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Digimon Adventure 02: The Beginning will be released in Chile on November 30th. It has good presales. The biggest chain, Cinepolis/Cine Hoyts, is also doing a "Japanese cinema festival" called Hanami, with a re-release of Suzume and several other movies

Is a very surrealist horror stop motion film about an escape from a Nazi sect in southern Chile. Here it had a very limited release and with 20k admits it already has more viewership in Japan than in Chile! At the time I thought it was a shame that distributors didnt see the opportunity of mixing 2 of the most popular genres in Chile, animation and horror

51k OW for Chilean Documentary "La memoria infinita" about the love story and struggle with Alzheimer of a famous TV presenter. It doubled the holdovers and Gran Turismo (no actual numbers for those though) Best OW for a Chilean movie since 2018. Very rare for a Chilean film, let alone a documentary, to top the BO. Share for local films has been around 1% since 2018.

Nothing ever recovers post-winter's holidays. Such are the laws of nature of South America's Box Office. The post-holiday hangover is brutal. That is also why Barbie's legs seem so poor. It opened in the middle/near the end of he biggest BO season of the year, of course it did gangbusters and fell very hard afterwards.

The first Slam Dunk was third over the weekend behind Barbie and The Meg 2. Oppenheimer was fourth with 541k USD, so it opened above that. As I said, with a proper wide release it would have been an easy 1M USD opening

The First Slam Dunk defeated Barbie and Oppenheimer (and The Meg lol) on Thursday, it was the n°1 movie in Chile with like half of the showings of Barbie. Insane. The chains that had it on limited release added showings over the weekend (something very rare) to satisfy demand. So this movie indeed was a Dragon Ball like event in Chile, but not in the rest of LATAM. I don't think is because of difference in popularity, I think is because the successful audience building for anime films that has been done here that I explained a while back.

Harsh drops for everything due to the end of Winter's Holidays: Barbie (-75%), Elemental (-92%!!), Haunted Mansion (-96% lmao). Only Oppenheimer (-42%) saved face thanks to its adult audience. The drops should moderate a little over the weekend, but the post-Winder's Holidays hangover has always been brutal. The First Slam Dunk had a respectable debut for a limited release. Edit: The Meg debut while not spectacular is fairly solid

Cinemark and Cineplanet (50% of the market between them) underestimated demand. They put 1-2 showings a day in each location like an standard anime film when it is behaving like a Blockbuster. Cine Hoyts/Cinépolis (~40% share) is reaping the rewards because they gave it the blockbuster treatment. Sadly, this will limit a lot its potential. I really think it could have opened to 1M USD had it been given a wide release by all the chains.

Sure, I hadn't bothered to do it because there's not enough info to keep this thread updated regularly

México did 64k admissions. I estimate that Chile must have around 20k presales just for OD across all chains.

Chile Presales- one day before release 21 showtimes for OD | 3785 seats available | 1569 tickets sold. Other presales I tracked (Before pandemic, movie chains say that movies are now more presale-heavy) It is frustrating because the chain I track is clearly under-indexing. The other chains have like 10x the number of showtimes and plenty of sellouts and near sellouts, but Cineplanet didn't do any promotion until this last week. In any case, over 40% of capacity sold is still really good, but not Broly-levels good. Hopefully the distributor release actuals over the weekend.

The First Slam Dunk Presales- one day before release 21 showtimes for OD | 3785 seats available | 1569 tickets sold. Other presales I tracked (Before pandemic, movie chains say that movies are now more presale-heavy) It is frustrating because the chain I track is clearly under-indexing. The other chains have like 10x the number of showtimes and plenty of sellouts and near sellouts, but Cineplanet didn't do any promotion until this last week. In any case, over 40% of capacity sold is still really good, but not Broly-levels good. Hopefully the distributor release actuals over the weekend.

We are in a globalized world. I have also heard fachos here in Chile saying that they want to see Sound of Freedom (especifically someone who wasn't been to cinema since Top Gun Maverick -which wasn't even a big hit here- and doesn't want to see Barbie because it is "Ideological") Is appealing to right-wingers predisposed to like the US propaganda all around the globe

Miscellaneous admission updates courtesy of the press: Barbenheimer first week (until July 26th) Barbie: 713.000 (517.484 OW) | (851.336 until July 28th) Oppenheimer: 233.000 (112.633) Other movies: Super Mario Bros: 2.558.000 (3rd most viewed movie of all time!) Avatar way of Water: ~2.300.000* "Just over or under 1 million admissions": Guardians of the Galaxy 3, Elemental, Fast X, Spiderverse *This could be anywhere 2.2 to 2.4M admissions, they rounded Spiderman NWH from 2.482.018 to 2.5M and Minions 2 from 2.171.203 to 2.1M.

Thanks, though it seems this is only counting until 2022 calendar year. Avatar 2 should be over 2M admissions and is missing Mario, Spiderverse, etc.