charlie Jatinder

Mojo need to get its shit together. Self adding feature is great. All they need to do is not add the overall cume in re-release, just re-run cume.

WTF is even that? Searched. Its some wresting match. Don't think it cost even $2-3mn either. Whatever it lost, if it did, would have made on next day. Anyways reasons are well, known but the fact those were disappointment for me.

No film will even pass Titanic for foreseeable future. Its simply way too hard. Edit: Just if you are being sarcastic on my answer 😛 well: Disappointment is the feeling of dissatisfaction that follows the failure of expectations or hopes to manifest. The film's I mentioned were for personal disappointment, generally they were huge. Yeah Endgame could be same for you sure but what you were asking was simply way way way way too hard. I being a huge MCU fan thought 2.4bn was ceiling. Thanks to Chinese fans who paid ¥60-70 tickets in first weekend made a huge difference.

Japan coming for the top. I think it can top France with whole lot of animes to be in Top 20. 40 more to go. I think India will get 3 Idiots and Baahubali 2 for sure. There can be Lagaan, Taare Zameen Par and DDLJ too. That leaves 35-36 films. (India total 16-17) Memories of Murder, Parasite, Oldboy, Handmaiden, I saw the Devil will definitely make for Korea. Give another 3 which I am not aware of Leave 24-25. (Korea total 12+) Atleast 8 other Miyazaki, Your Name, and 4-5 Japenese film will make it. Leaves 10-12. (Japan total 21+) It will be tight race, more than I expected. I know 5 non-French film that will make it, so I think its safe to assume Japan is winning this. India and France will fight for 2nd.

Seems like 33.5-34mn today. Guess 94-95mn weekend.

Luckily I picked it very fast. The first Hollywood box office I remember seeing is Spiderman 3 in Guiness World Record 2008 edition, which was in our school library. Since it was in $ and english number system, couldn't really imagine how big it was. Was weird to see Potter movies so big, until I watched Potter films in 2013.

On personal level Age of Ultron - 1.4 Billie was good and I would have made peace with it individually but the fact F7 and JW out of no where did what they did, it was a disappointment. Homecoming - Due to Iron Man presence, I was expecting 175 OW and 1 Billie WW. The Lion King - It was an easy 2 Billie. Generally I guess the usuals, Solo, Justice League, etc Also, more emotional to Bollywood than Hollywood. All SRK films this decade were disappointments, barring Chennai Express.

I have done that:p In school, I got my hands on a computer, in around 2012, so first thing I did was print the Wikipedia page of top India grossers. Which felt like a goldmine, having data for stuff like biggest third week grossers and shit.

So Maoyan app opened registration for outside China, and there are no "I" letter countries allowed. Only "I" is the exception. Blocking India would make sense but all "I" nations. 😕 I hope they don't close the box office reporting to just registered accounts. Edit: ok seems like those aren't ISD code but China's local code. Why no I still.

I guess add, how you found this forum to your take.

Canada in normalcy do a billion dollar. We were looking at around 800-900mn this year, with half the year gone in bin, I wonder if it can. Also will need US opening up for big films. Canada cant do much without those. China has luxury of local films, few of wwhich were banned last year due to censorship and Chinese New Year releases which didnt release.

