a rip-off of 20th Century Fox s 2014 hit The Fault in Our Stars.
Holdover romantic drama
A Little Red Flower topped a quiet weekend at China s box office, earning $11.7 million for a local total of $182.8 million.
Fellow holdover
Shock Wave 2, a crime thriller starring Andy Lau, scored second, adding $7.8 million for a four-weekend haul of $163.2 million, according to data from Artisan Gateway.
It was a downbeat period of moviegoing for China, with total revenue reaching just $47.1 million, but the contrast to the ailing theatrical markets of North America and Europe still could scarcely be starker. The biggest film in the U.S. over the four-day Martin Luther King Day weekend was Liam Neeson s latest action thriller