Crazy film rocks the industry
China Daily | Updated: 2007-01-04 06:36
When Crazy Stone, a 3-million yuan ($384,000) heist movie, earned more than 20 million yuan ($2.56 million) at the box office, it infused a breath of fresh air into China's epic-dominated film industry. Many argued that you do not have to spend 100 million yuan ($12.80 million) to entertain moviegoers.
Artistically the whodunit is a variation of Guy Ritchie's Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, but if it blazed a trail in moderately budgeted filmmaking, it might also leave a lasting imprint.
Who will be the one to have the last laugh, the big-budget filmmakers or the ones with only good stories to tell?
(China Daily 01/04/2007 page18)
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