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Hollywood, which has been the center of film production since the early 20th century and is synonymous with the American entertainment industry, is beginning to lose its dominance. Once known for exporting grand-scale films and accounting for about 90% of global box office revenue, its influence has been gradually declining. Although Hollywood has long been a source of the United States' soft power, its global market share continues to erode.
According to the U.S.-based research site The Numbers, American films held a 69.5% share of global box office revenue in 2024. This is a significant drop from over 90% in 2009–2010 and even from 85.6% in 2014—a decline of 16 percentage points over the past decade, falling below the 70% mark.
Just like in politics, division is growing in the world of cinema as well. China, one of the largest markets, has nurtured its domestic film industry, boosting its global share from 5.5% to 16.5%. India, a major film power in Asia, still holds a relatively low share of around 2% in terms of box office revenue, but its presence is steadily increasing.
Japan has also seen its animated films gain popularity worldwide, raising its global market share from 0.6% to around 5%. Once a major market for Western films, Japan in 2024 saw no live-action foreign film make it into the domestic top 10 for the first time since 2000.
These rankings also suggest France is losing its touch 
2014
United States – 85.6%
China – 5.5%
France – 4.5%
United Kingdom – 3.1%
New Zealand – 3.1%
South Korea – 2.2%
Australia – 2.1%
Canada – 1.8%
Hong Kong – 1.5%
Germany – 1.4%
2024
United States – 69.5%
China – 16.5%
United Kingdom – 5.6%
Japan – 4.9%
India – 2%
South Korea – 2%
Hong Kong – 1.5%
France – 1.5%
Russia – 1.1%
Canada – 1.1%
So what do we think !dramatards !kino !hatewatchers Is this just the inevitable result of other countries developing their own film scenes or is there some !chuds !nonchuds culture war angle we can spin?
I think it's notable that both Japan and China are rising up the rankings. With Japan it's obviously because of foreign weebs buying their schlock. China seems to be actively rejecting modern American movies. Long gone are the days of Transformers releases being like holidays over there
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Suck it frogs
!britbongs
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People are tired of French tropes
!familyman
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Everyone in the comments of this vid is talking about the Family Man joke.
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You can only make so many movies centered around being a s*x pest or male feminist so the French have ran out of ideas.
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tiktok has been the real competition to french cinema
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That one movie about preteen girls shaking their asses was made by a French immigrant originally from Senegal.
(Not a movie about being a s*x pest so much as watching it makes you a s*x pest)
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!francais
Someone post that "sometimes they give your butt crack a nice lick" gif from everyman for himself (best french movie)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_films_in_China
!kino How many of these have you seen?
!asians What happened to Stephen Chow? I liked him! It's looks like there's one Zhang on there. I'll maybe watch that one.
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Hong Kong ran out of money and Stephen Chow is an elected commie representative in Guangdong doing CCP stuff now.
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Oh shit, really? He finally gave in? I've seen a lot of the "greats" of Chinese cinema, and they're pretty bland. The communism really does stifle their culture.
!anticommunists
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There was a period between the Cultural Revolution and Xi Jinping's neo-commie era when they were some of the best. Zhang Yimou was really really good (and his nepo ho main star Gong Li too). The only problem is I usually find his stuff so depressing that I have to stop watching halfway through.
Also A World Without Thieves is a classic. One of those rare movies where I often think of it when I'm making important decisions in real life.
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When your
skills get strong enough, you can figure out what kinds of movies and themes are verboten in China.
But as a quickie; anything where the GOVERNMENT is evil or wrong unless its a FOREIGN government; anything that goes against the social order like being a rebel, prison breaks inside China, protesting against the CCP.
You can make a movie where a Chinese protagonist can escape from a Japanese prison, kill Americans agents, protest against the Australians but the Chinese protagonist can never bare their fangs at what would be construed as the CCP.
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I heard Let the Bullets Fly is pretty good. Never watched it.
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I've seen (partially) a lot of their war films, and they're poorly CGI'd shit with a heavy helping of commie nonsense.
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Let the Bullets Fly is a cowboy film, it's as much of a war film as The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly
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The people who watched it told me there were a lot of scenes that are making a dig at the PRC government.
The one you saw are probably the ones "depicting" them fighting the Japanese in the Second Sino-Japanese War.
It used to be pretty popular around 10 years ago. Now I guess they resort to pumping up number for their big production film to improve their self-esteem.
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it has been never the same since india stole the cableworks and usa stole the kungfu
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None of the Hong Konger movie makers can stay good after CCP took over.
Which is a shame. As much as I dislike their attitude, their movie and music output does somewhat justifies their ego.
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The wandering earth was the most boring slopfest I've ever seen.
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Is wandering earth 2 good?
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I couldn't even tell you which of the two I saw
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We ate im
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Saw the top 3 and they are absolute dogshit, chinks have terrible taste.
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It's because developing taste involved thinking. Ane the ccp wants to discourage that.
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Their mental space deteriorated a lot after CCP once again clamping down on expression, and the culture space is just not the same.
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How much is that in non-monopoly money?
