>>149375140Because money is not money. If a movie makes $200m domestic, WB gets about $150m of that. If it makes $200m in China, they get about $50m of that. If this weren't the case you'd see every American film studio trying to make movies for foreign countries. They lose so much of that money when it leaves the border, but back in the 2010s the gross from China was just so huge that it was worth caring about