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it’s a kids movie and the attendance seems to holding steady ever since it premiered. Also, there is literally no competition besides Deep Sea till at least March. I don’t see it ending below $200 million especially with CNY boost.

Will Boonie Bears: Guardian Code outgross Avatar 2 in China? Right now Boonie Bears has earned approximately $92 million in 5 days and with the movie still enjoying good admissions it looks like it has a chance of equaling Avatar 2 takings at the China box office or even surpassing it.

Full River Red and The Wandering Earth 2 have both passed Avatar 2 full China box office haul in only 5 days. Will likely double it by the end of the weekend. That’s ridiculous especially considering Avatar’s popularity in China.

its a smart move. February doesn’t really have any huge competition so I expect the movie to do relatively well.

Avatar’s time is largely done in China. There are 8 new domestic films all jockeying for a bit of screen time, frankly I don’t see how Avatar is going to squeeze its way back onto premium screens.

Avatar 2 won’t get a decent amount of shows over Spring Festival regardless of how other domestic films perform.

Why on earth would China approve a wide re-release for Avatar 2 especially with lots of domestic and foreign movies coming down the pike?

It’s not always about money because if it was Marvel would not have been kept outside for so long. For China self sufficiency seems to be more important than money.

Frankly, i do not see that happening at all. China’s theatres won’t prioritise Avatar 2 over a domestic movie especially over on China’s most important holiday as this will undoubtedly cause a stir within the government halls. Remember when Avatar became the biggest movie of all time in China back in 2010? The government quickly issued a public reminder for all cinemas in the country to obey a quota requiring at least two-thirds of the movies they screen to be domestically made.

Zoe Saldana has both facebook and instagram posts wishing Dalai Lama happy birthday and yet Avatar 2 was approved for release? I don’t think that’s the reason to be honest.

Shazam 2 confirmed for release in mainland China. Hopefully, Black Adam will get one as well.

is it a wide re-release? Wouldn’t make sense for China to allocate that many resources to a Titanic re-release considering they have 2 new entrants coming out on 14 February as well.

Disney Marvel wasn’t banned either.

I don’t think it has anything to do with Iger to be honest. Iger just happened to be in the right place at the right time. All Hollywood studios will have an equal opportunity of releasing their blockbusters in China so long as they don’t insult Chinese culture and/or its people.

im guessing China is temporarily lifting Hollywood quota in order to boost domestic consumption and calm the economy. Just don’t expect it to last. Once there is a steady line up of domestic movies i fully expect the barrier to be put back in place.

It’s not really a guess. It’s plain obvious why Top Gun Maverick failed to pass censorship in China. The movie was partly sponsored by Tencent and Paramount even offered to remove both the Japanese and Taiwanese flags from the jacket to appease Chinese authorities. However, still that wasn’t good enough and as a result Tencent was forced to completely disassociate themselves from the project because they didn’t want to offend the powers that be. Since the beginning of the US-China cold war in 2018, China has been clamping down hard on US cultural influence and promotion of US military.

Even if they change the patches it’s not going to pass Chinese censorship due to its promotion of the US military.

There is zero percent chance of that happening anytime soon. Apparently Sony was permanently banned from Weibo recently for “insulting” a Chinese national hero who died during the Korean war. Japanese electronics giant Sony banned from posting on Chinese microblogging site Weibo for ‘violating laws’