Meet China’s answer to Sully. On May 14, 2018, the cockpit window of Sichuan Airlines Flight 8633 shattered deep in the Himalayas, sucking the copilot halfway out of the plane and placing the rest of the 9-person crew and 119 passengers at risk for hypothermia, hypoxia, and worse. The story of how the captain, the […]
“The Captain” Tops Chinese Box Office
Andrew Lau’s air disaster film The Captain sat atop China’s box office Friday, the China Movie Data Information Network said Saturday. On Day 12 of its wide release in China, the drama grossed more than 58 million yuan (about $8.2 million USD), and its total worldwide box office revenue is more than 2 billion yuan ($283 […]
Trailer: The Captain (Zhongguo jizhang) (2019)
May 14, 2018. 32,000 feet over Tibet. On Sichuan Airlines flight 8633, the cockpit’s windscreen suddenly shatters, sucking a copilot half out of the airplane and causing depressurization and loss of communications. This actual event is the story behind a new Chinese film, The Captain (also known as The Chinese Pilot, original title Zhongguo jizhang), […]
Trailer: The Bravest (Lie huo ying xiong) (2019)
In August 2015, a series of massive explosions and fires rocked the city of Tianjin in northern China, the main port for Beijing. The new movie The Bravest (Lie huo ying xiong) tells the story of the firefighters who worked for days to contain the blazes. The film follows the classic structure for a disaster […]
Chinese Skyfire Being Shopped at Cannes
Coming on the heels of the very successful The Wandering Earth, China’s next big-budget disaster movie is making the rounds at the Cannes film market. Meridien Entertainment and Base FX are shopping their debut feature, Skyfire, which tells the story of vacationers at a tropical resort who must try to survive when a nearby volcano […]