Hollywood superstar Tom Cruise has held press conferences and fan events in Beijing and Shanghai this weekend to promote ?Mission: Impossible ? Rogue Nation.? The film opens in Chinese theaters on Tuesday and is already guaranteed box office of over $156 million.
This is the star?s second promotional tour with the picture, having stopped in South Korea in July. But this time is different. Cruise?s tour of China is in support of the first Hollywood movie partly financed by Alibaba Pictures Group, the film investment and production arm of e-commerce giant Alibaba.
The film is presented by Paramount Picture and Skydance Productions, but mainland Chinese distribution of revenue sharing imported films remains off limits to Hollywood studios. Instead the film is co-distributed by Chinese state-owned entities China Film Group and Huaxia Distribution. APG and China Movie Channel have assoiate producer status.
APG describes itself as ?an official Paramount Pictures? promotional partner for the movie in China.?
