BrownCoat said:

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He wears it in a few of the previews, specifically in the street fight they get into on Jedha

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aggie1906 said:

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Actually I think I want a Poe/Finn jacket.

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TCTTS said:

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A more level-headed take on the Rogue One footage that screening Saturday...

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/12/05/a-level-headed-reaction-to-the-rogue-one-footage-which-screened-over-the-we

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TCTTS said:

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A more level-headed take on the Rogue One footage that screening Saturday...

http://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/12/05/a-level-headed-reaction-to-the-rogue-one-footage-which-screened-over-the-we

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nope. not gonna read that

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"Force Awakens" grossed a solid but unspectacular $124 million in China, well short of the records the film set in dozens of other territories. To compare, "Captain America: Civil War," which had a little more than half the global box office gross of "Force Awakens," reeled in $190 million in Chinalone.

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Disney's culturally conscious casting of Chinese movie stars Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen should help differentiate "Rogue One," even if the country's audience is sophisticated enough to see through blatantly obvious attempts to add Chinese elements to tentpole movies.

"I do think that the inclusion of Donnie Yen and Jiang Wen will attract more general audiences and casual moviegoers who might decide which movie to see at the theater as opposed to buying tickets beforehand," Papish said. "Still, the Chinese audience is numb to Hollywood blockbusters throwing in random Chinese elements and increasingly feels pandered to."

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As word of Yen and Jiang being more than bit players gets out, Papish said it could help sell the film to a skeptical public.

The news that Donnie and Jiang have meatier roles than most Chinese performers in Hollywood films will hopefully hit social media and general audiences who didn't see 'The Force Awakens' will turn up," he said.

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The biggest challenge for "Rogue One," which hits U.S. theaters on Dec. 16, could have been its release date in China, which remained a mystery until Tuesday, when it was confirmed to hit the country's cinemas on Jan. 6, according to the official Star Wars Weibo account. While there's virtually zero chance the film doesn't make it to China, the date itself matters a lot.

Chinese New Year, which comes early in 2017, is an unofficial but established blackout period for China's cinemas, in which only local fare is permitted. The official holiday, which is determined by the lunar calendar, fell on February 8 this year, but it moves to January 28 in 2017. And that shift could have eclipsed "Rogue One's" box office dreams especially as the film's lack of a prompt release date announcement raised speculation that it would be pushed too close to the holiday.

Papish said that would have left Disney with the "unenviable option" of releasing the movie in the middle of February, after Chinese New Year is over. That exposes the studio to more piracy and bad word-of-mouth, but it might be the best out of a group of sub-optimal choices a situation possibly exacerbated by the tepid performance of "Force Awakens" in China, which even benefited from a Jan. 8 release date, giving the film more than a month before Chinese New Year.

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brents1975 said:

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Omg man... died laughing at the Seagulls song

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Urban Ag said:

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thanks for posting that. Very interesting and I did not even think of the impact of casting ethnically chinese actors to the bottomline.

The mouse didn't get this big by accident.

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CJS4715 said:

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Do we need a separate Rogue One spoiler thread?I think we may need one by the weekend with the premiere on the 10th. Damn, that's 3 days away.

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3rdGen2015 said:

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What did y'all do with TFA last year? I wasn't around on this board until like March

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3rdGen2015 said:

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What did y'all do with TFA last year? I wasn't around on this board until like March

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Urban Ag said:

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thanks for posting that. Very interesting and I did not even think of the impact of casting ethnically chinese actors to the bottomline.

The mouse didn't get this big by accident.

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Been happening for a while actually. Dreamworks opened a Chinese division to work on Kung Fu Panda 3, and the last Transformers had a few big name Chinese actors in bit parts (also got sued because they didn't correctly place Chinese product as agreed).

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