Jackie Chan's new movie, Shadow's Edge, just debuted with an 8.1 on Douban. Man Chinese movies are having a cracker year with Nezha 2, Dead to Rights, Nobody, and Legend of Hei 2.
Even if its just an outlier, its interesting comparing this with America, where the only big movies left this year that could possibly do well are Zootopia 2 and Avatar 3. Everything else has been a dud. Although 2026 has a lot of potentially high quality movies coming out with Dune 3, and movies from Nolan and Spielberg. Hence my original statement that this year was just an outlier, but maybe next year can prove to be a surprise as well.
Even if its just an outlier, its interesting comparing this with America, where the only big movies left this year that could possibly do well are Zootopia 2 and Avatar 3. Everything else has been a dud. Although 2026 has a lot of potentially high quality movies coming out with Dune 3, and movies from Nolan and Spielberg. Hence my original statement that this year was just an outlier, but maybe next year can prove to be a surprise as well.
