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PG-rated Animated Monster Movie to ‘Hunt’ Theatergoers This Month!
Monster Hunt, the Chinese movie which last year claimed China’s all-time box office record, is set to get a North American release later this month, reports Variety.
The film grossed over $390 million after a release in July, marginally exceeding the unprecedented success of Fast & Furious 7.
New York-based FilmRise has teamed with Asian specialty distributor Asia Releasing to handle the outing of the 3D picture on January 22, 2016 in all major North American markets.
The film is a hybrid of live action and CGI, written and directed by Raman Hui, one of the key creators of the Shrek franchise(!) and made on a budget of some $50 million.
“The cute baby monster Huba is the child of a human man and a monster queen, threatened by both monster-hating humans and monsters attempting to capture the new-born in an ancient world based on medieval China.“
Its human cast included Hong Kong and Chinese actors including Bai Baihe, Jiang Wu, Eric Tsang, Elaine Jin, Tang Wei and Sandra Ng.
FilmRise and Asia Releasing say they are targeting both the Asian-American and Western audiences in North America by releasing both the original Chinese version with English subtitles and also a new English dubbed version.
“We have carefully edited the English language version to be the equivalent of a PG rating, and we believe North American kids and their parents will embrace the film in the same way as Chinese audiences have,” said Danny Fisher, CEO of FilmRise.
“Chinese audiences in North America will for the first time be able to see this film on the big screen in 3D in its original language,” said Milt Barlow founder and CEO of Asia Releasing.
One of this summer’s most hotly anticipated new movies is A24 and Ti West’s MaXXXine, a follow-up to X and Pearl that brings Mia Goth’s title character into the 1980s.
With her past catching up to her, Maxine attempts to make it big as a superstar in Hollywood, 1985. While you wait, check out a new image below courtesy of USA Today this week.
Releasing in theaters on July 5, 2024, MaXXXine is rated “R” for…
“Strong violence, gore, sexual content, graphic nudity, language and drug use.”
If you missed the official trailer, you can watch it right here.
Mia Goth stars alongside Elizabeth Debicki, Moses Sumney, Michelle Monaghan, Bobby Cannavale, Halsey, Lily Collins, Giancarlo Esposito and Kevin Bacon in MaXXXine.
Here’s the official plot synopsis from A24 this week: “In 1980s Hollywood, adult film star and aspiring actress Maxine Minx finally gets her big break. But as a mysterious killer stalks the starlets of Hollywood, a trail of blood threatens to reveal her sinister past.”
Last we saw Maxine in Ti West’s X (2022), she was the sole survivor of a massacre carried out by elderly couple Howard and Pearl in the Summer of ’79. Goth of course pulled double duty as the villain Pearl in that movie, who got her own origin story in Pearl (2022). Pearl and Maxine are different characters, but they share the common goal of wanting to be stars.
Will Maxine finally make it in Hollywood? Or will the demons of her past become her ultimate downfall? With the Night Stalker roaming free, we expect MaXXXine to get wild this summer.
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