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Venom possessing the movie-going public like the people in this video
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Venom sees massive success at China box office (2nd highest open behind Avengers: Infinity War)
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Venom possessing the movie-going public like the people in this video
Are you really going to say to me that his Transformers films are quality?
Haha no, I'm saying that Michael Bay's Transformers is a draw to a lot of people.
A lot of those other films aren't hanging their hat on their director like Bayformers is.
Good for Sony I guess.
Still, if they expect even a fraction of this success for a Kraven or Morbius film, they're in for a rude awakening. I don't even think a Black Cat film would do that well.
Still, if they expect even a fraction of this success for a Kraven or Morbius film, they're in for a rude awakening. I don't even think a Black Cat film would do that well.
Venom is super famous. I knew it would earn Sony some nice cash. But damn, Jumanji was the true box office wonder.
The first one was good. Have people turned on that one now?
To me, a Rhino movie without Spider-Man sounds dumb, but unlike other Spider-Man villains, Venom has a mountain of non-Spidey material to draw from. I think many didn't realize that he's always worked great, if not better, in his own solo stories than as a guy who just fights Spider-Man. Also, I did think it could beat Justice League since WB messed up royally with that film to the point where Doctor Strange ended up outgrossing it. Venom is more popular than Doctor Strange.
I think that 750M is locked. This will outgross both Amazing Spider-Man films. If China truly is a 200M territory, Venom could end up over both Deadpool films (and everything in the history of Marvel Fox) as well.
And you look at Lucas's history of influences and such... you can see many parallels of Star Wars and Japan. Remember that for Obi Wan, Lucas wanted Toshiro Mifune (Spelling?) for the role instead of Alec Guiness. He also borrowed a lot from Kurosawa etc. Lots of Japanese related influences in the movies. That's probably how it broke through their cultural walls
Never cared for it so don't ask me.
I like the animated movie tho.
I think it's more because Japan was already back then developed country. Only developed Asian country so Star Wars probably had big marketing push and people had money to go to cinemas (and there were cinemas everywhere) unlike in most of Asia. That way now when new movies came Japan was pretty much only asian country that had major nostalgia for the franchise. I mean original films didn't probably even have distribution in China back in 70s and 80s that is huge market today.
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I doubt very many people actually that Jurassic World would bomb just that it fucking sucks.
This is the worst part. We were almost done with this load.
Not that close.
Homecoming made $880M.
Venom has an outside chance at $800M with great legs in China for a Hollywood blockbuster. Granted, studios make a lot more from the domestic gross than they do from China. China is mostly good for making impressive worldwide totals.
In terms of lifetime revenue for the actual studio, $1 in US box office is worth around $5 in Chinese box office. After factoring in box office cut, home video, and other ancillary earnings.
Even without China this movie's domestic gross is enough for Sony to rethink their Spider-Man deal.
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I mean before release I certainly remember predictions of a more substantial drop from the first than it ended up at.
ERA was not wrong about those because it didn't exist then.
I can't speak for China, but in the 1970s, Bollywood had one of their golden era's during that time and some of the superstars now come from that era. Lots of western influence in media at that time, hell everyone was wearing bell bottom jeans and all that in India during that time haha. But like you said, they never released the movie in that territory at the time so nothing to go by. But even now lots of Hollywood movies outside of CGi/Action don't resonate well in that region
Did they get a different cut than we did? Perhaps not rated PG13 or with more Venom humor? Curious...
Indeed. People acting as if movie making the money is causing them personal harm lol.
But why though?
Disney and Sony seem to have a good relationship, and I think they'll both make more money by cooperating (which is ultimately the goal for any business).
Would it be possible to just put Spider-Gwen in the Sony film universe? I am fucking done with Peter at this point.
Venom was a weird movie. It wasn't particularly well made, the supporting characters and villain were forgettable, the plot wasn't anything original and the final fight was a big CGI mess.......
Yet it was still a lot of fun, mainly because of Tom Hardy's batshit insane performance and his interactions with Venom.
Yet it was still a lot of fun, mainly because of Tom Hardy's batshit insane performance and his interactions with Venom.
Why is everyone ragging on the DC films when the chart shows Venom easily clobbered Age of Ultron, Black Panther, Ragnarok, and Civil War?
Not to mention, ya know, Homecoming, the most relevant comparison.
Not to mention, ya know, Homecoming, the most relevant comparison.
The movie would have gotten close to $600M without China though. China just added the bow lol. I wanted Avi Arad gone too :(
To be fair though, I actually enjoyed the film (particularly the moment Venom and Eddie got paired up). Would have loved to see what this film would look like without producer interference though.