THE MUMMY WRAPS BIG RETURNS IN CHINA

forbes.com/sites/scottmendelson/2017/06/09/box-office-tom-cruises-the-mummy-earns-huge-19m-friday-in-china/#3ac45c662ef0

>If it plays like a standard Hollywood release in China (2.0x to 2.2x the weekend figure), we're looking at a final gross in China of between $90m and $121m.

What now haters?

>WRAPS BIG RETURNS
That's not even a fucking pun.

I'm glad Cruise films are doing well. He deserves it tbhq+

anybody how much is the average for a ticket in china? 19m doesn't seem that much for a country that big

Maybe Scientology isn't bad

Is that huge for China?

I've said it before, but after FF8 China will be deciding what Hollywood makes instead of the US

damn, they made a movie for final fantasy 8?

Why would anyone want this movie to do poorly?

Tom is one of the nicest working actors in Hollywood, he's just a bit weird.

He was fucking amazing in magnolia

what is that?

t. scientology shill

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You have to be 18+ to post here

What's Scientology?

I want my main man Brendan back.

I don't understand

Time travel kino.

You cant bruise the Cruise.

>TOM CRUISE BECOMES THE MUMMY
WHAT THE FUCK WERE THEY THINKING

>they didn't make Tom a van helsing

wasted potential

Maybe it's because it's a shit movie.

So people can see why Hollywood is basically totally reliant on China right? Keep an eye out for movies that cosy up to them.

>chinks love bloated cgi shitfests
wow bob wow

Turns out the rest of the world has better tastes than americucks.

A mummy or pirate movie, no matter how bad, will always be better than capeshit and garbage like WW.

are tom posters literally scientologists? china propping up these garbage movies is a terrible thing

Warcraft did better

>A mummy or pirate movie, no matter how bad, will always be better than capeshit and garbage like WW.
its all the same shit, you should be ashamed

Every action movie with supernatural elements is now the same as capeshit? Wow, you are stupid.

It's a dumb cgi shitfest Scientology shill. give it up.

It's all rehashed shit from a creatively bankrupt medium

Hahaha the Chinese are truly destroying film.

Fucking race of tasteless, pleb nerds.

CGI loving commies vs capeshit lovin manchildren and bulldykes

take your pic, the end result is the same

so was the original Mummy so what's the problem

>Cruise's first scene is Islamic Terrorists destroying Ancient Egyptian statues
>Airstrike is called in after Cruise and the other guy make their way down into the town
>Terrorists run scared away
BASED

Because it's a big heaping pile of crap that represents so many things wrong with hollywood and movies in general at the moment.

>90-120 million weekend

Not record breaking but great

Of course it did great. This movie was engineered to do well overseas. It's basically a marketing project in the form of a movie.
Because it's a shit movie meant to launch another 'cinematic universe' of terrible movies lacking substance entirely, meant only to set up the next cross-over. It checks off almost everything on the 'what's wrong with Hollywood' list.
>remake
>cinematic universe
>geared for overseas success with tuns of pointless exposition in the form of a voice-over that can be dubbed to have an entirely different, culture-specific meaning
>terrible story
>terrible directing
>cheesy comic relief character
This movie is pure exploitative capitalism and I'm not saying that capitalism is a bad thing: it isn't. But when it masquerades as art, it should be shit on.

>Being such a failure and a has been that your movies no longer do well in America

>Being such a loser and a former star that you have to pretend to be happy about doing well in China

His career is truly over

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 opened with 49.4 million, so 19m sounds kinda bad.

There's absolutely nothing wrong with having success overseas, other than that i agree with everything

49 over the weekend, which was meh for GotG and Cruise is BTFOing them

>can't show Ghostbusters in Chiba because ghosts
>The Mummy is fine, though

Overseas is the only place that still values white people like Tom as lead actors.

I agree completely. There's nothing wrong with it as long as that movie achieves that success because it's a good movie. The problem is, this movie was designed specifically for that purpose and it's so fucking obvious.

It's a bad sign, that Hollywood is just going to start completely gearing movies towards success in China.

somebody care to explain how a 19mil friday translates to a $90m and $121m weekend?

>19 million
That's not even impressive in the US.

