>“Spider-Man: No Way Home” was not released in China after Sony rejected a request to delete scenes that include the Statue of Liberty, a new report claims.
>In China, films are reviewed by the China Film Administration under the Publicity Department of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). According to multiple sources who spoke to Puck, Chinese authorities initially wanted Sony and Marvel Studios to take out the American landmark, which is prominently featured during the film's third act.
>Chinese regulators reportedly modified the original request to remove the action-packed sequence, instead asking for the removal of certain shots from the sequence that they deemed too “patriotic,” such as the scenes where Tom Holland’s Spider-Man stands on the Statue of Liberty’s crown. The regulators also suggested dimming the parts when the statue is shown to make it less noticeable.
>Sony ultimately rejected the request, resulting in Chinese authorities preventing the latest Spider-Man film from being released in the biggest film market in the world. The film lost a potential $170 million-$340 million in sales from China, according to reports.
>“Spider-Man: Homecoming,” the first film in the latest Spider-Man trilogy, earned around $117 million – 13.3% of its global earnings – in China in 2017. Its sequel, 2019’s “Spider-Man: Far From Home,” generated around $204.9 million – 18.25% of its global earnings – in the region.
>Despite never having been released in China, “Spider-Man: No Way Home” still became one of the highest-grossing movies of all time, listed behind other blockbusters such as “Avatar,” “Titanic,” “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” and “Avengers: Infinity War.”
How long until China just bans foreign movies altogether? Last year, the Hollywood Reporter was predicting they'd do it eventually.
Michael Myers
Is this fucking serious? Why is China mad that a an actual statue that actually exists is in a scene in a movie set in the real world city that it actually exists in?
Hey China, I demand you remove all images of the Summer Palace from all movies you import to America, even if they're set in Beijing.
>Its funny because its obvious that the chinese market isn't needed any more for big box office movies to be successful.
What? Some movies are gonna be big no matter what, but when you throw $200M into a CGI fest movie like Eternals or Shang Chi and only get $400M in BO gross because they don't come out in China, that's a problem.
The only logical thing to do if you can't get China releases is to make cheaper/ smaller movies unless you're sure it's gonna be a SM level hit.
Liam Flores
Fuck China and every slant-eyed commie rice picker there
Joshua Kelly
Why does hollywood give a shit about china so much? Why cant they just market to america and europe aka the only important non shithole countries
Adrian Butler
Think about it. Its literally called the "statue of liberty". That raises questions the government might not want to answer.
Hunter Long
Then maybe greedy studio execs need to be happy with only 400 million for once.
Adam Williams
strictly speaking the official name of the statue is "La Liberté éclairant le monde" (Liberty enlightening the world). Which I guess would actually be worse from their standpoint, I guess.
Colton Reyes
money. China alone makes up like 15% of the global population and they've finally got disposable income at the consumer level.
Henry Watson
More population means more potential asses in seats and more money Capital does not have a conscience
Anthony Miller
But the west and other markets are more profitable then constantly pandering to china is
Charles Gray
NO >YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR BLOATED BUDGET BLOCKBUSTER >YOU WILL ENJOY YOUR NO-BUDGET INDIE FILM >YOU WILL NOT LOOK FOR MID-BUDGET MOVIES
Isn't Xi busy locking down cities again because their chink medicine can't handle the Omicron variant?
Justin Howard
Sony is a Japanese company. Pissing off China is worth millions of dollars to them.
Michael Lewis
Capitalism. Billions of people = billions of bucks. Not too mention China is pretty advanced and can afford to have a stable movie market. If India and Africa were even half as advanced as China we'd be doing the same too them.
Sebastian Reed
because it allows them to bloat their budgets and get moar zorkmid. It doesn't matter how, all that matters is that they get the most they can.
David Fisher
>Isn't Xi busy locking down cities again because their chink medicine can't handle the Omicron variant? It's all a ruse user, the lockdowns are only in place to further stretch the west's own wheat supply, it will end once we become dependent on Chinese wheat
Gavin Martin
>Not too mention China is pretty advanced and can afford to have a stable movie market Those liveleak escalator videos from china that ive seen beg to differ
Carson Hughes
The Tiananmen Square protestors made their own 30 foot "Goddess of Democracy" statue out of paper mache that the tanks ran over.
Justin Jones
Thats retarded we supply the world with wheat not china
Blake Taylor
>it will end once we become dependent on Chinese wheat if they think Americans won't eat cornbread just to spite China, they've never tasted cornbread.
>The Tiananmen Square protestors made their own 30 foot "Goddess of Democracy" statue out of paper mache that the tanks ran over. ...ah, it all comes into focus
Because they have a fuckhuge population and the Indian market is too difficult to penetrate thanks to having their own prominent film industry.
Austin Harris
Why cant the glowies do some good and destabilize the CCP like they did to the soviets already? Im a /toy/ soldier and i want these lockdowns to end so that it doesnt interrupt my flow of new action figures, the gooks can all die en masse for all i care as long as i get new star wars toys
If there's one thing Americans know, it's how to replace any ingredient with corn based substitutes.
Nicholas Ortiz
>hopefully we wont have to deal with shoehorned in chink themes in movies Great, now we'll get gayer capeshit soon now that the mouse won't have to worry about the censors anymore. Hopefully it will make the genre die out like the cowboys.
Austin Reyes
The $23 millon The Batman got in China wouldn't have saved Shang-Chi or Eternals. The combination of dystopian lock-downs and Xi's push against Western films has pretty much kill Chinese non-domestic box office.
Compared to everybody else around them, yes. Russia has all that land and resources yet the only tolerable place is Moscow. Same thing with North Korea but their situation is far worse. Vietnam has terrible infastructure, and we all know how India is doing.
