Dr. Lecter wrote:
Also, China should give it great numbers since parts of the film were filmed there. At this point, it'll give TDKR ($1.08 billion) the run for its money worldwide. If it breaks out in China, I wouldn't rule out $800 million overseas.
It'll probably open within the same week (looks like on the same day) as
The Hobbit in China. That'll cut its gross here quite considerably. Plus, it'll open in January, so there's a small factor of it being old (compared to
The Hobbit which will still be brand new worldwide), and Chinese like new things, that's not a big big deal, but it's worth considering as fake DVDs are huge here and if a movie has been released in 95% of the world but not China, then you can be sure that a fake DVD of
Skyfall is somewhere here.
$1b is still in play, just want you to be aware of the stuff that might hinder it.
And the Chinese do not care whether it was filmed here or not. That will have no bearing whatsoever. The only thing that does is attempt to qualify it as a co-production and therefore the release pattern will benefit it, but opening against
The Hobbit is showing that the Chinese government do not care about the co-production status and they will still try to kill the big foreign movies at the box office.
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