So I guess, y'all tell your story. Here's mine; Pre 2010 (infant): The first memory of box office I have is from a TV news report of Hindi film in 2007. I had interest in numbers and stats. Used to track cricket stats back then, so box office was nice addition. Most of the times I read/watched box office reports, most of them entirely inaccurate were from Bollywood news channels and some random news paper. 2010-12 (curious kid): Then in 2010 I discovered ETC, a Bollywood music channel which also did box office reporting. Renowned Bollywood trade analyst Komal Nahta (he also own a Trade Magazine FILM INFORMATION) used to handle the box office. That felt like a really big thing. I used to watch the channel whole day for random Box office infomercials they did on half hour basis and Komal's box office show like the one I share below. The show on Friday night used to give review of the new released film and opening report, On Monday the weekend business was reported and on the other weekdays random interviews and for big films daily updates. In India fanwars between fans of stars are common and box office comparison was one major topic to argue, eventually become the only topic. I in school used to have fights with friends on similar, with me on SRK side and friends mostly on Salman and Aamir. That led to increase in interest in box office, and after hours and years of watching ETC and Komal Nahta, I started understanding box office. In a way Komal is my Box Office teacher. The first Internet search I probably did was "Top Grossing Films" in 2010 perhaps, and didn't understand much. 2012-15 (confused but learning teenager): Then in mid 2012, I discovered that on internet we can get box office updates daily and not wait for Monday night for weekend numbers. That was huge for me. Internet wasn't big in India back then and I didn't had mobile. I used to go to Internet Cafe and surf box office website KOIMOI (also run by Komal) after school. I also learned about internet fanwars on the website and they were fun. Then found bunch of other websites. By 2013, I had my own phone (not smart but had internet) so I was getting box office update faster than ETC, so stopped watching the show and focus only on Internet sources. SRK was bit of bad phase in comparison to Salman during 2010-2012, so that was depressing period but in 2013 Chennai Express become the Biggest Indian film. Those were the days, bullying other fans online. During one of those fights, I discovered a Bollywood forum, which felt like a very good place. I also learned that Koimoi and bunch of other website I followed weren't actually accurate report the studio numbers which are inflated. The genuine numbers were by Box Office India. During that time till 2015, debate of Producer vs BOI figure was big thing in Bollywood internet, especially after for Krrish 3 which inflated so big they announced it as Biggest Grosser of all time, despite about 15% lower. SRK was big in overseas, just being a biased fan, I had interest in overseas numbers. This is how I discovered Mojo and Hollywood box office but all of that was pretty insignificant to me. Basically during this period I was discovering things and learning about box office, but still confused. 2016-17 (toward adulthood): remember I said interest in overseas. Dilwale released in end of 2015, it failed in India but overseas was big. I surfed through out Twitter for its number in non-traditional bollywood markets, and I discovered Rentrak. This was period I would ask people about number of films just like any other twitter user. In one of these conversations, I started a good relation with a guy with access. I also getting sources for domestic market, by 2017 I had good enough knowledge about stuff. This was also the time I developed the taste for MCU and that led me to Hollywood box office. I was so pissed on Age of Ultron Flopping. Civil War beating BvS was fun. Also discovered Deadline, was nice to see numbers earlier than Mojo. 2017-present: Before 2017, I had a guy with comScore access but was mostly interested in Indian films in USA. The interest in Hollywood was increasing, so I thought why not ask for Hollywood numbers as well. My India box office sources were now pretty decent, started Cinetrak with few other people. I was almost an expert on Indian overseas box office and was gaining good traction on Twitter. I also started tweeting USA numbers, mostly for Marvel, DC, Disney films. Sources started getting better too. One day in random search on google of my username, I discovered this forum. Someone had shared my Tweet here for Infinity War numbers. In October 2018, I made account here. My comScore source got better in March 2019. Before that I used to ask numbers indirectly from a guy, but from March I got direct access, which you would have realised by more frequent updates. From this forum, knowledge about other markets mostly European and Latin America also started increasing. You guys are really nice and very kind.

I know 2020 is an anomaly but USA is currently $1.9Bn and China is around $400mn. China has two potential $300-400mn, TENET and Mulan can do $300mn in between them. If more local films like Better Days, Chinese New Year releases are allowed, we may get that.

Week 19 08-14 Aug 2020 Movies A slow week with not much. The Departed: I wanted to do Scorsese films, but last year statements by the old man and the fact I didn't really liked Taxi Driver, I was delaying it. So finally watched this, and its pretty good. However, I guess it has more to do with the original (which I haven't seen though) than with 'sese' as it has certain East Asian feel. Matt Damon was cool. There was a disgusting scene of Jack Nicholson showing dick to Matt Damon, donno if original has it. Ugh. 8/10. Road To Predition: Donno why, but this feels like a better John Wick film minus the cool action? 8/10. Gunjan Saxena (Hindi): A good biopic but a poor war film. This is biopic of India's first (?) woman airforce pilot. 5/10.

I wish there was love react.

In India am hearing National chains have agreed to follow flat 50% for time till normalcy return. Usually for Blockbusters, its 52.5% Week 1, 45% Week 2, 37.5% week 3 onward of Net.

984 is wrong, if you are picking from Mojo. The original run was $975.8mn. $2.5mn re-releases in Europe, $2.2mn in South Korea. $1mn Domestic. That gave $981.5mn. There may be some smaller re-releases. $4.75mn today in China, so $986.25mn.

213k ($1.7mn) DuFE. Tomorrow 325k expecting.

Very slow last 2 hours, it missing 35 at this rate. Edit: 30-32.

well well well

¥3 billie.

Getting better now. Should do ¥40mn eventually.

The overall box office today will be ~¥70mn Approx ($10mn). First $10mn in months. About 30% of same Friday last year in about 45% of shows and 23% of available seats.