Does China Run Hollywood?

[Farbeyonddriven]

Does China Run Hollywood?

With China's market for movies expanding at an insane rate, Hollywood now has a powerful new audience to consider.


China's market for movies is expanding at an insane rate. Over the course of roughly a decade, the country's box office sales have grown almost twice as fast as their economy at large, and in 2017 movie sales in China are expected to outnumber those in the US. This is due, in no small part, to the country's rapidly growing middle class. An estimated 76 percent of China's urban population will be considered middle class by 2022.

So, Hollywood has an obvious financial incentive to appeal to a Chinese audience. But large production companies also have to consider whether their film will actually make it into Chinese theaters.

An international quota system sets a cap on the number of foreign films that can screen in the country each year. In 2016 it was just 34. And although there are no official rules outlining what kind of movies the government will accept, it's pretty much assumed that anything critical of China won't make the cut.

 

[jhungary]

Does China Run Hollywood?

With China's market for movies expanding at an insane rate, Hollywood now has a powerful new audience to consider.


China's market for movies is expanding at an insane rate. Over the course of roughly a decade, the country's box office sales have grown almost twice as fast as their economy at large, and in 2017 movie sales in China are expected to outnumber those in the US. This is due, in no small part, to the country's rapidly growing middle class. An estimated 76 percent of China's urban population will be considered middle class by 2022.

So, Hollywood has an obvious financial incentive to appeal to a Chinese audience. But large production companies also have to consider whether their film will actually make it into Chinese theaters.

An international quota system sets a cap on the number of foreign films that can screen in the country each year. In 2016 it was just 34. And although there are no official rules outlining what kind of movies the government will accept, it's pretty much assumed that anything critical of China won't make the cut.

No and No.

China can never dominate Hollywood, that is not even remotely possible. To say the Chinese vast market is a trigger that Hollywood Producer need to bow down to the Chinese in order to get into the market is absurd.

First of all, Chinese market is not really that big, plus the quota means that the Foreign Film can't really break into Chinese market like they do in the rest of the world. Meaning they could have done it for nothing. On the other hand, the drive behind hollywood is always behind the US audience, if an project would not be able to make it at home in the US, chances are they will not be make at all by Hollywood Producter.

And the otherway is true too, what may please the American would not please Chinese, granted they may protray the Chinese in a better angle or tone, but then the traditional enemy in Hollywood is and always be the Russian and maybe North Korean, there aren't too many movie in Hollywood having Chinese as a antagonist to begin with,

 

[qwerrty]

if an project would not be able to make it at home in the US, chances are they will not be make at all by Hollywood Producter.

Wrong and wrong. LOL. The latest resident evil movie been showing in America for many weeks only make around 20 mil bucks. In China, they already made $94M in just 3 days

http://deadline.com/2017/02/residen...s-darker-international-box-office-1201999472/

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

wrong and wrong. lol. the latest resident evil movie been showing i'm america for many weeks only make around 20 mil bucks. in china, they already made $94M in just 3 days

http://deadline.com/2017/02/residen...s-darker-international-box-office-1201999472/

I think the facts speak for themselves:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2016
2016 WORLDWIDE GROSSES [Top 10]

1 Captain America: Civil War
Worldwide Total: $1.153 Billion [US total: $408M China Total: $190M]

2 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Worldwide Total: $1.052 Billion, [US total: $529M China Total: $69M]

3 Finding Dory
Worldwide Total: $1.028 Billion, [US total: $486M China Total: $38M]

4 Zootopia
Worldwide Total: $1.023 Billion, [US total: $341.3M China Total: $235M]

5 The Jungle Book
Worldwide Total: $966.6 Million, [US total: $364M China Total: $150M]

6 The Secret Life of Pets
Worldwide Total: $875 Million, [US total: $368.4M China Total: $58M]

7 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Worldwide Total: $873.3 Million, [US total: $330.4M China Total: $95M]

8 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Worldwide Total: $811.8 Million, [US total: $233.3M China Total: $85M]

9 Deadpool
Worldwide Total: $783.1 Million, [US total: $363.1M China Total: $0]

10 Suicide Squad
Worldwide Total: $745.6 Million, [US total: $325.1M China Total: $0]

It looks like if a company wants a blockbuster it is better to target World with US audiences than World with Chinese audiences.

