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There really is no need to manipulate its box office when it will make more than twice or triple its budget from China alone without fudging. Please don't associate the fudging of Ip Man 3's box office to wishing death to the franchise or the quality of the film. The Ip Man franchise is a highly respectable series in which many Chinese love the films. Yes, this is a black eye on Ip Man 3 but it should not be used as a target for the Ip Man franchise. The writers/director/actors did nothing wrong and the quality of their work should be respected.

Sunday adm. (so far) March 6 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Danish Girl 9,255 6,783 -26.7% -13.0% 2 Gods of Egypt -- 6,746 -- +7.5% 3 London Has Fallen -- 6,081 -- +17.3% 4 The Finest Hours 8,546 4,496 -47.4% +3.8% 5 Room -- 2,695 -- +17.2% 6 The Mermaid 7,126 2,598 -63.5% +33.4% 7 Spotlight -- 1,615 -- +2.0% 8 Deadpool 4,927 1,604 -67.4% +19.0% 9 The Good Dinosaur 1,799 448 -75.1% -- 10 The Revenant -- 400 -- +0.0% Ooh very bad drop from Saturday for The Danish Girl. Good increase for Gods of Egypt. Strong Sunday increase for London Has Fallen. Eh for The Finest Hours. Also strong for Room. Not a great hold for The Mermaid.

My first thought upon reading that is they might be fudging to compensate for releasing it so late when it should have opened during Christmas holidays. Sigh, it sucks that IM3 will now have a black mark to its name because of its shady box office.

BvS is a Warner Bros. movie but Warner Bros. wouldn't have charged people so much if Disney hadn't gone off the rails and charged $250 in IMAX for Star Wars 7. Within the next 2 years, I could see an IMAX release costing $300 a ticket. Saturday March 5 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Gods of Egypt -- 18,614 -- +77.5% 2 London Has Fallen -- 17,937 -- +71.2% 3 The Danish Girl 14,829 15,008 +1.2% +69.5% 4 The Mermaid 19,517 7,842 -59.8% +83.6% 5 The Finest Hours 21,029 7,781 -63.0% +50.5% 6 Room -- 5,214 -- +79.7% 7 Deadpool 18,719 5,080 -72.9% +60.7% 8 Spotlight -- 3,192 -- +45.8% 9 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 3,450 929 -73.1% -- 10 How to Be Single 2,833 900 -68.2% +40.8% Strong for Gods of Egypt. Good increase for London Has Fallen. Excellent for The Danish Girl. Not very good for The Mermaid or The Finest Hours. Decent for Room. Deadpool continues its massive slide down. Weekend Projections March 3 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 Gods of Egypt $810,000 $810,000 2 London Has Fallen $755,000 $755,000 3 The Danish Girl $495,000 +16.9% $1,140,000 4 The Mermaid $320,000 -51.4% $7,000,000 5 Deadpool $220,000 -65.0% $7,335,000 Gerard Butler's Gods of Egypt will take over the #1 spot from The Mermaid and will take down his other release London Has Fallen this weekend. In a double shot of Gerard Butler, it was Gerard action film vs. Gerard action-adventure film but in a twist, the sword and sandal flick came out the winner with its special effects and 3D prices. The mixed reviews for Gods of Egypt don't seem to be affecting the film just yet but with a noticeable difference between London's 4.1 score and Gods of Egypt's tepid 3.5 from users, we could see a switch coming as fast as Monday. The Danish Girl reeled off an increase after enjoying its post-Oscar bump. For Tom Hooper, this will be his 3rd straight 1m grosser while it will be Eddie Redmayne's 3rd 1m grossing film in HK. The Danish Girl will power ahead of The King's Speech by next week and it just goes to show how much distributor matters in HK. The King's Speech was distributed by Cable, a small distributor but The Danish Girl is EDKO's film, who are one of the bigwig local distributors in HK. The Mermaid passes 7m while Deadpool is closing in on The Dark Knight and Inception. The Mermaid is looking at 57m HK at the moment while Deadpool's final tally could be around 58.5m HK.

Oh shit! FUCK YOU DISNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Saturday adm. (so far) March 5 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Danish Girl 8,935 7,794 -12.8% +56.8% 2 Gods of Egypt -- 6,277 -- +80.6% 3 London Has Fallen -- 5,185 -- +73.5% 4 The Finest Hours 8,080 4,332 -46.4% +46.4% 5 Room -- 2,300 -- +61.1% 6 The Mermaid 5,416 1,947 -64.1% +78.5% 7 Spotlight -- 1,584 -- +38.9% 8 Deadpool 5,510 1,348 -75.5% +47.6% 9 The Revenant -- 400 -- +52.1% 10 Miss You Already -- 327 -- -- Great hold for The Danish Girl. Strong increase for Gods of Egypt. Solid increase for London Has Fallen.

