TigerPaw

Extremly saddening - akin to stealing, all the filmmakers’ efforts and hard work on a pirate’s ipad...

I heard Big Brother HD version leaked by rival studios - big drop today. not sure whether HD version of Ant Man 2 is out yet also.. will definitely affect holds.

Pretty sure many of them knows. This unofficial blackout period is known to many and the period ended with HT3 on Aug 17. Just like The Great Wall, it is in English but gets a December release date and GA knows it’s a co production. Key here is that in the past 2-3months, the supply of Hollywood Movies is very rare, and this may be a factor for the stronger pre-sales and front-loadedness.

Doing well here in Singapore, but it’s a really small market. only reason is that it is filmed here and many of the casts are from here.

The frontloadedness can also be attributed to it being the first live action Hollywood movie to be shown after the protection period, disregarding Meg which is a co-production.

Ya, Sunday numbers don’t look good

Another good day for holdovers.

Strong Saturday for holdovers.

Sincere apologies if i offended anyone, there are 10k votes on Maoyan, and the negative reviews are much more than 10... There a few reviews like that on maoyan and tieba, too many to scroll through and find it back. but i definitely saw some. I am not generalising Marvel fans - i like marvel as well, but i was just stating what i saw - and apparently this offended many? As for big brother, the film, it has over 10k votes on maoyan and is at 9.0...so i am not sure what movie you have watched? I watched it myself and i see audiences tearing up. I mean you can just google audience reviews from from other parts of Asia. Saying its "sh!t" is a little overboard don't you think? Once again - i hope both films do well, China is a big enough market to have numerous films opening together on the same weekend. We don't need to bash one film to promote another. Cheers

Lol - I have seen reviews that stated this, direct translation ‘This movie is garbage, waste of money, spend your money wisely on Ant Man instead’ also - if you see the same guy putting 1 star on this movie and 5 star on Ant Man, pretty sure its a fan trying to push down competition.

Might be tougher than we think - 1) This is not a genre of Donnie Yen’s strength as this is an education movie, instead of his usual action movie. Even though there are some sick fight scenes in the movie. 2) It is primarily a HK film, not a mainland Chinese film (like Donnie’s Monkey King or Special ID), and focused a lot on HK’s education system 3) almost 0 marketing and weak distributor, distributor is really just banking on Donnie’s star power - many mainland audiences will watch a Donnie Yen movie as long as they see him on the poster, but that does not mean there should be almost 0 marketing 4) I see many Marvel fans already putting 1 star for this movie to remove competition. Maoyan score has dropped to 9.2, but based on the quality I suspect it will still hover around 9.0 in the end. Anyway this film has done very well in Singapore and Malaysia and may be the top Chinese film in these 2 countries for 2018 - just not sure about China as the China distributors is crazy to let it compete against Ant Man 2 and MI6 will. i genuinely hope all the films do well.

Wow. Donnie Yen’s movie - Big Brother getting really strong word of mouth from Midnight previews. 9.5 on Maoyan? Think it will stabilise around 9 - I watched it here in Singapore as well, one of the best Asian films I have seen in the last 3 years, so I am not surprised with its reviews. Just surprised why it is 100minutes instead of the the 102 minutes in other parts of Asia. Understand many of you are here to see Ant Man’s box office, but this is the China Box office forum so let’s give a little bit of space to local films too not forgetting Donnie yen is a part of Disney (he was Chirrut in rogue one and going to be the first billed male actor in Mulan), hope both does well this Summer holiday!

This is a prequel... the first prequel did not have Andy Lau either. andy was in the original film in 2010 only, the first prequel already grossed higher than that. i love Andy Lau but his box office are usually at the 300m yuan level, and this film will beat it within the first weekend.

Hem, instead of talking about the film’s quality.. he tried to blame it on the competition. i was interested, but now I am totally turned off.

There are no big openers last week though!

Hope it beats WW2, this movie is much better than that overrated propaganda. easier said than done, though.

Thanks. curious why Dying to Survive has prescreening almost every evening except Monday?

I think that is because Sunday for Solo is a national discount day hence better weekend proportion.

This may actually be good for it - good WoM building up and the next weekend it might explode!

No one in China knows him. He doesn’t even speak mandarin well - you have seen the dark knight right? He was in it - and his mandarin was pathetic. i am a Singaporean and I am proud that Chin Han is in these Hollywood movies but don’t count on him to get China Box office. It is almost like say Rose Tico (Kelly Marie Tran), a Vietnamese.. can help boost China BO for Last jedi... just because these people look Chinese, does not mean they are mainland Chinese.

To make matters worse - Many Co-Production / Hollywood films get the wrong Chinese stars.. Huang Xiao Ming is often criticised as a Box office poison with bad acting.. For EP3, they got Max Zhang in - who again has no good box office track record in China, he had a small role in Pacific Rim 2 and did not help the box office. at all So far for Cross-over appeal - it is still the legendary 3 - Jackie Chan/Donnie Yen/Jet Li - no on else has proven otherwise.

Chin Han is a Singaporean..not mainland Chinese.

Eh. I was not offended at all. Lol. I am just saying that i can understand why the Chinese in mainland were offended - look at my original post again. Lol.

But might impact box office worldwide. Incredibles 2 is only released at around 30% of its international footprint so far.

A good quality CAM version of I2 has been leaked.. spreading like wildfire on Facebook and Torrent sites. Not sure how much impact it has...