But as you can see the World Audience (without the US and China) is still a good portion of the market. So the "safe" bet is to target the rest of the world first, then the US and then China.

Before opening in China:
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Worldwide Total: $238 Million [US total: 26M]
That's $212M outside the US and China. Falling short of the $400M+ usually needed in the worldwide box office excluding US and China to be a top 10 movie.

@jhungary

 

[jhungary]

wrong and wrong. lol. the latest resident evil movie been showing i'm america for many weeks only make around 20 mil bucks. in china, they already made $94M in just 3 days

http://deadline.com/2017/02/residen...s-darker-international-box-office-1201999472/

dude, ONE movie that make good stalling in China (Btw Resident Evil has a VERY, V.E.R.Y Popular Culture in China due to the game Biohazard, which is the Japanese name for Resident Evil) and you are calling China the "savior" of Hollywood I would really want to look at your logic.

So Great Wall hits 260 mil in China but 27 mil in the US, does that mean that movie is a great Chinese Invasion?

By the way, RE series did not at all draw local box office, for the last 6 films

Resident Evil 2002 : 42 mil (Domestic) 39% - 62 mil (International) 61%
Resident Evil Apocalypse 2004 :51 mil (Domestic) 39.6% - 78 mil (International) 60.4%
Resident Evil Extinction 2007 : 50 mil (Domestic) 34.1% - 97 mil (International) 65.9%
Resident Evil Afterlife 2010 : 60 mil (Domestic) 20% - 240 mil (International) 80%
Resident Evil Retribution 2012 : 42 Mil (Domestic) 17% - 192 mil (International) 82%
Resident Evil The Final Chaper 2017: 26 mil (Domestic) 11% - 232 mil (International) 88%

Of all those China share of Foreign Box Office of Resident Evil are

Resident Evil - 0% (Not shown in China)
Resident Evil Apocalypse - 0% (Not shown in China)
Resident Evil Extinction - 0% (Not shown in China)
Resident Evil Afterlife - 9% (21 mil / 240 mil box office)
Resident Evil Retribution - 8% (17 mil / 197 mil)
Resident Evil TFC - 40 % (93 mil /232 mil)

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/search/?q=Resident Evil

Even with Resident Evil series, which is not really a hit domestically, China does not influence much of the box office to be honest.

I don't know should I reply to your nonsensal response from now on, as you obiviously have no idea how Hollywood works.

I think the facts speak for themselves:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2016
2016 WORLDWIDE GROSSES [Top 10]

1 Captain America: Civil War
Worldwide Total: $1.153 Billion [US total: $408M China Total: $190M]

2 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Worldwide Total: $1.052 Billion, [US total: $529M China Total: $69M]

3 Finding Dory
Worldwide Total: $1.028 Billion, [US total: $486M China Total: $38M]

4 Zootopia
Worldwide Total: $1.023 Billion, [US total: $341.3M China Total: $235M]

5 The Jungle Book
Worldwide Total: $966.6 Million, [US total: $364M China Total: $150M]

6 The Secret Life of Pets
Worldwide Total: $875 Million, [US total: $368.4M China Total: $58M]

7 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Worldwide Total: $873.3 Million, [US total: $330.4M China Total: $95M]

8 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Worldwide Total: $811.8 Million, [US total: $233.3M China Total: $85M]

9 Deadpool
Worldwide Total: $783.1 Million, [US total: $363.1M China Total: $0]

10 Suicide Squad
Worldwide Total: $745.6 Million, [US total: $325.1M China Total: $0]

It looks like if a company wants a blockbuster it is better to target World with US audiences than World with Chinese audiences.