Which is why they need to re-evaluate the home release strategy for Asia. If they cannot secure release dates within a specific time, they need to allow the studio to set the DVD release dates or have a rule stating that they cannot release within 3-4 months of its first theatrical release. It is really stupid that they would want to release the DVD/Blu-Ray 2 months after its opening day in theaters. You're just asking for people to watch it on the small screen instead. They need to leave a gap to make sure that the theatrical run is finished or almost finished. Waiting an extra month isn't going to kill anyone and it's not giving pirates an opportunity. Pirates would have uploaded within a few days of theatrical release anyways so there is no reason to shorten the window from theatrical release to DVD/Blu-Ray. Thursday Actuals March 3 LW TW Movie Last Thu. (USD) Thu. (USD) % chg Theaters Days Total -- 1 Gods of Egypt -- $114,416 -- -- 1 $114,416 -- 2 London Has Fallen -- $109,274 -- -- 1 $109,274 4 3 The Danish Girl $57,864 $63,893 +10.4% -- 11 $707,070 3 4 The Mermaid $92,583 $42,424 -54.2% -- 25 $6,723,602 2 5 Deadpool $96,441 $32,139 -66.7% -- 24 $7,149,130 1 6 The Finest Hours $102,871 $30,854 -70.0% -- 8 $809,917 -- 7 Room -- $25,711 -- -- 1 $25,711 RE 8 Spotlight -- $12,855 -- 14 1 $218,549 Gods of Egypt was #1! It's not really a surprise when you think about it but expectations across the board were lowered after its extremely dull OWs in N. America and OS. That might have been what scared theaters off from ordering 3D too much because 3D market share was only 14% on Thursday. London Has Fallen did OK and will surpass the original's OW but it is a little disappointing to see it lose to Gods of Egypt. Theaters and Lark/UA (LHF's distributor) must be disappointed. Theaters were really pushing for London Has Fallen by gifting it the biggest screen on Thursday/Friday but it still lost. Strong hold for The Danish Girl. Post-Oscar bumps don't last long and in TDG's case the next few weeks will be unsettling to watch with major Hollywood films coming out every week. Another surprise is perhaps The Mermaid and Deadpool outmuscling The Finest Hours for the top 5. For The Finest Hours, it did not garner many admissions registering an average of 20 per showing. Room opened decently. With a low turnout from theaters, it did respectably. Spotlight re-entered the top 10 with its Oscar wins but if there wasn't much interest in this movie before even with Oscar nominations, then this resurfacing won't last very long. Friday March 4 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Gods of Egypt -- 10,485 -- +42.6% 2 London Has Fallen -- 10,478 -- +39.7% 3 The Danish Girl 6,932 8,854 +27.7% +56.6% 4 The Finest Hours 12,446 5,170 -58.5% +27.3% 5 The Mermaid 11,597 4,272 -63.2% +39.5% 6 Deadpool 10,713 3,161 -70.5% +57.3% 7 Room -- 2,902 -- +37.3% 8 Spotlight -- 2,190 -- +68.6% 9 Son of Saul -- 727 -- +12.9% 10 How to Be Single 1,832 639 -65.1% +33.1% Gods of Egypt overtakes London Has Fallen in admissions. Interesting. Opening weekend scores have drifted back and forth but London Has Fallen has a 4.0 rating while Gods of Egypt is below it with a 3.7/5. Superb for The Danish Girl. Poor for The Finest Hours. Ok increase for The Mermaid. Deadpool had a nice increase but a weak week-to-week hold.

