Mojin: The Lost Legend
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| Mandarin | Guĭ Chuī Dēng Zhī Xún Lóng Jué |
| Cantonese | Gwai2 Ceoi1 Dang1 Zi1 Cam4 Lung4 Kyut3 |
| Directed by | Wuershan |
| Produced by | Chen Kuo-Fu |
| Written by | Tianxia Bachang |
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Ghost Blows Out the Light by Tianxi Bachang |
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125 minutes |
| Country | China |
| Language | Mandarin |
| Budget | US$37 million |
| Box office | US$278.3 million |
Mojin: The Lost Legend (previously titled The Ghouls) (English: Touching Gold: The Lost Legend) is a 2015 Chinese action adventure fantasy thriller film based on the novel Ghost Blows Out the Light. It was directed by Wuershan and produced by Chen Kuo-Fu. The film was released on December 18, 2015.
At the beginning of the 1990s, famous tomb explorer Hu Bayi, Wang Kaixuan and Hu's fiancée Shirley Yang decided to retire to Manhattan. After a supposingly split of the team, Wang Kaixuan was pulled into a deal to locate the ancient tomb of a Mongolian princess. Hu Bayi have been having recurring nightmare of his first love, Ding Sitian, who had supposedly died 20 years ago in a underground tomb beneath the mongolian plains.The team is lured back to their original vocation by a mysterious, businesswoman/cult leader Ying Caihong who wants them to find the ancient tomb of a Mongolian princess. They eventually learn that what she really wants is to possess a famed artifact known as the Equinox Flower that allegedly has the power to raise the dead.
The film is based on the popular adventure novel series Ghost Blows Out the Light about a trio of legendary grave robbers, and is the second film following Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe to be adapted based on the series.Mojin was based on the series' last four volumes while Chronicles of the Ghostly Tribe was based on series’ first four volumes. After Wanda Media acquired the rights to film the last four volumes, other production companies such as Huayi Brothers Media and Beijing Enlight Pictures came on board, adding financial and produced the project.
Filming wrapped up in New York City in late March 2015. As of October 14, 2015, the film was being remastered for the IMAX 3D format.
The film was released in 2D, 3D, IMAX and IMAX 3D formats in China on December 18, 2015, and on the same day in the United States and Canada in 2D by Well Go USA Entertainment across 30 theaters. Following the huge commercial success of Chinese films like Monster Hunt and Lost in Hong Kong, Greg Foster, senior executive VP, IMAX Corporation and CEO of IMAX Entertainment said the company was looking forward to witness such success again with the film because the suspenseful and visual nature of the film, combined with the Chinese cultural interest in treasure-hunting, makes Mojin: The Lost Legend a perfect fit for the IMAX experience. It was released in a total of 269 IMAX screens in mainland China.
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