But as you can see the World Audience (without the US and China) is still a good portion of the market. So the "safe" bet is to target the rest of the world first, then the US and then China.

Before opening in China:
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Worldwide Total: $238 Million [US total: 26M]

@jhungary

As I said, some movie do good in the US, some not, more movie did well in the US did not bad in China, but the reverse is not true. The problem is, the Hollywood would produce what American want, not what China wantAnd as I said before, China is not that big of a market when you compare it to the world.

The guy above is funny at best, just because some movie earn big in China and did not do that well in the US does not mean the shift is changing, if anything, it only show the shift does not happened at all. Again, when Great Wall fail to score in Domestic Box Office and draw big on China (32 mil in the US versus 263 mil in China) does that mean from now on, every movie produced in Hollywood should follow the Great Wall?

I believe the opposite is true tho, from now on, Producer, even Chinese one, would think twice BEFORE producing another "The Great Wall Style" movie and try to score hits on an international scale, and to some extend, I have already heard that some big name refused to produce Legiondary Script that closely associated to that genre, effectively blacklisting the producer.

If anything, title such as Resident Evil (Biohazard) or the Great wall have shown that if a film that is not originated from the US is not going to do well in the US, and it will not do well anywhere. Both Film score miserably in US and the world, and the when the only place that done well are in China, you may as well go back to China and use all Chinese Cast and Stop trying to change Hollywood as that way, you can at least recover your cost. Resident Evil is fine as it only have a 40 mil budget, great wall on the other hand.........lol, well, thing sometime should have left unsaid

 

[cloud4000]

I think the facts speak for themselves:

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/yearly/chart/?view2=worldwide&yr=2016
2016 WORLDWIDE GROSSES [Top 10]

1 Captain America: Civil War
Worldwide Total: $1.153 Billion [US total: $408M China Total: $190M]

2 Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Worldwide Total: $1.052 Billion, [US total: $529M China Total: $69M]

3 Finding Dory
Worldwide Total: $1.028 Billion, [US total: $486M China Total: $38M]

4 Zootopia
Worldwide Total: $1.023 Billion, [US total: $341.3M China Total: $235M]

5 The Jungle Book
Worldwide Total: $966.6 Million, [US total: $364M China Total: $150M]

6 The Secret Life of Pets
Worldwide Total: $875 Million, [US total: $368.4M China Total: $58M]

7 Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
Worldwide Total: $873.3 Million, [US total: $330.4M China Total: $95M]

8 Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them
Worldwide Total: $811.8 Million, [US total: $233.3M China Total: $85M]

9 Deadpool
Worldwide Total: $783.1 Million, [US total: $363.1M China Total: $0]

10 Suicide Squad
Worldwide Total: $745.6 Million, [US total: $325.1M China Total: $0]

It looks like if a company wants a blockbuster it is better to target World with US audiences than World with Chinese audiences.

But as you can see the World Audience (without the US and China) is still a good portion of the market. So the "safe" bet is to target the rest of the world first, then the US and then China.

Before opening in China:
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter
Worldwide Total: $238 Million [US total: 26M]

@jhungary

I believe the answer is more complicated and nuanced. It depends on the film. I know it's only one film but Warcraft, a $160 million production, made only $47 billion US, which in the past would be a flop, but it made $220 million in China alone, totaling $434 million worldwide. It's a hit.

People are discounting China now, but there are few things you need to keep in mind.

1. While Europe/US market is staying flat, China's -- and India -- is still growing, and it's this growth that Hollywood is going to cater to.
2. It's not a mistake that in big-budget action films you are seeing more Chinese and Indian actors. They want their films to appeal to Chinese and Indian audiences
3. China will learn the Hollywood game just like the Japanese learned to play the Hollywood game. Yes, the Great Wall was a failure, but so what.

In the end it's all about making money...and the Chinese know how to do that.

