Foriegn Market

It Did good at the box office, even past Jay's expectations.

"Laugh and the whole world laughs with you, Weep and you weep alone" Oh Dae-su (Oldboy)

You have it give Hollywood some time. They won't copy unless the movie sold mega-million tickets in Asia. However, the tendency for it to flop in Hollywood land is pretty high, since...
(1) the ending is already known
(2) most viewers rather not think too much anyway
(3) the story sometimes get modified or simplified

Well, a lot of the movie's success so far has come from the fact that it's a Jay Chou film. And while the name "Jay Chou" might be able to pull in audiences in Asia, it won't be having the same effect in the West, where his name is basically unknown in the mainstream.
Generally, Americans don't seem to enjoy foreign-language films; romantic foreign-language films, especially. So to bring over a non-English movie that hasn't smashed any particular box-office records is even riskier for distributors.

If the story alone can carry the movie (which I don't think this one does), some studio might put out a remake later on down the track. But personally, I don't really see this movie going international beyond some niche/online DVD release.

I think this movie will sell in the US, if not sold by asian video stores already. It's not a "Western" thing, it's a race thing.

Virtually all Asian films brought into the Western market are martial arts films. No matter how great the film is, unless it's martial arts, there is no marketability. The other non-martial-arts films are remade with American actors (My Sassy Girl, The Departed, The Lake House, etc.). This pattern really ticks me off, but hey -- it's a Western-dominated world. =(

I don't think it has much potential in America, it has too much Taiwanese culture in there, when I showed it to my Australian friend
she kept on asking me what they are doing...

I enjoyed bits and pieces slipped in there about school, since I grew up in that sort of strict enviroment I was able to relate and I found it funny that way.

Humans are destroyers of the worlds.
Humans shall destroy them selves in the end.

Who are you kidding?

no way, this movie is made up of pretty much every cliche since something like the little mermaid. the romantic development was written by/for 14yr old girls (but asians go nuts at this kind of stuff for some reason), althought thats sort of good in its own sentimental 'aww' kind of way but again we've been there about 50times already . while i was watching it i was translating the lines in my head into english and playing it out and it was ridiculously lame, even though in chinese its actually alright. this is really an asian movie, doubt it will find much international following.