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>the movies of the MCU are a lot more appetizing to the casual audience than DC's snydershit.
You mean Americans? World wide the Synderverse far more popular than the MCU. Ironic because WB/DC and Disney spent years pandering to China yet the Chinese only likes Zack synder DC movies.
DC Justice League Snyder Cut Viewed Over 250M Times In China beating Avenger Endgame Record
>It took years for Zack Snyder to convince Warner Bros to release his Snyder Cut after the failure of the Theatrical Justice League 2017 and upon his numerous fan’s demands. Finally, Justice League Snyder Cut was released this year in March, and from the release, it is shattering all the records Worldwide.
>Now China has become the latest addition to the list of Snyder Cut World Records. It has been reported that the movie has now been viewed over 250 million times on Migu Video in China.
These are phenomenal numbers considering that it has beaten the Records of Avenger: Endgame, which has been viewed 240 million times.
>The Justice League Snyder Cut was made available on Migu Video just five days ago, and it’s already become one of the most viewed beating Avengers: Endgame’s numbers on the platform.
However, Endgame was released in theatre, Zack Snyder wanted to release the movie in the theatre, but Warner Bros. Pictures chose not to release it in Chinese theatre.
>In the Covid time, it isn’t easy to get a movie released in China. The online streaming service is within reach of all, and the popularity of Justice League and Superman are the things that made Zack Snyder Justice league a blockbuster hit in China.
The Snyder Cut’s has shown impressive numbers on Chinese streaming platforms such as Migu Video. Tencent Video and BiliBili indicate how much Chinese people love Zack Snyder Justice League.
>Here, It could change the destiny of Snyderverse as China is a very important market for Warner Bros. As per the reports, Toby Emmerich could leave the company, a new CEO could step in and decide the future of SnyderVerse should be continued or not.
With Toby Emmerich gone, AT&T could step in and decide the SnyderVerse to continue over HBO Max, which does make a lot of sense.
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James Bond has no time for China: Hollywood’s supine approach can help tackle a larger problem
>The final James Bond outing for Daniel Craig, “No Time to Die,” also marks a notable milestone for Bondian geopolitics: The franchise just completed a five-movie arc with a single lead actor, and amid all the globe-trotting and intrigue, you would barely know that China existed. Shanghai and Macao were brief backdrops, and one villain had been tortured, offstage and in the past, by Chinese security forces — but overall, a series released across the years of China’s rise gave little hint that America’s leading rival mattered any more than any other exotic Bondian locale.
>In fairness, the Cold War-era Bond movies were not obsessed with Russia, serving up stateless supervillains rather than Soviet adversaries in many of his outings. But the reality of Russian power was part of the fabric of the series. The same actor showed up as the head of the KGB, for instance, in five Bond movies in the 1970s and ’80s.
>China’s absence from Bondworld is part of a general absence in American cinema. Out of fear of losing the Chinese market and amid the aggressive use of commercial soft power by Beijing, in the almost quarter-century since Brad Pitt’s “Seven Years in Tibet” and Richard Gere’s “Red Corner,” no major Hollywood release has portrayed the communist regime in a substantially negative light. Instead, China appears in our pop productions in soft focus, as in “The Martian” and “Arrival,” or else takes a fantastical form, as in “Mulan” and “Shang-Chi.”
>The right includes several tendencies as well. There’s a Cold War 2.0 mentality, which fears China as a sweeping ideological threat, a fusion of old-model communism with 21st-century surveillance technology that promises to make totalitarianism great again. There’s a realist perspective that regards China as a traditional great power rival and focuses on military containment. And there’s a view that sees China and the United States as actually converging in decadence — with similar problems, from declining birthrates to social inequalities to internet-mediated unhappiness.
>Americans have never exactly excelled at understanding other societies, and a few Chinese bad guys in James Bond movies obviously won’t shed the light we need. But Hollywood’s supine attitude toward Chinese power is a useful window into a larger problem: We need to see our great 21st-century rival clearly, and too often we see only through a glass darkly, if at all.
https://archive.ph/AgDUb