Thanks to the chaos COVID-19 has wrought on Hollywood release schedules, U.S. films took their lowest share of Japan's box office in modern times. Western movies brought in just $328 million, down 71 percent. The Japanese box office plummeted more than 45 percent in 2020, after the novel conronvirus pandemic briefly shuttered cinemas in the country and weighed on moviegoing throughout much of the year. … [Read more...] about Japan’s Box Office Fell 45 Percent to $1.38 Billion in 2020
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It’s Official: China Overtakes North America as World’s Biggest Box Office in 2020
During the recent weeklong National Day holiday, running Oct. 1-8, China's cinemas sold $586 million worth of tickets. Local blockbuster My People, My Homeland brought in $19.1 million over just the past weekend, lifting its total earnings to $360 million after 18 days. China also has produced the world's biggest hit of 2020, WWII epic The Eight Hundred, with $460 million and counting. (Hollywood's biggest global earner this year is Sony's Bad Boys for Life at $426.5 million.) … [Read more...] about It’s Official: China Overtakes North America as World’s Biggest Box Office in 2020
‘Too Hot To Handle’ Tops Analyst’s List Of Most Viewed Netflix Shows In 10 Countries As Originals Dominate
One other element factors in when assessing Netflix activity in Asia. “After a couple of months we couldn’t find a Top 10 list in the websites of Netflix for Asian countries,” Juenger wrote. “We believe this has more to do with the company avoiding ‘industrial espionage’ by global and local competitors than anything else. Those countries are still in an earlier stage of SVOD when compared to the developed Western world, so it makes sense to us that Netflix doesn’t want its top competitors to learn what is resonating best with viewers in those geographies – at least not before Netflix can become dominant in those places as well.” … [Read more...] about ‘Too Hot To Handle’ Tops Analyst’s List Of Most Viewed Netflix Shows In 10 Countries As Originals Dominate