 

[qwerrty]

dude, ONE movie that make good stalling in China (Btw Resident Evil has a VERY, V.E.R.Y Popular Culture in China due to the game Biohazard, which is the Japanese name for Resident Evil) and you are calling I would really want to look at your logic.

no, it's not just one movie that did well but flopped in the us. you really have no clue lolz

did i say china the "savior" of hollywood?

this guy

if an project would not be able to make it at home in the US, chances are they will not be make at all by Hollywood Producter.

 

[jhungary]

no, it's not just one movie that did well but flopped in the us. you really have no clue lolz

did i say china the "savior" of hollywood?

this guy

How many american movie did well in China and not in the US? I can count them with my 10 fingers.

How many movie did well in the US and not well in China?

Heck, How many american movie are ALLOWED to screen in China to begin with.

let's play a game, you name one movie that do great in China but not in the US, and I name one that do great in the US and not in China, and we see who ran out first?

I did not say you said China is the savior, the topic did, and if you are replying in this topic, then you implied that as well, or unless you, as usual, gone off topic.

Admit it, you have no knowledge on how Hollywood works. IN 2016 box office, there are 54 movie that reaches over 200 millions box office, only 3 are done well in China than in the US. They are the mermaid, Kung Fu Panda and and Monkey King 2 in 3D. That's it. Yes, that's it.

This HARDLY show the Chinese is the boss of hollywood.

I believe the answer is more complicated and nuanced. It depends on the film. I know it's only one film but Warcraft, a $160 million production, made only $47 billion US, which in the past would be a flop, but it made $220 million in China alone, totaling $434 million worldwide. It's a hit.

People are discounting China now, but there are few things you need to keep in mind.

1. While Europe/US market is staying flat, China's -- and India -- is still growing, and it's this growth that Hollywood is going to cater to.
2. It's not a mistake that in big-budget action films you are seeing more Chinese and Indian actors. They want their films to appeal to Chinese and Indian audiences
3. China will learn the Hollywood game just like the Japanese learned to play the Hollywood game. Yes, the Great Wall was a failure, but so what.

In the end it's all about making money...and the Chinese know how to do that.

With 160 mil production budget, Warcraft is a draw, not a hit nor flop. You need to earn appoximately 3 to 4 times the budget to break even, because of the rating, rights, profits for distribution and also taxes involve. We have talked about this in very deep term why and how much should the Great Wall break even.

here is the link

https://defence.pk/pdf/threads/dali...-topples-at-north-american-box-office.479054/

China is a good market to earn money, but for Hollywood, their first and foremost are the hollywood and it will never change in the future. Indian or Chinese movie market may develope, but that we can only see some more collbration between the two and the Hollywood, that would not change the hollywood producers and their philosphy. If a movie cannot draw domestically, they simply will pass it. And at this point and near future, Indian or Chinese themes are not drawing the domestic market.

You are right tho, who will refuse to earn money? But still, to go into length and say we need to bend this and that just to please a local market and in the end the movie shitted all over the US? Before the Great Wall, i think there are some of those producer who may try, but after the Great Wall? I don't think anybody will try it. Seeing a Matt Damon, a guarantee boxoffice draw. Still cannot draw the US customer.......

In fact, your point 3 is extremely important. Hollywood works on selling draw, stars like denzel washington, matt damon, J-Law, bradley cooper and et al were often cast and have script wrote around them is simply because they draw. So in this case, a must draw actor don't draw, this is not a "So-What" moment, this is something a lot bigger than it should have, because, to be honest, even shitty movie starting these star still draw, and I mean REALLY SHITTY. yet, you have that and you don't draw itself saying something.

 

[Hamartia Antidote]

no, it's not just one movie that did well but flopped in the us. you really have no clue lolz

did i say china the "savior" of hollywood?

this guy

Of the top 10 moves of 2016 ALL of them made over $400M+ in countries of the world not including China and the US. So that is your target market.

