After a weekend at the 1917 position, Chris Nolan’s Interstellar was again the number one film in China on Monday and Tuesday. The sci-fi adventure has grossed about $16.1 million since it reopened in China nine days ago, bringing its Chinese volume to $138.22 million. Combined with what it earned in its first premiere in 2014/2015, Matthew McConaughey’s $165 million film/Anne Hathaway/Jessica Chastain/Michael Caine grossed $693 million. If this continues, it may exceed $700 million internationally until the end of the week.
Meanwhile, the most productive Hollywood premiere of the weekend won’t be Bad Boys For Life (which doesn’t seem to do much more than Ford v Ferrari or Sonic the Hedgehog) but a 3D reissue of Harry for the first time. Potter and the Magic Stone. With $977 million in global sales, an expected opening of $15 million (as China Box Office says) and a total of $25 million can increase it to more than $1 billion worldwide.
For Interstellar, such a step would make it (with an apparent asterisk) the first fully original live-action film to surpass Alfonso Cuaron’s $700 million international since Alfonso Cuaron’s Gravity in 2013. This film about the Sandra Bullock/George Clooney area crisis has raised $723 million internationally, totaling $274 million domestic dollars and $70 million in China. Honestly, I’m surprised Gravity’s on Warner Bros. Reissies list. in China, because it is notoriously popular and only lasts 90 minutes, the year is not yet over.
It is supposedly around $100 million in China, which is less than it could have been in larger circumstances, but what would still have been a large sum combined with gross domestic and external income that are now evolving a lot. At the very least, we’ll see if he or Mulan (still scheduled for a movie theater premiere where Disney isn’t a factor) can at least surpass Bad Boys For Life ($419 million, and maybe $425 to $430 million after China). the biggest global benefit of the year in October.
As for Hollywood films, it would appear that the reisses have been larger than the late versions of 2019/2020. Credit piracy, initial selflessness, the rumor fades or viewers prefer to spice up old favorites, but it turns out tenet will be the first “new Hollywood movie to succeed in China” of the year. But the bad news for Bad Boys is good news for the boy who lived.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone may be the third film to make a million-dollar international deal thanks to a reissue, joining The Phantom Menace in 2012 and Jurassic Park in 2013. Currently, the only Harry Potter film that crosses that barrier is Harry Potter and Part II of the Deathly Hallows, which raised $1.342 billion in 2011 (the third-largest Titanic and Avatar in history at the time) thanks in component to the first bankruptcy filed in 3-D.
However, the first seven Harry Potter films raised between $792 million (Prisoner of Azkaban in 2004) and $977 million (Sorcerer’s Stone in 2001) from 2001 to 2010, meaning they would all be more than $1 billion if they adjusted to inflation. If Harry Potter marks a $15 million debut (which would be China’s biggest opening weekend since the reopening of theaters) and Inception’s hits pay for dirt on August 28, we may see many more reissues.
Until things return to a normal appearance, China will have to balance the “new” Hollywood premieres, delayed Hollywood premieres, new big Chinese and big delayed Chinese while making sure production shutdowns cause production disruptions in theaters. If the reissues continue to outperform delayed beginners, we may see many more older Hollywood blockbusters (Lord of the Rings, Pirates of the Caribbean, Gravity, Fast and the Furious, etc.) gaining a new boost in China. We can get the big Avengers: Endgame vs Avatar rematch as soon as possible. Place your bets.
I studied the film industry, both academically and informally, and with an analysis in the workplace, for almost 30 years. I’ve written a lot about everything
I studied the film industry, both academically and informally, and with an analysis in the workplace, for almost 30 years. I have written extensively on all these topics over the more than 11 years. My media for film reviews, workplace reviews and film bias scholarships have included The Huffington Post, Salon and Film Threat. Follow me on @ScottMendelson and like The Ticket Booth on Facebook.