Cinemas pull animated movie about cars
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SFC CGV Cinema and SFC Yonghua Cinema City have canceled all screenings of the Chinese animated movie “The Autobots,” which has been accused of plagiarizing Pixar’s film “Cars,” just five days after it opened.
“We canceled the screening yesterday, because the quality was too bad. And now, there’s a copycat scandal,” Dai Guoping, vice president of Yonghua Cinema City told Shanghai Daily.
“Even when it was on we arranged only one session a day,” he said, adding that it took only 7,000 yuan (US$1,100) at the box office.
Some people who claimed to have seen the film complained about it online.
“Worst animation I’ve ever seen ... I thought it was ‘Cars’ when I bought a ticket. I didn’t check the name carefully,” a person wrote on ticket website gewara.com.
“I left the theater before the end. It was so boring,” another person said.
“The illustrations in real estate offices are better than that,” a person wrote on Douban, a website where people can rate and review movies.
As of yesterday, the movie had received 5,770 reviews and had a rating of 2.1 points (out of five).
Zhuo Jianrong, the director of “The Autobots,” said in an interview with CNN on Tuesday that he has never seen “Cars.”
“Aren’t the cars you see in the street similar? If somebody else looks like you, does that person violate the laws?” he was quoted as saying.
He told CNN that the storyline of his film is very different from the Pixar animation.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for Disney, which owns Pixar, told CNN: “We share the same concerns as many movie fans in China, but have no further comment at this stage.”
Shi Chuan, vice president of the Shanghai Film Association, told Shanghai Daily yesterday that many domestic movies copycat the advertising posters of Hollywood movies, which is working on the margins of intellectual property laws.
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