What was already a rough year in the box office (do it roughly for a few years) will become more rough. As we recently announced, US President Donald Trump's tariffs were running China will consider a break to allow any Hollywood movies to play in the country. Recently, Trump has put a 90-day holding of his tariffs all over the world, with China's shutdown. Instead, he raised tariffs once again on Earth, escalating the trade war between two of the world's largest economies. Now, that trade war is officially coming to Hollywood.

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According to the new report of BloombergChinese regulators will officially reduce the number of US films permissible in response to Trump's tariffs. How serious the decline is, it remains to be seen, but China has already favored domestic titles late, including this year. "No Haa 2" (which made more than $ 2 billion in Chinese ticket sales). The administration of the film in China was supposed to say this about it in a statement:

"The wrong action of the US government to abuse China's tariffs will inevitably reduce the benefit of domestic audiences towards American films. We will follow market rules, respect audiences and moderately reduce the number of imported US films. China is the second largest film market.

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While Hollywood films have been making much less in China since the pandemic, it remains the second largest film movement market in the world. Plus, certain films are still performing very well there. Avatar: The Water Method made $ 2.3 billion globally, with a whopping $ 246 million out of the total coming from China. With Disney to release "Avatar: Fire and Ash" by Jamesesheims Cameron in December, the potential impact of this new policy is emerging.

Overall, US imports made about $ 950 million in China in the calendar year 2023. It's just a small part of the country's overall market now, but Hollywood needs every dollar it can get. "Water Water" would still be a US $ 2 billion film even without China. But something like 2021 Godzilla against Kong made $ 188.7 million out of $ 467.8 million in China. That film was stored directly from those ticket sales.

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Assign, in most cases, Theaters keep about half of the cashier's moneySince the studio views only about 25% of that money from China (due to international taxes and other factors). However, 25% of $ 188 million are still a lot Money, while $ 25% from $ 950 million are All many of money. It's a bigger point here. A lot of money study could really use it now will evaporate.

The other question, as the CFA pointed out, is that Chinese films may not be so inclined to support American films right now, given the ongoing trade war. So, even if a movie as a "mission: impossible - the last count" can provide a theater edition in China, it can be even harder than it is late.

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For years, I warn you, Hollywood was unable to depend on the Chinese cashier as before. That is to say, the larger study could not depend on the stable gross brutom from the earth even before this chaos. But there is a big difference between not being able to depend on it and delete that money from the board as a whole. This is what we see now, and at a time when box office is more unstable than ever, the industry can fully use such failures. And yet, here we are. We can only hope that this is just a short -term issue and that there are no long -term consequences for the relationship between Hollywood and China, though it seems like a special opportunity.