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🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦 @ ZDL @ttrpg.network
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  • I'm curious: in which world are people living where this wasn't a predictable outcome?

    Note: I'm not saying a "desirable" or "good" or "just" or such outcome. Just "predictable".

  • I'm with you here. No idea what the joke is even supposed to be, not to mention if it's funny or not.

  • China doesn't need to retaliate. Chinese cinema goers are overwhelmingly choosing domestic product over import in recent years. For 2024, for example, 80% of the Chinese box office went to Chinese productions.

  • The movies normalized The American Way™ as the default way of doing things. The billionaires then financed the people pitching The American Way™. Without the first, the second wouldn't work.

  • The Chinese market is huge, yes, but increasingly turning away from Hollywood productions to homegrown ones. In 2025 for example 哪吒2 (Nézhā 2) broke scored over $2 billion at the box office, with a record-smashing $1.96 billion of that coming domestically. By way of comparison Captain America 4 only managed $14.4 million so far, a dramatic drop from 2016's Captain America 3 returns of $180 million in 2016.

    For reference, even CA3's $180 million is an order of magnitude smaller than Nezha 2. CA4's is two orders of magnitude smaller.

    Now this is still true: China's theatre-going audience, estimated at over half a billion people, is larger than the entire population of the USA. It's still a hugely important market. But, for example, in 2024 the Chinese box office was estimated at ~6 billion dollars total: and 80% of that went to domestic films. The best-performing foreign film of 2024 (Dune 2) only made $48 million, ranking it about 8th. 7th was 维和防暴队 (Wéihé Fángbàoduì/Formed Police Unit) and it made over $120 million.

    I'm pretty sure that the Chinese market for Hollywood films is vanishing.

  • I hate you so much right now. CHOKE ON THE UPVOTE, JERKFACE!

  • I thought he has all his kids by IVF because no woman would be able to stand his touch without her skin crawling off her body and fleeing in terror.

  • You're still not getting with the program. He's a fucking neo-Nazi.

  • He's right. It's outrageous.

    He's not a Nazi. He's a fucking Nazi.

  • Why do people continually hide the stupid people's very public IDs on a very public web site?

  • I wouldn't pay 肆块两角钱 for a Tesla ever, anymore, regardless of who the CEO is or who holds the stock.

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    "How bad were the billionaires?"

    Enough Musk Spam @lemmy.world

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