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Knowing the Chinese like we do in 2020, they were no doubt showing this along with every other US produced movie in theaters back then and not paying any money for licensing fees and reaping 100% of the profits off of them. Who knows how much bootleg money was spent to go see Beauty and the Beast in China in 1991?

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:

Knowing the Chinese like we do in 2020, they were no doubt showing this along with every other US produced movie in theaters back then and not paying any money for licensing fees and reaping 100% of the profits off of them. Who knows how much bootleg money was spent to go see Beauty and the Beast in China in 1991?

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The cartoon Mulan (1998) www.imdb.com/title/tt0120762/
has Eddie Murphy as Mushu the Dragon and many non-Chinese actors.

When Disney made the live action version of Mulan (2020) the actors were Chinese, and no Eddie Murphy, no Mushu. I'm pretty sure Disney was bent to the will of Peking, oops, I mean Beijing.
www.imdb.com/title/tt4566758/

And then there is this complicated rewriting of the cartoon to please Peking (Beijing):

On February 27, 2020, film producer Jason Reed said that Mulan's love interest Captain Li Shang was dropped in response to the "Me Too movement". In his statement, he explained that "having a commanding officer that is also the sexual love interest was very uncomfortable and we didn’t think it was appropriate". The reasoning behind the removal was met with social media backlash from fans of the original movie, and some from the LGBTQ community who cited Shang's supposed bisexual relationship with "Ping". Reed acknowledged that Shang had become a "LGBTQ icon", and was initially surprised by criticism of the character's removal. It was also stated by the producer that Li Shang's character would be split into two new characters, Commander Tung and Chen Honghui.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mulan_(2020_film)#Controversies


The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... and to be fair, it didn't do very well in China at all. It should have though.

It got $20 Million there. Out of $1 Billion+.

The Force Awakens got $120 Million+ out of $2 Billion+

The Last Jedi got $40 Million+ out of $1.3 Billion+



Really... when looking at those numbers, even for Episode VII, it's kind of hard to imagine why Hollywood keeps bending the knee to China and letting the Chinese authorities what they can and can't put in their movies.

Sure... 120 Million is nothing to sneeze at, but not in one instance above was China the top international country that was showing them.





I'm going to assume that if China showed Joker, it would have only added roughly $60 Million to the Worldwide Gross.

But at what cost though?

If they had to water it down to where it wasn't even recognizable just to appease the Chinese Overlords, it probably wouldn't have even made $500 Million Worldwide.

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ok...finally watched it last night in my home theater...honestly the wife said she liked it...and I guess, as Star Wars properties go, it was on par...but saying that isn't a good thing...uninteresting main characters, setup of expectations that something serious was about to happen, and then it never really delivers...waaaay overdone nostaligia...really pushing it to try and find ways to bring old cast in for one last appearance and yet they really didn't do anything of consequence... I've probably just aged out, or have come to enjoy more mature stories like my Firefly and Expanse..the bring more to the plate in a single hour epi than the star wars franchise can bring in 3 connected movies...anyway..all done..can't imagine rewatching any of the "Rey" trilogy..just like I haven't gone back.. EVER...for a second helping of the "Natalie Portman can't act" trilogy.

forever grateful for the very first movie that came along at a time when we were starved for anything space-fi.

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Money is money. If they showed a hacked up version that made no sense... it's still a profit.

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Hard to ever say "it's official" because numbers seem to be able to be added and taken away from the tally at whim with no explanation, but these numbers have not changed for a while.

It looks like Joker wins.

Joker Total Worldwide Box Office: $1,074,251,311

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Joker-(2019)#tab=box-office

Rise of Skywalker Total Worldwide Box Office: $1,074,144,248

https://www.the-numbers.com/movie/Star-Wars-The-Rise-of-Skywalker-(201
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What a close race. Those numbers are insane.

If it hadn't been so terrible and got the repeat viewings expected from a Star Wars property, it would have beaten Joker a month before everything was shut down, so I'm not going to give it an asterisk.


Looks like this somehow even went under the YouTube nerd's radar with everything else going on. I wonder if anybody is ever going to catch it and report on it. Don't hold your breath for anybody in the Legacy and Access Media to ever let you know it happened.

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Is it just me, or have most of them become extremely annoying?

I've actually unsubbed and even blocked the content from a lot of them already after letting them know that they had better diversify their topics or look forward to their 15 minutes of fame running out.

I still watch The Quartering on occasion and heckle him for his sponsors, but I've already blocked Geeks and Gamers and Nerdrotic among a few others. At some point they start sounding just as bad as the people they're criticizing.

Something especially rubs me the wrong way about that Nerdrotic guy. I didn't really notice it until I saw a livestream of his that was just awful. The dude is a huge dick, especially when you see him talk to people on a full live stream that he doesn't edit. Once you've seen that, it's hard not to notice it on all of his videos.



I much prefer channels like RedLetterMedia, Cinema Snob, Nostalgia Critic, FanboyFlicks, SomeOrdinaryGamers, Ryan George, and a few others that aren't popping up in my head. They love giving shit, but they're much more even handed about it so they don't come off as whiny little bitches living in their mom's basement.

I prefer the "South Park" mentality. Give everybody shit, because everybody deserves getting shit.

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Who's pumped to see the new female-centric Star Wars TV Show written by ex-Harvey Weinstein personal assistant Leslye Headland?

"I AM!", said nobody ever.

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I've been so tuned out of all of this I didn't even bother clicking on the thumbnail when I saw that pop up into my feed.

I haven't hidden the fact that I didn't watch a Critical Drinker video since he called the Roadhouse remake woke when it wasn't, but it's ridiculous trying to paint him as a guy that incites violence.


Cut the shit, Disney. Your Star Wars shows suck ass, and you need to fire Kathleen Kennedy and anybody who she's hired over the years if you want to stop losing money.

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