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by Rafiki 06/09/2016, 10:14am PDT |
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I Hate Myself For Reading Their Site wrote:
The fantasy epic, based on the popular video game "World of Warcraft," opened Wednesday in the world's most populous nation, two days earlier than in the U.S. Tapping into a hardcore fan base of Chinese gamers, it raked in $45 million at the box office on its opening day, according to industry consultants Entgroup.
That's the best opening for a movie in China so far this year, and the film is forecast to bring in way more revenue than "Star Wars: The Force Awakens" has in the country.
Richard Huang, an entertainment analyst with Nomura, said he believes "Warcraft" is on track to generate $300 million, which would make it China's second highest grossing film of the year.
I read somewhere that a big reason there's so many shitty remakes and big dumb computerized action movies is that tickets sell like crazy overseas, and in particular China. Remakes selling well because foreigners are often seeing them for the first time. I don't know if this is true, or if someone was just subversively shitting on foreigners, and in particular China. On the other hand, it can't be entirely true because Jurassic World was huge here and that movie is a piece of shit. |
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