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Also, for those that have read the book, how much do you think China playing a positive role in the movie will impact the box office? it should raise public awareness above the average film at least right?

Yeah this. The only problem I see right now is that The Martian could potentially be facing up against Spectre in China which could cut into it's run.

I'd be happy with an Interstellar type run for The Martian. I really hope that the two films aren't released in consecutive weeks though

Wow that's excellent news if true. Keep us posted! yeah thanks, I've been missing this place a lot too. I've been busy with my new job and couldn't find the mental energy to track the box office. Couldn't miss the Martian's box office run though and hopefully I'll be around more regularly from now on.

why so low? Both Gravity and Interstellar managed $450M+ OS and early reviews suggest The Martian could be a really well made movie. Don't see how it goes below 400 really.

Hopefully, local films start to pick up towards the end of the year. I'd love to see more films like 8AV.

Spanish cinema attendance up 4% San Sebastian: Spanish attendance grows 4% while market share for local productions expected to hit 20% by end of the year; Cannes criticised for “ignoring” Spanish cinema Mired in crisis for the past few years, Spanish cinema has had better news to celebrate recently. Although the market share for local productions looks set to drop from 25% in 2014 to 20% in 2015 (it is at 12% for the first nine months of the year, with several major releases to come in the next three months), cinema attendance has grown by 4% despite the highest VAT rate on cinema tickets in Europe (21%). The figures were revealed by Ramon Colom, president of the association of Spanish producers FAPAE, during a press conference at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where 60 Spanish films are being shown, one third of them in the main sections. While the market share for Spanish film currently sits at 12%, Joxé Portela, vice-president of FAPAE, pointed out that “the last four months of the year are usually the strongest for Spanish films. Last week, we had 40% of the box office and two weekends ago it was 50%”. Local success for Enrique Gato’s Capture The Flag, Javier Ruiz Caldera’s Anacleto and Fernando Leon de Aranoa’s A Perfect Day - all released since late August - are already improving the numbers. “We have great expectations for films like Alejandro Amenabar’s Regression, Alex de la Iglesia’s My Big Night, Dani de la Torre’s Retribution, Fernando Gonzalez Molina’s Palm Trees In The Snow and the much anticipated sequel to Spanish Affair,” added Portela. Thus far in 2015, the highest-grossing local films have been a comedy about Spanish migrants in Berlin, Perdiendo El Norte, with 1.6 million admissions; Ahora O Nunca, a romantic comedy featuring Spanish superstars Dani Rovira and Maria Valverde, at 1.4 million admissions; and Gato’s animated feature Capture The Flag, which has 1.1 million admissions so far and is still in the top ten. The picture isn’t all bright. While the five-year slide in the annual number of new productions has been arrested, they remain stagnant: 114 new films started production in the first nine months of 2015, almost the same as in 2014. Of these feature projects, 52 are documentaries, 59 narrative features and three animations. Eighteen are co-productions, mainly with France or Argentina, and 52% cost under 1 million Euros. “We don’t want to be too optimistic or euphoric because we still face great problems,” said Colom at the press conference. “Last year there was this assumption that figures were good because of the huge success of Spanish Affair but we are sure that there is a change in the perception of the audience. Spanish people see local films as great entertainment.” Colom had harsh words for the Cannes Film Festival for “ignoring” Spanish cinema. “We are making not only great entertainment but also high-quality films,” he said. “There is this problem with Cannes. Sometimes we regret not being there but I think we should see it the other way round: they should be ashamed of what they are doing with our cinema. It’s incredible our absence in the Official Selection. It’s the biggest festival and market in the world and we should question whether it’s mainly for the benefit of their friends.” FAPAE has just signed a new agreement with the Spanish government that changes the rules of cinema funds (it substitutes the old recoveries, given after the release of the films, for new anticipated funds and Colom urged authorities to “make it work as soon as possible”. With the arrival of Netflix due in October, Colom also urged the government to put more energy into fighting piracy. “It’s time to have a cinema law that covers every aspect, not only funding. We have this idea that production is the king of the audiovisual world and distribution is the queen. In this new digital era, we all have this need to find new rules that we don’t have.” Article from screendaily international

Much obliged. How do you see this playing in Venezuela and South America in general?