I did but I was in a rush to post and I didn't have enough time to respond back then. I think it's a major disappointment that China delayed their release. It seems it's doing well in China so they got away with it and they'll make a profit overall with the theatrical release but I think this highlights that they need to revisit their home theatrical release policies especially in Asia in light of this situation. A studio should not have to beg each territories DVD distributor in order to get them to delay the DVD/Blu-Ray release because of a big country's theatrical release. If this was Disney, you know they would be asking for heads if Star Wars 7 DVD/Blu-Ray was out after 1-2 months. This also could shed some light on the Ip Man 3/Star Wars 7 fiasco during the Christmas holidays. It shows that Pegasus does not have the clout or influence that Disney has that allowed them to take advantage of theaters and schedule UA in 2 theaters including the biggest screens. I have no idea why HK Island did not show Ip Man 3 very often either. If Ip Man 3 was allowed to play like normal at UA and in HK Island, this would have for sure beaten Kung Fu Hustle for #1 local film of all time, grossed over 8m and could have possibly grossed 9m or more. I am still a little peeved that Star Wars 7 was allowed to play so long in the biggest theaters after so many places reported very bad pre-sales and admissions on opening weekend. It certainly was not the force it was made out to be. Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun) Feb 22-28 LW TW Title Last Week (HKD) This Week (HKD) Days in release % chg Total (HKD) This Week (USD) Total (USD) 1 1 Deadpool $17,300,575 $7,948,620 20 -54.1% $54,179,531 $1,017,736 $6,937,115 2 2 Mermaid $14,692,403 $7,785,344 21 -47.0% $50,638,489 $996,830 $6,483,722 -- 3 The Finest Hours -- $4,595,615 4 -- $4,595,615 $588,419 $588,419 -- 4 The Danish Girl -- $3,306,081 4 -- $3,306,081 $423,308 $423,308 4 5 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi $2,826,571 $2,059,704 11 -27.1% $4,886,275 $263,723 $625,635 -- 6 Zoolander 2 -- $1,640,822 4 -- $1,640,822 $210,089 $210,089 6 7 How to Be Single $1,929,436 $1,334,141 11 -30.9% $3,593,313 $170,822 $460,085 8 8 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny $1,259,768 $1,076,646 10 -14.5% $2,490,598 $137,853 $318,894 3 9 The Good Dinosaur $3,428,891 $872,149 25 -74.6% $2,555,905 $111,669 $327,256 RE 10 The Hateful Eight $785,253 $573,372 11 -27.0% $1,358,625 $73,414 $173,957 Deadpool is less than 1m away from the top 30. The Mermaid joins the top 40 all time. Both should finish around the top 25. OK opening for The Finest Hours. Superb for The Danish Girl. 13 Hours did pretty well in HK compared with other territories. Zoolander 2 flopped. Top 50 Films of All Time (Hong Kong) Rank Movie HK Gross US Gross 1 Avatar* $178,029,440 $22,964,414 2 Avengers: Age of Ultron $133,061,397 $17,121,674 3 Titanic** $114,939,000 $14,826,276 4 Iron Man 3 $106,389,801 $13,723,457 5 Transformers 4 $98,196,851 $12,601,288 6 The Avengers $96,705,670 $12,474,280 7 Jurassic World $96,295,976 $12,357,355 8 Toy Story 3 $89,364,118 $11,527,276 9 Transformers 3 $84,703,797 $10,926,131 10 Star Wars: The Force Awakens $81,701,193 $10,512,900 11 The Dark Knight Rises $80,269,966 $10,354,201 12 Minions $78,404,191 $10,088,659 13 Monsters University $77,407,664 $9,984,987 14 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 $76,785,999 $9,904,797 15 Inside Out $66,016,979 $8,494,734 16 The Amazing Spider-Man $61,983,852 $7,995,435 17 Jurassic Park $61,898,795 $7,943,275 18 You Are the Apple of My Eye $61,857,826 $7,938,017 19 Kung Fu Hustle $61,278,697 $7,863,699 20 Shaolin Soccer $60,739,847 $7,794,550 21 Ip Man 3* $60,261,407 $7,715,835 22 Furious 7 $59,634,515 $7,674,814 23 The Dark Knight $58,524,393 $7,531,944 24 Inception $58,380,823 $7,513,467 25 The Lost World: Jurassic Park $58,231,885 $7,494,299 26 Police Story 4: First Strike $57,518,795 $7,402,526 27 Rumble in the Bronx $56,912,536 $7,324,502 28 Captain America: The Winter Soldier $56,552,117 $7,278,117 29 Infernal Affairs $55,057,176 $7,085,722 30 Spider-Man 3 $55,016,986 $7,080,550 31 The Amazing Spider-Man 2 $54,692,104 $7,038,738 32 Deadpool* $54,179,531 $6,937,115 33 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation $52,970,115 $6,817,122 34 God of Gamblers Returns $52,541,028 $6,761,900 35 Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix $52,417,858 $6,746,048 36 Interstellar $51,786,434 $6,664,786 37 CJ7 $51,440,832 $6,620,307 38 X-Men: Days of Future Past $50,768,991 $6,533,843 39 Ant-Man $50,719,129 $6,526,283 40 Mermaid* $50,638,489 $6,483,722 41 Justice, My Foot! $49,884,734 $6,420,042 42 Independence Day $49,380,096 $6,355,096 43 Alls Well Ends Well $48,992,188 $6,305,173 44 Lust, Caution $48,758,480 $6,275,095 45 Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen $48,115,274 $6,192,316 46 Life of Pi $47,334,447 $6,091,826 47 2012 $47,027,272 $6,052,293 48 Stand By Me Doraemon $46,891,675 $6,034,842 49 Little Big Master $46,729,492 $6,013,970 50 Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire $46,542,244 $5,989,871 * - without re-release (Re-release included: $183,411,471 HK) ** - without re-release (Re-release included: $128,003,033 HK) * - still in release Up to February 28, 2016. Re-posting... Thursday March 3 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 London Has Fallen -- 7,501 -- 2 Gods of Egypt -- 7,353 -- 3 The Danish Girl 5,565 5,655 +1.6% 4 The Finest Hours 10,910 4,060 -62.8% 5 The Mermaid 8,591 3,062 -64.4% 6 Room -- 2,114 -- 7 Deadpool 8,272 2,009 -75.7% 8 Spotlight -- 1,299 -- 9 Son of Saul -- 644 -- 10 How to Be Single 1,101 480 -56.4% Friday adm. (so far) March 4 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Danish Girl 3,908 4,970 +27.2% -- 2 Gods of Egypt -- 3,476 -- -- 3 London Has Fallen -- 2,988 -- -- 4 The Finest Hours 5,236 2,959 -43.5% -- 5 Room -- 1,428 -- -- 6 Spotlight -- 1,140 -- -- 7 The Mermaid 3,188 1,091 -65.8% -- 8 Deadpool 3,063 913 -70.2% -- 9 Son of Saul -- 388 -- -- 10 The Revenant -- 263 -- --

