Pixar's Coco Is Putting Up Some Absolutely Ridiculous Numbers In China

Pixar's newest feature, Coco was a solid box office success in the United States and was loved by critics and audiences alike, but its success here is nothing compared to what the film has done in China. China has become a huge market for Hollywood films, but nobody expected Coco to do as well as it has. The film has grossed $167 in the country, which isn't just a lot of money. It's more than every movie Pixar released in China, combined.

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Hugh Jackman Heard His First X-Men Movie Was Going To Bomb Before It Came Out

While comic book movies are basically the most consistently performing blockbusters in today's Hollywood, the genre had plenty of naysayers back in 2000 when the first X-Men blockbuster was coming out. At that time it was unclear if film adaptations of the material would actually work, or if the material would only speak to geek audiences and nobody else. This was a serious concern for everyone involved with the production, but apparently someone went as far as to tell star Hugh Jackman at the time that he needed to prepare for it to be a total failure:

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2018 Oscars scorecard: ‘Dunkirk’ and Christopher Nolan win with Florida film critics

The Florida Film Critics Circle (FFCC) gave an early Christmas present to “Dunkirk,” naming it as as the best film of the year on Dec. 24. This is the first time that this Oscar frontrunner has won the Best Picture prize from the 23 regional critics groups heard from to date. This epic WWII drama also won Christopher Nolan his seventh Best Director award to date, breaking his tie with Guillermo del Toro (“The Shape of Water”).

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Netflix film Bright is far from the typical big Hollywood holiday release: A new phase for Will Smith?

A $90 million release around Christmas time would suggest just another day at work for any A-List film star in Hollywood, and yet David Ayer’s Bright featuring Will Smith is far from the typical big holiday release.

One of the reasons for the film simply not being seen as a standard Hollywood blockbuster despite featuring all the necessary ingredients – in addition to a top-notch star, there is a tested director (Suicide Squad) and enough big ticket special effects to go well with the popcorn – could have to do with the fact that it debuted in your living room as opposed to the traditional big screen.

In a bid to rewrite the rules of film marketing, Netflix outbid other studios to pick up the dystopian action thriller where mystical figures such as orcs, elves co-exist with humans, pumped in $90 million to get it made and then practically undid the cinematic experience tailor-made for the giant screen by releasing the film on streaming platform.

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Margot Robbie Is Working on a New 'Harley Quinn' Movie

The actor is developing a film that's "totally separate" from projects such as 'Gotham City Sirens,'the rumored Joker/Harley team-up movie or 'Suicide Squad 2'.

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