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
Let me listed the world-famous Hollywood movie that making terrible box office this year:
The Flash
Mission Impossible VII
DD
Ant man III
The Mermaid (good for DOM but OS is terrible)
FastX(box office didn’t cover budget)
Transformer VII
Indiana Jones V
Bluebeetle
Shazam
The Marvels
And All members in this “great club”:
Welcome,Aquaman 2!!!
This is cursed year for Hollywood
It’s impossible to get any impressive number now,how about we just guess the chance for The Marvels beating The Incredible Hulk’s lowest grossing Marvel movie record?