Hollywood Goes To China

China has become one of the wealthiest countries in the world. And China has the biggest population in the world. It means there are a lot of people ready to burn their cash in China! So, everyone should take a note, including Hollywood. In fact, China now is the second-biggest film market globally, behind U.S. In 2011, its box office grew 35% to over $2 billion, according to the Motion Picture Association in America.

These past few years, we all see there’s more and more Hollywood movies shot their scene at China. I talk about big budget movie, the blockbuster movie like Mission: Impossible III (2006); The Mummy: Tomb of DragonEmperor (2008), The Dark Knight (2008), Skyfall (2012) and not-yet release Iron Man 3 (2013). It might be a strategy to grab bigger market from Chinese people, as you know, you’ll be more excited to see a movie when you are familiar with the places where the scene has been taken. Or maybe it’s just the way Hollywood gives an appreciation to country which has contributed billion dollars to them. Or Hollywood might just wanna give a hint to the audience that we all should give more attentions to China. The simplest reason is Hollywood might think that China offers great views and what the heck, it’s cheaper than shooting in Europe!

James Bond at Macau 

Skyfall screenwriter John Logan's reasoning for using Shanghai: "What we were looking for was opposition to London,"said Logan. "We wanted exotic locations that seem so unlike the world that he grew up in, the world he functions in, in a way trying to find places for Bob to be uncomfortable."

 James Bond Involved in Tussle at Shanghai

  The Dark Knight Shooting In Hongkong

We'll see more of China's wonderful view at Iron Man 3, which filming some scenes at Beijing, (capital city of PRC). I will discuss about Iron Man 3 in my next post.

Iron Man and Wang Xueqi who played as Dr. Wu