Despite the fact that the domestic release of "Kung Fu Panda" is nearly two weeks later than the world premiere, the film's accumulated good word of mouth has created an "anticipation mentality" among Chinese viewers, and so "Kung Fu Panda" was a full-blown hit on its first day of release in mainland China yesterday. Reporter learned from Yonghua Cinema yesterday, in addition to the two halls provided to the Shanghai Film Festival, the other nine halls have seven are arranged to "Kung Fu Panda", as of 8:00 p.m., "Kung Fu Panda" box office has exceeded 100,000, the whole day is expected to be close to 120,000 yuan, a figure and Paramount's last year's masterpiece "Transformers" is very close to. The scene of queuing for tickets has also been repeated in major cinemas in the city such as Wan Yu International Cinema, Huan Yi Cinema and Heping Cinema. Shanghai's first-day box office is expected to exceed 1 million yuan, and according to this projection, the national box office is expected to break the 10 million mark, and is expected to close at around 15 million.
From the premiere of the hot degree, "Kung Fu Panda" previously suffered a "boycott storm" did not have too much impact on the audience. Cinema said that with more Chinese viewers coming into the theater to see "Kung Fu Panda", the misconception that "pandas are stealing China's image to make money in China" is expected to be further eliminated. Many viewers have reported that although "Kung Fu Panda" is completely made in Hollywood, there are numerous Chinese elements in the movie that make it unforgettable, for example, the character names are directly pronounced in Chinese, "Oogway" and "Master", and Chinese symbols can be found everywhere: Scrolls, Chinese clothes, hats, blades, pagodas, temples, palaces, noodles, tofu, firecrackers, sedan chairs, buns, and even the lines on porcelain; the background of the film is drawn in the paradise, the reference prototype is also China's Lijiang and Guangxi Guilin landscape. It is worth stating that all the previous DreamWorks movie LOGO is a little boy sitting on the crescent moon fishing, this time turned into a monkey wearing a Tang suit.
According to feedback from the theater, the audience of "Kung Fu Panda" was of all ages, with young couples and families with small children in the majority, and the theater was filled with laughter from beginning to end of the movie. With the Shanghai International Film Festival coming to an end on Sunday, it is expected that the theater will take out more movie halls from next week onwards for the beloved panda "Po".
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