Yeah. It's pretty stupid. Did you read my Kung Fu Panda 3 China redux section a little while back? Don't have the tables with me just yet. I will re-post this with nice and neat tables and drops later. Thursday admissions 1. London Has Fallen - 7,501 2. Gods of Egypt - 7,353 3. The Danish Girl - 5,655 4. The Finest Hours - 4,060 5. The Mermaid - 3,062 6. Room - 2,114 7. Deadpool - 2,009 8. Spotlight - 1,299 9. Son of Saul - 644 10. How to Be Single - 480 Very close for the Gerard Butler pics. I'd say that's a slight disappointment for London Has Fallen and a surprise for Gods of Egypt after its subpar N.American and OS openings last week. Strong for The Danish Girl. Spotlight enjoyed a nice post-Oscar bump. Friday admissions (so far) 1. The Danish Girl - 4,970 2. Gods of Egypt - 3,476 3. London Has Fallen - 2,988 4. The Finest Hours - 2,959 5. Room - 1,428 6. Spotlight - 1,140 7. The Mermaid - 1,091 8. Deadpool - 913 9. Son of Saul - 388 10. The Revenant - 263 The Danish Girl had a nice increase. Shocked to see Gods of Egypt ahead of London Has Fallen in pre-sales.

They need to rectify the home release schedule then. It's crazy that they release DVDs/Blu-Rays only 2 months after the start of theatrical release. Actuals (up to Sunday) Deadpool - $6,955,454 Ip Man 3 - $7,753,355 The Mermaid - $6,497,433 Deadpool will pass 7m on Monday or Tuesday. Ip Man 3 will end up as the #3 local release of all time. Its run will end on Wednesday. The Mermaid is passing 6.5m on Monday. 7m will be breached by Sunday. Thursday schedules London Has Fallen will get the biggest screens and full day showtimes everywhere. Gods of Egypt has gotten mixed reception from theaters so far. Some will only show it on half day showtimes while others are going full throttle with full day showtimes in the 2nd largest theaters. The Mermaid falls to the 2nd or 3rd biggest screen and Deadpool sinks to #3 or #4 depending on The Danish Girl/The Finest Hours performance. The Finest Hours is cut down to half day showtimes. The Danish Girl will remain everywhere and retain most showtimes. Zoolander 2 is getting shut down or left on 1 showtime.

That still does not make sense. Even if the DVD distributor sets the date, there should be a clause specifying that they cannot release before a certain date. I can't believe that Raymond Wong would miss something like this. China is the only big grossing market that will make or break Ip Man 3's gross. Without China, Ip Man 3 is a box office failure. There's something not right here because someone from China decided to delay the China release to March 4 then the Blu-Ray was supposed to come out on March 3? I don't agree with whoever said that they don't care about the China market. They DO care. They are basing their fortunes around China. They have to. Monday adm. February 29 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Finest Hours -- 7,813 -- 2 The Danish Girl -- 6,961 -- 3 The Mermaid 13,210 5,950 -55.0% 4 Deadpool 12,328 4,549 -63.1% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 1,684 -- 6 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 3,665 1,259 -65.6% 7 Spotlight 1,231 914 -25.8% 8 How to Be Single 2,692 845 -68.6% 9 The Secret -- 833 -- 10 Creed -- 664 -- Big push from Oscar films. Spotlight was the big winner today (obviously). One theater will add Spotlight into rotation on Thursday. Creed seems to have gotten a slight bump. At the top, The Finest Hours 'won' Monday but it is down 28% from Thursday's admissions. The Danish Girl is the only one of the top 5 that gained from Thursday's admissions though the increase is easily explained by the addition of 5 theaters on Saturday + post-Oscar jump. The Mermaid had a good hold and slipped 28% from Thursday admissions. That is down from last Monday's -18% drop from the previous Thursday's admissions. Similarly, Deadpool saw a bigger drop this week with Monday's admissions from Thursday admissions than last week. Last Monday saw it fall -38% while this week the gap grew to -45%. Of course, all the attention is currently on Oscar pics so drops should be higher than normal. Unfortunately for both they have come at a bad time with Thursday schedules directly influenced by Monday's admissions. Zoolander 2 is off a whopping -55% from last Thursday's admissions.