I didn't follow Veteran's run but mighty impressed it managed to beat Assassination. Arguably, it had the better release date though since it had no big hit cutting into it's legs from the get go, whereas Assassination was hit in consecutive weeks by MI5 and Veteran. A great run nonetheless

That's a shame.

No updates on The Martian?

Updated release schedule

Early days but it doesn't look like The Throne will be hitting 10 million admissions. Not too impressed with that monday hold and ratings on Naver are only in the low 8s. Think a mid level 4-6 million admissions could be a good aim for this

Sunday Box Office (August 23) (*optimized for the IP board blue format) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 524,299 (9,042,905) -2.17% $3.54M (-26.3%) [892] {Wk3} <Veteran> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 189,866 (11,589,259) -0.55% $1.27M (-39.4%) [606] {Wk5} <Assassination> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 181,639 (629,849) -2.20% $1.22M (--) [628] {Wk1} <Beauty Inside> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 85,475 (300,014) -8.90% $554K (--) [427] {Wk1} <Fantastic 4> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 53,346 (2,492,648) +5.82% $330K (-39.3%) [395] {Wk4} <Minions> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 1,211,295 Total Gross: $8,081,199 August Total: - Monday Box Office (August 24) (*optimized for the IP board blue format) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 167,562 (9,210,467) -68.0% $1.06M (-46.1%) [806] {Wk4} <Veteran> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 88,654 (718,503) -51.2% $568K (--) [608] {Wk2} <Beauty Inside> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 62,286 (11,651,545) -67.2% $385K (-56.1%) [556] {Wk6} <Assassination> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 24,060 (640,681) -53.1% $147K (-43.0%) [339] {Wk3} <Wonderful Nightmare> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 18,851 (5,941,359) -63.1% $116K (-65.2%) [327] {Wk5} <Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 420,403 Total Gross: $2,646,713 August Total: - Cumulative Gross Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation: $40.1 million Assassination: $75.25 million Veteran: $60.18 million

I'll correct it after sunday numbers.

Saturday Box Office (August 22) (*optimized for the IP board blue format) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 528,138 (8,511,035) +84.8% $3.59M (-36.2%) [904] {Wk3} <Veteran> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 188,959 (11,397,433) +82.7% $1.27M (-49.2%) [609] {Wk5} <Assassination> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 182,409 (444,896) +53.5% $1.19M (--) [648] {Wk1} <Beauty Inside> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 92,488 (213,210) +67.5% $602K (--) [447] {Wk1} <Fantastic 4> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 52,061 (5,870,653) +65.8% $357K (-70.0%) [354] {Wk4} <Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 1,219,849 Total Gross: $8,164,723 August Total: - Cumulative Gross Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation: $39.22 million Assassination: $74.06 million Veteran: $55.85 million Current presales (Midnight) 01. 40.6% (144,495) Veteran 02. 16.1% (57,452) Assassination 03. 12.2% (43,611) Beauty Inside 04. 5.9% (20,959) Fantastic 4 05. 5.0% (17,756) Minions

This situation with North Korea is an annual tradition almost, although it did get a little more out of hand than usual this time around. Most South Koreans didn't bat an eyelid to be honest, so I doubt it affected the box office.

