vc2002 Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 (edited) We have a "putting in perspective" thread at the international box office forum, but since we have a China forum now, and plus China is such a fast-growing and fast changing market, I guess we could use a stand-alone thread to discuss what it means in terms of American dollars, for a film's gross at China. Quote from baumer's post to explain how this works. For example, jajang and some of the other Aussie posters helped ascertain that for every one dollar a film grosses in Australia, it would be equivalent to about ten dollars in NA. So for a film to make 30 mill in Australia, it would be like a film making 300 million in NA. The same can be said for Canada. The UK was something $6.00 to $1.00 and so on. Can anyone help with this? It's a great tool to see how films are really doing in other markets.I'm going to try and update this as best I can:Australia: 10:1China: 4.5:1New Zealand: 60:1Russia: 9:1Brazil: 13:1Germany: 9:1Italy: 11:1Japan: 5:1Mexico: 14:1South Korea: 10:1Spain: 12.5:1UK: 6:1Sweden: 35-40:1 Here's my thought posted last year China should be around 2:1 at this point. TF4 $300m in China -> $600m in the US: TF4 is supposed to be the highest grossing film of all time in China, so it shouldn't be equal to Avatar's 750m DOM which was a surprising breakout. $600m looks fair. Xmen DOFP and Captain 2 both made $116m in China -> $232m , pretty close to their actual DOM takes. TASM2 $96m in China -> $192M very close to the DOM take And now Ape II looks to be another $100m grosser in China -> $200m in the US. Even closer During last two years normal blockbuster level in China seemed to at $100-150m, but F7 and TA2 are definitely raising the bar here. So maybe it's lower than 2:1 now? Edited May 19, 2015 by vc2002 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gokai Red Posted May 18, 2015 Share Posted May 18, 2015 Despite F7 and AOU raising the bar, it seems the average blockbuster gross hasn't changed that much in the past year or so, so maybe instead of 2:1, the ratio is something like 1.85:1. I anxiously look forward to the day when the ratio is 1:1 or even more in China's favor. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...