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What's up with Once Upon A Time In Hollywood? Was it released in China or it'll be released soon? If so, how are pre-sales doing? Didn't find any info about it for the last week, so clarification would be appreciated.

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13 minutes ago, Firepower said:

What's up with Once Upon A Time In Hollywood? Was it released in China or it'll be released soon? If so, how are pre-sales doing? Didn't find any info about it for the last week, so clarification would be appreciated.

Isn’t it rated R ?

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22 hours ago, Firepower said:

Do you seriously compare 30 mln B-movie with both 200 mln blockbuster and F&F spin-off?! The fact that M:R made 50+ mln in China actually means that Statham really has big fanbase in China, this kind of movie wouldn't have made this much without him, not even close. And The Meg wouldn't have grossed 150+ mln without him too, the shark alone can't gross this much.

Jeez, are you serious?! Do you realize that you compare grosses of B-movie with blockbusters? If you put The Rock in Lionsgate B-movie, it won't gross 100+ mln there, not even half of that. Jumanji, big appealing blockbuster with almost 1 bln gross worlwide, did just 27 mln more than Lionsgate B-movie with Statham and 4 times less budget in China, so 50 mln gross for a movie like M:R is actually impressive. The Meg is basically the only Statham movie you can compare with The Rock's in terms of budget, appeal and marketing.

Unfortunately these are the only movies we have to compare them on. We don't know what Meg would have made without him or without Li Bing Bing or if it starred The Rock instead. That is all guess work.

 

As this is a box office discussion site, based on their recent box office, The Rock has more consistency and has earned more money in solo movies in China than Statham. That is irrefutable.

 

Based on those statistics in my opinion The Rock is a bigger box office star in China.

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16 minutes ago, RaidensSword said:

Unfortunately these are the only movies we have to compare them on. We don't know what Meg would have made without him or without Li Bing Bing or if it starred The Rock instead. That is all guess work.

 

As this is a box office discussion site, based on their recent box office, The Rock has more consistency and has earned more money in solo movies in China than Statham. That is irrefutable.

 

Based on those statistics in my opinion The Rock is a bigger box office star in China.

The Rock has much more big budget solo movies, that's not consistency, that's quantity, so comparison is not fair. How many big budget solo movies did Statham have for the last decade? Looks like only The Meg, the rest are F&F movies, Spy and lots of mid-budget B-movies, mostly without proper release/marketing.

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7 minutes ago, Firepower said:

The Rock has much more big budget solo movies, that's not consistency, that's quantity, so comparison is not fair. How many big budget solo movies did Statham have for the last decade? Looks like only The Meg, the rest are F&F movies, Spy and lots of mid-budget B-movies, mostly without proper release/marketing.

But all of that is because Status is not as big a star as The Rock,so he doesn't get the big budget movies or as many solo headlining movies.

 

Unfortunately Hollywood has already decided that Status is not bankable enough to get big budget solo roles, so unless a Chinese company decides to finance one for him to tap in to this supposed big Chinese fanbase we may never get a fair comparison between him and The Rock.

 

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1 hour ago, RaidensSword said:

 

Unfortunately Hollywood has already decided that Status is not bankable enough to get big budget solo roles, so unless a Chinese company decides to finance one for him to tap in to this supposed big Chinese fanbase we may never get a fair comparison between him and The Rock. 

Well it's the opposite, Statham's status in Hollywood has risen greatly the last few years, thanks mostly to F&F. Long gone are the days of direct-to-DVD cheap action movies for him. The Meg could be the start of a solo career in bigger films and not just an anomaly.

 

Also The Rock is pretty much the biggest movie star in the world at the moment so there is no shame in Statham being a less bankable actor (for now!).

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4 hours ago, MrGlass2 said:

Well it's the opposite, Statham's status in Hollywood has risen greatly the last few years, thanks mostly to F&F. Long gone are the days of direct-to-DVD cheap action movies for him. The Meg could be the start of a solo career in bigger films and not just an anomaly.

 

Also The Rock is pretty much the biggest movie star in the world at the moment so there is no shame in Statham being a less bankable actor (for now!).

I agree his status has risen, but that doesn't mean his cheaper action movie days are over. Let's not forget he is the wrong side of 50, there's not many action stars that become more bankable over that age.

 

I agree that it's no shame and I like Statham. To keep it on topic, I'd like to see him in some more Chinese co productions and get that consistency in China as a leading man that I mentioned he is lacking. They are already setting up Meg 2, so it will be interesting to see if that increases from the first.

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4 hours ago, VenomXXR said:

9.7 rating on Maoyan. I’d be shocked if it was under 3x OW. 

It has many preview showtimes before opening day. WOM effect already happened and push the opening weekend number. If it weren't that, the legs probably would be like Zootopia or Coco after a low debut, now it's might be more like Dying to Survive, which also held many preview screenings. 

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