The Maze Runner (2014/Fox)Domestic Box Office: $102 millionChinese Box Office: $24 millionWorldwide Box Office: $348 millionWes Ball’s initial Maze Runner, like the James Dashner book which spawned it, took the YA fantasy genre and skewed it into a kind of survivalist haunted house horror actioner. Inside Out (2015/Disney)Domestic Box Office: $356 millionChinese Box Office: $15 millionWorldwide Box Office: $857 millionPixar movies are, on the whole, not “big” in China. The Hitman’s Bodyguard (2017/Lionsgate)Domestic Box Office: $71 millionChinese Box Office: $21 millionWorldwide Box Office: $180 millionThis was a surprise underperformance in China, because frankly most Millennium action movies (London Has Fallen, Expendables 3, Mechanic: Resurrection, etc.) Crazy Rich Asians (2018/Warner Bros.)Domestic Box Office: $174.5 millionChinese Box Office: $1.6 millionWorldwide Box Office: $238 millionThis is why Walt Disney’s Mulan breaking out in China was never a sure thing. Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019/Disney)Domestic Box Office: $515 millionChinese Box Office: $20 millionWorldwide Box Office: $1.073 billionFirst of all, Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is just $200,000 away from Joker’s $1.074 billion global cume, having passed Toy Story 4 to become last year’s seventh-biggest grosser.

Source: Forbes March 11, 2020 15:00 UTC