He actually said final gross, not weekend

Just realized it's 90-120 million final gross

So it's actually on par with GotG

big returns in little china

The real problem is the kind of movies fucking China likes. A successful film in Europe is very different.

jfmsu

is this the film equivalent to when a band is "big in Japan"? The Chinese markets.

Every movie that is an empty vehicle for a new 'cinematic universe' is absolutely the same as capeshit, you massive retard.

I think cinematic universes can be alright, Kevin Smith did it with his films for a while before he started making hot garbage like Yoga Hosers, but it shouldn't be the sole reason behind making a movie like this seems to be doing, maybe as an afterthought, like a cameo or an easter egg.

>implying monster crossovers are anything new
>bored millenials and gen z complain about this for some reason because they don't know better

why does china have such awful taste in movies

Cinematic universe is actually a great idea for Hollywood but you need to make good films first for it to work.

China is where movie careers go to die

peasants who never got the chance of watching movies previously in history

Mao killed all the smart Chinese decades ago and now theres billions of poor retards who love transformers and other movie pieces of shit

I don't think Kevin Smith set out to create a cinematic universe with crossover between his movies.

The Mummy and a lot of the capeshit movies just feel like they were created by a bunch of marketing guys and executives in suits sitting around a table, dictating what might be the most successful thing. They just feel so lifeless and uninspired.

>it's an Americucks pretend only China has shit taste in movies episode

did anyone else watch Dracula untold? It was so fucking boring. Since that flopped why are they trying to make this monster movie verse again?

Americans watch superior movies like Star Wars, La La Land and Get Out

at least La La Land and Get Out aren't cinematic universes

Moonlight was. It was a prequel to Spotlight

Do the Chinese have their own version of weebs? What do they call them?

Capitalism.

Those movies weren't soulless vehicles made for the soul purpose of cross-overs with nothing but making money overseas in mind. Don't be retarded with the strawman.

I partially agree with you, user. I think the concept of cinematic universes could work if executed correctly but I hate lazily half-assed movies that solely exist for promotion. Marvel started off okay but ran into problems rushing into phase 2 and 3.

Based Cruise reliving the 80's in China.

kys

Why when capitalism is slowly killing us all

God fucking damn the Chinese

Yes, so why wait?
Less suffering for you.

>le capitalism is perfect
kys retard

Only if you come with me

What's the alternative? I like capitalism better than anything else that humans have thought up.

Full Stalinism

t. oldman

Why are the chinese so retarded, seriously?

A mix of capitalism and socialism, like a lot of great european countries have.

>the chinese love it
is that supposed to be a good thing?

>Turns out the rest of the world has better tastes than americucks.

t. 5'4 tiny dick chink

Can't we at least be happy for /ourguy/?

"great" european countries

/ourjew/ has thrived in hollywood despite all odds

the number of western movies allowed to be shown is limited so they don't exactly have much standard when it's their monthly viewing, assuming they can even afford it that often.

I might be mistaken but I don't think THEY HAD CGI IN 1932 YOU FUCKING 20 YEAR OLD FAILURE WHO DOESN'T KNOWN HIS FUCKING KINO.

>within 5 years nearly every summer blockbuster will be made specifically to do well in china

autism

I thought China didn't allow movies about spoopy undead.
Maybe it's just skeletons?

Favourite movies in China

>Transformers
>Fast and Furious
>The Mummy

How can they be so tasteless?Maybe they seriously can't even read and just want dumb explosions.

Cultural revolution pretty much killed all of China's intelligence and all that's left are farmer/worker idiots and their offsprings.

so what's the USA's excuse for having shit tastes in movies?

And americans like smart explosions like 9/11?

Lets all be honest here, India has even worse taste in movies then China

>literally all movies now being made with the chink market pandering at their core
>films becoming default schlock before they're even story-boarded

'The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.'
--Sun Tzu, The Art of War (III:6 -- Attack by Stratagem)

>Why are the chinese so retarded, seriously?
sic-fi was banned under Mao

after realising how retarded their culture had become under communist despotism, the politburo sent delegations out, around the world, to try to find out why

they discovered that banning sci-fi (i.e., avenues for creativity), retarded their evolution

hence, sci-fi (etc.) was made legal and now they've opened up their market to hollyschlock

>Americucks mad that the Chinese don't eat up capeshit and nigger pandering like they do and prefer generic action flicks
loving every laugh