As of press time, the domestic box office has exceeded 4.7 billion yuan. After the China film market broke various box office records, the majority of fans focused on whether this film can enter the Top100 of the global box office list. If it is on the list, "Wolf Warriors 2" will be the only Chinese-language film to make the Top100 box office in the world.
According to the data of Box Office Mojo, the film ranked 99th at the global box office is $679 million at the global box office, which is equivalent to RMB 4.522 billion. Obviously, Wolf Warriors 2 has surpassed Spider-Man: The Return of Heroes in the global box office.
However, up to now, we haven’t seen Wolf Warriors 2 in the global box office list of Box Office Mojo.
Popularize science, Box Office Mojo— — A website of Amazon that systematically calculates the box office of movies. Brandon Gray, the founder, founded the website in August 1998. Up to now, the average monthly traffic of the website has reached one million. Box Office Mojo forum is one of the features of this website.
It is understood that Box Office Mojo will ignore movies that are not released authoritatively in North America, while the publisher of Wolf Warriors 2 shows "n/a" on the website, which means "unavailable". Therefore, searching for Wolf Warriors 2 on the website didn’t show any information, and MOJO didn’t seem to admit this movie which was a big hit in China.
Reject Chinese movies on the list? Fair treatment is the greatest respect.
It is reported that the reason why Box Office Mojo does not recognize the box office of Wolf Warriors 2 may lie in the phenomenon of water flooding at the domestic box office. In 2015, it was once removed by Box Office Mojo, which set the highest box office record in China. Although "monster hunt" still appeared in the 2015 mainland box office list in China, the website posted an announcement that "the box office in China will be closed until a more reliable data source is found".
In this regard, domestic netizens exploded, saying that this is a disrespect for China’s films. Some netizens even said: "Don’t watch any Hollywood movies in the future, start with me, make my share of power to lower the Hollywood box office, and boycott it from the end of August."
Post bar users snoring pig: Is it really like Wu Shuo’s kneeling for too long, can’t get up? Why should we judge our own films by foreign standards? Even if Wolf Warriors 2 is ranked 200+ abroad, what does it matter to us?
Netizen lishuo_33: The fact will not change because they admit it or not.
Netizen fff is: The box office of movies shown in China is not counted, and the top 100 have to be re-ranked, so delete the box office in China.
It can be seen from netizens’ messages that China fans are angry at the unfair treatment of Wolf Warriors 2.
Wolf Warriors 2’s box office exceeded 600 million dollars, attracting Hollywood’s attention.
Although "Wolf Warriors 2" doesn’t appear in the global box office list, can we really ignore this phenomenal Chinese film in China? The answer is obviously no! Especially for Hollywood, they can’t turn a blind eye to the box office figures of Wolf Warriors 2.
According to a report on the biweekly website of Forbes on August 10th, August 10th is the 15th day of Wolf Warriors 2’s release, and the box office is breaking through 600 million dollars, trying to catch up with the record of 90 million dollars from the third Friday to Sunday after its release.
The US media admits that this is not good news for Hollywood. Hollywood is counting on the China market to a certain extent, and from the perspective of global box office growth, China’s film market is the best-selling market, which has shown signs of decline for the American and European film markets.
It is reported that Hollywood has been on this road for some time, at least since the beginning of 2015. At that time, China surpassed North America at the box office in February, with films mostly made in China. Therefore, Hollywood hopes that the franchise blockbusters of their films in China will bring huge box office, and the best-selling Hollywood of Wolf Warriors 2 will naturally be affected.
Let’s take a look at the most popular China films besides Wolf Warriors 2, including pure original works like monster hunt, box office blockbusters with Jackie Chan as the main star, and numerous remakes of The Journey to the West or Chow Yun Fat.
Zhang Yimou’s movie earned $332 million at the box office in the world at the end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017. It is a fantasy film that is not adapted from any works. This fact alone makes it one of the most important original Hollywood live-action movies last year, second only to.
If China’s own filmmakers can bring works similar to typical Hollywood blockbusters in vision, scale and production level, the attraction of these Hollywood films in China may decline. China may be in a better position to negotiate about how much income Hollywood gets from film exports and how many American films can be shown in China in a given year.