Why don't they move the release date to April 19 or April 26 then it would have 7 or 8 weeks of uninterrupted play. My guess is that they moved it only 1 week back because people will still pirate after a few days of it being out so there's no point in delaying the Blu-Ray release until April.

That is really stupid if true. I hope those sites aren't legit. Sunday February 28 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Mermaid 34,902 20,230 -42.0% +3.7% 2 The Finest Hours -- 18,899 -- -10.1% 3 The Danish Girl -- 14,939 -- +0.7% 4 Deadpool 34,167 14,867 -56.5% -20.6% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 5,149 -- -17.9% 6 The Good Dinosaur 8,086 3,462 -57.2% +28.9% 7 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 9,354 3,165 -66.2% -8.3% 8 The Secret -- 2,289 -- -7.0% 9 How to Be Single 6,239 2,021 -67.6% -28.7% 10 Creed -- 1,703 -- -9.8% Very good for The Mermaid. Terrible for The Finest Hours. Word of mouth might be starting to affect this. Its score remains unchanged from opening day: a 3.6. The Danish Girl held on for an increase. Excellent weekend and score all around. Its score is also unchanged from opening day, a riveting 4.6/5. That's the 2nd Sunday that Deadpool went down by a lot from Saturday. The only explanation that I can offer is that Sunday is a day where families go out and watch something more family oriented or appropriate. Add that in with weaker night shows because of people going back to work on Monday and it's a double whammy. Zoolander 2 is falling hard. With the weakest score of this week, it will facepalm down the rankings soon. Good increase for The Good Dinosaur. Weekend adm. Feb 25-28 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Finest Hours -- 63,284 -- 2 The Mermaid 103,280 59,935 -42.0% 3 Deadpool 116,968 52,571 -55.1% 4 The Danish Girl -- 42,265 -- 5 Zoolander 2 -- 19,660 -- 6 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 30,299 10,698 -64.7% 7 How to Be Single 21,277 7,787 -63.4% 8 The Secret -- 7,416 -- The Finest Hours was #1 in admissions but it was likely inflated by IMAX and D-Box. The Mermaid was a strong #2 while Deadpool came in at #3. Weekend Estimates February 25 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 The Mermaid $645,000 -42.6% $6,530,000 2 Deadpool $615,000 -53.8% $6,970,000 3 The Finest Hours $610,000 $610,000 4 The Danish Girl $450,000 $450,000 5 Zoolander 2 $215,000 $215,000 Top 3 and Zoolander 2 saw their grosses go down with estimates. In the process, Deadpool swapped places with The Finest Hour. The Mermaid took the lead on Sunday and jumped out to a $40,000 win over The Finest Hours and Deadpool. The Mermaid will have crossed 50m HK on Sunday and is looking good for 60m HK. Deadpool is so close to 7m and 60m HK is coming but next week sees 2 Gerard Butler films target its action audience and it could send Deadpool scurrying. The Finest Hours could not tap into its 3D surcharges for very long as many theaters switched to 2D on Saturday. The weekend itself is OK but its legs will be tested with action adventure films coming out beginning next week. Excellent start for The Danish Girl. Its opening weekend can be attributed to Tom Hooper, Eddie Redmayne, the controversial subject matter and wonderful reviews. Its run could extend by a few weeks if it wins some big Oscars. More theaters could pick this up depending on its Oscar performance and based on their own theater chain performance. Zoolander 2 fell flat on its face with poor reviews miring the sequel. The comedy market was coming off a big surprise in Dirty Grandpa plus you've got The Mermaid and Deadpool servicing bits and pieces of the comedy market so Zoolander 2 had to market itself beyond the nostalgia factor which it completely failed to do. This will leave with less than $500,000.

