charlie Jatinder

Week 15 11-17 July 2020 Movies Castaway on the Moon: 7/10. American Beauty: 7/10. Pan's Labyrinth: This is a fantasy film with a teen lead, the two things I absolutely love and still it end up like ehh. War angle of the film is more interesting than fantasy. Grossly overrated. 4/10. Jackie Brown: Very good but among QT's bottom tier. 7/10. Greyhound: Well paced and runtime, Hanks is good as always. Looks cheap though. 6/10. Cast Away: Brilliant. 8/10. Palm Springs: To watch a film without knowing nothing about them. On top of that time loop. This was so good. It did the Dark's Adam Eve thing in super romantic way and it is even better. 8/10. The King of Staten Island: I mean, ok. Not good but not bad either. Lead is ugh. At one time his fight with his sister was looking like a porno fight.4/10. The Thing: A horror film in which characters don't do dumb things. Brilliant. 8/10. 21 Jump Street: Funny. 7/10. 22 Jump Street: Not Funny. 2/10. Bridge of Spies: I love Tom Hanks and Spielberg's "based on true story"(s). 8/10. Captain Phillips: The film is good. But won't it make more sense to have arms on ship to avoid being getting pirated than wasting so much more money on the rescue. Also seems like Phillips wasn't the hero in real life as he is made in the film, so -1. 6/10. Into The Wild: A fucking 150 mins of boredom in this story of a un-likeable jerk leading upto nothing. 4/10.

Shit how can I miss My Name is Khan. That's like my Top 10 Edit: @chasmmi can something be done? I would have placed it at 8-10 most likely.

But do they deserve either? I mean I am an SRKian so I had K3G in top 50 but I know it's not that good. I also haven't watched majority of the film in list so far, so may be K3G is better than few of them. Dil Se, though I like it, but in general the film had poor reception in India itself, though has aged very well. That said Gangs of Wasseypur should have been much higher IMO. The film had art and commercial elements both in it. One of the best films ever made in India, I think people should watch it.

I would have hoped for Parasite, as it could have potentially done $150-200mn, going by general Taiwan to China ratio, but guess COVID and Piracy has killed all its chances.

Ohh. That will be nice. Considering Fight Club was so low, I thought that may be it might miss.

Chances of Shawshank not making to Top 100?

2012. Anyhow, the film is set in remote and most backward regions of India. Pretty great 2 parter families revenge story.

40k CGV for tomorrow. 275k mostly.

Yeah expected it much higher. Off to great start.

@chasmmi are you not gonna tell points?

Apparently it missed a chain numbers by mistake. The 350k matched the final estimate we had, so all good. Thursday will hit 228-230k imo. Anyhow not really optimistic on film's final, 3.8-4mn I guess. Roughly $25-28mn. @imbruglia how is South Korea Home Video and TV market for films because I don't think theatrically it will do more than $12-13mn returns with $20mn budget after release cost.

Bring it on. Am waiting. @Ethan Hunt not not cool me mate.

Day 2 CGV finaled at 119k, that should go for 225-230k admits overall. About 35% drop in admits, gross shall drop around 33% I guess at $1.6mn.

Opening Day updated with 353,010 admits and $2.45mn gross.

That will make sense I guess.

I think industry will survive, question is whether theaters will survive. There was a big film released in Korea yesterday, it averaged 25 person per show and Korea has almost gone over COVID with less than 500 active cases. Endgame averaged roughly 125 person per show on its best day, which is I think close to capacity, so a big film, in the most theater-going per captia country of the world, had an attendance of 1/5th of the best in recent time, I don't know how can cinemas survive at that. Worse still, the majority numbers come from one chain, rest were even more shittier.

$513k for the topper which was released 22 weeks ago, isn't really bad IMO. May be it will be among or even the record for 22nd week. Australia is doing pretty fine I guess. And WOW on Jumanji. Looking at COVID, cases seems like are on increase once again.

Not really related but it is. So Train to Busan sequel released in Korea yesterday, and it has a poor WoM, so can't really speak on long run but on opening front, it was about atleast 70% down from what a normal opening could have been. Since Korea is more cine-going per captia than America and is way less impacted by Covid overall, I think a big film released even say theatres open in July end is not doing more than 25% of its potential in the opening. I think Nolan should understand that and go F9 way of moving just to next year. 2020 is not really safe. Boxoffice in other countries is down 80-90%, except Japan, their normal, so that point it can release internationally first is BS.

Yeah about that range. Guess WoM being shitty has robbed us from seeing how it would have trended & ofcourse some big numbers finally.

Ohh CGV ratio was pretty shit. Just 295k.

Pretty good walk ins, CGV selling 116k during the day, that's like +45% The Lion King. Anyhow, with 188k CGV final, I expect Korea full day of around 350k. On higher end, it could be 390-400k but I will take my chances at 340k.

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17:30 Update: Good noon hourlies, Looking at 180-185k CGV, which I think should go for 325-330k OD of $2.05-2.1mn.