International markets

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. For its diminutive size, South Korea is the fourth largest movie market for box office revenue, and the fifth in terms of box office admissions, although there are arguments on Reddit for South Koreans being the top movie ticket buyers in the world outside of the US.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. In 2007, film production in the UK was given a 25% tax rebate of its expenditure subject to certain requirements such as hiring a percentage of local cast and crew and shooting in the UK.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. While 2019 has been an exceptional year for Hollywood films in Japan, the third-largest movie market in the world ceded the number two spot to China in 2013.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. A quick Google search of the Russian box office for this year reveals that all but one of the top 20 grossers are Hollywood movies.

For four months last year Fan Bingbing, the most famous actress in China, disappeared, alarming her fans and causing all kinds of conspiracy theories on social media. She reemerged from her (voluntary?) seclusion when she was charged with tax evasion for understating her earnings on at least four fake movie contracts, something that is apparently common practice in China.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. When high hopes for the box office for Pacific Rim were dashed when it only made $102 million domestically with a production budget of $190, it was China to the rescue where the film earned an additional $112 million.

One in an occasional series exploring the state of Hollywood films in global markets. The fifth highest-grossing movie ever in the biggest film-producing country in the world is not a Bollywood film.

When one hears the name Bollywood, what comes to mind, most often than not, are three-hour-long movies with song and dance no matter what the genre, movies driven by star power such as Aamir Khan, Salman Khan, Shah Rukh Khan and Akshay Kumar. These stars will still shine but they seem to be losing a little bit of their luster as is evident from the latest box office figures, all recent films starring the four actors have opened with good box office numbers and then have taken a nosedive.

In a country addicted to 3-hour long movies that are mash-ups of every genre (musical numbers, bodice-ripping melodrama, action and chase scenes all in the same movie) with saintly mothers, perky heroines and suffering-while-singing heroes, the second biggest movie of last year was The Jungle Book.   It shattered every record by grossing $39 million.