Chinese Productions amongst highest grossing of the year

[levcore]

A Chinese comedy called Hi, Mom is currently the highest grossing movie of 2021. This movie has grossed an astonishing $822,054,381.

No American comedy (that was primarily a comedy) has ever grossed anything close to that, and this is on the heels of/ midst of a global pandemic! How legitimate are such figures as it seems to be an absurd amount of money for a comedy to make, one that has only been released in China, Australia and Singapore so far.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by levcore

A Chinese comedy called Hi, Mom is currently the highest grossing movie of 2021. This movie has grossed an astonishing $822,054,381.

No American comedy (that was primarily a comedy) has ever grossed anything close to that, and this is on the heels of/ midst of a global pandemic! How legitimate are such figures as it seems to be an absurd amount of money for a comedy to make, one that has only been released in China, Australia and Singapore so far.

Unless you can get a look at the books. All the numbers reported for movies are phony.

[Bk_Tan]

Originally Posted by mwynn

Unless you can get a look at the books. All the numbers reported for movies are phony.

lol what rubbish.

Americans can continue to refuse vaccines with their “muh freedom” and end up killing themselves whilst China is back to normal with movies grossing $800m.

[Blu Lemmy]

[vertigop1ayer]

A number of domestic films have grossed huge numbers in China. So far though, most films from China with huge box office performance overwhelmingly relied on the market in China to make said numbers. In other words, not many of the films are doing big numbers in markets across Europe or the Americas.

And that's not really a problem either for the films themselves; clearly the film industry and market is large enough to support them. But unlike the blockbusters from Hollywood, the film industry in China hasn't been able to consistently export many films or franchises. I can think of various ways they can try to make that happen, but we'll see what happens.

As for the performance coming from a comedy, different markets are interested in different things. One could just as easily ask why a Star Wars film can gross over $900M in the US while making so comparatively little in China.

[Rodney-2187]

2021 Worldwide Box Office

1.Ni Hao, Li Huan Ying - $841,716,512
2.Tang Ren Jie Tan An 3 - $698,994,069
3.F9: The Fast Saga - $623,283,832
4.Godzilla vs. Kong - $465,763,133
5.Black Widow - $318,073,697
6.A Quiet Place: Part II - $264,109,308
7.Cruella - $225,395,509
8.Song Ni Yi Duo Xiao Hong Hua - $220,490,000
9.The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It - $194,381,913
10.Xuan Ya Zhi Shang (悬崖之上) - $185,202,665



The Numbers
https://www.the-numbers.com/box-offi...leased-in-2021

[MazeRunner]

Well, China does have 1.4 billion people compared to our 328 million.

[Lee A Stewart]

China has 12,408 movie theaters with nearly 70,000 screens (2019).

NA has 5,798 theaters with 40,998 screens (Mar. 2020).

[Rodney-2187]

If you include the Disney/Pixar movies as comedies, several of those went well over a $billion. Both Deadpool movies were around $780,000,000.

[thecooldud]

In Communist China, films buy their own tickets.

[cardiac161]

Won't be surprised if watching nationalistic Chinese movies actually brings up one's social credit score.

[Mr. Chaverria]

Originally Posted by MazeRunner

Well, China does have 1.4 billion people compared to our 328 million.

Yeah. When it comes to domestic stuff, it'd take a lot for our numbers to go higher just based on the population.

Originally Posted by cardiac161

Won't be surprised if watching nationalistic Chinese movies actually brings up one's social credit score.

This made me chuckle. I'm still a bit ignorant of the total details of the social credit thing but it's funny, while also depressing. But it sounds about right to what I've somewhat read of it.

[Chedwiggen]

Originally Posted by Bk_Tan

lol what rubbish.

Americans can continue to refuse vaccines with their “muh freedom” and end up killing themselves whilst China is back to normal with movies grossing $800m.

If you want less freedom by all means move to China and enjoy, you won't have to worry about people having a choice again.

[Bk_Tan]

Originally Posted by Chedwiggen

If you want less freedom by all means move to China and enjoy, you won't have to worry about people having a choice again.

Nah mate, I'm just saying that it is ironic.

China locked down for 3 months and now there are practically zero cases and life is back to normal. In fact, when I say "back to", it's been back to for at least a year.

Americans on the other hand, are still complaining about wearing masks, still refusing to take widely available vaccines and are still dying needlessly.

America really cannot take any short term pain, which is why there is no real hope for the world. Covid is pathetic compared to climate change. Is America the only country that didn't even have one proper lockdown?

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by Bk_Tan

lol what rubbish.

Americans can continue to refuse vaccines with their “muh freedom” and end up killing themselves whilst China is back to normal with movies grossing $800m.

Yeah, but that doesn’t match with his cinemas are close to ending rubbish. He is seeing a reflection of what the film world looks like post COVID and he doesn’t like it. If the news was negative he would be quoting it as gospel.

[Leslie Dame]

There has always been reports of Box office fraud coming from China. One case was Ip Man 3, they admit to faking box office numbers back in 2016.

[SilverFox84]

Originally Posted by thecooldud

In Communist China, films buy their own tickets.

I think they got the idea from a couple of Hollywood studios

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Yeah, but that doesn’t match with his cinemas are close to ending rubbish. He is seeing a reflection of what the film world looks like post COVID and he doesn’t like it. If the news was negative he would be quoting it as gospel.

As usual you are stuck on one statement. As posted by Lesie Dame. There have been reports of fraud.

[mwynn]

Originally Posted by SilverFox84

I think they got the idea from a couple of Hollywood studios

They all cook the books. There is no way to accurately report on every ticket sold.

[SilverFox84]

Originally Posted by Chedwiggen

If you want less freedom by all means move to China and enjoy, you won't have to worry about people having a choice again.

2012 China, yeah definitely, it was a capitalist free for all, in all but name. Loved it over there. But the current leader is old-school communist and there was definitely a different vibe when I went there in 2018. Such a shame as i thought China was coming along worderfully.