However when it comes to those same top 10 movies of 2016 nine of them made $330M+ in the US.
But only one made $235M+ in China. Seven out of them made less that $100M in China. So China is NOT your "safe" focus if you want a blockbuster movie.

Certainly studios want to appeal to as much of all three target markets as possible.

Let's look at this:
The Great Wall
Worldwide Total: $260+ Million [US total: $34M China Total: $170M]
This means it made only $56 Million in the worldwide box office excluding China and the US.
So if it didn't do great in the primary target segment its chances of being a top 10 blockbuster are unlikely (but not impossible)

The Mermaid
Worldwide Total: $553+ Million [US total: $3M China Total: $526M]
This means it made only $24 Million in the worldwide box office excluding China and the US. At $553M it didn't make it into the top 10.

Warcraft
Worldwide Total: $433+ Million [US total: $47M China Total: $220M] This means it made only $166M overseas. Short of the $400M it needs to break into the top 10. While not exactly a flop it shows targeting the rest of the world for $400M would have paid off better than targeting China for $220M.

 

[jhungary]

Of the top 10 moves of 2016 ALL of them made over $400M+ in countries of the world not including China and the US. So that is your target market.

However when it comes to those same top 10 movies of 2016 nine of them made $330M+ in the US.
But only one made $235M+ in China. Seven out of them made less that $100M in China. So China is NOT your "safe" focus if you want a blockbuster movie.

Certainly studios want to appeal to as much of all three target markets as possible.

Let's look at this:
The Great Wall
Worldwide Total: $260+ Million [US total: $34M China Total: $170M]
This means it made only $56 Million in the worldwide box office excluding China and the US.
So if it didn't do great in the primary target segment its chances of being a top 10 blockbuster are slim.

In fact, the so called "Chinese Factor of Hollywood" only exist in these people eyes, when they compare the Hollywood Movie screen in China as a totaly gross, you will understand the different.

The problem is, movies is just on a different world between the two, Chinese movie were not at all stimulating anything in hollywood, however, the reverse is true where Hollywood Movie sometimes to always score big in China, the problem is, any movie do great in China, they also do great in the rest of the world (beside the Chinese Themed Movie) For example, if we uses Resident Evil again as an example, you will see more or less 50% of the foreign box office for every one of them is from Japan. The question is, can we say RE series movie should be make for Japan? How about China? When the latest number crunched to 40% of the international box office. Thn should we start making movie out of everywhere just to get a certain percent of the "international pies"?

What has been doing now is to move a Hollywood movie directly to Chinese Market, the question remain, if a Hollywood movie do well in a foreign market, it have nothing to do with that movie being Chinese Themed, Bollywood Themed, J-Pop Themed, or K-Pop Themed, they do well because that is what the movie does, an American Script on American Actor. The Great Wall has taught us that anything other than that would basically lose the audience base and upset the balance, well, at leat not for the near future. Hollywood would never, ever accept a script that would not be selling well in Hollywood.

By the way, in case people don't know Resident Evil is made by Contantine Film, Capcom inc and Sony (via Sony America, via Sony Media Entertainment via Screen Gem), not one of these are American Company.....Contantine is German, Capcom and Sony both are Japanese....

 

[艹艹艹]

Does China Run Hollywood?
This is a joke

We don't need Hollywood！We need more cinemas and make more money from westerners！We should encourage them to go to the cinema for consumption（spend money）

Wanda Group (simplified Chinese: 万达集团; traditional Chinese: 萬達集團; pinyin: Wàndá Jítuán), or Dalian Wanda (Chinese: 大连万达), is a Chinese multinational conglomerate corporation and the world's biggest private property developer and owner and the world's largest cinema chain operator, owning Wanda Cinemas and the Hoyts Group, as well as a majority share of AMC Theaters.

