‘Iron Man 3′ In Beijing

COMMENTS (9)

• This film is viewed here as a wonderful collaboration between our two countries. Let’s hope this is the first of many cooperative efforts that strengthen the ties between the US & China.

  Comment by CititzenofChina — Saturday December 15, 2012 @ 3:11pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Disney will certainly enjoy the increased Chinese audience, if that’s what you mean.

    Comment by Klint — Saturday December 15, 2012 @ 4:03pm PST  Reply to this post

    • The relationship between the two countries is, at best, strained. Though the film business is just one small part of a much larger trade and geopolitical interaction between the US and China, it is probably the most visible. I agree with the first comment that this one effort is much greater in importance than the making of a single Hollywood film. Films touch people’s lives in many positive ways, and now, perhaps, films can help bring the world’s two most powerful countries a bit closer together too.

      Comment by POV — Saturday December 15, 2012 @ 4:18pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Hats off to Marvel and Disney for having the balls to take a challenge like this on. Trailblazing stuff.

    Comment by nice — Saturday December 15, 2012 @ 8:50pm PST  Reply to this post

  • If it’s such a collaboration, you would think they would cast a real Asian actor as The Mandarin. Sir Kingsley is an amazing actor, but this could have been a star-making role for so may of the qualified, amazing Asian actors out there who aren’t given the opportunity to be visible. Black actors stood up and said “no more white actors in black face playing Othello.” Yet Hollywood still thinks it’s ok for white actors to play Asian roles (look at Last AirBender, 21, the upcoming Akira). The fact that people aren’t even blinking…as if this were OK in 2012…is so isolating and alienating to me as an Asian American.

    Comment by angryasianactor — Saturday December 15, 2012 @ 9:18pm PST  Reply to this post

    • It sometimes confuses people that the UK isn’t populated entirely by white people.

      Comment by AH — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 12:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• Arclight Films was in Beijing a month ago to announce a co-production deal with Yunnan Film Group on a film called Outcast starring Nicolas Cage and Hayden Christensen. I think culture and entertainment is something that can be appreciated by different countries.

  Comment by PaulaWB — Saturday December 15, 2012 @ 10:13pm PST  Reply to this post

• I don’t like the Iron Man movies, but I think it’s good and bad what these American motion picture production companies are doing, good because they’re giving more exposure to other countries, yes, they make movies and some are very well known, but Hollywood has control of market, you can find excellent movies in Japan, Korea and other countries, but most people don’t pay attention and they prefer to watch average Hollywood movies all the time.

  The bad thing is, they’re going to take most of the credit. Now, I’m not referring about this particular case, Iron Man is a Hollywood film, I’m talking in a general aspect.

  Comment by Flix — Sunday December 16, 2012 @ 4:48am PST  Reply to this post

• I suspect this picture was staged for publicity and (corporate) propaganda purposes. Did Disney release this?

  Comment by DM — Wednesday March 6, 2013 @ 8:00am PST  Reply to this post