For example, THR reports that the “edgy local dramedy” A Cool Fish held on to its top spot on the Chinese box office chart this weekend, earning $24.2 million.
But even Rowan Atkinson’s Johnny English Strikes Again did nearly five times the business of Crazy Rich Asians, picking up $5.1 million.
Most of China’s films already feature all-Chinese or all-Asian casts, so it wasn’t a novelty in that market, the way it was in North America.