{"id":1490,"date":"2013-04-24T13:21:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalstudios.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/1969\/12\/31\/hollywood-movies-may-be-too-dumb-for-china\/"},"modified":"2019-05-11T11:49:19","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T19:49:19","slug":"hollywood-movies-may-be-too-dumb-for-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/2013\/04\/24\/hollywood-movies-may-be-too-dumb-for-china\/","title":{"rendered":"Hollywood movies may be too dumb for China"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Blockbusters like ‘Iron Man 3’ battle more subtle Chinese fare as audiences choose plot and complexity over explosions and 3-D.<\/b><\/p>\n

…The film studios blame the Chinese government, which imposed a two-month blackout of foreign films last year when they began making too much money and offered theaters a bonus for showing domestic films, according to The Times. Local film critics, however, note that the Chinese moviegoer isn’t all that taken with the explosion-laden, CGI-painted blockbusters that drive revenue-boosting add-ons like IMAX (IMAX +0.18%) and 3-D showings. “Lost In Thailand,” for example, took in more than $200 million last year and drew more moviegoers than “Avatar” did during its run in China.<\/p>\n

Critics and industry analysts note that Hollywood’s one constant in China is its repeated underestimation of the college-educated Chinese moviegoer…<\/p>\n

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Blockbusters like ‘Iron Man 3’ battle more subtle Chinese fare as audiences choose plot and complexity over explosions and 3-D. …The film studios blame the Chinese government, which imposed a two-month blackout of foreign films last year when they began making too much money and offered theaters a bonus for showing domestic films, according to … Continue reading “Hollywood movies may be too dumb for China”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1956,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490\/revisions\/1956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alliancedigitalentertainment.com\/cgi-bin\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}