The 2020 cinema year also wrote some extraordinary stories because of Corona. This includes the fact that one of the most successful films of the year disappeared straight from the cinemas. Netflix is now bringing him to Germany. Here is the trailer.
“The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity” became a hit in the home country of China. Started on Christmas 2020, the film grossed so much money in a few days that it was sold to the experts of. Just before Disney’s “Mulan” Boxofficemojo is in the top 20 of the world’s most successful films of 2020.
Corona made it a little easier to get into this list in 2020. But with “The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity” there is a completely different bizarre peculiarity that even prevented a higher ranking: The film, which started on Netflix in a few days, disappeared straight from the cinemas after less than two weeks.
The mysterious controversy surrounding “The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity”
The fact that a film is suddenly taken out of theaters is unbelievably unusual in itself. But it was particularly bizarre here. Because the cinema stop took place almost overnight and without any official information about the reasons. Anyone who had already bought tickets at least got their money back.
In China there was wild speculation about the reasons. While it was also being made known that scenes in the film were stolen from Marvel’s “Doctor Strange”, another case of plagiarism probably plays the decisive role.
Director and writer Guo Jingming apologized publicly a few days before the cinema stop. He finally admitted for over a decade confirmed allegations that he copied an earlier novel. The special thing about this public apology is that he had already been sentenced 14 years earlier, but he took his time until now. Many suspect that simply removing your film from the program, despite its immense popularity and the full cinema halls, is a late punishment.
“The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity”: This is the new Netflix fantasy spectacle
Fortunately, this controversy does not play such a big role for German viewers, because Netflix will publish the film unaffected by the events in China. The streaming service has just brought the film forward one day. “The Yin-Yang Master: Dream of Eternity” will now start on February 4, 2021 on Netflix.
The action-fantasy spectacle tells of the fight against a demon who wakes up every 100 years to tear the world into the abyss. The so-called Yin-Yang masters have prepared for it and now want to put a stop to the demon together. But this time everything is different …
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