Industries / Chinese Cinema / 2018
Chinese Cinema hits and flops, 2018
Every Chinese Cinema film released in 2018 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. 5 of the year's releases have both figures.
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| # | Film | Cost | Took | Return | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Animal World2018-06-29 | $125K | $70M | 559.1× | Blockbuster |
| 2 |  Detective Chinatown 22018-02-16 | $63M | $544M | 8.6× | Blockbuster |
| 3 |  Operation Red Sea2018-02-16 | $70M | $579M | 8.3× | Blockbuster |
| 4 |  Long Day's Journey Into Night2018-12-31 | $13M | $42M | 3.2× | Blockbuster |
| 5 |  Shadow2018-09-30 | $44M | $92M | 2.1× | Hit |
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.