Overseas online market a boon for Chinese content providers

Over the past decade, many Chinese films that have earned massive amounts at the box-office records in the domestic market have often flopped in North America.

Wolf Warrior 2 - China's all-time box-office champion - earned 5.6 billion yuan ($891 million) in China, but its combined takings in the United States and Canada was merely $2.8 million.

To date, the best-performing Chinese movie in North America is Ang Lee's 2000 martial arts movie Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, a 19th-century story about two generations of warriors.