{"id":74061,"date":"2019-01-02T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/01\/02\/chinese-arthouse-film-breaks-box-office-records-after-viewers-mistake-it-for-romcom\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T13:22:08","slug":"chinese-arthouse-film-breaks-box-office-records-after-viewers-mistake-it-for-romcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=74061","title":{"rendered":"Chinese arthouse film breaks box office records after viewers mistake it for romcom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Day\u2019s Journey Into Night took $38m on its opening day, but many viewers \u2018tricked\u2019 by marketing that painted it as a seasonal romcom, rather than a challenging dramaWhen Bi Gan\u2019s latest drama premiered at Cannes in May 2018, critics were quick to praise its challenging, languorous narrative about a man returning to his home town in search of a former flame, as well as the ambitious single-take, hour-long dream sequence, and a shorter section in 3D.Early box office projections anticipated a modest increase on the takings for Gan\u2019s previous film, Kaili Blues, about two depressed rural doctors. Yet A Long Day\u2019s Journey Into Night took $38m in China on its opening night on 31 December, beating the likes of Venom. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2019\/jan\/02\/chinese-arthouse-film-breaks-box-office-records-marketing-bi-gan-long-days-journey-into-night\" target=\"_blank\">Chinese arthouse film breaks box office records after viewers mistake it for romcom<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Long Day\u2019s Journey Into Night took $38m on its opening day, but many viewers \u2018tricked\u2019 by marketing that painted it as a seasonal romcom, rather than a challenging dramaWhen Bi Gan\u2019s latest drama premiered at Cannes in May 2018, critics were quick to praise its challenging, languorous narrative about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74061\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}