星際異攻隊 - that is, Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team -opens Friday in China! pic.twitter.com/9XpSoxqrAU
— James Gunn (@JamesGunn) October 6, 2014
In the new battle for global box office domination, China is seen by movie studios as the market where over a billion people can lead a movie to the big bucks. Money talks in the entertainment business, and it's easy to understand in any language.
Less easy to translate, though, are movie titles, as seen above in a tweet by Guardians of the Galaxy director James Gunn. The movie, a bona fide box-office behemoth already, opens in China tomorrow, under the name 'Interplanetary Unusual Attacking Team', which is actually not that bad when compared to these ones...
One Night, Big Belly = Knocked Up
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Wretch! Let me Chop off your Finger = The Piano
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Satan Female Soldier = GI Jane
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I will Marry a Prostitute to Save Money = Pretty Woman
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This Hitman is not as Cold as he Thought = Léon
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Six Naked Pigs = The Full Monty
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Run! Run! Cloudzilla = Twister
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Mysterious Murder in Snowy Cream = Fargo
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Mr Cat Poop = As Good as it Gets
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He's a Ghost! = The Sixth Sense
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