China wont save 'Furiosa'
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/china-box-office-furiosa-civil-war-fizzle-1235918316/
currently 144m ww
Interesting, a lot of soulless, brainless action movies that get a lukewarm response in the USA still make tons of $$$ overseas in China, which explains the endless Fast & Furious sequels and Transformers sequels. Flopiosa should have had a similar "advantage".
Flopiosa didn't even need to be marketed as "part of" the Mad Max franchise in China, they don't care what kind of legacy it has from an Australian action movie franchise. They probably just marketed it the way Mad Max 1 & 2 were marketed in the USA, and focused on all the "kewl" car chases and explosions.
That's funny they STILL didn't care, though. Maybe George Miller can increase the numbers in China by having Anya Taylor Joy hold up a sign in Chinese that says "Taiwan is NOT a country!"
China is the reason Terminator Genisys became a hit (2nd biggest Terminator ww unadjusted) and bc of the huge China haul the franchise got another bite at the cherry (Dark Fate, not so lucky in china)
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Not exactly. It made good money in China but Hollywood only receives 25% of the revenue made from China and it made poor returns elsewhere, hence them not continuing from Genisys and attempting yet another soft reboot with Dark Fate (Which did considerably worse). If the foreign money was satisfactory they would have continued Genisys. China money ain't saving shit. share
Good point, if the Chinese box office numbers had made Genisys profitable and successful, they would have greenlit a sequel instead of deciding to make Dark Fate a total reboot. For either film to succeed overall while failing in the United States, they probably would have had to gotten big sales THROUGHOUT all overseas and international box office sales, not just in China alone (I think the F&F franchise is such a "hit" worldwide because it does great in all international markets, even if Americans are sick of it)
Weird that the Chinese would love Genisys and not Dark Fate though. Both films had a past-his-prime Ahnuld shoehorned in for "fan service" and attempted to be "the real Terminator 3" and a "fresh and new Terminator scenario" while just making the old universe MORE convoluted, and shamelessly copying all the "popular" troupes of the previous movies, like Terminator 2.
It was weird when Genisys was so huge in China adding another 100m+ to the box office , I vaguely recall there'd been a ban on US films in China that had just been lifted and TG was first US film to come out there after however many months so Chinese went to see it, idk how long the ban was exactly. Also maybe it was bc the trailers looked very scifi high tech colourful action that the Chinese love? maybe Arnold was still considered a huge star there and this was his big comeback as Terminator since T3 over a decade ago, did Chinese love GOT around then? If so there was Emilia Clarke ..
All that stuff Dark Fate just didn't have - no ban on US films making Terminator a big event the first must see US film, the trailers looked dusty/brown/dull/overtly preachy feminist compared to TG exciting scifi cyborg heavy action, they'd already seen Arnolds comeback as Terminator a few years previous (and it wasn't great), plus it was old Linda Hamilton instead of young hot Emilia Clarke
Yeh, i meant it made it look like a hit worldwide (440m) but it wasn't really esp not in states (only 80m, and similar opening wkend to Furiosa) . and right had it been its have got Genisys 2/3 back to back (imagine what those would've been like! lol)
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