①“ Wanda Acquires AMC Movies”，
② AMC, the U.S. theater chain controlled by China’s Dalian Wanda group, is to pay $929 million for Nordic Cinema Group. The company is the largest cinema operator in seven countries in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

 

[jhungary]

Does China Run Hollywood?
This is a joke

We don't need Hollywood！We need more cinemas and Make more money from westerners！We should encourage them to go to the cinema to consumption（spend money）

Wanda Group(simplified Chinese:万达集团;traditional Chinese:萬達集團;pinyin:Wàndá Jítuán), orDalian Wanda(Chinese:大连万达), is a Chinese multinationalconglomerate corporation and the world's biggest private property developer and owner and the world's largest cinema chain operator, owningWanda Cinemas and the Hoyts Group, as well as a majority share of AMC Theaters.

①“ Wanda Acquires AMC Movies”，
②AMC, the U.S. theater chain controlled by China’s Dalian Wanda group, is to pay $929 million forNordic Cinema Group. The company is the largest cinema operator in seven countries in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

You do know Cinema pays heavy royalty to the Production Company and most of them don't earn much, in AMC Case, even as the biggest chain in the world, their yearly profits are less than 150 millions USD.

Wanda sole intention to obtain AMC Threater is because they want to bring Chinese Movie to the US, but with the current few Chinese project, they aren't doing well in that front.

 

[qwerrty]

Does China Run Hollywood?
This is a joke

We don't need Hollywood！We need more cinemas and make more money from westerners！We should encourage them to go to the cinema for consumption（spend money）

Wanda Group (simplified Chinese: 万达集团; traditional Chinese: 萬達集團; pinyin: Wàndá Jítuán), or Dalian Wanda (Chinese: 大连万达), is a Chinese multinational conglomerate corporation and the world's biggest private property developer and owner and the world's largest cinema chain operator, owning Wanda Cinemas and the Hoyts Group, as well as a majority share of AMC Theaters.

①“ Wanda Acquires AMC Movies”，
② AMC, the U.S. theater chain controlled by China’s Dalian Wanda group, is to pay $929 million for Nordic Cinema Group. The company is the largest cinema operator in seven countries in the Nordic and Baltic regions.

they also owning legendary entertainment that made many big budget movies with very big box-office in hundreds of millions and some over a billion. that's one of the reason that hollywood starting to knowtowing to china lol

 

[jhungary]

they also owning legendary entertainment that made many big budget movies with very big box-office in hundreds of millions and some over a billion. that's one of the reason that hollywood starting to knowtowing to china lol

Legendary is not one of the big guy in Hollywood. In fact, Legendary is somewhere in the mid-low tier independent production company, only 2 movie ever broke thru 1 billions mark - Dark Knight Return and Jurassic World. Not to mention both film was actually not owned by Legendary, rather they are co-produced by Legendary and own by Universal and WB respectively.

Funny tho, all 9 movie produced by Legendary post Wanda transfer did not earn more than the 1.6 billions from the last Tull era Legendary movie. Consider all 9 movie are stars with A-lister. They basically bombed the box office post Wanda Transfer.

