We have a good news for the fans hoping for more box office success of Transformers: Bumblebee in China.
The latest Travis Knight movie has just been granted an extension of theatrical release in the mainland.
Typically, the Chinese government only grants permission to showcase a foreign movie for 30 days. However, this can be extended for another month if requested. The regulators would look into the request and extend the run for another 30 days.
Bumblebee was supposed to end on February 4th but a request from Paramount may have granted an extension till 2nd March for the Mainland.
This announcement couldn’t have come at a better time since Bumblebee is still the box office number 1 movie in China at the moment.
Prowl
And we have a winner!!
Two pages in. Not bad though.
You sir/ma’am are the winner of the Negative Nancy award 2019 for this particular thread.
!Negative Nancy Award!
Seriously. Keep it up. We need more negativity. And quicker. Two pages is far too long to go without a NN comment. In this board we usually get our excitement bursted well within two posts. But you let the excitement simmer for two pages. Pro material right there!
Congratulations!
Miyaren
Wasn’t talking about that
This is a China article and my comment wasn’t relating to whether it making money overall
Just that the movie isn’t catching on in China like aoe or even tlk. That’s a fact
Music
At the end of the day, Bumblebee's budget is much smaller and it's actually making a profit, unlike TLK.
AzT
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Miyaren
But st the end of day it’s still making way less in China than explosion panderfests
Blunderzag
Robot cockroach men be like
: JAH JAH JAH *spits green goo*
RARARARARHH ARrrahah *runs on four legs*
Aaarrghrararhahh
*walks up right but trips because he’s shooting and running too fast and he stumbles over a car and gets shot by a human sniper*
*10 more identical clones can be seen in the exploding background*
"And that’s my idea for Megatron’s entourage Mr.Bay"
"What? You want all future decepticons to follow this model? But surely they are just as important as the Autobots and have personalities and motivations of their own, we have to give the source material dignity after all the awkward sex humour we also write into these films. We can’t just have them as disposable monsters. This could have long term consequences.
You know Mr.Bonaventura that’s one hefty stack of cash.
You know Mr.Bay I love you…..you uh handsome man(?)
Music
If anything, this proves that you don't need to make a giant low-effort panderfest to make good money in China. I really hope Paramount has learned the right lessons from this.
RodimusZero
Yaaaaaay.
Still, if this movie is too successful over yonder, I don't want Paramount to take that as an invitation to make another
sweaty-boobs-always-five-o'clock-in-the-afternoon-explosions-everywhere-mutant-cockroaches-from-space-style
Baystravaganza movie…
I feel like I'm sitting on pins and needles worrying and hoping that
Lorenzo and the rest of his merry clown crew are smart enough to put the
nail in the Bayverse coffin for good
Digger
Yay!
AzT
China Box Office on Twitter
Gingerchris
Fifty dollars? I'll go smash open my piggy bank right now. Might even have a few odd buttons in there too to make it a total utter success.
deathzero23
It will be showing tomorrow here in the Philippines.
It's shown late because of our local "Christmas Film Festival" event.
No foreign movies allowed to be shown from Christmas to New Year.
kaijuguy19
It says it only needs 50 dollars now to make it a true success. Fingers crossed that it does.
SilverOptimus
Transformers: Bumblebee Exceeds Expectations In China – Now Global Number 1 – Transformers News – TFW2005
…. and that's how it's done. We are gonna get you guys that Animated Transformers Movie set on Cybertron. I'm going for the third time.
Shin Densetsu
In the long run while the box office sales do matter, it's the effect on the merchandise that'll stand out more. Bumblebee is the greatest media tie in that Hasbro could ever hope for, for the SIEGE line. They didn't have to rely on a new cartoon by Boulder Media or *GASP* Machinima, phew.
It's not a direct tie in but close enough. This will be reinforced with the rebooted direction of the IDW comics using SIEGE designs.
Well played Hasbro, well played.
AzT
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Dinobot Snarl
So its killing in China. Wow
Jhund
One like just for the wordplay
Shin Densetsu
Wow so Bumblebee drowned Aquaman in China box office sales