| Film Title | US Studio | North American Box Office (USD) | China Box Office (USD) | Difference in Box Office (USD) | Difference in Box Office (Percentage) |
| Pacific Rim | Warner Bros. | $101,800,000 | $111,940,000 | $10,140,000 | 10.0% |
| Jurassic Park 3D | Universal | $45,390,000 | $55,890,000 | $10,500,000 | 23.1% |
| Escape Plan | Lionsgate | $25,140,000 | $50,930,000 | $25,790,000 | 102.6% |
| Need for Speed | Disney | $43,580,000 | $66,240,000 | $22,660,000 | 52.0% |
| Brick Mansions | Relativity | $20,400,000 | $29,840,000 | $9,440,000 | 46.3% |
| The Expendables 3 | Lionsgate | $39,320,000 | $72,870,000 | $33,550,000 | 85.3% |
| Seventh Son | Universal | $17,220,000 | $27,560,000 | $10,340,000 | 60.0% |
| Furious 7 | Universal | $351,030,000 | $390,910,000 | $39,880,000 | 11.4% |
| Terminator Genisys | Paramount | $89,760,956 | $113,175,898 | $23,414,942 | 26.1% |
| Point Break | Warner Bros. | $28,782,481 | $39,403,259 | $10,620,778 | 36.9% |
| The Last Witch Hunter | Lionsgate | $27,367,660 | $27,404,245 | $36,585 | 0.1% |
| Gods of Egypt | Lionsgate | $31,153,464 | $35,598,525 | $4,445,061 | 14.3% |
| Criminal | Lionsgate | $14,708,696 | $15,772,274 | $1,063,578 | 7.2% |
| Warcraft | Universal | $47,365,290 | $220,841,090 | $173,475,800 | 366.3% |
| Now You See Me 2 | Lionsgate | $65,075,540 | $97,115,220 | $32,039,680 | 49.2% |
| Ice Age: Collision Course | 20th Century Fox | $64,063,008 | $66,059,140 | $1,996,132 | 3.1% |
| Mechanic: Resurrection | Lionsgate | $21,218,403 | $49,243,215 | $28,024,812 | 132.1% |
| Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk | Sony | $1,738,477 | $23,761,008 | $22,022,531 | 1,266.8% |
| xXx: The Return of Xander Cage | Paramount | $44,661,665 | $155,750,000 | $111,088,335 | 248.7% |
| Resident Evil: The Final Chapter | Sony | $26,654,695 | $114,315,400 | $87,660,705 | 328.9% |
“Has the Chinese Market Become a Dumping Ground for Hollywood’s Trash?” trumpeted a recent Beijing Daily headline, a pertinent question to consider in light of the smashing box office successes of xXx: The Return of Xander Cage and Resident Evil: The Final Chapter at Chinese cinemas.
These two films are hardly the only ones to have found greater success in the world’s second largest film market than at home in the US. Twenty films can now make that same claim, as illustrated by the graph above.
