Adding to the growing list of Hollywood films now being admitted to China, Columbia Pictures has secured release dates in the territory for Adam Driver sci-fi thriller 65 and hybrid musical comedy Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile.
65 will launch theatrically in China on March 31 and Lyle April 15.
10Written by Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, and produced by Sam Raimi. Driver plays the role of the pilot of a spacecraft which crashes on Earth 65 million years ago. Columbia will be launching the film in the US on Saturday. Lyle, directed and produced by Will Speck and Josh Gordon, is a live action/CG adaptation of the Bernard Waber children’s books, with Javier Bardem starring in the story of a singing crocodile and the young boy he befriends in New York City.
The film was released in the US and other international markets last October. It has grossed $107.7 million worldwide. The Columbia releases come after the success in China of 20
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Century Studios/Disney’s Avatar: The Way of Water, which has grossed $245m in the territory, and openings last month for Disney and Marvel’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. Earlier this week, Columbia sister label TriStar secured an April 14 date in China for The Woman King
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