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Well, there are huge differences in taste among different groups of Chinese too. Chinese in Singapore, for example, hardly watches any Chinese movies these days. MH is not a hit in Hong Kong. Taiwan loves making art house movies and pretty much nothing else.

Do you think it can break the record of TMK? Here is the trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAGMDOZhloY

INCREDIBLE! GML! By the way, recently I noticed that iqiyi shows movies such as MH. It in fact has 120m views and counting. Is this another way movies earn money in China?

This may bode well for Hollywood then.

Is this another black out weekend?

Was it shown in U.S.?

Maybe IO will have 自来水 like TMK?

On douban, it has a rating of 7.6 which is pretty good. I suspect that most people have already watched it online, hence there is no need to go to the theaters unless they really really like the film.

This is underwhelming...

Well, Minions will be the second highest grossing animated movie worldwide ever whether it makes 900m or 1b rmb.

I hope Minions won't beat this record. By the way, MH outgrosses F7 today.

I believe m f Lawrence has already given his prediction of 9 to 24m usd. I must say it is quite a huge range. Taking exchange rates movement into consideration? On another topic, some members here were raving about The Assassin earlier. The news reported that it is a very polarizing movie where many walked out before the movies ended, while others watched twice. I often wonder if directors such as Hou and Cai Mingliang destroyed the film industry in Taiwan. For a long while, almost all the movies from Taiwan are art films for the intellectuals. Even today, it is such a small market relative to its size with only a few hits far and few in between. Why did Taiwan choose to have such a film industry? I thought it is a far more capitalistic place than China?

Indeed... This practice makes me feel like there is no point tracking.

I suspect this is not the directive of the CCP. Instead, it is the decision of movie theatre owners who did this dirty trick so that they get to keep 100% of the gross as promised by CCP.

Not every soldier wants to see the films. The films are used in a way as "education" too. But I do believe that China is inhibiting its own economic growth by trying to control everything. The market can then only be as big as the political system is able to "contain" it. There is an estimate going around that about 16m of MH gross last week came from "social contribution" by the film company.

In Singapore, we have companies who basically booked an entire screening as part of staff benefits. The military once bought the entire afternoon sessions for the American movie: Saving Private Ryan and Schindler's List. Maybe this does not happen in the West at all. For discussion sake, should we be counting such sponsored screenings? When does it cross the line?

You think there are no patriots or pro-Communist people in China?

I supposed there is nothing wrong with this move in spirit but the gross should be taken out and accounted as expense instead.

The problem with Hou is that he makes the thinking man movie. So I suspect that even with a great douban rating and reviews, it will not be a hit...

Monday Est (24/08/2015) Movie Title/ Daily Gross in ￥/ Gross to date in ￥ 1. Terminator 5 - 67.3m/ 234m 2. Goodbye Mr Tumour - 11.7m/ 433m 3. Bride Wars - 6.3m/ 156m 4. Monster Hunt - 6m/ 2,335m 5. Ballet in the Flames of War - 2m/ 8m 6. The Monkey King - Hero is Back - 1.95m/ 938m I can't see how Monkey King can reach ￥1 billion by 9th Sep 2015... 15 days of 2 million will give it only 30 million more...

Sounds like the earlier F7 phenomenon. If this is the case again, I think a lot of foreign films will fight to be the first film released after a blackout

So Aug will be a slow month y-o-y?

Looks like no local film can challenge this for a while?

I am pretty sure there will be reports on how the one month restriction curbs F7 and other foreign movies gross. If it is a playing field, MH would prob be just 2nd or 3rd

How about TMK? Any chance of it making ¥900m by tomorrow?