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'But How Will It Play In China?' - Caution On Set Pays Off As Transformers: The Last Knight Aims For $100M Chinese Opening

We've got two stories of note to share here: first is The Hollywood Reporter speaking to Transformers: The Last Knight star Jerrod Carmichael, and among other subjects he talks about learning on-set to adjust his comedy for places like China. That kind of focus has paid off for Paramount and director Michael Bay, with Deadline reporting that TF5 has earned $48 million in China so far - with the possibility of a hundred million dollar opening in that country looming. Keep reading for excerpts from both stories!

It may have been the single biggest learning experience I have had in my career. A reason I wanted to do the film was to see what a production of that size was like and to see how comedy can translate internationally. You can say a quippy thing or something sarcastic but does that translate to China? Does it play well in India? It’s a skill.

On the first day, I said something that I thought was really funny and I even got the crew laughing but then Michael was like, "If you’re in China, what is that joke?" And I was like, "Oh, you’re right. That joke doesn’t work in China." So you learn to adjust. You have to think about comedy in a new way and that was a real challenge and I learned so much that hopefully I can apply it to my own work in some type of meaningful way.



Rolling out in 41 overseas markets this weekend, Paramount’s Transformers: The Last Knight has clocked an estimated $85M through Friday, according to the studio. That includes $47.9M (RMB 330.76M) from China which, in that market, is 69% above Transformers: Age Of Extinction’s June 27, 2014 bow in local currency. Par puts the opening day for Last Knight at No. 3 for an import ever in the Middle Kingdom (including Thursday’s midnight shows). The debut sets the film on track for a $100M+ weekend launch there.

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