Film With his film ‘Prey’ led the Dutch director Dick Maas, in 2016, only 30,000 visitors to the cinema. An outright flop, it was concluded, to the horrorprent a new life began to lead in China. There stood the film after only a week already, 1.5 million visitors. It is the twelfth most visited movie world. “Really absurd.”
In ‘Prey’ had escaped a giant lion from the zoo of Amsterdam and then the whole city unsafe. When the film in the fall of 2016, released in the Netherlands, bought only a few ten thousand bioscoopgangers a card. A flop so, was there some few days to change that. In China it appears the film, with 1.5 million visitors in less than a week, namely, a true hit. The film is currently the fifth most visited film in China, the twelfth worldwide.
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“It is absurd,” says director Dick Maas about the unexpected development on Radio 1. The Dutchman, who in 2010 with ‘Saint’ a horrorversie of the Sinterklaasverhaal made, the film is to say not actively promote in China. “You try your film always to sell at various festivals in the world. For more than a year ago, I sold ‘Prey’ in Berlin and so to China. That I have often done. You will then receive a small fixed amount and then you hear nothing more. In China, you will see your movie might be on dvd or is on tv. I thought this also with ‘Prey’ would happen.” Pennies get Maas there, he sold the film for a fixed price, without the right to royalties on product sales.
4000 halls
Until a month ago suddenly changed. “When I was told that they the movie in the cinema wanted to release. Last week I got the message that they put him in 4.000 halls wanted to release. There we were all a bit of a look.”
