Beijing -- Hoping a cuddly black-and-white national treasure will again produce Chinese boxoffice gold, Disney is releasing "Trail of the Panda" here Friday.
The release comes ahead of the first anniversary of the deadly earthquake that uprooted the endangered species' home. It follows last summer's record-breaking run for DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda," which earned more than $14.7 million in the territory.
Disney's second Chinese-language film, "Trail" unspools on 900 of the country's roughly 4,000 screens via Huaxia Film Distribution.
Made for $5 million by Beijing-based Ying Dong Media, the film, about an orphaned boy who saves a twin panda cub separated from its mother, "Trail" was nearly ruined last spring. As shooting wound down in the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan province, an 8.0 quake struck May 12, killing more than 70,000 people in the area.
Twenty-eight members of the film's crew abandoned B-roll film and equipment and hiked through the mountains...
The release comes ahead of the first anniversary of the deadly earthquake that uprooted the endangered species' home. It follows last summer's record-breaking run for DreamWorks Animation's "Kung Fu Panda," which earned more than $14.7 million in the territory.
Disney's second Chinese-language film, "Trail" unspools on 900 of the country's roughly 4,000 screens via Huaxia Film Distribution.
Made for $5 million by Beijing-based Ying Dong Media, the film, about an orphaned boy who saves a twin panda cub separated from its mother, "Trail" was nearly ruined last spring. As shooting wound down in the Wolong Giant Panda Nature Reserve in southwest China's Sichuan province, an 8.0 quake struck May 12, killing more than 70,000 people in the area.
Twenty-eight members of the film's crew abandoned B-roll film and equipment and hiked through the mountains...
- 5/7/2009
- by By Jonathan Landreth
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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