2005 Batman Begins Nolan, ChristopherChristopher Nolan Syncopy Warner Bros. $374,218,673 [29]
002 !2006 Superman Returns Singer, BryanBryan Singer Peters Entertainment / Bad Hat Harry Warner Bros. $391,081,192 [30]
003 !2006 Lady in the Water Shyamalan, M. NightM. Night Shyamalan Blinding Edge Pictures Warner Bros. $72,785,169 [31]
004 !2006 Ant Bully !The Ant Bully Davis, John A.John A. Davis Playtone / DNA Productions Warner Bros. $55,181,129 [32]
005 !2006 Beerfest Chandrasekhar, JayJay Chandrasekhar Gerber Pictures / Cataland Films / Broken Lizard Warner Bros. $20,387,597 [33]
006 !2006 We Are Marshall McG Thunder Road Pictures / Wonderland Sound and Vision Warner Bros. $43,545,364 [34]
007 !2007 00300 !300 Snyder, ZackZack Snyder Virtual Studios Warner Bros. $456,068,181 [35]
008 !2008 10000 BC !10,000 BC Emmerich, RolandRoland Emmerich Centropolis Warner Bros. $269,784,201 [36]
009 !2008 Dark Knight !The Dark Knight Nolan, ChristopherChristopher Nolan Syncopy Warner Bros. $1,004,558,444 [37]
010 !2009 Watchmen Snyder, ZackZack Snyder Lawrence Gordon Productions Warner Bros. / Paramount $185,258,983 [38]
011 !2009 Observe and Report Hill, JodyJody Hill DeLine Pictures Warner Bros. $26,973,554 [39]
012 !2009 Hangover !The Hangover Phillips, ToddTodd Phillips Green Hat Films Warner Bros. $467,483,912 [40]
013 !2009 Trick 'r Treat Dougherty, MichaelMichael Dougherty Bad Hat Harry Warner Bros. $0 !— [41]
014 !2009 Where the Wild Things Are Jonze, SpikeSpike Jonze Playtone / Village Roadshow Pictures Warner Bros. $100,086,793 [42]
015 !2009 Ninja Assassin McTeigue, JamesJames McTeigue Dark Castle Entertainment / Silver Pictures / Anarchos Productions Warner Bros. $61,601,280 [43]
016 !2010 Clash of the Titans Leterrier, LouisLouis Leterrier Thunder Road Pictures / Zanuck Company !The Zanuck Company Warner Bros. $493,214,993 [44]
017 !2010 Jonah Hex Hayward, JimmyJimmy Hayward Mad Chance / Weed Road Pictures Warner Bros. $10,903,312 [45]
018 !2010 Inception Nolan, ChristopherChristopher Nolan Syncopy Warner Bros. $825,532,764 [46]
019 !2010 Town !The Town Affleck, BenBen Affleck GK Films / Thunder Road Pictures Warner Bros. $154,026,136 [47]
020 !2010 Due Date Phillips, ToddTodd Phillips Green Hat Films Warner Bros. $211,780,824 [48]
021 !2011 Sucker Punch Snyder, ZackZack Snyder Cruel and Unusual Films Warner Bros. $89,792,502 [49]
022 !2011 Hangover Part II !The Hangover Part II Phillips, ToddTodd Phillips Green Hat Films Warner Bros. $586,764,305 [50]
023 !2012 Wrath of the Titans Liebesman, JonathanJonathan Liebesman Thunder Road Pictures Warner Bros. $305,270,083 [51]
024 !2012 Dark Knight Rises !The Dark Knight Rises Nolan, ChristopherChristopher Nolan Syncopy Warner Bros. $1,084,439,099 [52]
025 !2013 Jack the Giant Slayer Singer, BryanBryan Singer New Line Cinema / Original Film / Big Kid Pictures / Bad Hat Harry Warner Bros. $197,687,603 [53]
026 !2013 00042 !42 Helgeland, BrianBrian Helgeland — Warner Bros. $97,470,701 [54]
027 !2013 Hangover Part III !The Hangover Part III Phillips, ToddTodd Phillips Green Hat Films Warner Bros. $362,000,072 [55]
028 !2013 Man of Steel Snyder, ZackZack Snyder Syncopy Warner Bros. $668,045,518 [56]
029 !2013 Pacific Rim del Toro, GuillermoGuillermo del Toro DDY Warner Bros. $411,002,906 [57]
031 !2014 00300: Rise of an Empire !300: Rise of an Empire Murro, NoamNoam Murro Cruel and Unusual Films / Atmosphere Pictures / Hollywood Gang Warner Bros. $337,580,051 [58]
031 !2014 Godzilla Edwards, GarethGareth Edwards — Warner Bros. / Toho $529,076,069 [59]
032 !2014 As Above, So Below Dowdle, John ErickJohn Erick Dowdle — Universal $41,898,409 [60]
033 !2014 Dracula Untold Shore, GaryGary Shore Michael De Luca Productions Universal $217,124,280 [61]
034 !2014 Interstellar Nolan, ChristopherChristopher Nolan Syncopy / Lynda Obst Productions Paramount / Warner Bros. $675,120,017 [62]
035 !2014 Seventh Son Bodrov, SergeiSergei Bodrov Thunder Road Pictures / Wigram Productions Universal $114,178,613 [63]
036 !2014 Unbroken Jolie, AngelinaAngelina Jolie Jolie Pas / 3 Arts Entertainment Universal $163,278,357 [64]
037 !2015 Blackhat Mann, MichaelMichael Mann Forward Pass Universal $19,589,056 [65]
038 !2015 Dead Rising: Watchtower (D) Lipovsky, ZachZach Lipovsky Contradiction Films / Di Bonaventura Digital Crackle / Content Media $0 !— [66]
039 !2015 Jurassic World Trevorrow, ColinColin Trevorrow Amblin Entertainment Universal $1,670,400,637 [67]
040 !2015 Straight Outta Compton Gray, F. GaryF. Gary Gray New Line Cinema / Cube Vision / Crucial Films / Broken Chair Flickz Universal $201,634,991 [68]
041 !2015 Steve Jobs Boyle, DannyDanny Boyle Scott Rudin Productions / Mark Gordon Company / Entertainment 360 / Decibel Films / Cloud Eight Films Universal $34,441,873 [69]
042 !2015 Crimson Peak del Toro, GuillermoGuillermo del Toro DDY Universal $74,679,822 [70]
043 !2015 Krampus Dougherty, MichaelMichael Dougherty Zam Pictures Universal $61,548,707 [71]
044 !2016 Fastball Hock, JonathanJonathan Hock Major League Baseball Gravitas Ventures $0 !— [72]
045 !2016 Warcraft Jones, DuncanDuncan Jones Atlas Entertainment Universal $433,537,548 [73]
046 !2016 Dead Rising: Endgame (D) Williams, PatPat Williams DR2 / Contradiction Films Crackle $0 !— [74]
047 !2016 Thinning !The Thinning (D) Gallagher, MichaelMichael Gallagher — YouTube Red $0 !— [75]
048 !2016 Spectral (D) Mathieu, NicNic Mathieu — Netflix $0 !— [76]
049 !2016 Great Wall !The Great Wall (E) Zhang Yimou Atlas Entertainment / Kava Productions / Le Vision Pictures Universal / CFGC $271,405,640 [77]
Box office total: $13,867,284,780

