The film "The Secret of the Dragon Press" raised at the box office 6 times less than the money spent, among which there were budget

The Russian-Chinese film “The Secret of the Dragon Press” (the sequel “Viya”) in three weeks raised 319 million rubles in the Russian box office. In China, the fees amounted to $ 2.8 million. Medusa writes about this.

As a result, fees (about 1.5 billion rubles) were more than 6 times less than 3.3 billion rubles spent on the film.

Basically, the Chinese were financed. However, it was previously reported that 200 million rubles per film were allocated from the Russian budget through the Film Foundation. Of these, for three months, producers are required to return 90 million.

The Secret of the Dragon Press is the Russian-Chinese full-length feature film by Oleg Stepchenko. This is the continuation of the movie "Wii" based on the story of Nikolai Gogol. In the new part, the hero "Viya" - the English traveler and cartographer Jonathan Green - goes to China. Russian producers, due to the co -financing of the project with the Chinese, attracted such world stars as Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jackie Chan and Rutger Hauer.