Team Cap in Beijing promotes 'Captain America 3'

By Zhang Rui: 0 Comment(s)Print E-mail China.org.cn, April 20, 2016

Director Joe Russo, actors Chris Evans, Sebastian Stan and Anthony Mackie hold the specially designed Chinese Peking Opera-style superhero masks at a press conference to promote Disney/Marvel's "Captain America: Civil War" in Beijing on April 19, 2016. [Photo / China.org.cn]

A small team of Captain America landed in Beijing on Tuesday to promote the new installment of Disney/Marvel's "Captain America" franchise.

"Anyone who didn't raise hands to support Team Cap, you are dead men now," Chris Evans, who played Captain America in the movie, joked with attendees at the press conference when he first appeared on stage with director Joe Russo and his fellow team members "Winter Soldier" Sebastian Stan and "Falcon" Anthony Mackie. Another bloc of superheroes, headed by Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), was in Paris to promote the movie.

Asked to use one word to describe the film, the director said "complicated," Stan said "powerful," Evans said "groundbreaking" while Mackie said "BFFs" (Best-friends-forever), which indicated the friendship between the characters of Captain America and Winter Soldier in the plot.

"Captain America: Civil War" held its world premiere in Los Angeles on April 12, 2016 and received rave reviews. In the United States and Canada, the film is projected to open anywhere between US$175–180 million to as high as US$200 million.

About 40-minutes of footage was shown to Chinese press before the fan-packed premiere in Beijing, where the action scenes are delicate and thrilling, and the biggest highlight Spider-Man is hilarious, a China.org.cn reporter reviewed.

In February 2015, Sony Pictures and Marvel Studios reached a licensing deal for the use of Spider-Man in the Marvel Cinematic Universe film, which excited fans.

The director Joe Russo also appeared at an event at the 6th Beijing International Film Festival on Monday during his Beijing trip and struck a partnership deal on behalf of Anthem Pictures with Beijing Culture. Russo revealed he would cooperate with Wu Jing on "Wolf Warriors 2" and would use his experience with Marvel films to touch on a new production adapted from the Chinese ancient fantasy classic "Journey to the West."

"Captain America: Civil War" will hit Chinese theaters on May 6, 2016, the same day in North America and many other markets in the world.

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