Industries / Chinese Cinema / 2015
Chinese Cinema hits and flops, 2015
Every Chinese Cinema film released in 2015 with a cost and a gross on record, graded on gross against cost six weeks after release. Blockbuster is three times its cost and up, hit is one and a half, average is one, and anything under one is a flop. 9 of the year's releases have both figures.
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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Mr. Six2015-12-18 | $250K | $139M | 556.8× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Our Times2015-08-13 | $3M | $82M | 30.4× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  Monkey King: Hero Is Back2015-07-10 | $10M | $153M | 15.3× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Detective Chinatown2015-12-31 | $15M | $126M | 8.4× | Blockbuster |
| 5 |  Mojin: The Lost Legend2015-12-18 | $37M | $278M | 7.5× | Blockbuster |
| 6 |  Wolf Warrior2015-04-02 | $12M | $90M | 7.5× | Blockbuster |
| 7 |  Wolf Totem2015-02-19 | $38M | $123M | 3.2× | Blockbuster |
| 8 |  Dragon Blade2015-02-19 | $65M | $122M | 1.9× | Hit |
| 9 |  The Assassin2015-08-27 | $15M | $12M | 0.8× | Flop |
How a verdict is reached
- Blockbuster
- Gross of at least 3× cost and up what the film cost to make.
- Hit
- Gross of at least 1.5× what the film cost to make.
- Average
- Gross of at least 1× what the film cost to make.
- Flop
- Anything that did not return its cost. under 1×.
Budget and gross as reported on TMDB A film is graded 42 days after release, so a run still in cinemas is not called early, and a film with no budget on record cannot be graded at all.