According to Hollywood Insider guide, Legendary is not on the Major or Semi-Major list, they are on the independent list, which is as good as you go to the America and start your own movie company.

 

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Does China Run Hollywood?

With China's market for movies expanding at an insane rate, Hollywood now has a powerful new audience to consider.


China's market for movies is expanding at an insane rate. Over the course of roughly a decade, the country's box office sales have grown almost twice as fast as their economy at large, and in 2017 movie sales in China are expected to outnumber those in the US. This is due, in no small part, to the country's rapidly growing middle class. An estimated 76 percent of China's urban population will be considered middle class by 2022.

So, Hollywood has an obvious financial incentive to appeal to a Chinese audience. But large production companies also have to consider whether their film will actually make it into Chinese theaters.

An international quota system sets a cap on the number of foreign films that can screen in the country each year. In 2016 it was just 34. And although there are no official rules outlining what kind of movies the government will accept, it's pretty much assumed that anything critical of China won't make the cut.

It's IMPOSSIBLE that the Jews let loose their tight grip there!
Like the other medium of information/news media (printed, online, broadcast/TV Networks, voice/Radio Networks includes the book publications as well) in the USA, the entertainment, label records and movie industry in Hollywood are controlled mostly by the Jews. Any proposition suggests differently at current timeframe is surreal!