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(Article is in moon runes) 
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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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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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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