Chinese Box Office Surpasses America For 1st Time

I’m sure Jackie Chan has often wondered if this day would ever arrive.  For the first time in history, the Chinese box office has now surpassed its American counterpart.

Almost more impressively, China accomplished this feat almost all on its own. Several big American films like The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies and The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 did play there and count towards the $650 million total. But they didn’t rank among the top five.  Jackie Chan’s Dragon Blade came in second.

1. The Man From Macau II starring Chow Yun-Fat – $104 million (pictured above)
2. Dragon Blade starring Jackie Chan, John Cusack and Adrien Brody – $95 million
3. Wolf Totem directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud- $72 million
4. Zhong Kui: Snow Girl and the Dark Crystal directed by Peter Pau and Zhao Tianyu – $56 million
5. Somewhere Only We Know directed by Xu Jinglei – $44 million

And here are top five highest grossing films in the US in February 2015:

1. Fifty Shades of Grey – $147.8 million
2. The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water – $140.3 million
3. Kingsman: The Secret Service – $85.7 million
4. Jupiter Ascending – $43.1 million
5. McFarland, USA – $22 million

China was once the world’s sole superpower many centuries ago, it looks like they may be coming back with a vengeance but also want in on that movie action.  What does this mean for manly movies?  Almost certainly a good thing.