That’s the point,when talk about box office bomb we talk about a movie which target customer are general audience ,not a movie which 99.99% people don’t even know wtf is that.
There must be great number of $100,000 budget movies ,and their box office are like $500-10,000,that’s must be an insane failure but most people just don’t know its exists,even for movie fans
No,lots of America film doing great number in USSR,like “The Magnificent Seven” attract 67 millions admission in Soviet market,top 10 biggest admission in Soviet cinema of all time,Makenna’s Gold attracted 63 millions admits,KingKong(1988) is one of biggest box office bomb in USA but attracted 53.6 millions admission in Soviet.
If you consider VHS and DVD,James Bond is the household name in Soviet,and when Goldeneye(1995) first shown in Russia it took highest grossing film of that year.
Biggest box office disaster of the year
1 The Marvels
2 The Flash
3 Bluebeetle
4 Shazam II
5 Indiana Jones V
6 Transformer VII
7 Mission:Impossible VII
8 Dungeons& Dragon
9 FastX
10 The Little Mermaid
This is cursed year for Hollywood franchise sequel with so many box office bombs,never saw this situation before.
edit:I forgot my baby “Antman 3”
People here really underestimate US pop culture influence to China, a survey before shows 98.2% of Chinese university students at least have saw 1 America movie.
Even for elderly US movie have have huge impact,especially like 80s Rambo and Superman.
It’s not Hollywood problem,it’s just the Marvels failure.
2023 Chinese Market(Till Now)
Overall box office:¥50 Billions ($6.86 Billions)
Overall Admission:1.178 Billions
Chinese film precnetgae:83.4%
Top 11 of the year are all Chinese movie
11 movie cross ¥1000 millions ($140 millions) benchamark
(Only count Urban area,in rural area like village or small town we also have cinema,but not count in these data)
Marvel’s overall won’t even beat Endgame presale in Australia.
Which means if something happened in 2019 Australia and cause Endgame finally not released there,EG number in AUS will still bigger than Marvels.
Marvel wasn’t big everywhere except North America before 2012 Avengers,Spider-Man,Batman and Superman are household name that time.(I’ll also include Hulk since he is not so popular but he is well-known)
It’s sad,since GTA probably the only game frachise popular every single country on Earth.
Yes,every single country,include Eritriea and North Korea,solomon Islands and Kiribati
Just a simple Google trends shows the franchise insanely popularity, if it’s make movie and have good quality it will easily make billion dollars