Tencent Pictures
Appearance
Native name | 腾讯影业 |
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Company type | Division |
Industry | Film |
Founded | 2015 |
Headquarters | , China Hong Kong |
Key people | Chen Yingjie[1] |
Parent | Tencent Interactive Entertainment Group[1] |
Subsidiaries | Tencent Penguin Pictures |
Tencent Pictures (simplified Chinese: 腾讯影业; traditional Chinese: 騰訊影業; pinyin: téng xùn yǐng yè) is a Chinese film distributor and production company owned by Tencent. It has created films based on books, manhua, donghua and video games.[1][2] In 2015, Tencent set up Tencent Penguin Pictures (Shanghai), a new movie production unit, focusing on online drama and minority investments in feature films.[3]
Filmography
[edit]Year | Film title | Director | Distributor | Gross (worldwide) | Gross (China) | Notes |
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2015 | Roco Kingdom 4 | Hughes Martel and Dongbiao Cao | Beijing Enlight Pictures | — | CN¥77 million | |
2016 | Warcraft | Duncan Jones | Universal Pictures (Worldwide) Legendary East (China) |
$433 million | $213 million | |
Rock Dog | Ash Brannon | Summit Premiere | $23 million | $24.1 million | Under Huayi Tencent Entertainment | |
2017 | Kong: Skull Island | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | Warner Bros. Pictures (Worldwide) Legendary East (China) |
$566 million | $168 million | |
Wonder Woman | Patty Jenkins | Warner Bros. Pictures | $821 million | $90 million | ||
Our Shining Days | Wang Ran | Edko Films | — | $9 million | ||
2018 | Lost in Apocalypse | Sky Wang | Distribution Only | — | CNY2 million | |
A First Farewell | Lina Wang | Distribution Only | — | CN¥214 Million | ||
Animal World | Han Yan | Beijing Enlight Pictures | $74 million | $74 million | ||
L Storm | David Lam | Pegasus Motion Pictures | $64 million | $63 million | ||
Shadow | Zhang Yimou | Well Go USA Entertainment | $91 million | $90 million | ||
Venom | Ruben Fleischer | Sony Pictures Entertainment (through Columbia Pictures) | $855 million | $272 million | ||
Bumblebee | Travis Knight | Paramount Pictures | $467 million | $170 million | ||
2019 | Men in Black: International | F. Gary Gray | Sony Pictures Entertainment (through Columbia Pictures) | $253 million | $44 million | |
Shanghai Fortress | Teng Huatao | China Film Group Corporation | — | $16 million | ||
Terminator: Dark Fate | Tim Miller | Paramount Pictures (North America) Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures (International; through 20th Century Fox) |
$261 million | $50 million | ||
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood | Marielle Heller | Sony Pictures Entertainment (through TriStar Pictures) | $67 million | $212,000 | ||
2020 | The Eight Hundred | Guan Hu | CMC Pictures Holdings | $63 million | $460 million | |
Vanguard | Stanley Tong | Golden Screen Cinemas | $50 million | $50.6 million | ||
Monster Hunter | Paul W. S. Anderson | Sony Pictures Entertainment (through Screen Gems) | $40 million | $5.3 million | ||
The Rescue | Dante Lam | CMC Pictures Holdings | $63 million | $62 million | ||
2021 | Wish Dragon | Chris Appelhans | Netflix (Worldwide) Sony Pictures Entertainment (China; through Sony Pictures Animation) |
$25 million | $25.3 million | |
1921 | Huang Jianxin and Zheng Dasheng | Huaxia Film Distribution | — | $76 million | ||
Raging Fire | Benny Chan | Emperor Motion Pictures | — | $213.4 million | ||
Extinct | David Silverman | Huayi Brothers (China) Netflix (Worldwide) |
— | Under Huayi Tencent Entertainment | ||
2022 | Moonfall | Roland Emmerich | Lionsgate Films | $58.9 million | — | |
2023 | Creation of the Gods I: Kingdom of Storms | Wuershan | Huaxia Film Distribution | $110 million | $373 million |
Undated films
[edit]- New York Will Eat You Alive
- Crossfire
- 20,000 Miles Plan[4]
- Aura[4]
- Crazy Alien[5]
- Dark Side of the Moon[citation needed]
- The Game of Antiques[4]
- Koseison[4]
- The Magic Blade remake[2]
- Pathfinder[citation needed]
- The Treasure Map[1]
- The Tuzki 3D[4][6]
- Valorant (Video game adaptation)
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Kevin Ma (September 22, 2015). "Tencent forms film unit". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on March 3, 2016. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^ a b Ali Jaafar (September 17, 2015). "China's Tencent Partners With Legendary And Wanda On 'Warcraft'". Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on October 21, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.
- ^ "China's Tencent Hatches Penguin Pictures". Variety. September 11, 2015. Archived from the original on April 5, 2019. Retrieved December 20, 2018.
- ^ a b c d e Frater, Patrick (September 18, 2016). "David Goyer Strikes Deal With China's Tencent Pictures". Variety. Archived from the original on September 24, 2016. Retrieved September 23, 2016.
- ^ "Aliens on the big screen[2]- Chinadaily.com.cn". www.chinadaily.com.cn. Archived from the original on 2018-12-15. Retrieved 2018-12-13.
- ^ Perez, Bien (September 19, 2016). "China's Tencent Pictures teams up with Turner Asia-Pacific to develop Tuzki animated movie". South China Morning Post. Archived from the original on September 27, 2016. Retrieved September 24, 2016.
External links
[edit]- Tencent Pictures at cbooo.cn (in Chinese)