The Great Wall

  • NewsYahoo Movies UK

    Matt Damon’s The Great Wall expected to lose $75 million

    It’s official – ‘The Great Wall’ is a huge flop.

  • NewsYahoo Movies UK

    Matt Damon blames 'clickbait' for Great Wall 'whitewashing' stories

    Matt Damon has said that accusations of ‘whitewashing’ in his new movie ‘The Great Wall’ is entirely down to clickbait. It also stars Jing Tian, Pedro Pascal, Willem Dafoe and Andy Lau, but it’s been accused of exploiting the ‘white saviour narrative’, in which a white hero rescues people of colour from peril. “It suddenly becomes a story because people click on it, versus the traditional ways that a story would get vetted before it would get to that point,” Damon told the Associated Press.

  • NewsVariety

    How a Monster-Sized Marketing Campaign was Built for China’s ‘Great Wall’ (EXCLUSIVE)

    “The Great Wall” presents a whole series of firsts. It is the first movie made in English by ZhangYimou, China’s master of the big spectacle. Costing some $150 million it is possibly the biggest-budget Chinese film of all time. It is certainly the biggest Hollywood-Chinese co-production to data and is Matt Damon’s first Asian movie.... <a href="http://variety.com/2016/film/asia/monster-sized-marketing-for-china-great-wall-1201933255/" title="Read How a Monster-Sized Marketing Campaign was Built

  • NewsYahoo Movies UK Videos

    The Great Wall - New Trailer

    Starring Matt Damon and directed by Zhang Yimou ('Hero', 'House of Flying Daggers'), 'The Great Wall' tells the story of an elite force making a valiant stand for humanity on the world’s most iconic structure. 'The Great Wall' will release in UK cinemas 24 February 2017.

  • NewsMike P Williams

    Matt Damon upset over The Great Wall whitewashing controversy

    Matt Damon made an appearance at New York Comic-Con this week to promote his latest movie, ‘The Great Wall’, where the discussion about its whitewashing inevitably arose. The film, an epic action-adventure around the mysteries of The Great Wall of China, has been accused of whitewashing the story and elements of history by using Damon’s Caucasian character as the saviour.

  • NewsVariety

    Asian Films Looking to Cast More Hollywood Names

    As China is eager to export its soft power to the world, more Hollywood faces have been cast in Chinese blockbusters in the hope of scoring global releases and winning the hearts of international audiences. Despite China’s box office slowing down by 21% in the first half of 2016, the country’s film market saw a... <a href="http://variety.com/2016/film/festivals/more-western-actors-courted-for-asian-films-1201880670/" title="Read Asian Films Looking to Cast More Hollywood Names">Read more »</a><

  • NewsBen Arnold

    Great Wall's Zhang Yimou Speaks Out Over Matt Damon 'Whitewash' Controversy

    Controversy erupted last week over the first pictures and trailer from new Matt Damon movie ‘The Great Wall’, with the director Zhang Yimou being accused of whitewashing. Set 1000 years ago, it poses the notion that the Great Wall of China was built to keep out a monstrous creature, and features Damon heavily. ‘Fresh Off The Boat’ star Constance Wu was among the critics, accusing the film of ‘perpetuating the racist myth that only a white man can save the world’.