Jack James
The CCP wised up. Some years ago, they fucking necked all the glowie spies order 66 style inside their country after a leak.
David Diaz
>Some years ago, they fucking necked all the glowie spies order 66 style inside their country after a leak. Jesus fuck
But again cant they just send arms to fifth columns within the chinese infrastructure?
Wait, Pattinson Batman got a Chinese release? Weird, I was just under the impression that they were banning capeshit movies in general thanks to Overlord Xi's crackdown on Western media. So just assuming that it's China singling out Disney specifically, why are Sony's bootleg Marvel movies being refused releases as well? Venom 2 and Morbius both got formally knocked back.
Brayden Lewis
>Oh no that most profitable movie and success story since Endgame can't make money from the chinks, oh the humanity
sounds like you've never tasted cornbread either, it's like 500 times better than wheat bread.
Ethan Rogers
>Compared to everybody else around them, yes. Russia has all that land and resources yet the only tolerable place is Moscow. Well if putin dies from brain cancer god willing then maybe russia will be less shit to live in >and we all know how India is doing. Indians are the most based third worlders alongside spics. They live in squalor but the fucking cinema experiences ive seen online that they have makes the streetshitters seem like the human eqivlenent to the orks from warhammer 40k
The Batman shows America as a hopeless, crime-ridden dystopia full of maniacs, why WOULDN'T China screen it there?
Cooper Carter
can a mod please do something about the /pol/tards that have swarmed over this thread like ants on a dropped lollipop
Christopher Cook
Russia's rotten to the core, Putin's inner circle and all the Oligarchs are corrupt, evil criminals plucked from the Mob, just like he is. Average Ivan will never have a normal life.
Josiah Rogers
How is this thread /pol/? If anything its more /int/ then anything else
Nolan King
But is it healthier?
Julian Rivera
Holy shit Sony got cajones suddenly
Carter Green
>Spider-Man could've been the highest grossing movie ever if China didn't throw a tantrum over a statue Crazy to think about
Josiah Howard
If they'd start making movies with smaller budgets I'd start watching them again
Robert Sanders
Hopefully the next puppet president the americans put in there isn't as fucking retarded as the last one they choosed.
Eli Edwards
>depending on China Some West we are.
Robert Peterson
Never it will be always the carrot at the end of the stick, knowing that if you bend the knee you will have sweet Yuans
Jaxon Wood
movie already like 2bil(?) whats the problem?
Jack Reyes
Based China, fuck Sony
Hunter Rodriguez
I used to think I was racist, but I realized I just hate commies. I'm fine with black people. I'm fine with Hispanic people. I'm fine with Japanese people. I'm fine with gay people. I'm fine with trans people. I'm fine with women. But I truly hate the Chinese, Slavs and Californians with a passion.
James Brooks
Yes, the entire west should watch some capeshit schlock to own the chinks.
Samuel Parker
If the pattern of the movie making ~15% of its box office in China continued, they could've made another $300M just by toning down the patriotic imagery a bit in a regional release, that's almost how much Spider-Verse made in total as a full movie that cost $90M to make.
Gabriel Rivera
Slavs haven't been commies since the 90s. Putin is just another flavour of capitalist imperialism.
Andrew Reed
>doesn't hate Jews Hmmm...
Colton Reed
>america shoves a bunch of unnecessary nationalism into an other apolitical movie >gets asked to remove it by another country >throws temper tantrum When will the US grow up?
Luke Sanders
any time you see the word 'glowie' you're looking at high-octane /pol/
Charles Perry
>130439125 >low effort bait you don't even get a (You).
Jewish people are fine. Israel is very clearly corrupt and bloodthirsty though and them trying to spin every critique on them as antisemitism is scummy and pathetic. But everyday civilian Jews are perfectly fine people.
Christian Young
t.housenigger of multinational corporations.
Brody Rodriguez
Ok, Agent Glowmore
Camden Lewis
if they don't suck down propaganda like it's water and they're dying of thirst Chinese and Russian people are fine. Their governments can eat my ass before I've wiped, though
Leo Sanders
Not only that but the chinese are blatant thieves who are encouraged to spend money on propaganda films then sneak into western movies. Why waste money?
Charles Bailey
feds get paid way more than I do, I've just got an education and a lot of debt. sorry to disappoint Nazi-kun
Easton Foster
The box office split in China is 75-25 in favor of the distributor. So Marvel-Sony would only get 75 million of that 300 Million and that gets split 75-25 again in favor of Sony, which is 57 million.
Jonathan Nelson
china is capitalist, and makes the motions of seeming to be on the left, but it absolutely is not communist. right wing traditional values rule politics and business there, and xi xinping and has literally praised free markets in at least one speech
Asher Reyes
We're talking about revenue not profit, not like Spider-Verse gave them $375M in pure profit, once you factor in the theater split and marketing it comes out to like $10M of profit
Matthew Long
>he believes Hollywood math movies generally cost twelve dollars to make and only get called 'unprofitable' until it's blatantly clear they aren't so rich Hollywood assholes can avoid paying taxes.
Caleb Morales
nope keep coping xi
Xavier Wright
Cool, still hate China and Russia though.
Jayden Hill
China being right-wing doesn't mean it's capitalist. Xi would probably be good buddies with ol' Dolphie (as long as neither of them wanted the same bit of land).
Carson Barnes
I would have genuinely wanted to slash the neck of the person who would allowed the Statue of Liberty to be removed from the film if they bowed down to the bugmen. These movies are AMERICAN movies based on an AMERICAN character from an AMERICAN IP. I can only stand for such much in this world. I will go full Nasim if American film studios put our interests second before the interests of the Chinese.