No info yet about the Blu-Ray release date in HK but Blu-Ray comes out on April 19 in the US so I doubt China will get the Blu-Ray release that early. Saturday February 27 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Finest Hours -- 21,029 -- +69.0% 2 The Mermaid 33,985 19,517 -42.6% +68.3% 3 Deadpool 40,055 18,719 -53.3% +74.7% 4 The Danish Girl -- 14,829 -- +113.9% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 6,269 -- +40.3% 6 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 10,200 3,450 -66.2% +41.4% 7 How to Be Single 7,475 2,833 -62.1% +54.6% 8 The Good Dinosaur 6,746 2,685 -60.2% -- 9 The Secret -- 2,462 -- +65.6% 10 Creed -- 1,888 -- +74.8% The Finest Hours converted to 2D at most theaters on Saturday so its increase is not that great. Solid for The Mermaid. Deadpool had a good hold. Very good for The Danish Girl. It added 5 theaters today which explains doubling Fridays admissions. Disappointing for Zoolander 2. Sunday adm. (so far) February 28 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Danish Girl -- 9,255 -- +3.6% 2 The Finest Hours -- 8,546 -- +5.8% 3 The Mermaid 15,368 7,126 -53.6% +31.6% 4 Deadpool 14,073 4,927 -65.0% -10.6% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 1,992 -- +3.1% 6 The Good Dinosaur 4,899 1,799 -63.3% +59.1% 7 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 3,042 1,008 -66.9% +3.9% 8 The Secret -- 946 -- +16.9% 9 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny 1,944 791 -59.3% +6.9% 10 How to Be Single 2,004 718 -64.2% -25.2% Good increase for The Danish Girl. Pretty good increase for The Finest Hours. Excellent jump for The Mermaid. Bad for Deadpool. Not good for Zoolander 2. Great for The Good Dinosaur. Weekend Projections February 25 Rank Movie TW % chg Total 1 The Mermaid $655,000 -41.7% $6,540,000 2 The Finest Hours $630,000 $630,000 3 Deadpool $620,000 -53.4% $6,975,000 4 The Danish Girl $450,000 $450,000 5 Zoolander 2 $220,000 $220,000 It's a very close race between the top 3 and really any of them could be #1 this weekend. The Mermaid has the inside track on #1 with Sunday's increase. It will become the first Chinese language film to keep more than half of its 2nd week audience. The Finest Hours churned out an OK weekend despite most theaters changing from 3D to 2D on Saturday. Deadpool had a good weekend but it seems like 8.5m is the ceiling. The hold itself does not really help with next weekend when the double bill of Gerard Butler opens. Excellent opening for The Danish Girl. This could even get a boost from The Oscars and even more theaters could pick this up on Thursday. Poor for Zoolander 2.

I am having issues with internet currently but The Mermaid is projected to take #1 this weekend courtesy of Sunday where it will forge ahead of The Finest Hours and Deadpool. It is projected to swim away with a $655k weekend (-42%). The Finest Hours is expected to clip Deadpool for #2 with 630k vs. 620k for Deadpool (-53%).

Saturday adm. (so far) February 27 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Danish Girl -- 8,935 -- +128.6% 2 The Finest Hours -- 8,080 -- +54.3% 3 Deadpool 14,400 5,510 -61.7% +79.9% 4 The Mermaid 10,953 5,416 -50.6% +69.9% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 1,932 -- +24.1% 6 The Good Dinosaur 3,018 1,131 -62.5% -- 7 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 2,168 970 -55.3% +83.0% 8 How to Be Single 2,080 960 -53.8% +24.7% 9 The Secret -- 809 -- +42.7% 10 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny 1,507 740 -50.9% -- Amazing for The Danish Girl. It added 5 theaters today. Ok for The Finest Hours. Mediocre hold for Deadpool. Solid for The Mermaid.

Weekly Gross (Mon-Sun) Feb 15-21 LW TW Title Last Week (HKD) This Week (HKD) Days in release % chg Total (HKD) This Week (USD) Total (USD) 1 1 Deadpool $28,930,446 $17,300,575 13 -40.2% $46,231,021 $2,223,464 $5,941,595 2 2 Mermaid $27,483,541 $14,692,403 14 -46.5% $42,853,145 $1,888,262 $5,507,472 4 3 The Good Dinosaur $15,418,548 $3,428,891 18 -77.8% $24,683,756 $440,679 $3,172,348 -- 4 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi -- $2,826,571 4 -- $2,826,571 $363,269 $363,269 3 5 From Vegas to Macau III $16,378,712 $2,682,675 16 -83.6% $24,564,143 $344,776 $3,156,975 -- 6 How to Be Single $329,736 $1,929,436 4 +485.1% $2,259,172 $247,970 $290,348 5 7 The Monkey King 2 $10,383,134 $1,865,471 16 -82.0% $15,375,732 $239,749 $1,976,084 -- 8 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny $154,184 $1,259,768 3 +717.1% $1,413,952 $161,904 $181,720 6 9 Alvin And The Chipmunks: The Road Chip $5,628,257 $1,246,583 18 -77.9% $8,976,111 $160,210 $1,153,606 7 10 Carol $1,436,813 $823,265 18 -42.7% $2,695,885 $105,805 $346,474 This confirms that Deadpool made the top 50 last week ahead of Thunderbolt in only 2 weeks. The Mermaid was right behind and only 3.5m HK away from making the top 50 all time as well. Both of them had the best holds of any wide release. The Good Dinosaur passed From Vegas to Macau 3 on Sunday although both did not have great holds while 13 Hours posted a decent opening. From Vegas to Macau 3 won't surpass the 2nd's total. Not that great for How to Be Single. The Monkey King 2 passed 2m this week but won't come close to TMK's total. Poor opening for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2. Friday February 26 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Finest Hours -- 12,446 -- +14.1% 2 The Mermaid 18,099 11,597 -35.9% +35.0% 3 Deadpool 22,833 10,713 -53.1% +29.5% 4 The Danish Girl -- 6,932 -- +24.6% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 4,469 -- +18.4% 6 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 5,558 2,440 -56.1% +48.5% 7 How to Be Single 4,259 1,832 -57.0% +55.5% 8 The Secret -- 1,487 -- +26.2% 9 Creed -- 1,080 -- +2.8% 10 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny 2,765 843 -69.5% -19.8% Good recovery for The Finest Hours from pre-sales but not a good increase overall. Great hold for The Mermaid. It and Deadpool were neck and neck on Friday in gross. On Friday, it passed 6m and it is gearing up to enter the top 10 local films of all time by Saturday. Deadpool, meanwhile, had a good hold and will pass Ant-Man and X-Men: Days of Future Past today. By Sunday or Monday, this will officially join the top 30 films of all time. Solid increase for The Danish Girl. There's going to be an explosion in admissions and gross on Saturday when more theaters join in on its success. Not good for Zoolander 2. It will be left behind this weekend and might only barely make over $200,000. ________________________________________________________ On a side note, I have fixed my tables!!!! They have been driving me crazy ever since the board was changed to IPSFocus.

