Headlines From China: ‘Tom and Jerry’ Set As First Foreign Film to Hit China Post-Chinese New Year

‘Tom and Jerry’ Set As First Foreign Film to Hit China Post-Chinese New Year

Warner Brothers’ live action-animation hybrid film “Tom and Jerry” has quietly locked in a Feb. 26 release date in China, which will make it the first foreign film to hit theaters in the wake of the Chinese New Year. Despite having very little time before its release for promo, the film already has had more than 233,000 people indicate that they “want to watch” it on the Maoyan industry data platform. In comparison, Disney’s upcoming “Raya and the Last Dragon,” which on Saturday announced a China theatrical release on March 5, currently has a “want to watch” count of less than 3,400. Read more Variety

Film Review: Chen Sicheng’s Action Comedy ‘Detective Chinatown 3’

Todd McCarthy from Deadline wrote a review on Chinese recent blockbuster film “Detective Chinatown 3.” Among other benchmark achievements, the film had a ticket pre-sales of $150 million and an opening day take of $163 million. McCarthy wrote, the “Detective Chinatown” films are hyper-active entertainments bubbling over with a congenial raucousness; they’re loud, manic, tireless, rambunctious, gross but not too vulgar, sometimes Three Stooges-like in their silly physical pranks and painful predicaments, and always on the move. Read more Deadline