Last weekend, two new action films by Jason Statham and Tom Cruise were simultaneously released in China. The surprise happened when Mechanic: Resurrection ‘s achievement was three times higher than Jack Reacher: Never Go Back .
After three days, the second part of The Mechanic with Jason Statham playing the main role earned 24.3 million USD , thereby easily taking the top spot at the box office in the country of billions of people.
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| Released quite late in China, but Jason Statham’s Mechanic: Resurrection was still welcomed by people there over the weekend. Photo: Millennium Films. |
Analysts point out that the British bald action star is very popular in China after a series of popular works such as Fast & Furious , The Expendables or The Transporter.
At the same time, the second part of Jack Reacher only earned a mere 5.91 million USD , despite Tom Cruise being present in three major Chinese cities last week to promote the work.
This is a disappointing step back for the actor, because that achievement is even lower than Operation Mekong – a Chinese action film released three weeks earlier.
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back has even been strongly supported by two Chinese units, Huahua Media and Shanghai Film Group, all the time.
But perhaps Tom Cruise’s character of a cold former Military policeman does not resonate with the audience here. Four years ago, Jack Reacher (2012) also debuted at $15 million in China.
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| The disastrous failure in China could not stop Jack Reacher: Never Go Back from becoming the most popular movie in the international arena last weekend. Photo: Paramount. |
Despite that failure, Jack Reacher: Never Go Back was still the best-selling work at the international box office last weekend. After three days, the film earned a total of 31 million USD from 42 countries and territories, including Vietnam.
In second place is Inferno by superstar Tom Hanks with 28.9 million USD . Currently, the foreign revenue of the film based on Dan Brown’s original literary work has reached 94.8 million USD . It will not be until this weekend that Inferno will officially be introduced to North American audiences from October 28.
In fact, Jason Statham’s Mechanic: Resurrection has opened in theaters almost everywhere around the world, so the film’s foreign revenue last weekend came solely from China. 24 million USD is only enough to help the action film rank third overall.
This week, the superhero blockbuster Doctor Strange will be released early in 32 countries from October 28, including some notable markets such as England, France, Australia, Germany, Mexico and Korea. Entering November 4, the Fist wizard plans to “cast a spell” in China and his home country of North America.
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