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    AQUAMAN 2 directed by James Wan (12/16/22)

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    On 1/30/2024 at 12:28 PM, Chip Cataldo said:

    Small failure, large failure...all still means failure.

    If a film has a budget of $200 million and makes $150 million total yet had "legs" in theaters for 10+ weeks, who cares? It's a failure..

    In some bizarro universe, studios spend $350M all in with the intention of losing a little and not a lot

    AQUAMAN 2 directed by James Wan (12/16/22)

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    Why China Has Lost Interest in Hollywood Movies

    Claire FuBrooks BarnesDaisuke Wakabayashi

    By Claire Fu, Brooks Barnes and Daisuke Wakabayashi

    Claire Fu and Daisuke Wakabayashi reported from Seoul, and Brooks Barnes from Los Angeles.

    Jan. 23, 2024

    Before the sequel to “Aquaman” was released in China last month, Warner Bros. did everything it could to sustain the original movie’s success.

    The Hollywood studio blanketed Douyin, the Chinese version of TikTok, with movie clips, behind-the-scenes footage and a video of an Aquaman ice sculpture at a winter festival in Harbin, a city in China’s northeast. It sent the franchise’s star, Jason Momoa, and director, James Wan, on a publicity tour in China — the type of barnstorming that had disappeared since the Covid pandemic. Mr. Momoa said China’s fondness for the first “Aquaman” was why the sequel was debuting in China two days before the U.S. release.

    “I’m very proud that China loved it, so that’s why we brought it to you, and you guys are going to see it before the whole world,” he said in an interview with CCTV 6, China’s state-run film channel.

    The big push didn’t work.

    “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” has collected only about $60 million in China after a few weeks of release. That was nowhere near the 2018 original’s $90 million opening weekend in China on its way to a $293 million haul, accounting for a quarter of that movie’s $1.2 billion box office success.