Thursday Actuals February 25 LW TW Movie Last Thu. (USD) Thu. (USD) % chg Theaters Days Total -- 1 The Finest Hours -- $102,871 -- -- 1 $102,871 1 2 Deadpool $225,211 $96,441 -57.2% -- 17 $6,450,587 2 3 The Mermaid $178,511 $92,583 -48.1% -- 18 $5,979,378 -- 4 The Danish Girl -- $57,864 -- -- 1 $57,864 -- 5 Zoolander 2 -- $41,534 -- -- 1 $41,534 3 6 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi $64,079 $20,317 -68.3% -- 8 $514,355 More Thursday Actuals How to Be Single - $11,830 (-66%)/$385,766 The Secret - $11,572 Creed - $10,287 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 - $257,177 Different story was painted once reliable numbers came in. Deadpool was #1 in admissions (9,500 for the day) and was just a bit over $5,000 behind The Finest Hours despite 25% of FH's showtimes in 3D. The Mermaid and Deadpool came in with identical admissions per showing, 47, and The Mermaid almost came in 2nd in admissions with 8,500 (vs. 8,600 for The Finest Hours). Deadpool should be able to pass 7m by Sunday. The Mermaid is aiming for about 6.4-6.6m. For openers, The Danish Girl wowed with an average of 91 per showing. It will make more than $400,000 this weekend and could challenge $500,000 with less than 20 theaters showing. Zoolander 2 had about 2/3 of showings as Deadpool/The Mermaid but came up with less than half of their grosses. Average admissions per showing was at a low 32. It won't make $300,000 this weekend.

Hong Kong box office went up 20.6% in 2015 to $1,986,449,811 HK ($255,435,146 US) from $1,647,105,559 HK ($211,799,285 US) last year. 332 films saw the light of day in 2015, an increase of 7% from 2014 where 310 films showed in theaters. HK movies saw an uptick too with 59 local movies getting a release in 2015, up from 52 in 2014.

Actuals (up to Wednesday) Ip Man 3 - $60,221,393 ($7,743,795) Deadpool - $49,414,472 ($6,354,146) Deadpool officially passes Lust, Caution as the biggest Category III release of all time. Ip Man 3 is $500,000 HK away from Shaolin Soccer's gross ($60,739,847). Thursday February 25 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Finest Hours -- 10,910 -- 2 The Mermaid 16,294 8,591 -47.3% 3 Deadpool 19,913 8,272 -58.5% 4 The Danish Girl -- 5,565 -- 5 Zoolander 2 -- 3,773 -- 6 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 5,187 1,643 -68.3% 7 The Secret -- 1,178 -- 8 How to Be Single 3,304 1,101 -66.7% 9 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny -- 1,051 -- 10 Creed -- 931 -- Meh for The Finest Hours. Opening day score sits at a mixed 3.6. Very good hold for The Mermaid. Good for Deadpool. Strong for The Danish Girl. Opening day reviews are extremely positive with a grand 4.7/5. Rough start for Zoolander 2. It is getting bashed by users. It only has a 2.4/5 score. Weak holds for 13 Hours and How to Be Single. Not good for The Secret but opening day score is a very good 4.1/5. Not good for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2. Terrible for Creed but its opening day score stands at a nice 4.2/5. Friday adm. (so far) February 26 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 The Finest Hours -- 5,236 -- +18.5% 2 The Danish Girl -- 3,908 -- +43.2% 3 The Mermaid 6,217 3,188 -48.7% +59.3% 4 Deadpool 9,377 3,063 -67.3% +62.9% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 1,557 -- +63.0% 6 How to Be Single 1,563 770 -50.7% +101.0% 7 The Secret -- 567 -- +43.5% 8 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 1,497 530 -64.6% +40.6% 9 PG Love -- 397 -- -26.6% 10 The Hateful Eight 717 396 -44.8% -- Weak increase for The Finest Hours. This could fall from yesterday's admissions. Very good increase for The Danish Girl. A few theaters will add this to their schedule on Saturday. Solid for The Mermaid. Not good for Deadpool. It will need to prove itself once again. Good increase for Zoolander 2. Let's see if the negative word of mouth will scare off walk-ins today. Great jump for How to Be Single.

