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A movie chain in Chile published this collab on Instagram and the top comment was "Okay but bring the Spy X Family movie, nobody cares about Mission Impossible"

Collider: "Chile, Australia, and France were the countries that enjoyed Miles' (Shameik Moore) adventures this weekend, as the movie performed strongly in said countries over the past couple of days". No numbers though. I'm hopeful that Chile can pass Italy as the top 10 OS market, which would be a first for any movie.

I'm not going to bother doing a proper tracking since hell will freeze over before WB reports a Chile gross, but presales are absolutely massive.

Their website (cineplanet.cl) crashed the moment they published on IG that presales were available lmao. Luckily, I was able to get the available seating before that.

I will also track the presales on the third largest chain (Cineplanet), though all my comps would be from before the pandemic. There is just so less info from Chile BO nowadays. 😔 They really should start tracking properly anime movies' grosses in Latin America. In Chile at least, distributors have successfully built a niche audience that has made Anime movies a consistent commercial success, one of the managers of the second largest chain (Cinemark) highlighted anime as one of the most successful genres post-pandemic. (Anime itself isn't really a niche in Chile or in any Latin American country, the popularity is very widespread, however people are very conditioned to watch it free in piracy websites). In fact, Suzume was a prime example of this, it had a semi-wide release (one screen at every theater in the country), had restrictions on discount in the first week (generally reserved for blockbusters but applied more and more to anime films given their frontloadness and success), showed some legs and I'm sure it ended being more successful than half of the Hollywood movies released here. And that was an original film (albeit from a known director) without a massive fanbase like DBS, Kimetsu no Yaiba or Slam Dunk. I think that in a few years Japanese studios could compite toe to toe with Hollywood here IF they significantly shorten the time it takes for movies to arrive to Latin America (and that includes dubbing). Otherwise, rampant piracy will continue to be too big of a hustle.

I was thinking DBS: Hero or DBS Resurrection F numbers, but with presales like that it could match Broly (Sadly, I don't think we ever got to know the full final LATAM numbers for any of these movies)

The biggest chain in the country is doing presales in an ungodly number of screens. The second largest is doing a more traditional presale with a few showings in each theater. Third largest (and easier to track) hasn't started yet. In any case, it seems it will be given the Dragon Ball Super treatment: a full wide blockbuster release.

EXTREMELY strong first hours of presales in Chile:

Bad, will probably be overtaken by Elemental over the proper weekend

Releases in Chile in August 3d. Presales start in July 5th Fun fact: We have a Tenis player called Hanamichi Carvajal, he and all his siblings are named after Slam Dunk characters. He is currently taking a break from tenis and studying in the US.

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In Chile this is releasing in less screens than Ruby Gillman... In fact, in the movie chain I'm tracking it will have less showtimes than Spiderverse's 5th weekend. I have to say, If I hadn't come back to this forum, I wouldn't even know that this movie exists, 0 promotion.

Chile OW: $585,440 (Coco $544,163 OW | 10M USD total - The Good Dinosaur $477,359 OW | 3M USD total) Very underwhelming though it may have been deflated by floods and heavy rain in central Chile and Santiago. However, Winter's Holidays start this weekend, so it should increase and have huge weekdays for the next 2 weeks. Standard multiplier for animation is 6x, a bit higher with Winter's Holidays boost. 4M USD could be doable with good WOM, which would be respectable total.

Coco 176k Good Dinosaur 192k Coco ended with 1,6M admissions but that was a WOM phenomenon that stayed in the top 10 for 17 weeks. No idea about final total for TGD, Mojo has a 3,77x multiplier in gross though. Winter's Holidays in Perú are still a month away.

One factor that isn't really discussed is that most OS markets, simply do not have the screen capacity to have so many big movies releasing week after week. Even if they do not do well, they have very wide releases which cannibalize all the holdovers, even if they are doing well. For example, I've been tracking the number of showings in the third largest Chilean chain because I think Chile has a chance to be a top 10 OS market for Spiderverse. This is the change from last weekend to the current one. Flash 96 -----> 45 Spiderverse 68 ---> 59 Transformers 58 ----> 51 TLM 41 ----> 19 FFX 16 ---> 14 Elemental (new) ----> 87 Flash, despite being a huge bomb, made Spiderverse and Transformers lose half of their showings. And for this weekend, despite having a high attendance per screen, they still had to shred showings to make room for elemental, and next weekend it will be more of the same with Indiana Jones and Ruby Gillman, despite the former (and probably the latter) being DOA. In Latin America is really apparent that Spiderverse has been held back by the insane amount of competition.

Is there any animated movie scheduled between now and Winter's Holidays in mid July? If Elemental manages to hold screens until that it will manage a respectable total

Elemental number is not good but it isn't a total disaster either. Flash is catastrophic.

From a very quick glance at showings in Chile I think Flash is going to struggle to beat Spiderverse third weekend in admissions... (Well, is not like WB or Sony report Chilean numbers so we'll never know for sure)

Probably Chile too if it performed similarly as in Argentina (where it didn't do that well tbh)

Latin American markets are exhausted after Guardians of the Galaxy, Fast X and TLM have all been huge successes, back to back. Sony should have released this in July in the region. Winter's Holidays are the most profitable box office period of the year in South America but they are still 4 weeks away in Chile and 6 in Argentina. By that time it most likely will have lost most of its screens to Elemental (even if that flops)

Saw it yesterday, very good movie. Liked about as much as Your Name. In Chile it had a lot of screens but with limited showings (1 or 2 per day), my showing was packed. It had restriction on discounts so the distributor was very confident on it!

Last weekend in Venezuela: OW: 256.784 admissions. four best ever after Fast & Furious 8 (2017 - 331.412 admissions) Harry Potter and the Order of the Phonexi (2007 - 305.355) and Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince (2009 -303.871). https://www.elnacional.com/entretenimiento/the-super-mario-bros-movie-se-convirtio-uno-de-los-mejores-estrenos-del-pais/

Is more like that in Latin America grown ups also watch animated movies

Would have done that with ease without a VoD release IMO. Btw, I forgot to mention that today and tomorrow there is Carnaval holiday in Argentina, so that will boost both Antman and the holdovers

Weekend: Antman 3: 250.612 (305k with previews) PiB2: 83.330 (-28%) | Total: 2.053.245 Avatar 2: 44.496 (-45%) | Total: 3.079.627