The Shanghai Film Festival has abruptly yanked its opening movie, the $80 million patriotic war drama “The Eight Hundred,” on the eve of the fest’s kickoff, Variety has confirmed. The cancell…
The cancellation of the Saturday premiere was made for unspecified “technical reasons,” which is often a euphemism for censorship problems. Though a source close to the project toldthat that is not the issue in this case and that the film had successfully passed the content censorship stage.
The festival has not yet officially made an announcement on its own website or on Chinese social media. Nor has it announced whether any replacement film would play in its slot after the pageantry of Saturday night’s opening ceremony.. “The production side also has their own strategies that they are doing their best to try out, so maybe in the end it will be able to continue as scheduled. But we’re not very clear at the moment.
. It has also sold to several other Asian countries, and to the U.K. and Germany. After its Shanghai festival appear, it was due to be released in Chinese theaters July 5. The film was expected to have been a showcase for China’s growing film-making prowess. Among several firsts, “The Eight Hundred” is the first to have substantially shot with Imax digital cameras. The technical crew on the film features a mixed Chinese and international team, including Chinese cinematographer Cao Yu American action director Glenn Boswell original music by the U.K.’s Rupert Gregson-Williams and Australia’s Oscar-nominated visual effects supervisor Tim Crosbie .
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