by Daniel Eagan
Pulled from last year’s Shanghai Film Festival, “The Eight Hundred” finally opened in China August 21. Despite restrictions on theater attendance, by August 26 it had grossed over $145 million, making it the first truly successful release there since the pandemic began. Cmc is opening the movie in the US and other territories on Friday, August 28. (List of theaters)
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr. Six), the movie restages the siege of the Sihang Warehouse during the Battle of Shanghai in October, 1937. Invading Japanese forces greatly outnumbered the National Revolutionary Army. All China was threatened if Shanghai fell. The four-day battle took place directly across the Suzhou River from the International Settlement, where foreign correspondents covered the fighting for European and American outlets.
Guan, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Rui Ge, throws viewers directly into the battle, a tactic that reveals details about Shanghai as the soldiers themselves learn them.
Pulled from last year’s Shanghai Film Festival, “The Eight Hundred” finally opened in China August 21. Despite restrictions on theater attendance, by August 26 it had grossed over $145 million, making it the first truly successful release there since the pandemic began. Cmc is opening the movie in the US and other territories on Friday, August 28. (List of theaters)
Directed by Guan Hu (Mr. Six), the movie restages the siege of the Sihang Warehouse during the Battle of Shanghai in October, 1937. Invading Japanese forces greatly outnumbered the National Revolutionary Army. All China was threatened if Shanghai fell. The four-day battle took place directly across the Suzhou River from the International Settlement, where foreign correspondents covered the fighting for European and American outlets.
Guan, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Rui Ge, throws viewers directly into the battle, a tactic that reveals details about Shanghai as the soldiers themselves learn them.
- 8/29/2020
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
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