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Lake Changjin is patriotic propaganda for Chinese only. It's like a Soviet flick made under Stalin.
Is it possible the box office numbers for this film will be a complete fabrication or do ordinary, everyday Chinese citizens actually care about such dreck?
It looks like Bond will open in China with $15~20 million. It will also suffer from less 2D and 3D screenings than Dune so that’s really a poor release from Universal.
I don't know if they care.
But it is common, that companys do trips to the cinema for this movie with the entire workforce.
So millions of people, who have no private interest in that movie, will have seen it.
Could be.
But Bond will stay on top in the UK and Germany.
No Spider-Man film will get to those numbers.
If it hasn't hit a billion by two weeks, I'm not sure that it would hit a billion at all.
Avatar made most of its money in 2010. Doesn’t change the fact that its gross was counted as a 2009 movie.
The race against F9 is officially over.
It’s fair to say that because of COVID Bond lost something like $150 million at the global boxoffice in China and US alone.
As nice of a sentiment as that is, these movies can't be made and then be profitable based only on what the UK puts out as far as box office numbers are concerned. Unless we want Bond films that are produced at the cost of Diamonds Are Forever before inflation?
Covid isn't stopping China from turning out en masse to see its propaganda movies that earn over US$500m
I remember Cena making a comment about Taiwan, and he had to grovel on social media to beg for forgiveness. Imagine Craig having to do that to sell the film there.
That video's one of the more embarrassing things I've seen in a while. It's crazy how many famous celebrities and huge organizations kowtow to China constantly solely because of $$$ and nothing else. I get it, from a business perspective, but it's laughably sad from my point of view.
Good point. What about an ultra low budget character driven Bond movie set in uk?
By way of historical context, during the late 1960’s production on “The Avengers” TV program was stopped when the show was cancelled in the US (IIRC rating for series 6 were still high elsewhere). While the program started out as a pure UK production, by 1969, the producers had grown dependent on the US syndication money the show brought in. For better or worse, many of the “money” decisions are made in the US.
A UK production only film budget scale back for Bond would probably be so radical, that may not appeal to a wide range of viewers. Bond as an “indie” flick may sound appealing, but it is not realistic.
That’s not the point. Most of the US films aren’t even getting a release there. Universal planned a massive marketing campaign in China before COVID for Bond and that’s not happening because now there the landscape is so changed that is not even worth trying. Even F9 dropped a 50% compared to the previous one.
While some fans didn’t take to the Tara King character, what really doomed the series in the US was being scheduled opposite the number one TV program at that time: “Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-in”.
If you look back at the history of the Bond franchise and it’s US box office performance, it has always been steady – but not “lines around the block for days” great based on my impressions. There have been exceptions of course, but generally Bond has (IMO) kind of “blended in” to the overall US cultural landscape - almost, to the point where it is taken for granted – except when things are perceived to come up short. And, (again) for better or worse, the US media has an outsized influence on shaping the public narrative on whether a film has been successful or not.
Again, this is just my view, but I would be interested in what other US based fans think.
https://variety.com/2021/film/asia/no-time-to-die-china-box-office-1235100437
Throughout Friday, “No Time to Die” tracked comfortably at the top of the Chinese chart, with market share as high as 55% in the morning sessions. By 7 p.m. local time that had fallen to 49% and the film grossed RMB36.7 million ($5.73 million), including online fees, according to ticketing agency and industry tracker Maoyan.
Including midnight previews, Bond’s day one aggregate topped RMB39.0 million ($6.09 million).
This is a stronger Friday than Dune ($6.54 million).
Wow Dune dropped a 85% on its second Friday. Hopefully Bond will hold better.