Outraged to the extreme, the owner of the movie theater smashed the Mulan movie poster with a stick

As you know, Mulan is a live-action remake of the famous animated film by Disney. The film continues to be produced by Disney, the female lead Hua Mulan is entrusted to a famous Chinese actor Liu Yifei. This project inherently received a lot of support from the audience, but it encountered many obstacles many times.​

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In September last year, the film received a lot of negative criticism and boycott from the international audience just because of Liu Yifei’s “slanderous” statement. At that time, the Hong Kong protests were being pushed to the peak of tension, Liu Yifei publicly shared the article of the People’s Daily of China, voicing support for the Hong Kong police to suppress the protests. citizen. This caused her and Mulan to be ostracized by Hong Kong people and international audiences.

It doesn’t stop there, due to the influence of COVID-19 So Mulan was forced to postpone the release date. But then the disease continued to spread, forcing Disney to cancel Mulan’s theatrical release, instead broadcasting it online. Disney+ on September 4 with a price of 29.99 USD (about 695,000 VND), that inevitably makes many people feel regret.
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Deadline recently reported, Twitter user @destinationcine posted a video of a man with a stick smashing a Mulan poster, partly showing the reaction of cinemas to Disney’s decision. The man in the video is Gerard Lemoine, the owner of a cinema in France. Explaining the reason for this action, Lemoine said he had been promoting Mulan for several months in the hope that it would help drive audiences to theaters after cinemas were reopened.
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Cinemas in France have been closed due to COVID-19 and will only reopen this June, but getting audiences back into theaters is an uphill battle. The fact that Mulan did not show in theaters really made Lemoine and his colleagues feel frustrated and discouraged, now he can only put all his hopes in Tenet Directed by Christopher Nolan.​