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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.

Thursday was a Holiday, Independence Day. Maybe some Colombian could help here but in Chile at least, the National/Independence Holidays depress the Box Office because the tradition is to spend time with your extended family and many people travel. Maybe people rushed to see the movie before going to do the usual celebrations. (I'm just speculating here)

I noticed that post-Pandemic Perú ATP had gone up massively, Mario was the most glaring example. But I haven't paid enough attention to check if it something consistent.

Local press reported: Chile: 517.484 admissions, third best OW ever, just behind Endgame and Infinity War. Should be easily over 3M USD

The fact that Barbie did ~250k every day of the weekend shows that there are capacity issues holding it back. Excellent results for Elemental and Oppenheimer.

Sometimes when you check numbers very early in the morning they are not final and they get updated a bit later, the difference is usually very small, like what you have seen. Edit: Actually the same thing happened on Thursday, you posted 260k for Barbie and I posted 268k, the latter ended up being the final.

Press reports 112.663 OD in Chile Best of the year, 5th best ever behind Endgame, IW, NWH and Lion King.

South Korea youth has extremely polarized views regarding feminism and gender relations. If you look at the exit polls of the last presidential election you will see a ridiculous gender gap between the liberal and conservative candidate among 18-29 years old. That could be poisoning the well.

This is Argentina, I would have to look for it but I'm not sure if Endgame beated Minions OW to begin with...

1 Barbie 268.390 2 Elementos 55.872 3 Oppenheimmer 34.474 HUGE for Barbie. Buenos Aires' holidays helped Elemental to weather the pink storm. Oppenheimer is very good also, in Chile and Argentina it was released on a somewhat limited number of screens. Edit: ups, beated to it

Actually yes, this week is the one where ALL provinces have school holidays. Notably Buenos Aires, that has the majority of the moviegoing share in Argentina, started just this week and will continue until 28th. Some provinces like Córdoba will return to classes on Monday so that will weak things a bit. Also, people have to understand that Winters Holidays is the biggest BO period of the year. Is like Chinese new year in terms of revenue boost.