A look at how movies are faring at the box office in China
earned a stunning $164 million in China for a good-enough $385 million global cume, making it one of the few big-budget Hollywood movies to go from a flop to a hit purely from overwhelming Chinese box office.
The notion of China “saving” a failed Hollywood tentpole is mostly a fantasy, both because studios often only get back 25% of the grosses and because most big Hollywood flicks that perform well in China are the same ones that perform well worldwide. Sure,earned $47 million domestic but $218 million in China, but it was massively frontloaded in China and still ended up with a not-good-enough $430 million worldwide on a $165 million budget.
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