Not sure if it because of late-announcement that cause cinema a hard time to secure a print, Saturday have 55% more show time than Friday and Saturday PS more than double of that Friday's PS.
Today's number is a bit boring and standard. The trend remain stable throughout the day, there is no sign of breakout but isn't flopping for a re-release either.
Interstellar and HP1 are the recent major re-release
Interstellar Saturday's midnight show: rmb 130k
Harry potter 1 Thursday's midnight show; rmb 260k
Avatar's midnight: ~200-250k
So I am expecting a weekend number similar to HP1 re-release
They may mixed up local currency with us dollar. Although avatar is now the weekend number 1, the number still isn't very high in term of PS, unless they have insider news
Very tricky to judge the final performance based on PS . The film release date was announced so last minute that even some cinemas are complaining they do not have enough time to get prints and to market the re-release properly.
What are you talking about? China's population is 4 times bigger than USA, this country must be terribly freaking wrong if they somehow have a smaller 15-30 aged group smaller than US population. In term of %, both countries have similar share in term of young population.
Eternals may also get banned in Muslim-majority countries like Indonesia that give plenty of box office money to Marvel.
But I remember Bohemian rhapsody got released here too, so should not be a big issue.
Not necessarily, they have too little time to prepare its re-release and the buzz can be very limited. Even the rerelease news is regarded a surprise by Hollywood reporters
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/avatar-surprise-re-release-china
DS actually gain in weekend box office for the 2nd weekend in a row. This is amazing since last week was a holiday and other holdovers experiencing some harsh drop
And in Korea, Raya couldn't beat DS and sitting at number 3. DS have been in cinema since late-Jan. But things could improve over the weekend because the wom is actually quite good.