Friday Box Office (August 21) (*optimized for the IP board blue format) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 280,305 (7,977,419) +25.2% $1.90M (-60.8%) [823] {Wk3} <Veteran> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 115,737 (259,377) +1.18% $779K (--) [644] {Wk1} <Beauty Inside> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 102,071 (11,207,129) +16.1% $677K (-66.5%) [557] {Wk5} <Assassination> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 53,940 (119,443) -15.0% $350K (--) [434] {Wk1} <Fantastic 4> NEW --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 30,828 (5,818,021) +21.2% $210K (-80.4%) [333] {Wk4} <Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 682,271 Total Gross: $4,543,943 August Total: - Cumulative Gross Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation: $38.83 million Assassination: $72.79 million Veteran: $52.25 million Current presales (Midnight) 01. 39.7% (178,744) Veteran 02. 15.6% (70,029) Assassination 03. 14.3% (64,490) Beauty Inside 04. 7.0% (31,326) Fantastic 4 05. 5.2% (23,311) Minions

I disagree that animated films automatically has better legs. Animated films doing well right now probably has more to do with it being the summer holiday season for the younger generation leading to better holds on weekdays. I do agree with the direct competition part. The key demo for MI5 overlaps to a large extent with that of Assassination and Veteran, while it doesn't for Minions, leading to a comparatively better hold for it. It would be hard to see this kind of pattern outside of the holiday frame though.

Wednesday Box Office (August 19) (*optimized for the IP board blue format) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 241,499 (7,470,569) -12.4% $1.55M (-38.5%) [981] {Wk3} <Veteran> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 101,325 (11,016,373) -17.5% $634K (-38.4%) [716] {Wk5} <Assassination> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 48,968 (461,444) +17.4% $302K (--) [425] {Wk2} <Wonderful Nightmare> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 42,950 (5,761,203) -12.0% $274K (-58.6%) [451] {Wk4} <Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 25,251 (2,352,606) -13.5% $146K (-50.7%) [388] {Wk4} <Minions> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 529,427 Total Gross: $3,335,870 August Total: - Cumulative Gross Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation: $38.83 million Assassination: $72.69 million minions: $14.49 million Veteran: $48.11 million Current presales (Midnight) 01. 32.3% (80,609) Veteran 02. 18.4% (45,871) Beauty Inside 03. 13.2% (32,876) Assassination 04. 10.6% (26,366) Fantastic 4 05. 3.5% (8,705) Minions

It's one of the more widely known and popular Japanese animations here. I'm pretty confident it will get a release in the future.

I'm inclined to agree with this the most. Plus, Japan is a leggy market for sure but it looks even more so because it calculates multipliers from a 2 day weekend. In Korea the opening is usually 4 or 5 days.

Tuesday Box Office (August 18) (*optimized for the IP board blue format) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 275,740 (7,229,314) -11.2% $1.76M (-32.4%) [973] {Wk3} <Veteran> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 122,776 (10,915,081) -13.6% $759K (-28.6%) [711] {Wk5} <Assassination> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 48,785 (5,718,241) -10.1% $310K (-55.6%) [460] {Wk4} <Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 41,694 (412,469) -1.24% $258K (--) [427] {Wk2} <Wonderful Nightmare> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 29,176 (2,327,346) +5.41% $170K (-46.0%) [395] {Wk4} <Minions> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 582,623 Total Gross: $3,646,628 August Total: - Cumulative Gross Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation: $38.55 million Assassination: $72.05 million minions: $14.34 million Veteran: $47.95 million

MI5 would have done better in a release date with less competition even if it's outside of the holiday frame.

Monday Box Office (August 17) (*optimized for the IP board blue format) -Admissions (Total Adm) Daily% Gross (weekly%) [sC] {wk} <Title> 1. 310,664 (6,953,574) -56.3% $2.00M (-26.2%) [964] {Wk3} <Veteran> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. 142,029 (10,792,307) -52.7% $888K (-22.9%) [683] {Wk5} <Assassination> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. 54,245 (5,669,456) -60.7% $346K (-55.9%) [459] {Wk4} <Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. 42,218 (370,775) -47.7% $262K (--) [414] {Wk2} <Wonderful Nightmare> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. 27,267 (2,298,170) -68.5% $163K (-46.9%) [389] {Wk4} <Minions> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Total admissions: 638,877 Total Gross: $4,032,328 August Total: - Cumulative Gross Mission Impossible-Rogue Nation: $38.24 million Assassination: $71.29 million minions: $14.17 million Veteran: $46.19 million