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Breaking a billion and eventually beating Batman would be the icing on the cake now.
Only gonna happen if Skyfall is huge in China.
Yeah maybe beating Batman is a bit too much to hope for.
Making over a billion would be cool though, and I think that could still happen.
yh i think it will hit a billion maybe $1.02 billion w.w.
As long as we take down Thunderball. If not, how about a re-release?
I did say this a few pages back about a re-release, maybe in next summer have a IMAX re-release? Avatar got one.
Or maybe a back-to-back feature with Casino Royale?
It'd be nice, but don't hold out hope.
True. But how about IMAX in China? I don't find details about IMAX theatres in China.
Still, one has to take into account that the Chinese cinema audience is quite action oriented. Critical movies with critical themes are usually not finding their ways to the public. It is therefore logical that the Chinese cinema audience has been made deliberately dumber by the Chinese regime.
So even if 'Skyfall' doesn't premiere up there? I couldn't care less. 'Casino Royale' and 'Quantum Of Solace' opened in China and banked quite some money. But I think it's even better to see 'Skyfall' performing so well without the Chinese regime.
Aren't you confusing with the exports from Hong Kong cinema ?
And to make it brief, imported movies in China have to be animated or 3D or IMAX (in order to fill the large IMAX circuit there). Hence so many action movies from Hollywood there. And they're not all crushing the box office, far from it.
Current #1 and #2 (70% of the admissions) at the Chinese box office are Life of Pi and Back to 1942. Life of Pi I think everyone knows what it's about, and Back to 1942 is about millions of death during a famine in the country :
"Critical movie with a critical theme", this one is closer to it than Skyfall, to say the least...
More generally, there's a difference with being dumb, and doing propaganda (you fill brains with what you want rather than empty them actually).
Well, can you tell me in the current yearly US box office, at which rank is the first "critical movie with a critical theme" ? #24 with Argo ? The movie "based on historical facts" in which all the Canadians' critical involvment in the true story has totally disappeared in order to appeal to a US audience ? :)
The sponsors may disagree. It is said, for instance, Caterpilllar specifically had in mind China "only" when helping the producers. So I think there's quite some pressure to release it, even with strong censorship about everything related to China.
I will comment later Mr France ;-).
Action films that do well in China tend to be A) Chinese, and B) martial arts films.
The goverment are dumbing down the Chinese cinema audience on purpose? Nah. That's just stupid.
If SF isn't released over there it'll be thanks to Silva's backstory. Nothing to do with the nasty goverment wanting to dumb down the people by not exposing them to movies with critical themes.
It looks like the claimed "love for 3D" of China is real according to the box office of the last few months, so if SF is released facing the Hobbit 3D, it *may* be the biggest problem. But then again maybe China will not care about this fantasy movie on the contrary, and will look for a movie about Shanghai and Macau (with some censorship in the lines to remove all the talk about torture by officials in China, etc.). Plus many many things we don't know. IMO, MI:4 who was released in "ideal" conditions (lone US blockbusters for 4 weeks except for a Nicolas Cage movie that did not do well), give us an idea of the potential, but SF may have only a little part of this potential.