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Chinese market for American films
| June 28th, 2015 at 1:09:22 PM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Out of the five films to make half a billion dollars in domestic boxoffice, did you like any of them? Days to get domestic boxoffice to $0.5 Billion 17 Jurassic World 6/12/15 23 Marvel's The Avengers 5/4/12 32 Avatar 12/18/09 45 The Dark Knight 7/18/08 98 Titanic 12/19/97 There are now 22 films to make over $1 billion worldwide, but only 5 films made $0.5 billion in USA and Canada. Of the 22 films, only "The Dark Knight" made more than half it's revenue domestically. |
| June 28th, 2015 at 1:18:00 PM permalink | |
| Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25011 |
Dark Knight. Never saw Avatar past the first 15 min, walked out on Titanic, no JW yet, Avengers was OK because of Downey. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
| July 1st, 2015 at 2:40:06 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
Titanic was the last one of the big old style movie release. It's biggest day at the box office was 58 days after it's release on Valentine's Day. It broke $500 milllion after 98 days in release, and they left it in another 26 weeks so it would break $600 million. Nobody would waste that much time as the movie could be generating DVD and streaming sales. With the exception of limited releases where the film opens in only a few theaters to get positive reviews, no movie today does better on it's second weekend than it's first. But nobody expected Jurassic World to break $500m in 17 days. |
| July 2nd, 2015 at 1:04:17 PM permalink | |
| Ayecarumba Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 89 Posts: 1744 |
Bay got shot or stabbed in China during the filming of Transformers, no? |
| July 3rd, 2015 at 11:08:14 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
He was injured, but not seriously enough to stop filming. It seems that the film company paid local merchants some money to make up for lost business, and these thugs felt that they were overlooked. |
| January 2nd, 2019 at 9:28:35 AM permalink | |
| Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 | It looks like what used to be a rare thing where the Chines Boxoffice revenue was higher than Domestic revenue is now becoming more common. In at least 5 out of 9 of the big movies this year, the Chinese box office revenue was higher than the USA. They seem to like CGI monster movies more than the domestic audience. Below are the nine biggest Hollywood movies in China in 2018, ranked by Chinese box office (all numbers are according to Box Office Mojo unless otherwise stated): 9. "Ant-Man and the Wasp" -DOMESTIC 8. "The Meg"-CHINESE 7. "Rampage"-CHINESE 6. "Mission: Impossible — Fallout" -DOMESTIC 5. "Ready Player One"-CHINESE 4. "Aquaman"-CHINESE 3. "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" -DOMESTIC 2. "Venom"-CHINESE 1. "Avengers: Infinity War" -DOMESTIC Biggest movies by domestic audience in 2018 starting with Black Panther 9. "Ant-Man and the Wasp" -DOMESTIC Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 18 Chinese box office: $121,203,074 Domestic box office: $216,648,740 Worldwide box office: $622,674,139 Estimated production budget: $162 million (source: Variety) 8. "The Meg"-CHINESE Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 16 Chinese box office: $153,033,208 Domestic box office: $145,443,742 Worldwide box office: $530,243,742 Estimated production budget: $130 million 7. "Rampage"-CHINESE Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 15 Chinese box office: $156,381,897 Domestic box office: $101,028,233 Worldwide box office: $428,028,233 Estimated production budget: $120 million 6. "Mission: Impossible — Fallout" -DOMESTIC Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 14 Chinese box office: $181,184,137 Domestic box office: $220,159,104 Worldwide box office: $791,017,452 Estimated production budget: $176 million 5. "Ready Player One"-CHINESE Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 10 Chinese box office: $218,471,784 Domestic box office: $137,690,172 Worldwide box office: $582,890,172 Estimated production budget: $176 million 4. "Aquaman"-CHINESE Overall ranking at Chinese box office (so far): 9 Chinese box office (so far): $232,954,203 Domestic box office (so far): $188,785,000 Worldwide box office (so far): $748,785,000 Estimated production budget: $160 million (source: IMDb Pro) 3. "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" -DOMESTIC Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 8 Chinese box office: $261,224,207 Domestic box office: $416,769,345 Worldwide box office: $1,304,944,060 Estimated production budget: $170 million 2. "Venom"-CHINESE Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 7 Chinese box office: $270,554,912 Domestic box office: $213,205,181 Worldwide box office: $855,156,907 Estimated production budget: $100 million 1. "Avengers: Infinity War" -DOMESTIC Overall ranking at Chinese box office: 5 Chinese box office: $359,543,153 Domestic box office: $678,815,482 Worldwide box office: $2,048,709,917 |