History GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff / LiveActionFilms

** A little bit of FridgeBrilliance: the [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender original Nickelodeon series]] is not really popular in Japan. This may have to do with the different treatments of the Fire Nation: they're clearly a FantasyCounterpartCulture to Imperial Japan in the cartoon, but all Fire Nation characters are played by Indian actors in the live action movie.

* The Village People vehicle ''Can't Stop The Music'' was a notorious bomb everywhere except Australia, where it was embraced as a fun, family-friendly musical.

** It also helps that Creator/JamesWan had directed a massively successful film in another franchise that the Chinese market loves,''Film/TheFastAndTheFurious''. His entry, ''Film/Furious7'', made $391 million at the Chinese box office which is the 3rd biggest Western movie there ever (first is ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', second is ''Film/TheFateOfTheFurious'').

* Ironically, ''Film/ShangChiAndTheLegendOfTheTenRings,'' the first MCU movie to feature an Asian lead, received the [[AmericansHateTingle exact opposite]] reaction from Chinese audiences, who were ''furious'' when [[https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2176675/fu-manchu-fury-china-over-marvels-asian-superhero-origin it was announced]] that the first Marvel movie with an Asian lead would be a ComicBook/ShangChi film, because he was originally written as the son of Literature/FuManchu (even though Marvel has long since ret-conned out the connection, due to Marvel [[ExiledFromContinuity losing the rights to Fu Manchu]] decades prior to the announcement of the movie)[[note]]Which has forced the movie adaptation to instead use the Mandarin from the ComicBook/IronMan franchise as the main villain [[/note]]. China loves the MCU so much that having the first Chinese lead in the MCU to have an origin story based on YellowPeril tropes was seen by them as a personal betrayal. The movie ended up not releasing in mainland China after the resurfacing of 2017 comments Creator/SimuLiu made about his parents' lives in China before the family moved to Canada.

* ''Film/TheExpendables2'' [[http://articles.latimes.com/2012/oct/10/entertainment/la-et-ct-china-expendables-dark-knight-rises-spider-man20121010 outgrossed]] both ''Film/TheDarkKnightRises'' and Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan'' in China.]]

* Brazil is the second biggest market for the Franchise/DCExtendedUniverse, second only to the US. ''Film/{{JusticeLeague|2017}}'' was the top-grossing film in the country in 2017 even though it was considered a massive under-performer (that lost about $50 million) pretty much everywhere else. Creator/WarnerBrothers even chose the CCXP ('''C'''omic-'''C'''on E'''xp'''erience) in São Paulo to debut the first trailer for ''Film/WonderWoman1984'' in December 2019 due to the country's love for the franchise. Even Creator/ZackSnyder is nowhere as divisive there as he is in the USA and Europe.

* {{UsefulNotes/Nollywood}} (the Nigerian film industry) movies are fairly popular in the Caribbean. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20130925034047/http://pcartelli.com/Articles/Nollywood_comes_to_the_Caribbean.html This]] article explains it as being because of the similarity in cultures of the two areas, with both Nigeria and much of the Caribbean being ex-colonial majority-black and Christian countries. There may also be a certain sense of kinship as most slaves whose descendants now live in the Caribbean were brought over from West Africa (not necessarily what is today Nigeria, but still).

* Indian UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} actor Creator/ShahRukhKhan got knighted (or in local terms, getting "Datukship") in Malaysia. No, [[http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/shah-rukh-khan-conferred-with-malaysian-title-datuk_100127893.html seriously]].

** "Curry Westerns" are a genre in India, where UsefulNotes/{{Bollywood}} movies set in mid-Rajasthan and other dry desert-like areas of the north capture a slight Western feel. The most famous example would be ''Film/{{Sholay}}''.

* ''Film/{{Parasite|2019}}'' is one of the most critically acclaimed South Korean movies of 2019, but it instantly gained SacredCow status with France's Cannes Film Festival awarding it their top prize, the UsefulNotes/PalmeDOr (''with a unanimous vote!'') and the [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAward Academy]] giving it their Best Picture award, making it the first Best Picture Oscar winner with non-English language in history. Not only that, [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome it became the most awarded movie of 2020's Oscar ceremony]].
* ''Film/{{Joker|2019}}'', based on [[ComicBook/TheJoker a popular DC Comics' Batman villain]], gained a lot of negative press in the US, often attributed to the country's particular current socio-political issues, while it has gotten nigh-universal praise from foreign critics -- perhaps exemplified by the Venice Film Festival where it got a standing ovation and won the [[UsefulNotes/LeonedOro Leone d'Oro]] grand prize.

* Hardcore French cinephiles tend to be quite fascinated with classic Hollywood movies, being the birthplace of UsefulNotes/TheAuteurTheory and the UsefulNotes/FrenchNewWave, whose critics argued that popular film-makers like Creator/AlfredHitchcock, Creator/OrsonWelles and Creator/HowardHawks were TrueArt rather than entertainers.
** French cinephiles also tend to love the auteur side of the UsefulNotes/NewHollywood, at least until Creator/StevenSpielberg entered the picture and launched UsefulNotes/TheBlockbusterAgeOfHollywood.

* ''Film/SuckerPunch'' was a BoxOfficeBomb in the U.S., but pulled in another 50 million (and better reviews) overseas.

* ''{{Film/Transformers}}'' is the highest-grossing movie of all time [[http://www.screendaily.com/malaysian-box-office-boom-continues-as-transformers-sets-new-record/4033877.article in Malaysia]].