Chris Hu said:
I think you need to check box office mojo, Titanic did play in China but it only managed to make $43 million there. Titanic's success is overblown one of the main reasons it made all that money because it stayed in theaters for a long ass time (287 days). It might have been the first movie to cross $600 million domestically but it will also always be the slowest movie to get to $600 million dollars since pretty much no movie gets even close to being in theaters for over 200 days now. |
You cannot compare the Chinese boxoffice from back to the current one. This past week, China just had the biggest boxoffice grossing a week ever - more that during the week of TFA's release in the US+Canada.
Titanic stayed in theatres because people kept going to watch it - do you think it would have still been playing if no one was going? The movie made $28M in its 8th week-end compared to TFA's $6M. Titanic just had amazing legs.
