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Accusations of Orientalism and exoticism abound. "These are characters created solely for the purpose of getting a slice of the big cake that is China's enormous box office – there is no soul in them at all! The hodgepodge of Asian elements in the movie are unintelligible," one mainlander wrote. Another commenter wrote, "It feels like this[...]

Mulan was one of the most affected films by the pandemic, moving release dates many times before ultimately coming to Disney+ as a "Premium Add-On" a couple of months ago After releasing digitally and on Blu-ray the last couple of weeks, the subscriber's to Disney+ as of today can now watch Mulan free with their[...]

Mulan fans will want to head to their local physical media retailer this Tuesday All three Disney Mulan films will be available on Blu-ray on November 10th That includes both original animated films (yes, there are two) in a Blu-ray combo pack, and this year's live-action film will be available in both 4K Blu-ray, Blu-ray,[...]

2020 has become the Year of Mulan and in a bad way Not only was Disney's live-action remake of the 1998 animated movie widely panned and a bomb in China, but there were also three more Mulan live-action movies and a new animated movie, all of them bad. A screenshot from the home page of Disney+. Disney's[...]

Kung Fu Mulan, the Chinese-produced animated Mulan movie, has been pulled from movie theatres in China just three days after release because it flopped so badly. Still from "Kung Fu Mulan", Gold Valley Film The Chinese box office is ruthless – movies that open with low box office takings are often yanked from the theatres two or[...]

How did Point Break escape Mulan's fate? By luck more than judgment In recent months, Bleeding Cool has excerpted-a-plenty from Chris Fenton's new book Feeding The Dragon Fenton, formerly of Valiant-owners DMG and of IDW Entertainment, has a lot of experience creating media in China and the USA and is looking back at those experiences[...]

One of the biggest challenges artistically is capturing the essence of ancient Chinese culture in Disney's live-action Mulan I spoke with costume designer Bina Daigeler, who admits the film was her biggest and most ambitious project to date "Mulan was a beautiful challenge to design the costumes," she said Daigeler said the conceptualizing from art[...]

Disney's new live-action Mulan movie is a Girl Power fantasy for kids It isn't the only version out there Hua Mulan has been a mythical figure in Chinese folklore for over a thousand years, a loyal woman who disguises herself as a man to fight in a war in her ailing father's place, Mulan is[...]

Mulan is by far the best of live-action Disney remakes as it takes a familiar story and twists it to create something with absolutely stunning cinematography and great fight scenes that truly makes it feel new and epic. Director: Niki Caro Summary: When the Emperor of China issues a decree that one man per family must serve[...]

There have been a lot of questions regarding the PVOD release of Mulan, and after some conflicting reports across different countries versions of Disney+, it seems that we finally have an answer It appears that Mulan will be a longterm rental for Disney+ users that buy it You have the movie for as long as you have[...]

Mulan hits streaming services this weekend, and Disney is keeping up the marketing going into the final week of their massive PVOD gamble We still have no way of knowing whether the decision to make the massive live-action remake a PVOD offering on Disney+ will work Still, considering the budget needed to make up with[...]

Earlier today, Disney released a new music video and recording of the song Reflection from the original Mulan sung by the always legendary Christina Aguilera The original version of the song was the song that kicked off her career and Aguilera has never shied away from that At the D23 Expo last year, she took to[...]

The year is 1998, and you've just seen Disney's new animated movie Mulan  There is a great musical number in the first act called Reflection, and it's pretty freaking amazing The credits roll, and there is another version of the song sung by a girl no one has really heard of before, but god damn does[...]

Mulan has had quite the journey to getting made The movie was initially supposed to get released all the way back in 2018 but was delayed Then it was reported that it would have one of the biggest budgets for a Disney live-action remake with $200 million Disney was pulling out all the stops because they[...]

It's time to bring out the last of the Mulan marketing Disney is betting at least part of the farm on Mulan as the live-action movie looked like it was going to be one of the biggest movies of the year It had broad appeal, the reaction to the trailers has been positive, and it looked like[...]