Thursday adm. (so far) February 25 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Finest Hours -- 4,420 -- 2 The Danish Girl -- 2,730 -- 3 The Mermaid 3,902 2,001 -48.7% 4 Deadpool 6,055 1,880 -69.0% 5 Zoolander 2 -- 955 -- 6 PG Love -- 541 -- 7 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny -- 430 -- 8 The Secret -- 395 -- 9 How to Be Single 855 383 -55.2% 10 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi 1,245 377 -69.7% Pretty boring admissions over all. The Finest Hours might be super inflated from IMAX and perhaps D-BOX. Very good for The Danish Girl despite opening semi-wide. Good hold for The Mermaid. Deadpool's drop might be inflated from the loss of IMAX this week. Zoolander 2 is a disaster.

Schedules for Thursday Deadpool and The Mermaid continue to lead in most theaters. The Finest Hours and Zoolander 2 are generally behind. The Finest Hours will show in more than 30 theaters including IMAX (very wide) while Zoolander 2 premieres wide with 28. The Danish Girl/Creed are both going semi-wide with 14 or 15 theaters. PG Love goes wide with 22 theaters.

How badly will piracy hurt Ip Man 3 in China? Can its box office withstand the effects of piracy there especially since it will have been out for more than 2 months around the world? And what about the non-nationalistic themes of the film? Do you think Chinese audiences will reject the film because it doesn't play up the nationalistic pride that the first 2 films had? I am slightly concerned that it won't do as well because of this and it will turn in a 'generic action movie' performance with the piracy and no nationalist pride theme.

Tuesday adm. February 16 Rank Movie LW TW WKD % chg QD % chg 1 Deadpool 28,679 13,732 -52.1% +11.4% 2 The Mermaid 25,494 12,759 -50.0% -3.4% 3 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi -- 4,388 -- +19.7% 4 How to Be Single 437 3,219 +636.6% +19.6% 5 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny -- 2,175 -- -3.3% 6 Spotlight -- 1,504 -- +22.2% 7 The Hateful Eight -- 1,265 -- +27.0% 8 From Vegas to Macau 3 6,739 1,034 -84.7% -8.7% 9 The Good Dinosaur 8,924 974 -89.1% +0.4% 10 Carol 1,814 855 -52.9% -- Well, it seems like everything's back to normal. Solid holds for Deadpool and The Mermaid. I believe The Mermaid can drop less than 50% this weekend if it keeps this up. 13 Hours and How to Be Single both had nice increases. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon 2 had a pretty weak Tuesday. All 3 Chinese language films in the top 10 fell on Tuesday perhaps drilling home that weaker holds are to be expected shortly. Spotlight/The Hateful Eight saw very good bumps. These two should play very well into next week.

Monday adm. February 15 Rank Movie LW TW % chg 1 The Mermaid 25,563 13,210 -48.3% 2 Deadpool 30,019 12,328 -58.9% 3 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi -- 3,665 -- 4 How to Be Single 498 2,692 +440.6% 5 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny -- 2,250 -- 6 Spotlight -- 1,231 -- 7 From Vegas to Macau 3 7,506 1,133 -84.9% 8 The Hateful Eight -- 996 -- 9 The Good Dinosaur 9,660 970 -90.0% 10 The Monkey King 2 3,898 842 -78.4% Excellent hold for The Mermaid. I am a bit surprised it won today. It led for most of the day. It being the highest grossing movie in China might have had a slight effect here. Also very good for Deadpool.

Actuals Deadpool - $5,920,064 The Mermaid - $5,485,234 Ip Man 3 - $7,709,029 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi - $358,847 How to Be Single - $281,951 Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny - $179,423 The Good Dinosaur - $3,165,544 From Vegas to Macau 3 - $3,150,165 The Monkey King 2 - $1,973,659 Spotlight - $95,991 Deadpool is officially in the top 50. The Mermaid lands inside the top 20 local films of all time. Ip Man 3 only moved about $110,000 HK in 4 days since Wednesday and it is still about $570,000 HK from Shaolin Soccer.