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lol it's only about 200mm in real money.
Thats THE BEST they have to offer. Not sending their best folks.
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you missed a 0 lol
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2 bil
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Ne Zha 2 is quite good ngl
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china doesnt get to have the credit for hongkong cinema
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He got old
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So you admit that chinks age
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yup
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OWNED BY FACTS AND LOGIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Like many global statistics, things are skewed by China's enormous population.
Its increased market share is due to the local film industry finding its feet after decades of nascency and the CCP pushing it domestically to replace subversive foreign media.
Chinese cinema is almost universally terrible. It rakes in RMB, but doesn't have legs internationally.
More generally, Hollywood has been on a creative decline since the 2000s.
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10 episodes of severance season two for 1.5 episodes of plot
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Lmao yep. Streaming series are notorious for this.
I watched the first 3 eps of Star Trek: Picard season 3, the supposedly "good" nutrek (spoilers: it isn't). I kept thinking, 'Get to the darn point!'
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Better nutrek. It's still aggressively mediocre. Star Trek needs to be given to better people.
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smart rats know when to ditch the sinking ship
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japan has names to refer, say 'harakiri'. name one worthwhile chinkslop
(hongkong cinema not incl)
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Yeah, that was my first reaction. Countries that are mid-tier in terms of population size, like 10-100 million, can make perfectly respectable movies now with the same level of production value that you'd expect from Hollywood back in my boomer times in the 1990s. The vapid hedonistic culture promoted by Hollywood doesn't appeal to a lot of people around the world so there's going to be a market for domestic movies that they can relate to better. They might still watch capeshit slop, but Hollywood's idea of romance for example does not have universal appeal. I mean heck, I can identify with the characters in an Indian movie more than an American one half the time.
If you watch the movies that are actually considered good by the people in these countries (not the ones recommended by American "film" critics) you'll find that they're quite capable of making movies just as good as the US now. Hollywood really doesn't have much of an advantage anymore except in big budget CGI slopfests and our actresses are subpar compared to what you'd expect in the rest of the world.
Also a big part of this is that the CCP carefully chooses which Hollywood movies are allowed to be released and iirc they've been allowing fewer and fewer.
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List me up homie
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These are gonna be boomer-oriented of course but here's a few:
A Taxing Woman (Japan) - Best movie about a tax collector you'll ever see. I can't do justice to it by describing it. Director Juzo Itami made a lot of really good but also widely popular movies in the 1980s-1990s until he
was thrown offjumped off a building as he was making his second anti-yakuza movie.Violent Cop (Japan) - I mean come on, all you need to know is the title.
The Heroic Trio (Hong Kong) - You'll never respect any white female action star after seeing this.
Fight Back to School (Hong Kong) - This isn't terribly obscure, I think it's where Stephen Chow got famous, but I'm mentioning it because it's exactly the kind of thing that everyone in Asia has seen but some whitoids haven't.
Young and Dangerous (Hong Kong) - Not the greatest movie ever, but again, everyone in Asia has seen this and you can never truly achieve media literacy if you haven't too.
Three Idiots (India) - A movie all tards around the world can relate to.
OSS 117 (France) - Basically live action Archer. In fact Archer is probably a ripoff of this.
I only have a list of the movies I've seen from Asia so I can't remember for the rest of the world but I think the pattern holds true.
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Any good Kslop?
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I'm not particularly a fan of their movies, but some that I liked that haven't gotten attention from the art house crowd here:
My Wife is a Gangster - Very memorable character.
Taegukgi - The Korean War from their perspective.
Not necessarily that popular over there but I liked them:
She's on Duty
Arahan
100 Days with Mr. Arrogant - The movie as a whole isn't that memorable but there's a great scene involving a Sailor Moon costume.
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Well, yeah.
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Netflix and amazon are spamming the worlds directors for anything at all
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I'm surprised the Japs are doing that well. I don't even remember the last time I watched a live action Jap movie that wasn't made a full decade ago.
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I think it's honestly because of animation.
I see like three movies per year and I went to a Gundam fathom event last year
My friend and his whole family see every theatrical Ghibli release even if they've seen the movie before.
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Oh right, I forgot there was Ghibli release recently.
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It's probably anime
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gojira
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Didnt watch it
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everything everywhere all at once
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Thats a burger film Jay!
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Honestly that whole drop can probably be attributed to capeshit falling off hard. Hollywood was already creatively bankrupt in 2014.
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um Its 100% because Hollywood like just does remakes of old shit but with black women, and literally nobody wants to see obese black women
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i do
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I just think it's funny that You enjoy watching shitty movies with forced diversity???
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black hollywood makes great drama movies
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Theatrical releases are a relic. Might as well look at the global share of revenue from stage plays.
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HOLD AMC BROS!
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Glow Spartan!
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despite largely having the same market, because Hollywood has been pretty much creatively bankrupt for the past while.
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There's probably a lot of reasons for this and none of them include non American film makers making better movies
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Nice
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Unnecessary and uncalled for ping
two more strikes and you're getting blocked + megadownmarseyd buddy, don't test your luck
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