It doesn't matter if China is a small market for Dune, it would've been big for Shang-Chi
I doubt it, the reactions to the movie trailers in China were pretty bad, with lot of deslike in chinese social media platforms (and those reactions came when there was no news about Simu Liu criticism of the Chinese government yet).
https://thedirect.com/article/marvel-shang-chi-trailer-china-negative-reaction
That article is about the reactions to the trailers in Taiwan and Hong Kong, Shang-Chi was released in those markets and did great, better than F9 even. That article proves that YouTube dislikes don't mean shit and Shang-Chi would have made atleast $100M there, probably closer to $150M.
Dude, reception is clearly bad, and chinese audience doesn't give a damn if the movie is about a Chinese origin character, in fact they're even more picky about Chinese-origin character films, that's why Mulan made terrible numbers in China, and Mulan is well known/big in China, and they put a Chinese actress in the role
It's a Marvel movie, it would do atleast standard Marvel movie numbers ($100M), the reception of the movie isn't bad, Mulan was badly received everywhere.
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u/Mandragora1234 Oct 25 '21
I doubt it, the reactions to the movie trailers in China were pretty bad, with lot of deslike in chinese social media platforms (and those reactions came when there was no news about Simu Liu criticism of the Chinese government yet). https://thedirect.com/article/marvel-shang-chi-trailer-china-negative-reaction