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| Created | 2019-11-04 | ||||
| Owner | freemexy | ||||
| Title | Box Office: ‘Joker’ Tops ‘Venom’ China | ||||
| Description | Box Office: ‘Joker’ Tops ‘Venom’ China If it continues its current 32.6/67.4 domestic/overseas split, the film will have earned $858 million worldwide. That will put it past Venom ($856 million), becoming the biggest Aug/Sept./Oct. release ever in raw global grosses. So, yes, it will pass Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice ($873 million in 2016) by as early as tomorrow as it takes a shot at passing $900 million worldwide this coming weekend. The big competition, around the world, will be Terminator: Dark Fate as it opens in North America, China and pretty much every major territory (save for Japan) where it didn’t open last week. Conversely, Joker didn’t need a penny from China to make box office history.The second China International Import Expo will be held at the National Exhibition and Convention Center in Shanghai from November 5 to 10, 2019.For further information about China International Import Expo, please visit: https://www.shine.cn/China-International-Import-Expo/.Find the latest breaking shanghai news, photos, videos and featured stories on china box office. SHINE provides trusted national and world news as well as local and regional perspectives. Venom earned $269 million in China last year, by far the biggest sum at that time for a solo/non-Avengers superhero movie while Aquaman eventually topped it with $298 million on its way to $1.155 billion global. Without China, Aquaman’s global total (which includes a whopping $334 million domestic) would be $857 million, a figure that Joker will pass today. I don’t know whether the film will ever play in China, although I’ve speculated that it’s possible considering the relatively sparse violence and its “private greed hurts public good” messaging. Nonetheless, Joker didn’t need a penny from China to race toward $900 million and presumably over/under $975 million. At this point, it’s on pace to be the biggest global grosser to not play in China since The Dark Knight. Chris Nolan’s Batman sequel earned $533 million domestic in the summer of 2008, becoming the fourth movie to pass $1 billion worldwide. The film contained a subplot involving a Chinese gangster who laundered money for the Gotham City mob, so it never played in China. The Dark Knight Rises featured no such subplot, and it earned $52.8 million in China on its way to a $1.081 billion global cume. A year later, Avatar earned a stunning $209 million in China as part of its record-crushing $760 million domestic/$2.789 billion global cume, and it was off to the proverbial races. Plenty of big hits have earned over $1 billion even if you detract China’s respective totals, but the expanding marketplace has acted as a kind of inflationary steroid for the biggest of big movies. Unless the film is a co-production, has a major Chinese investor or has some other deal prior to release, the studios get around 25% of the ticket price from China, versus over/under 50% from everywhere else. So, while the marketplace is often, by far, the biggest overseas territory for a given movie, it merely acts to help already huge movies get to flashier and more boast-worthy global totals. If a big movie like Star Trek Beyond stumbles around the world, a $60 million Chinese gross isn’t going to save it. Conversely, with a few exceptions (xXx: Return of Xander Cage and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, both of which cost between $40 million and $85 million, come to mind), no “big” movies that have become big hits solely because of a “Chinese bailout.” Even War for the Planet of the Apes and The Meg had $145 million domestic totals to “supplement” their $112-$156 million Chinese grosses. X-Men: Apocalypse was “saved” by $122 million in China (for a $544 million global cume) only for Dark Phoenix to be abandoned here and abroad three years later. Terminator: Genisys earned a then-huge $113 million in China, two years after Pacific Rim earned $113 million in China. Both films crossed $400 million because of China, and both inflated totals convinced investors that the respective franchises weren’t dead. Pacific Rim: Uprising earned $290 million worldwide, while we’ll see if Terminator: Dark Fate can avoid a similar, uh, dark fate. Warcraft earned $218 million in China, but it was still a bomb with $433 million on a $165 million budget. Even Fast & Furious, which pulls grosses in China disproportional to its earnings elsewhere ($392 million each for the last two and $200 million for Hobbs & Shaw), would still be big hits sans China. The notion of China “saving” blockbusters continues to be a myth. The arguable exception is Ready Player One, a $175 million sci-fi adventure which earned an okay $137 million domestic but scored $222 million in China toward a $579 million global cume in early 2018. You could make the case for Bumblebee, a $130 million Transformers prequel that earned $127 million domestic but $170 million in China. However, its $467 million total didn’t make it a franchise savoir. Even if a franchise title rejected everywhere else breaks out in China, China may still avoid the next installment. | ||||
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