China Box Office: ‘Godzilla vs. Kong’ Crushes With $70 Million Debut

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Even though Chinese consumers are arduously calling for a boycott of Western brands concerned about potential human rights abuses in the country’s Xinjiang region, they apparently had no qualms abo…

this weekend with a $70 million debut, marking the biggest premiere for a foreign title in both 2020 and 2021. Its sales marked 82% of the weekend market share, coming from 42,000 screens and more than 11.8 million admissions.

China sales for the fourth film in Legendary’s “MonsterVerse” played a major role in boosting Imax to its biggest world-wide box office weekend since the start of the pandemic, with $12.4 million in global sales across 40 international markets. They did so even amidst a nationalist firestorm pushing for boycotts of other foreign products. Chinese consumers and officials have this week slammed a long list of brands including Nike, Adidas and H&M for their concern over labor practices in the cotton industry of Xinjiang, a region where Beijing denies any wrongdoing but critics and U.S. officials say its policies are perpetrating a genocide.

 

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TuckerCarlson ClayTravis it’s easy to understand why CNN(Warner Bros) NBC/MSNBC (Universal) CBS (Paramount) & ABC (Disney) will always accept the CCP company line on the virus ..remember it was called “Wuhan virus”until China complained...just follow the movie money!!! Ch-Ching

damonbenning I wonder who wins? I’m team Kong.

But then next week GodzillaVsKong is expected to open with 65% less with about $25m over its 5 day opening weekend showing the US is about 12 months behind Asia and Australia and why studios should hold back summer reopening without PVOD backup until July

Godzilla was too masculine.. so was Kong.

Hell yeah! Screw your 1-star reviews on a film you’ve never seen, DC cultists!

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