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> They are too large of a market not to cater to Why? Seems the market was plenty big enough prior to their ascendancy.
by voisin 4y ago
> They are too large of a market not to cater to
Why? Seems the market was plenty big enough prior to their ascendancy.
- bidirectional 4y agoObviously films can be produced without aiming to enter the Chinese market, but the highest budgets will go to the films which can, and they'll have higher marketing budgets and so on.
- Sparkle-san 4y agoChina's middle class was about 3% of its population in 2000. It's now around 50% of its population. The number of people there able to afford going to the movies is substantially higher now.
- tines 4y agoWhy is this being downvoted?
- xeromal 4y agoHow can you tell when something is being downvoted?
- jamiek88 4y agoit goes grey. It was probably upvoted again (as happens a lot when people comment on downvotes) by the time you found the comment.
- xeromal 4y agoThanks for the info!
- thaumasiotes 4y agoYou can't, but you can tell when the number of downvotes exceeds the number of upvotes.
- xeromal 4y agoAppreciate it.
- theshrike79 4y agoA movie can make back its budget just by being a hit in China. This is how we get movies like Skyscraper(2018)[0]. $120M budget. $70M from US/Canada. $300 from "worldwide" and most of that was from China. Just the Chinese opening weekend alone was $48M. Transformers: Age of Extinction. $210M budget. China alone provided $300M of profit. All you need to do is hire Chinese actors for side characters, set a bit of your movie in China and not talk about Taiwan. Easy money =) [0] https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5758778/ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5758778/
- pru567 4y agoI think its interesting that two of the most bankable stars of their respective times are/were enormous guys: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Dwayne the Rock Johnson.
- greedo 4y agoIt's hard to compare box office draw due to inflation, but here's four of the top 6 overall and their height. Doesn't seem like a correlation to me... Robert Downey Jr. $2.4B 5'9" Tom Cruise $8B 5'1" Tom Hanks $9B 6' Dustin Hoffman $2.5B 5'6"