How Malignant Scored A Rare Day-And-Date Release In China

American horror movies don’t usually fare well in China, if only because so few of them ever make it past government censorship.

James Wan’s new film, “Malignant,” however, landed a rare deal enabling it to release on streaming platforms in China the same day it hit theaters in the U.S.According to The Hollywood Reporter, “Malignant” did score “a rare day-and-date streaming release in China,” becoming “the first R-rated U.S.

horror movie to ever score distribution” there.

It helps that Starlight Culture Entertainment, one of the five production companies behind the film (via IMDb), is China-based and “positioned as the film’s lead investor,” per THR. New Line Cinema and Wan’s…The post How Malignant Scored a Rare Day-and-Date Release in China appeared first on /Film.

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